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00:00Dad! Dad! Dad!
00:11Oh, thank you, Jimmy.
00:14It wouldn't do to forget Triggy's birthday.
00:17Tell your mum and Rosie I said bye.
01:30Bloody car wouldn't start.
01:33Wherever you left it?
01:35Up at the Marshams.
01:36I thought Ronnie Marsham died.
01:38Mrs. Marsham was hosting a bridge game.
01:42Till this time in the morning?
01:44An all-night bridge session is nothing out of the ordinary.
01:46Did you not have called someone to pick you up?
01:51I had to leave in something of a hurry.
01:55Where's your other shoe?
01:55I mislaid it.
02:00At the bridge game?
02:04Get in.
02:12It don't sound Triggy's birthday card.
02:14Don't leave it on the sink, then.
02:28Five miles done.
02:31And not a bit of it between the drover's snug and the drover's bar.
02:35And all before you've had your breakfast.
02:38Could you not sleep?
02:40Military training, Mrs. H.
02:42Disciplined body, disciplined mind.
02:43Is that bacon?
02:44I think you can make it the rest of the way now.
02:47Could have got here quick and walking.
02:50What have you done to yourself?
02:51Why have you only got one shoe?
02:53Bridge.
02:54Nothing one of your restorative breakfasts couldn't fix, Mrs. Hork?
02:58I've got to go.
02:59I'm late for Mrs. Pumphrey now.
03:00Mrs. Pumphrey?
03:02I've just had Sister Rose on the telephone.
03:05She reckons you're due there half an hour ago.
03:07Sister Rose?
03:09Nice knowing you, old chap.
03:10I don't have an appointment with her.
03:12I'm worried about one of her rescue dogs.
03:15She's actually called yesterday.
03:17Who did she speak to?
03:18Is there any more marmalade?
03:21We can't afford to get on the wrong side of Sister Rose.
03:24Every time she re-homes a dog, she tells the new owners to bring it here.
03:27We've lost enough business lately.
03:29If you go to Sister Rose, I'll deal with Tricky.
03:31Why do I get Sister Rose?
03:33Don't mind for it if you can't organise yourself.
03:40That's my bacon.
03:43I don't need the voxel.
03:56Sorry, excuse me.
03:57Don't mind me, Mr. Harriet.
04:24You turn up whenever you fancy.
04:26I'm only late for my shift.
04:28Sorry, Sister Rose.
04:28And my dogs are used to being abandoned, so why worry?
04:32There was a mix-up with the appointments, but I'm here now.
04:34Shall we take a look at this dog?
04:36Uh-uh.
04:37You've heard of ladies first, haven't you?
04:40Of course.
04:41Sorry.
04:42After you.
04:44Your poor, poor wife.
04:45Even one unwanted dog is too many.
04:54Hush now.
04:55Clive.
04:57Clive.
04:58Don.
04:59You think people want to adopt a badly behaved boy?
05:01I'm not telling you something else.
05:07I have not received the flea powder I requested.
05:10Three years I've been with you.
05:12I shouldn't have to chase it up.
05:13Again, I can only apologise.
05:16What seems to be the trouble?
05:18It's Geoffrey here.
05:20He hasn't been right for the last few days.
05:23Up all last night, vomiting.
05:25He does look weak.
05:26Where did you find him?
05:27Side of the road.
05:29On my way to the hospital.
05:30Curl up on a bit of muck.
05:32Soon as I saw him, I knew it was a Geoffrey.
05:34You certainly have a way with names.
05:37I like my dogs to have real ones.
05:39Like people.
05:40Did their new owners keep them?
05:42Why would you ever change a good name like Geoffrey?
05:46No reason at all.
05:49Can I have a look at you, Geoffrey?
05:54All right.
05:55All right.
05:57I know you've learned not to trust.
05:59But Mr. Herriot means no harm.
06:02Now, there could be a few things causing it.
06:06He might have gastritis.
06:09We'll try stomach powders first.
06:12What if it's not gastritis?
06:14He might have swallowed something.
06:15I couldn't feel anything inside.
06:17But I can't be absolutely sure.
06:21You don't have an x-ray machine yet?
06:23There are other vets I can go to, you know.
06:25I've been discussing it with my business partner.
06:28We're ironing out the details.
06:29The hospital have just got a new one.
06:31The old one is for sale.
06:33Oh, well, I could certainly take a look.
06:35It's a x-ray machine.
06:37What, you want it to match your wallpaper?
06:40No, no, not at all.
06:41Good.
06:44When shall I say you'll be picking it up?
06:45Tricky, Tricky, come on.
07:05Yes, come on, come on.
07:07Birthday boy.
07:10Tricky, come on.
07:11Oh, Tricky, what on earth is the matter?
07:14Morning, Mrs. Mumford.
07:16Oh, Uncle Farnon is here at last.
07:20Everything will be well.
07:22I brought him a little present.
07:24Bless you.
07:27It's not in the diet plan, but as it's his birthday.
07:30Tricky, birthday bacon.
07:32Oh, yes, I see.
07:37You come for Uncle Farnon.
07:39It's me you've taken against.
07:41This does not sound like the happiest of birthday celebrations.
07:45He refuses to follow any of my instructions.
07:47He won't come.
07:49He won't sit.
07:50He won't roll over.
07:51Oh?
07:52Why is he being like this?
07:56Do you suppose I've said something to offend him?
08:00Surely not.
08:01Tricky?
08:04He can drift into unsavoury moods from time to time, but this is altogether different.
08:08Tricky?
08:11Well, perhaps he's simply grown tired of me.
08:14One does have to wonder if...
08:15Oh!
08:17Well, perhaps he can't hear you.
08:19What?
08:20Can't hear?
08:21Tricky!
08:21Tricky!
08:24I don't think he can hear a thing.
08:27He came because of the smell of the bacon, not because I called him.
08:30Oh!
08:31Tricky!
08:32Tricky!
08:34Uncle Farnon will take care of it.
08:38Uncle Farnon will take care of it!
08:44Yes, this man is infected.
08:47Bring him in for a good clean.
08:48Aw, sweet boy!
08:49Oh!
08:50I feel like I've been hit by a tractor.
08:56Oh, you just did more chance with a tractor.
09:00She has this way of making you do things, whether you want to or not.
09:03Walkies, James.
09:04Good boy, James.
09:08I think she sold me an x-ray machine.
09:12What?
09:12I mean, I've agreed to go and see it.
09:15James?
09:16It's not like I hadn't been thinking about it.
09:19The benefits would be enormous.
09:21And also, Sister Rose told you to do it.
09:25Sorry.
09:25She's my new hero, though.
09:28I bet you don't take any messing about from her patients.
09:32We've got to think about the future.
09:34I've worked in a modern practice.
09:36The one in Glasgow.
09:38That's how we should be thinking.
09:40Well, what will Siegfried do?
09:42Siegfried may be happy to let things slide.
09:46I'm not.
09:48Well, I look forward to his reaction.
09:50Although we'll probably hear it from the farm.
09:53He can say what he likes.
09:55I can't actually stand up for myself, you know.
10:04You've got a bad back or something?
10:07Me?
10:09Aye.
10:11I was wondering if that's what's stopped you.
10:13Getting a brush and sweeping up this mud you've walked in.
10:18Well, I've not walked it in.
10:20Well, it's not me.
10:22So unless bloody cows are wearing his size tens and treading it in,
10:25it's you.
10:27It's not my mud.
10:29And it's not mine, neither.
10:32I'll brush it.
10:33No, he'll not.
10:35He will.
10:35It makes no sense.
10:48It's a secret.
10:52You're a braver soul than me.
10:55I've been putting this off ever since I got back.
10:57As I said, military discipline.
10:59You learn to keep things organised.
11:01You know, some of these are no longer strictly legal.
11:05Are you bored?
11:12Being on leave?
11:15Comfortable bed.
11:17Home-cooked meals.
11:18Yeah, dreadfully bored.
11:19Well, it's just you haven't sat still for five minutes, wanting to be on the go all the time.
11:25When my Edward came home injured, he said the worst thing, we're not having anything to distract him.
11:30Distract him?
11:34Hmm.
11:37From remembering, I suppose.
11:41Uh, well, tooth be told, Mrs Hall, um, well, it is a relief to see, uh, my brother making someone else's life a misery.
11:53I know what James is going through.
11:54I'm not going to stand around and do nothing.
11:57I can see Siegfried's handwriting hasn't got me better.
12:00Boric acid.
12:05Oh, boric acid.
12:24Hello, can I...
12:25Mrs Hall, we seem to be out of coffee.
12:44Do you...
12:46Is this yours?
12:48One shoe looks rather like a nuggle to me.
12:51What was that lady doing with it?
12:52Why has she thrown it at me?
12:54If only she'd stayed, we could have asked her.
13:08Siegfried.
13:10Remember I was talking to you about bringing in some modern equipment?
13:13What have I done with the other one?
13:15And we discussed x-ray machines?
13:17Oh, yes, marvellous things.
13:18Well, an opportunity has arisen.
13:20Where on God's earth is it?
13:21And I felt it too good to refuse.
13:22I'll be having it delivered this week.
13:26Which one of you is the culprit?
13:27So that's all good with you, is it?
13:29What?
13:30Yes, you don't need to trouble me with every little thing.
13:35X-ray machine?
13:37But that's not cheap.
13:39I didn't hear Siegfried argue.
13:41And I'm sure he gave it his full and careful consideration.
13:44It's for the good of the practice.
13:45Whether he knows it or not.
14:01It's here.
14:03Is it supposed to be this big?
14:06Are you ready, stress?
14:06Oh, I mean, I know that I'm made of muscle, Jim, but even for me...
14:11Hold my eyes between us.
14:12Don't bother.
14:14Okay.
14:16Cheap off the car, bud, Jim.
14:19Right?
14:19No chance.
14:22Come on.
14:29Okay.
14:30Up.
14:31Okay.
14:31I think it's caught on something.
14:42I don't suppose you'd mind lending us a hand.
14:46For a discount on your next bill, obviously.
14:48Right, right.
14:49Yeah.
14:50I mean, come on.
14:54You won't.
14:55You got it?
14:55That's it.
14:56Easy.
14:57Easy, lad.
14:58That's...
14:59Thank you so much.
15:02Right, yeah.
15:03We'll take it from here.
15:04Okay, doke.
15:05Right.
15:09Well, as I say, there's nothing to worry about.
15:13Yes.
15:15Now it's caught on something again.
15:17We'll see him again in a few days.
15:18What the hell's that?
15:19An entry machine.
15:23Mrs. Jenkins, would you mind going out through the back way?
15:26It's down here.
15:29I told you all about it.
15:32You did no such thing.
15:34You said they were marvelous.
15:37Even if I did, where in that statement can you hear the words,
15:40please go out and buy yourself a bloody big x-ray machine?
15:43How much is it costing us?
15:44Well, it'll pay for itself within six months.
15:47We're still rationing, man.
15:48Locals can't afford x-rays.
15:51And in any case, it'll only help with the small animals.
15:53We're going to be seeing a lot more of those now we're coming out of the war.
15:55People want their companions again.
15:58You know, like rats.
16:00Our primary business is agricultural.
16:03Always has been, always will be.
16:04Modern equipment like this is essential now.
16:07Like it or not, domestic pets are the future.
16:09Not if they can't get in the bloody door, they're not.
16:11All right.
16:19You have a lovely day now.
16:25Morning.
16:26Just a lettuce, please.
16:28Far on an account.
16:28Yes, that's right.
16:33Is it...
16:34Is that the best one you got?
16:36Give you my regards, won't you?
16:47Yes!
16:48So sorry to have to bring you the back way.
16:51Lucky Tricky not having to hear this.
16:54Yes, your other uncles did forget your birthday.
16:57Oh, I have a card.
16:59Somewhere.
17:02Look, I think it's jammed now.
17:10Just finish this up.
17:13Finish this up.
17:15Good boy, Tricky.
17:17You're being such a good boy.
17:19I can't hear you, Mrs. Mumphrey.
17:20Yes.
17:25And suspected.
17:26It's an infection.
17:28Not to worry.
17:29Antibiotics will clear it up.
17:30Incredible things.
17:31Don't know how we got by without them.
17:32You hear that, Tricky?
17:34Uncle Farman will make you better.
17:37How did this come to be?
17:40Well, it's quite common as dogs get older.
17:43Just a symptom of his age.
17:45Excuse Uncle Farman, Tricky.
17:47He can't hear you.
17:48Just as well.
17:50Old age, indeed.
17:51We have to be realistic.
17:53These infections will become more frequent, along with other ailments.
17:58He may not be quite as young as some other dogs, but he's been far better looked after.
18:05None of us can escape the inevitable.
18:06He's moving, Tricky.
18:10Yeah.
18:14Come on.
18:15Oh, God.
18:17I'm absolutely done in, Jim.
18:19Are those the words of a fighting soldier?
18:21Yeah, but we weren't fighting x-ray machines out there.
18:24One little nudge.
18:26Lucky me, Rob's not saying this.
18:28You've almost got it.
18:29He sent me to get that ointment for the cows.
18:31I told him I would bring it home tonight.
18:33Just, sorry.
18:36Come in.
18:37Squeeze past if you can.
18:40Thank you, Mrs. Pumphrey.
18:42Come along, Tricky dear.
18:43Mrs. Pumphrey.
18:44I'll go and get this card.
18:47Right, come on.
18:49Put your back into it.
18:50More likely putting it out.
18:52Right, come on.
18:57Oh, God.
18:58You are aware that I'm on leave.
18:59Yeah.
19:00It's arrived then.
19:02Sister Rose.
19:03Oh, Sister Rose, I've heard so much about you.
19:07I can well imagine.
19:08Do you want to come through?
19:10Yes.
19:10Yeah.
19:11Yeah.
19:13You don't own a tape measure?
19:15It looks a lot bigger outside of the hospital, Sister.
19:18Two educated men.
19:21You only good at taking out walls, Sister Rose.
19:24I would just take it out of the crate.
19:27What with it being on wheels.
19:29Yes.
19:35I'll give it to her.
19:36I'll give it to her.
19:36There we go.
19:49What are we going to invent next, Jim?
19:50Fire?
19:51Fire?
19:53I came to collect my flea powder.
19:55Just as well.
19:56How's Jeffrey getting on?
19:57Well, he seems an awful lot better.
20:00Your medicine must be doing its job.
20:02That's good to hear.
20:03We could always give him an x-ray, just to be sure.
20:05If you mean, will I show you how to do it?
20:07I don't think so.
20:08I have enough animals of my own to house train.
20:12I'll get you your flea powder.
20:14On the house.
20:15Thank you, Mr. Harriet.
20:16Clive's infested and sharing it with the rest of the pack.
20:19Maybe it's his goodbye gift to her, Carol.
20:22She's found her home now.
20:24That's wonderful news.
20:25A couple on the other side of Daraby.
20:27She'll be happy there, I have no doubt.
20:29To break the others to lose her, though.
20:32They've grown close.
20:33It must be hard on you as well.
20:35Oh, no.
20:37They're all still with me up here.
20:40I know they're going to leave me from the moment I take them in.
20:43They depend on me for a while, but sooner or later they have to stand on their own.
20:49It's the natural order of things.
20:54Flea powder.
20:55Mm-hmm.
20:55Please and thanks.
21:02Oh, dear.
21:04Have you grown again lately?
21:06You're nearly as tall as me.
21:08Audrey.
21:09Hello.
21:10Do you want to play marbles?
21:12I'd love to.
21:13You go and set them up.
21:14I'll be with you in two ticks.
21:15Yeah, just in time.
21:16I'm losing an argument with a fruit loaf.
21:18Well, we can't have that.
21:20I just wanted to use it all up.
21:21I don't suppose rational end any time soon.
21:23Look.
21:24Yeah.
21:27Have you been shopping in the village lately?
21:29No.
21:32Has everyone been all right with you?
21:35Because I've been feeling about as welcome as a pig in a pantry.
21:38You?
21:40Well, nothing I could put my finger on.
21:42I didn't...
21:43It was like...
21:44And it's happened in a few places.
21:47It was like I'd done something to offend.
21:52I don't think it's you that's offended anyone.
21:58Oh.
21:58Chances are Siegfried's either sacked and shouted at him or done something to upset him.
22:04Well, he is quite skilled in that department.
22:05I don't know how you cope with him, honestly.
22:10James has got all these big ideas and Siegfried don't want to know.
22:15They're no.
22:15Are you ready?
22:18Here you go.
22:21I think you're winning.
22:23Maybe one more.
22:25The thing with Mr. Farnham is...
22:27Come on.
22:29There's only one way, and it's his way.
22:32And the worst of it is, he's not always wrong.
22:38Come on, then.
22:39It's beautiful, Jim.
22:49Aye.
22:51Beautiful.
22:52Come on, then.
22:53Let's give it a test run.
22:54Make sure it's ship-shape.
22:56Uh, all right.
22:58Put your hand in, then.
23:02What, this hand?
23:03Either hand is fine.
23:04Why don't your hand?
23:04I'll be operating it.
23:05Well, I can operate it.
23:06How hard can it be?
23:07It's my machine.
23:08And these are my hands fighting hands.
23:10Hands that are required to protect the free world.
23:12Yeah, but these hands are paying for this thing.
23:17Is it safe?
23:19Well, next day it's not going to do much harm.
23:22Get on with it.
23:34It could be the fuse.
24:01Where on earth did you get it?
24:05A little closer, please.
24:06So now we're broken, so is the machine.
24:08Here we are.
24:10Hey, let there be light.
24:12I take it all back.
24:13The man's an electrical wizard.
24:14It's clearly too much for a domestic circuit.
24:17We'll have to rewire a new board.
24:19Why don't we send out for someone who knows what they're doing?
24:21Oh, no, of course, we've no money left.
24:23We've lost what we have left since every invoice and receipt gets snuffed into the nearest vans.
24:26Which works perfectly well, unlike that.
24:29Again, you said there were marvellous things.
24:31Oh, they are.
24:32But if you ask me properly, I might have suggested not buying the first one you saw.
24:42Nothing to see here, George.
24:43Why are the electrics off?
25:12Nothing to do with me.
25:18James, walking out like that.
25:22Nothing out to do with you either.
25:23Did I stake the practice on a defunct x-ray machine?
25:28An x-ray machine?
25:30It's exciting.
25:31It's useless.
25:32A blind mole rat would have more chance of seeing through things.
25:36Well, that's frustrating.
25:37I imagine it could be of great benefit to the practice.
25:40I'm sure you told him so.
25:42Mrs. Hall, I have my ways.
25:44I do them because they work.
25:46You're very lucky.
25:48I have someone who puts up with your ways.
25:50It's all very well, people coming in and out, telling me what to do.
25:53I'm here.
25:55I'm the only one who bloody well has been.
25:57I know it's not been easy for you these last few years.
26:09But it might be wise not to get on the wrong side of everyone you meet.
26:14I beg your pardon?
26:15Don't talk about a blind mole rat.
26:18Digging his tunnel in a temper.
26:20No idea it's falling in behind him.
26:22God help anyone who happens to be in the way.
26:24Could you just call me a mole rat?
26:26This is a village, and if you go around upsetting people,
26:29they can make it difficult for you.
26:31They can make things difficult for me.
26:34I don't know what you mean.
26:35Mr. Jug, the green grocer.
26:37It's not so much him as his sister.
26:39Oh, good grief.
26:40No, she's one of your successors.
26:44I gave her the job in good faith,
26:45but honestly, how many times do you have to say soft-boiled?
26:48There is a limit.
26:49How long was she here?
26:51Three and a half days.
26:54I know you don't mean to hurt anyone.
26:57I know it would upset you to think that you had.
27:01But you just don't realise.
27:03If people misunderstand me,
27:05there's very little I can do about it.
27:07Mr. Farnett, it's not the worst thing in the world
27:09to admit you're wrong.
27:10It's almost like you've done it on purpose.
27:23I'm not doing it at all.
27:25What you should do is get your own house.
27:27That way you can tread in as much mud as you like.
27:31Truff to bits, I got to meet Sister Rose.
27:33I should have sent a nurse's out to fight the Germans.
27:35Well, it would have been sewn up in no time.
27:37So you got your x-ray machine then?
27:40Aye, and there were some teething problems,
27:42but it still doesn't justify the way Siegfried spoke to me.
27:44In front of clients.
27:46When you stood up to him.
27:47Jenny, eggs.
27:49She says you struggled to get the thing through the door.
27:51And then it blew the electrics.
27:55You should count yourself lucky.
27:56It's only mud you're treading in.
27:58If it was his idea, it'd be the best thing ever.
28:00But when it comes from me...
28:01You know, going out buying a whopping great machine
28:03without discussing it is a very Siegfried thing to do.
28:07What do you mean by that?
28:09I mean, one of them is quite enough.
28:16Right, get a broom.
28:19Sweep it up!
28:20It is rather a good investment, you know.
28:49Well, I can't say, since I can't see it in action.
28:53Hmm.
28:55Maybe we could try it on the inside of your head.
28:59Find out what actually happens in there.
29:01Ah, just in time.
29:23Observe.
29:27What did you do?
29:28The machine is now on a separate circuit with its own fuse board.
29:32You learn many different skills in the core, you know.
29:34Well done!
29:36Don't know what you'll do with all those lamps now.
29:42Hey!
29:43See?
29:43Mr. Herriot!
29:46Mr. Herriot!
29:50Mr. Herriot!
29:51It's Geoffrey.
29:53You won't stop vomiting.
29:55Bring him in.
29:55Please.
29:56You said the stomach powders were clearing it.
30:03He hasn't missed a single dose.
30:05Perhaps Geoffrey doesn't have gastritis after all.
30:08Well, what else could it be?
30:09Have you checked for any foreign bodies?
30:11I couldn't feel one.
30:13But it was up when it was very tense.
30:17What do you think?
30:18I can't feel anything either.
30:28The muscles are very tense, so he's guarding his abdomen.
30:31It must be very painful.
30:34It was getting better.
30:36I'm sorry, Sister Rose.
30:37That can happen while the object makes its way through the system to the bowel.
30:40Helped by the stomach powders, no doubt.
30:42It's possible, yes.
30:44The problem is there are other potential explanations.
30:46Normally, we'd risk the surgery if we weren't sure.
30:50But Geoffrey is so frail.
30:52He was clearly fitting for himself for some time before he found him.
30:56But if he don't operate, and he has swallowed something...
31:01We could lose him, I'm afraid.
31:07Thankfully, we don't have to guess.
31:11Triss.
31:12All right, lad.
31:13All right.
31:14That's it.
31:15All right, lad.
31:17You're all right.
31:25Bring her across, please.
31:27All right, Geoffrey.
31:28Let's get you x-rayed.
31:31Afternoon.
31:33Mr. Farnham.
31:35I'd like to speak to you about your sister.
31:37It seems I...
31:38Beryl?
31:39Oh, she's here.
31:41How...
31:41How lucky for me.
31:43Yes?
31:46I wanted to apologise for anything I may have said or done.
31:51I've not even heard some of those words before.
31:53The way you were treated was wholly inappropriate, and the blame was entirely mine.
32:01Oh.
32:01At least you've had the gumption to admit it.
32:04Right, well, um...
32:09Good day to you both.
32:12Your account's still overdue, by the way.
32:14Okay.
32:14So I still can't say for sure if there's a foreign body.
32:22It's not a very good image.
32:23I need better exposure.
32:24Our facilities are quite limited.
32:26Take another x-ray.
32:27We can develop it at the hospital.
32:29I think that would be the best course of action.
32:31Like I say, I can't operate on a poorly dog if we're not absolutely certain.
32:35May I?
32:41Vomiting for 48 hours or so.
32:43Subsided after stomach powders.
32:44Vomiting again for several hours earlier today.
32:47And you examined him thoroughly?
32:48Of course.
32:49He had a very tense abdomen.
32:51I say operate.
32:52The dog is extremely weak.
32:54He's been nursed back to full health by his sister, Rose, after living wild.
32:58I'm not sure he survives the surgery.
33:01If he has swallowed something, and we wait for better x-rays, he may not make it.
33:06But of course it's your decision.
33:10James.
33:12He's just vomited again.
33:15Mr. Herriot.
33:19We operate.
33:22There you go.
33:31A cup of tea.
33:32Very kind, Mrs. Hall.
33:34Look at me.
33:36You think I'd be used to this kind of thing by now?
33:38Well, it's because you care.
33:42It's hard being on the other side.
33:44I'm not used to feeling helpless.
33:47I suppose as a nurse, you can't let yourself get too close.
33:50I try to be like that with the dogs.
33:54To keep up a wall, you know?
33:56But sometimes they get by.
33:58Like that rascal.
34:00He's cleared the wall.
34:03And how did he manage that?
34:07He stayed at the poor creature when I found him.
34:12He was at his lowest.
34:13But I could see he had a good heart.
34:17You know, I don't think many people would see what you see.
34:21And sometimes he would snap at people and growl.
34:24But he is only like that because he was hurt.
34:29Damaged.
34:31He has to learn to trust again.
34:32What if he can't?
34:38Oh.
34:39I haven't found one that can't, Mrs. Hall.
34:42They all want the same thing.
34:45A home.
34:46And love.
34:49And also, they need to know they are not the ones in charge.
34:52Cicero's, he'd swallowed a pebble.
34:59Oh, Geoffrey.
35:00No, we've managed to remove it.
35:02And how is he now?
35:04He's doing well.
35:06But he's been through the wars.
35:09All we can do now is hope for the best.
35:11He seems comfortable.
35:19I hope so.
35:19He's at a rough time.
35:21Of course, if you've thoroughly examined the dog in the first place.
35:24I told you he was guarding his abdomen.
35:26There's no way anyone could have known.
35:33I might not have operated if you hadn't given a second opinion.
35:37Well, we always need to take a view.
35:39But maybe, once we've ironed out the problems with that new machine,
35:44there'll be less margin for error.
35:47You can wipe that bloody grin off your face.
35:49I've never been against new equipment or ideas.
35:52I just want to say in which ones and when.
35:56Sorry.
35:57Perhaps I should have consulted you properly.
36:00Perhaps I should have let you.
36:06It is an expensive piece of kit.
36:08I know.
36:09But the war is almost over.
36:11The world has changed.
36:13We need to change with it.
36:15I think we already have.
36:16Get a broom.
36:25Get a broom.
36:45They're still.
36:47Your problem is you take this place for bloody granted.
36:52Not the only one either.
36:56Jenny's finally applied for nursing college.
36:58When did this happen?
37:00Sent the letter last week.
37:02We think it were just the war holding her back.
37:05We'll have another sister, Rose, eh?
37:06Don't tell anyone.
37:08She don't want fuck knowing in case she don't get in.
37:10Of course she'll get in.
37:13I'll put that fence back.
37:15Stalled for now anyway.
37:18What's wrong with you lot?
37:19Dad, are them your boots?
37:27Grandad said that all the boots make the farmer.
37:31Oh, he did, did he?
37:33I'll, um, get the broom.
37:36I think these are a bit big for you yet, lad.
37:48Ready?
37:49One, two, three.
37:52And you should be in bed, like your sister.
37:54Yes.
37:55Come on, Farmer Jimmy.
37:56Good night.
37:57Farmer, getting a bit ahead of himself, wouldn't he?
38:08If I, um, get ahead of myself sometimes,
38:14it's because I want you to be proud of me.
38:20I want to give you the best life I can.
38:23I've got the best life.
38:30Right now, in this moment.
38:35Best life we could have.
38:41Mr. Farmer.
38:42Mrs. Hall.
38:43I trust you met less unpleasantness in the village?
38:48I did get a better lettuce.
38:50I'm glad.
38:53I hope I didn't say too much.
38:57You said what needed to be said.
39:00But if you ever compare me to a blind mole rat again,
39:03we shall have words.
39:04Oh, before you light up,
39:07I'm afraid that were Mrs. Pumphrey on the telephone.
39:09Oh, Lord.
39:10She wants you to call over.
39:11Urgent, apparently.
39:12I told her it would take time to heal.
39:14What, don't forget Jimmy's cart?
39:15Oh, yes.
39:16James said if you're going up there.
39:18This'll put him right back at the top of the favourite uncle league table.
39:21Set up the game, Mrs. Hall.
39:22I shan't be late.
39:22As I said, the medicine won't work overnight.
39:31Oh, I understand.
39:32It's getting better already.
39:34No, it's not about his years.
39:35It's not?
39:37No, perhaps you were right.
39:39Tricky isn't as young as he was.
39:42Time trickles through one's fingers, doesn't it?
39:45Time has a habit of doing that, yes.
39:47I always thought that Tricky would be here long after me, but perhaps I was wrong.
39:51I couldn't bear to be left alone.
39:53I don't follow.
39:54Oh, I'd like to breed from him.
39:57Breed from Tricky?
39:58Oh, don't you be offended, young man.
40:02No.
40:03No one can replace you, not even your own offspring.
40:06Mrs. Pumphrey.
40:07I don't want to waste a moment longer.
40:09You understand that any owner would want to ensure his dog's breeding partner was in good health?
40:14Tricky's fighting fit.
40:15And where do you propose to find this Pekingese partner?
40:20I thought you could help with that.
40:22Me?
40:23Well, you're the only uncle I would trust.
40:25The only one who remembered his birthday.
40:28Oh, but I wasn't.
40:31The delay was simply that Jimmy wanted to do the very best job he could.
40:38Jimmy?
40:38Oh, look.
40:43Isn't that beautiful?
40:46Look, he's drawn you a nice squirrel.
40:49I think that's tricky.
41:04I'm pleased to say he's made an excellent recovery.
41:06And more importantly, he looks very stylish in this.
41:10Best way to stop him getting at the stitches.
41:12And yes, it does suit him.
41:15He's lucky he ran into you, you know.
41:17Not at all.
41:19Thank you for everything you've done for him.
41:21He deserves a happy home.
41:23Hope you can find him one.
41:25Perhaps I already have.
41:26Someone's agreed to take him?
41:28Well, no.
41:29I may hold on to him just a little while longer.
41:31Who says you can't overturn the natural order of things once in a while?
41:37If anyone can, Sister Rose, it's you.
41:41Don't you cheek me, young man.
41:47You're so easy to kid.
41:50You just make sure you don't run into the same problem again.
41:53Use the hospital darkroom.
41:55I'll arrange it.
41:57No, I couldn't.
41:59The difference between your darkroom and ours might save an animal's life.
42:05I'll tell you what, then.
42:06If you can arrange that, we'll waive the cost of treating your dogs.
42:11Mr. Herriot, you have a deal.
42:15Deal.
42:15Good boy, good boy.
42:27James?
42:28He's ready.
42:34Smells delicious, Mrs. H.
42:36My old bellynin put out.
42:38You eat in here.
42:39Well, she's relieved.
42:41So am I.
42:42Much deserved after a hard day's work.
42:44For most of us, anyway.
42:46Ah.
42:47So I see Jim's turn and the firing line is over, is it?
42:49I just wish you'd find something to do that didn't involve messing up my dispensary.
42:54Our dispensary.
42:55There were former staff in there who didn't know the war was over.
42:57The first war.
43:00Besides, I was thinking perhaps I...
43:03might start going back on calls while I'm here.
43:06Are you volunteering for work?
43:08Well, it's unfair you darting back and forth.
43:10You'll be exhausted, man.
43:11Next thing you know, you'll be buying elaborate machinery from our clients.
43:16But only if you're certain.
43:18I'd love to have you back.
43:20Cheers.
43:22Decent timing, as a matter of fact.
43:24James, I've got a new job for you to get your teeth into.
43:27Mrs. Pumphrey would like you to find a suitable breeding partner for Tricky.
43:31What?
43:32Didn't you tell her he's a bit past it?
43:34Oh, I think the old dog's got a few tricks left in him yet.
43:36I'd have taken it on myself, but she was won over by that beautiful card.
43:41Oh, you dropped me in it.
43:43If anyone can find a pedigree Pekingese that meets Mrs. Pumphrey's high standards, it's you.
43:47I don't have the first clue.
43:49Oh, well, when a boy dog likes a girl dog very, very much.
43:53Oi.
43:55You'll put him off his cobbler.
43:56Yes, eat your cobbler.
43:57Might be the last decent meal we have now we've bought that bloody machine.
43:59I want 12 peas, please.
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