Channel 5 reveals All Creatures Great and Small season 5 release date - and it's soon!

Virgin Radio

4 Sep 2024, 15:16

All Creatures Great and Small season five finally has its release date - and we won't have to wait long to be reunited with all our favourite characters!

The popular 1940s vet-focused series will pick up its story where last year’s Christmas special left off, right in the middle of World War II, and with lead character James Herriot (Nicholas Ralph) based with the RAF while his wife Helen (Rachel Shenton) raises their baby boy at home.

Callum Woodhouse is back as Tristan Farnon after a series-long absence, as is James Anthony-Rose as Richard Carmody, and other returning cast include Anna Madeley, Patricia Hodge, and of course – Samuel West.

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Channel 5 have today (4th September) revealed the show will be returning to our TV screens on Thursday, 19th September – so there's just over two weeks to wait before we return to Darrowby.

The season’s official synopsis teases: “[Season five] will continue to bring the stories of James Herriot to life as we return to Darrowby to rejoin our unconventional much loved Skeldale Family and the colourful ensemble of farmers, animals and townsfolk living in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1940s.”

All Creatures Great and Small has already been renewed for a sixth season, as Channel 5’s drama commissioning editor Paul Testar celebrated earlier this year.

“We’re so pleased that All Creatures Great and Small will be returning to Channel 5 for two more series,” he shared. “The show has captured the hearts of our audiences and we are committed to bringing even more of James Herriot’s unforgettable stories to our viewers. We can’t wait to share this next chapter..”

Channel 5’s adaptation of James Herriot’s famous vet-focused novels marks the second time the series has become a popular TV staple, the first being in the 1970s and 80s.

Back then, a young Peter Davison starred as Tristan in a part which catapulted him to early stardom as well as his turn as the Fifth Doctor in Doctor Who.

Speaking with virginradio.co.uk and other press about his appearance in Beyond Paradise earlier this year, Davison admitted he was yet to catch up with Channel 5’s All Creatures Great and Small adaptation, but had heard many good things about the show.

“I wouldn’t like it if I watched it and I thought it was bad, and I wouldn’t like it if I watched it and I thought it was better than ours!” the actor explained while defending his choice not to tune in.

But the actor stressed: “I’m sure [the new adaptation] is splendid. I did a voice over for a documentary where the cast of the [new] series goes to meet the real vets that are in the Yorkshire Vet series, and they all seem very nice. So yeah, I haven’t watched it but I’ve heard it’s very good.”

All Creatures Great and Small returns to TV on Thursday, 19th September at 9pm on Channel 5 and My5.