All Creatures Great and Small List

Chronological list of the All Creatures Great and Small franchise on film and television: the screen adaptations of James Herriot's (Alf Wight's) books about a Yorkshire Dales vet. It covers the two 1970s films, the BBC series, the BBC prequel Young James Herriot, and the Channel 5 series. The books themselves are a separate (reading) list.

Films are ordered by first release; series are ordered by first-episode date and show first and last release dates ("present" = more series expected, as of 2026-10-15). Christmas specials made as part of a series' run are listed in that series' row. Released productions only; documentaries about Herriot are excluded; no unofficial productions found. Sources: Wikipedia's All Creatures Great and Small (franchise) article and the individual production articles.

Rows shaded like this are unofficial/fan productions; unshaded rows are official. Clicking the Type column header groups them together.

Released / first aired	Last aired	Title	Type	Medium	Notes	Watched (start)	Watched (end)
1975-02-04		All Creatures Great and Small	TV film	Live-action	made for NBC's Hallmark Hall of Fame (US broadcast 1975-02-04), released theatrically in the UK 1975-05-09; dir. Claude Whatham; Simon Ward as Herriot, Anthony Hopkins as Siegfried; based on the first two books		2026-03-27
1976-04-11		It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet	Film	Live-action	sequel; US title All Things Bright and Beautiful; dir. Eric Till; John Alderton as Herriot, Colin Blakely as Siegfried; based on the third and fourth books
1978-01-08	1990-12-24	All Creatures Great and Small	TV series	Live-action	BBC; Christopher Timothy, Robert Hardy, Peter Davison; 90 episodes in two runs: series 1-3 (1978-1980) and series 4-7 (1988-1990); the Christmas specials of 1983 and 1985 fall between the runs, after series 3 and before series 4
2011-12-18	2011-12-20	Young James Herriot	TV series	Live-action	BBC One; three-part prequel about Herriot's student years in Glasgow; Iain De Caestecker
2020-09-01	present	All Creatures Great and Small	TV series	Live-action	Channel 5 (UK), PBS Masterpiece (US); new adaptation with Nicholas Ralph; each series is followed by a Christmas special, which comes after that series and before the next one; 7 series so far