Yay! I enjoy this show, it's uplifting with good clean storylines. I do wish Carmody would have stuck around though -- I liked his character and how he and Tristan were such opposites, they played well off each other.

Oh yes!! I love this show!!!

I read the James Herriott books years ago & have watched & loved both TV versions. I’d read that in current version James is actor Nicholas Ralph who was a relative unknown to TV.

I've read all the books too. They are hilarious! I read once that they tickled Queen Elizabeth's funny bone too. She would laugh out loud!

I do enjoy this show, especially the scenery. However, some of the specials were too sappy.

dedtired - hmm — well, maybe so. But, I for one am happy for a bit of sappy at this time of year and most especially this year. 😉

It is one of our favorite shows. Have you read the books?

The books are wonderful! There are descriptions of the opinionated Yorkshire farmers sitting in a pub of an evening and proclaiming what they think about livestock, dogs, and people. Almost sounds like here sometimes but we are without the good pints and pub atmosphere.

Dedtired, "and we need a little sappy, happy, ever after" (from the musical "Mame")

I have the books. They make me sad, so do not read often. I do NOT watch movies of books I like.

I adore everything about Mrs. Hall. She is perfection to me. I also love how Helen is both beautiful and utterly no-nonsense. It's been fun to watch Jenny grow up too. The acting is superb. The bickering between Siegfried and Tristan is always such a delight. If you study the interactions between those two, you can see that the timing and subtleties are amazing. Writing, Directing, and Acting at it's best.

I’m always wishing Mrs, Hall & Siegfried would get together! The romantic in me.

Bpath, a little sappy is good for the soul!

Thanks! I've been looking for a date for the start of the new season. When the reruns of the previous season have started I know the new season isn't far behind.

I also want Mrs. Hall to find love.

@blfenton Mrs. Hall did find love once - remember the fellow she went for walks with & he had a dog? He was moving away - maybe to take care of his aging mother - can’t recall exactly. Mrs. Hall was going with him but then decided not. It was during those episodes that I decided she & Sigfried were in love but just couldn’t admit it.

@hobbitmom I agree with your assessment of what that relationship would’ve turned out to be. It had the feeling of an overinvolved mother in her son’s life…. 😬

Yep. Can't you just hear the tick-tick of the parlor clock? "Are you warm enough mother dear? Can we get you anything?" No. Mrs Hall is way too clever and vibrant for that life. I agree that the notion of she and Siegfried getting together is a fun idea. They are equals, he has just had more education, obviously. And she puts up with him. (No one else would.) Im afraid though, that such a plot would stray too far from the books. Although she didn't really exist in the books either. Her character was drawn out from a very small part of a tyrannical secretary (Mrs. Harbottle) whom Siegfried hired to make sense of the office books, which were a disaster. She quit, stating it was a completely impossible task. This was after the office became a war zone. Great writing!

That Mrs. Harbottle - maybe she was in an episode or two last year or so. I remember that Sigfried hired a woman to ’manage’ the Vet Clinic. She was extremely rigid & wanted the practice of some paying with barter type goods to be completely discontinued. Cash only. She & Sigfried parted ways soon after.