I read all of the books, bought the entire collection of BBC videos, and I am totally blown away by how good this new series is. I hope that I live long enough to see it all.
Love this show and love James and Helen together. They are so sweet. The characters and the landscape of this beautiful country take your breath away. Just amazing.
My gf lives in Yorkshire (I'm in the US). This show started showing in the US several months after we started dating. I saw the show, then actually went to Yorkshire to meet her for the first time in person last summer. It was so surreal, but incredible. This show constantly reminds me of her and our times together seeing different places around Yorkshire.
Don't know that it's all that slow-burning. They did not date for a decade before deciding to marry. They got to know each other a bit once she was not tied-up with that godawful Hugh any longer. It all proceeded apace after that. It was just all in TV time.
Yes a BRILLIANT new series notwithstanding that, for the sake of political correctness, Channel 5 have chosen to re-write history. The Conservative government did not bring coloured immigrants into this country until 1956 - (twenty years after the J.H. series was staged - based on his arrival in the 30s) - in order to patch up holes in the N.H.S. and other industries. Even then they were principally only seen in U.K. large cities. Mixed race individuals only began to emerge in the early 80s. I spent the first two decades of my life (50s / 60s) residing just south of James Herriot country, and in all of such time never saw a single coloured face in the flesh! Indeed the only coloured person I saw were pictures of the singer Harry Belafonte. To now imagine that they flooded the Yorks. farming community in the 30s is hilarious!
No that’s not true - “Helen” is the literary name he gave to his wife Joan. Just like his real name was Alf White, not James Harriet. He renamed all the characters! Joan is Helen!
@@Nyx773 The books are based on real events, so are the shows, but of course some is fiction. But "James" is the author and "Helen" is his wife Joan. Even Sigfried and Tristan are based on real people. I read somewhere that Mrs Hall is a mix of several housekeepers working at the vet practice over the years. But names and details are changed, like it´s often done in biographic fiction.
I read all of the books, bought the entire collection of BBC videos, and I am totally blown away by how good this new series is. I hope that I live long enough to see it all.
Love this show and love James and Helen together. They are so sweet. The characters and the landscape of this beautiful country take your breath away. Just amazing.
My gf lives in Yorkshire (I'm in the US). This show started showing in the US several months after we started dating. I saw the show, then actually went to Yorkshire to meet her for the first time in person last summer. It was so surreal, but incredible. This show constantly reminds me of her and our times together seeing different places around Yorkshire.
I love this show!!
We need more of this today!
Totally totally love this series. James and Helen are the best!!
This is how the York shire dales look and pray it stays this way! 💕💕
This is amazing!!!!!!!! I love this show!!!!!!!!! Now if we can get the Duke and Miss Scarlet to admit their feelings then I'd be one happy camper!!!
Outstanding tv💯👌
I’m going to carpe diem my way to vet school. Hopefully I find my person too
More, more, more!
This on Saint Valentine's Day 💖🍿😁✨
💘 Happy Valentine’s day ✨
Where was it, overlooking the lake, where James actually proposed?
Don't know that it's all that slow-burning. They did not date for a decade before deciding to marry. They got to know each other a bit once she was not tied-up with that godawful Hugh any longer. It all proceeded apace after that. It was just all in TV time.
Live this show
Yes a BRILLIANT new series notwithstanding that, for the sake of political correctness, Channel 5 have chosen to re-write history. The Conservative government did not bring coloured immigrants into this country until 1956 - (twenty years after the J.H. series was staged - based on his arrival in the 30s) - in order to patch up holes in the N.H.S. and other industries. Even then they were principally only seen in U.K. large cities. Mixed race individuals only began to emerge in the early 80s.
I spent the first two decades of my life (50s / 60s) residing just south of James Herriot country, and in all of such time never saw a single coloured face in the flesh! Indeed the only coloured person I saw were pictures of the singer Harry Belafonte. To now imagine that they flooded the Yorks. farming community in the 30s is hilarious!
Wow
I love this show!!
I was sad to learn that James didn’t marry Helen in real life.
James marries a woman named Joan, a blond.
No that’s not true - “Helen” is the literary name he gave to his wife Joan. Just like his real name was Alf White, not James Harriet. He renamed all the characters! Joan is Helen!
You know his real name was Alfred "Alf" White and Helen's real name was Joan? Alf and Joan married and were together for rest of their lives.
Maybe you should read this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Herriot#Death
“The books are novels, and most sources agree that about 50 percent of the content was pure fiction”
@@Nyx773 The books are based on real events, so are the shows, but of course some is fiction. But "James" is the author and "Helen" is his wife Joan. Even Sigfried and Tristan are based on real people. I read somewhere that Mrs Hall is a mix of several housekeepers working at the vet practice over the years.
But names and details are changed, like it´s often done in biographic fiction.