All Creatures Great and Small (franchise) "James Herriot", and are set in the fictional town of "Darrowby", based on a combination of Thirsk, Richmond, Leyburn and Middleham.. In the books James Herriot work with fellow veterinary surgeons, Siegfried and Tristan Farnon, based on real-life counterparts, "Donald Sinclair" and his brother "Brian Sinclair" respectively. Wight also used the name "Helen Alderson" for his wife, Joan Danbury. In America the books were collected as pairs into omnibus volumes, as the publisher felt they were too short to publish independently. The title chosen for the first book in the series "All Creatures Great and Small" (and subsequently one of
All Creatures Great and Small (franchise) as Siegfried Farnon. "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" is based on the two following novels, "Let Sleeping Vets Lie" (1973) and "Vet in Harness" (1974), and was released in 1976. It was directed by Eric Till, written by Alan Plater, and starred John Alderton as James Herriot and Colin Blakely as Siegfried Farnon. "All Creatures Great and Small" is a BBC television series based initially on first two novels, "If Only They Could Talk" (1970) and "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" (1972). As the novels are written in an episodic style, with each chapter generally containing a short