All Creatures Great and Small - Season 6 Episode 02- Old Dog, New Tricks
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00:00Thank you very much.
00:30Oh, thank you, Jimmy.
00:41It wouldn't do to forget Triggy's birthday.
00:44Tell your mum and Rosie I said bye.
01:00Oh, my God.
01:30Oh, my God.
01:48What are you doing?
01:58Bloody car wouldn't start.
02:00Wherever you left it?
02:01Up at the Marshams.
02:03I thought Ronnie Marsham died.
02:05Mrs. Marsham was hosting a bridge game.
02:09Till this time in the morning?
02:10An all-night bridge session is nothing out of the ordinary.
02:13Sorry?
02:15Did you not have called someone to pick you up?
02:18I had to leave in something of a hurry.
02:21Where's your other shoe?
02:22I mislaid it.
02:27At a bridge game?
02:31Get in.
02:39It does sound Triggy's birthday, Marred.
02:40Don't leave it on the sink, then.
02:42Five miles done, and not a bit of it between the drover's snug and the drover's bar.
03:02And all before you've had your breakfast.
03:05Could you not sleep?
03:06Military training, Mrs. H.
03:08Discipline body, discipline mind.
03:10Is that bacon?
03:12Think you can make it the rest of the way now?
03:14Could have got here quick.
03:15I'm walking.
03:16What have you done to yourself?
03:18Why have you only got one shoe?
03:19Bridge.
03:21Nothing one of your restorative breakfasts couldn't fix, Mrs. Hall?
03:25I've got to go and look for Mrs. Pumphrey now.
03:27Mrs. Pumphrey?
03:29I've just had Sister Rose on the telephone.
03:31She reckons you're due there, half an hour ago.
03:34Sister Rose?
03:36Nice knowing you, old chap.
03:37I don't have an appointment with her.
03:39I'm worried about one of her rescue dogs.
03:42Said she called yesterday.
03:43Who did she speak to?
03:44Is there any more marmalade?
03:47We can't afford to get on the wrong side of Sister Rose.
03:50Every time she re-homes a dog, she tells the new owners to bring it here.
03:54We've lost enough business lately.
03:56Off you go to Sister Rose, I'll deal with Tricky.
03:58Why do I get Sister Rose?
03:59Don't mind for it if you can't organise yourself.
04:09That's my bacon.
04:10I don't need the voxel.
04:23There you go.
04:23Sorry, excuse me.
04:26Don't mind me, Mr. Herriot.
04:51You turn up whenever you fancy.
04:53I'm only late for my shift.
04:54Sorry, Sister Rose.
04:55And my dogs are used to being abandoned, so why worry?
04:58There was a mix-up with the appointments, but I'm here now.
05:01Shall we take a look at this dog?
05:03Uh-uh.
05:04You've heard of ladies first, haven't you?
05:06Of course.
05:08Sorry.
05:09After you.
05:11Your poor, poor wife.
05:12Even one unwanted dog is too many.
05:21Push now.
05:22Clive.
05:24Clive.
05:25Done.
05:25You think people want to adopt a badly behaved boy?
05:27I'm not telling you something else.
05:34I have not received the flea powder I requested.
05:36Three years I've been with you.
05:39I shouldn't have to chase it up.
05:40Again, I can only apologise.
05:43What seems to be the trouble?
05:45It's Geoffrey here.
05:47He hasn't been right for the last few days.
05:50Up all last night, vomiting.
05:51He does look weak.
05:53Where did you find him?
05:54Side of the road.
05:55On my way to the hospital.
05:57Curl up on a bit of muck.
05:59Soon as I saw him, I knew it was a Geoffrey.
06:01You certainly have a way with names.
06:03I like my dogs to have real ones.
06:05Like people.
06:07Did their new owners keep them?
06:09Why would you ever change a good name like Geoffrey?
06:12No reason at all.
06:15Can I have a look at you, Geoffrey?
06:21All right.
06:22All right.
06:23I know you learned not to trust.
06:26But Mr. Herriot means no harm.
06:29Now, there could be a few things causing it.
06:32He might have gastritis.
06:36We'll try stomach powders first.
06:39What if it's not gastritis?
06:41He might have swallowed something.
06:42I couldn't feel anything inside.
06:44But I can't be absolutely sure.
06:48You don't have an x-ray machine yet?
06:49There are other vets I can go to, you know.
06:52I've been discussing it with my business partner.
06:55We're ironing out the details.
06:56The hospital have just got a new one.
06:57The old one is for sale.
07:00Oh, well, I could certainly take a look.
07:02It's a x-ray machine.
07:04What, you want it to match your wallpaper?
07:06No, no, not at all.
07:08Good.
07:10When shall I say you'll be picking it up?
07:12Tricky, Tricky, come on.
07:32Yes, come on.
07:33Come on.
07:34Birthday boy.
07:36Tricky, come on.
07:37Oh, Tricky, what on earth is the matter?
07:41Morning, Mrs. Plumfrey.
07:42Oh, Uncle Farnon is here at last.
07:47Everything will be well.
07:49I brought him a little present.
07:51Bless you.
07:53It's not in the diet plan, but as it's his birthday.
07:57Tricky.
07:58Birthday bacon.
07:59Oh, yes, I see.
08:03You come for Uncle Farnon.
08:06It's me you've taken against.
08:08This does not sound like the happiest of birthday celebrations.
08:11He refuses to follow any of my instructions.
08:14He won't come.
08:15He won't sit.
08:16He won't roll over.
08:18Oh?
08:18Why is he being like this?
08:23Do you suppose I've said something to offend him?
08:27Surely not.
08:27Tricky.
08:30He can drift into unsavoury moods from time to time, but this is altogether different.
08:35Tricky.
08:38Look, perhaps he's simply grown tired of me.
08:41One does have to wonder if...
08:42Oh!
08:43Well, perhaps he can't hear you.
08:46What?
08:47Can't hear?
08:48Tricky.
08:51I don't think he can hear a thing.
08:53He came because of the smell of the bacon, not because I called him.
08:56Oh.
08:57Tricky.
09:00Uncle Farnon will take care of it.
09:05Uncle Farnon will take care of it.
09:11Yes, this man is infected.
09:14Bring him in for a good clean.
09:15Oh, sweet boy.
09:18Oh.
09:20I feel like I've been hit by a tractor.
09:23Oh, you just did more chance with a tractor.
09:25She has this way of making you do things, whether you want to or not.
09:30Walkies, James.
09:31Good boy, James.
09:35I think she sold me an x-ray machine.
09:38What?
09:39I mean, I've agreed to go and see it.
09:42James?
09:43It's not like I hadn't been thinking about it.
09:46The benefits would be enormous.
09:48And also, Sister Rose told you to do it.
09:52Sorry.
09:52She's my new hero, though.
09:55I bet she don't take any messing about from her patients.
09:58We've got to think about the future.
10:01I've worked in a modern practice.
10:03The one in Glasgow.
10:04That's how we should be thinking.
10:06Well, what will Siegfried do?
10:09Siegfried may be happy to let things slide.
10:13I'm not.
10:15Well, I look forward to his reaction.
10:17Although we'll probably hear it from the farm.
10:20He can say what he likes.
10:22I can't actually stand up for myself, you know.
10:31You've got a bad back or something?
10:35Me?
10:36Aye.
10:37I was wondering if that's what's stopped you.
10:40Getting a brush and sweeping up this mud you've walked in.
10:44Well, I've not walked it in.
10:46Well, it's not me.
10:49So unless bloody cows are wearing size tens and treading it in,
10:53it's you.
10:54It's not my mud.
10:56And it's not mine, neither.
10:58I'll brush it.
11:00No, he'll not.
11:02He will.
11:05It makes no sense.
11:15It must be Siegfried.
11:19You're a braver soul than me.
11:21I've been putting this off ever since I got back.
11:24As I said, military discipline.
11:26You learn to keep things organised.
11:27You know, some of these are no longer strictly legal.
11:35Are you bored?
11:38Being on leave?
11:40What?
11:42Comfortable bed?
11:43Home-cooked meals?
11:45Yeah, dreadfully bored.
11:47It's just you haven't sat still for five minutes.
11:49Wanting to be on the go all the time.
11:51When my Edward came home injured, he said the worst thing,
11:55we're not having anything to distract him.
11:59Distract him?
12:01Mm.
12:04From remembering, I suppose.
12:10Well, truth be told, Mrs Hall,
12:12Well, it is a relief to see my brother
12:18making someone else's life a misery.
12:20I know what James is going through.
12:21I'm not going to stand around and do nothing.
12:24I can see Siegfried's handwriting hasn't got me better.
12:31Boric acid.
12:32Oh, boric acid.
12:33Hello, can I...
12:52Mrs Hall, we seem to be out of coffee.
13:11Do you...
13:12Is this yours?
13:15One shoe looks rather like another to me.
13:17What was that lady doing with it?
13:19Why has she thrown it at me?
13:20If only she'd stayed, we could have asked her.
13:35Siegfried.
13:37Remember I was talking to you
13:38about bringing in some modern equipment?
13:40What have I done with the other one?
13:42And we discussed x-ray machines?
13:43Ah, yes, marvellous things.
13:45Well, an opportunity has arisen.
13:46Where on God's earth is it?
13:48And I felt it too good to refuse.
13:49I'll be having it delivered this week.
13:52Which one of you is the culprit?
13:54So that's all good with you, is it?
13:56What?
13:57Yes, you don't need to trouble me with every little thing.
14:02X-ray machine?
14:04I bet that's not cheap.
14:05I didn't hear Siegfried argue.
14:08And I'm sure he gave it his full and careful consideration.
14:11It's for the good of the practice.
14:13Whether he knows it or not.
14:19It's here.
14:30Is it supposed to be this big?
14:33Are you ready, stress?
14:34Well, I mean, I know that I'm made of muscle, Jim,
14:37but even for me, er...
14:38What's the matter between us?
14:39Don't bother.
14:39Okay.
14:42Take off the car, would you?
14:46Right.
14:46No chance.
14:48Go.
14:48Go.
14:49Up.
14:57Up.
14:58Okay.
14:58I think it's, er...
15:05It's caught on something.
15:08I don't suppose you'd mind lending us a hand.
15:13For a discount on your next bill, obviously.
15:15Right, right.
15:15Yeah.
15:17I mean, come on.
15:20You won't.
15:22You got it?
15:22That's it.
15:23Easy.
15:23Easy, lad.
15:25That's...
15:26Thank you so much.
15:29Right, yeah.
15:30We'll take it from here.
15:31Okay, don't.
15:32Right.
15:36What did I say?
15:36There's nothing to worry about.
15:40Yes!
15:41No, it's caught on something again.
15:44We'll see him again in a few days.
15:45What the hell's that?
15:46An x-ray machine.
15:50Mrs. Jenkins, would you mind going out through the back way?
15:53It's down here.
15:56I told you all about it.
15:59You did no such thing.
16:01You said they were marvellous.
16:03Even if I did, where in that statement can you hear the words,
16:06please go out and buy yourself a bloody big x-ray machine?
16:10How much is it costing us?
16:11Well, it'll pay for itself within six months.
16:14We're still rationing, man.
16:15Locals can't afford x-rays.
16:17And in any case, it'll only help with the small animals.
16:20We're going to be seeing a lot more of those now we're coming out of the war.
16:22People want their companions again.
16:25You know, like rats.
16:27Our primary business is agricultural.
16:30Always has been, always will be.
16:31Modern equipment like this is essential now.
16:34Like it or not, domestic pets are the future.
16:36Not if they can't get in the bloody door, they're not.
16:38All right.
16:46You have a lovely day now.
16:52Morning.
16:53Just a lettuce, please.
16:55Far on an account.
16:56Yes.
16:56That's right.
16:57Is it...
17:01Is that the best one you've got?
17:03Give you my regards, won't you?
17:13Yes!
17:15So sorry to have to bring you the back way.
17:18Lucky Tricky not having to hear this.
17:20Yes, your other uncles did forget your birthday.
17:25Oh, I've got it.
17:26Somewhere.
17:26Look, I think it's jammed now.
17:37Just finish this up.
17:40Finish this up.
17:42Good boy, Tricky.
17:43You're being such a good boy.
17:46I can't hear you, Mrs. Pumphrey.
17:51Yes.
17:52As suspected.
17:53It's an infection.
17:54Not to worry.
17:55Antibiotics will clear it up.
17:57Incredible things.
17:58Don't know how we got by without them.
17:59You hear that, Tricky?
18:00Uncle Farman will make you better.
18:03Well, how did this come to be?
18:07Well, it's quite common as dogs get older.
18:09Just a symptom of his age.
18:11Excuse Uncle Farman.
18:13Tricky?
18:14He can't hear you.
18:15Just as well.
18:16Old age, indeed.
18:17Well, we have to be realistic.
18:19These infections will become more frequent.
18:22Along with other ailments.
18:25He may not be quite as young as some other dogs.
18:28But he's been far better looked after.
18:32None of us can escape the inevitable.
18:34You're moving!
18:37Yeah.
18:40Come on!
18:41Oh, God.
18:44I'm absolutely done in, Jim.
18:46Are those the words of a fighting soldier?
18:48Yeah, but we weren't fighting x-ray machines out there.
18:51One little nudge!
18:52Lucky me, Rob's not saying this.
18:54You've almost got it.
18:55He sent me to get that ointment for the cows.
18:58I told him I would bring her home tonight!
19:01Just, sorry.
19:03Come in.
19:03Squeeze past if you can.
19:07Thank you, Mrs Pumphrey.
19:09Come along, Tricky dear.
19:10Mrs Pumphrey!
19:11I'll go and get this card!
19:14Right, come on.
19:16Put your back into it.
19:17More likely putting it out.
19:19Right, come on.
19:22Come on.
19:23You are aware that I'm on leave.
19:27It's arrived then!
19:28Sister Rose!
19:31Sister Rose, I've heard so much about you.
19:34I can well imagine.
19:35Do you want to come through?
19:37Yeah.
19:38Yeah.
19:39You don't want to take me, huh?
19:41It looks a lot bigger outside of the hospital, sister.
19:44Two educated men.
19:47Are you any good at taking out walls, sister Rose?
19:51I would just take it out of the crate.
19:54What with it being on wheels?
20:02I'll give it to her.
20:03There we go.
20:15What are we going to invent next, Jim?
20:17Fire?
20:20I came to collect my flea powder.
20:22Just as well.
20:23How's Jeffrey getting on?
20:24Well, he seems an awful lot better.
20:26Your medicine must be doing its job.
20:28That's good to hear.
20:30We could always give him an x-ray, just to be sure.
20:31If you mean, will I show you how to do it?
20:33I don't think so.
20:35I have enough animals of my own to house train.
20:39I'll get you your flea powder.
20:41On the house!
20:42Thank you, Mr. Harriet.
20:43Clive's infested and sharing it with the rest of the pack.
20:47Maybe it's his goodbye gift to her, Carol.
20:49She's found her home now.
20:50That's wonderful news!
20:52A couple on the other side of Daraby.
20:54She'll be happy there, I have no doubt.
20:56To break the others to lose her, though.
20:59They've grown close.
20:59It must be hard on you as well.
21:02Oh, no.
21:04They're all still with me up here.
21:06I know they're going to leave me from the moment I take them in.
21:10They depend on me for a while.
21:13But sooner or later, they have to stand on their own.
21:16It's the natural order of things.
21:20Flea powder.
21:22Please and thanks.
21:23Oh, dear.
21:31Have you grown again lately?
21:33You're nearly as tall as me.
21:35Audrey.
21:36Hello.
21:37Do you want to play marbles?
21:39I'd love to.
21:39You go and set them up.
21:40I'll be with you in two ticks.
21:42Just in time.
21:43I'm losing an argument with a fruit loaf.
21:45Well, we can't have that.
21:47I just wanted to use it all up.
21:48I don't suppose rational end any time soon.
21:50Look.
21:51Yeah.
21:53Have you been shopping in the village lately?
21:56No.
21:59Has everyone been all right with you?
22:01Because I've been feeling about as welcome as a pig in a pantry.
22:05You?
22:06Well, nothing I could put my finger on.
22:08I didn't...
22:09It was like...
22:11It's happened in a few places.
22:14It was like I'd done something to offend.
22:17I don't think it's you that's offended anyone.
22:25Oh.
22:26Chances are Siegfried's either sacked and shouted at him or done something to upset him.
22:31Well, he is quite skilled in that department.
22:34I don't know how you cope with him, honestly.
22:37James has got all these big ideas and Siegfried would want to know.
22:41Hello.
22:44Are you ready?
22:45Here you go.
22:48I think you're winning.
22:50Maybe one more.
22:51Come on.
22:52The thing with Mr Farney is...
22:55Come on.
22:56There's only one way, and it's his way.
22:59And the worst of it is...
23:01He's not always wrong.
23:05Come on, then.
23:06It's beautiful, Jim.
23:16Aye.
23:18Beautiful.
23:19Come on, then.
23:20Let's give it a test run.
23:21Make sure it's ship shape.
23:23Uh, all right.
23:25Put your hand in there.
23:28What, this hand?
23:30Either hand is fine.
23:30Why not your hand?
23:31I'll be operating it.
23:32Well, I can operate it.
23:33How hard can it be?
23:34That's my machine.
23:35And these are my hands, fighting hands.
23:37Hands that are required to protect the free world.
23:39Yeah, but these hands are paying for this thing.
23:43Is it safe?
23:46Well, next day it's not going to do much harm.
23:49Get on with it.
23:49Hurry, Arch!
24:14It could be the fuse.
24:30Where on earth did you get it?
24:32Little quarter, please.
24:33So now we're broken, so is the machine.
24:35Here we are.
24:37Hey, let that be light.
24:39Oh, I take it all back.
24:40The man's an electrical wizard.
24:41It's clearly too much for a domestic circuit.
24:44We'll have to rewire a new board.
24:46Why don't we send it up to someone who knows what they're doing?
24:48Oh, no, of course, we've no money left.
24:50It's what we have left since every invoice and receipt gets snuffed into the nearest vans.
24:53Which works perfectly well, unlike that.
24:56Again, you said they were marvellous things.
24:58Oh, they are.
24:59But if you ask me properly, I might have suggested not buying the first one you saw.
25:02Nothing to see here, George.
25:10Why are the electrics off?
25:39Nothing to do with me.
25:44And James walking out like that?
25:48Nothing to do with you either.
25:50Did I stake the practice on a defunct x-ray machine?
25:54An x-ray machine?
25:57It's exciting.
25:58It's useless.
25:59A blind mole rat would have more chance of seeing through things.
26:03Well, that's frustrating.
26:05I imagine it could be of great benefit to the practice.
26:07I'm sure you told him so.
26:09Mrs. Hall, I have my ways.
26:11I do them because they work.
26:14You're very lucky to have someone who puts up with your ways.
26:17It's all very well, people coming in and out, telling me what to do.
26:20I'm here.
26:21I'm the only one who bloody well has been.
26:30I know.
26:32It's not been easy for you these last few years.
26:35But it might be wise not to get on the wrong side of everyone you meet.
26:41I beg your pardon?
26:42Don't talk about a blind mole rat.
26:44Digging his tunnel in a temper.
26:47No idea it's falling in behind him.
26:49God help anyone who happens to be in the way.
26:51Could you just call me a mole rat?
26:53This is a village, and if you go around upsetting people, they can make it difficult for you.
26:58They can make things difficult for me.
27:00I don't know what you mean.
27:01Mr. Jubb, the green grocer.
27:04It's not so much him as his sister.
27:06Oh, good grief.
27:07No, she's one of your successors.
27:10I gave her the job in good faith, but honestly, how many times do you have to say soft-boiled?
27:14There is a limit.
27:16How long was she here?
27:18Three and a half days.
27:21I know you don't mean to hurt anyone.
27:24I know it would upset you to think that you had.
27:28But you just don't realise.
27:30If people misunderstand me, there's very little I can do about it.
27:33Mr. Farnett, it's not the worst thing in the world to admit you're wrong.
27:40It's almost like you've done it on purpose.
27:49I'm not doing it at all.
27:52What you should do is get your own house.
27:54That way you can tread in as much mud as you like.
27:58Truffed her bits, I got to meet Sister Rose.
28:00I should have sent a nurse's out to fight the Germans.
28:02Well, it would have been sewn up in no time.
28:05So you got your x-ray machine then?
28:07Aye, and there were some teething problems.
28:08But it still doesn't justify the way Siegfried spoke to me.
28:11In front of clients.
28:12When you stood up to him.
28:13Jenny, eggs.
28:16She says you struggled to get the thing through the door.
28:19And then it blew the electrics.
28:22She'll cut myself looking at his own and what are you treading in?
28:25If it was his idea, it'd be the best thing ever.
28:27But when it comes from me...
28:28You know, going out buying a whopping great machine without discussing it is a very Siegfried thing to do.
28:32What do you mean by that?
28:36I mean one of them is quite enough.
28:43Right, get a broom.
28:46Sweep it up!
28:47It is rather a good investment, you know.
29:16Well, I can't say it since I can't see it in action.
29:19Hmm.
29:22Maybe we could try it on the inside of your head.
29:26Find out what actually happens in the...
29:28Ah, just in time.
29:50Observe.
29:50What did you do?
29:55The machine is now on a separate circuit with its own fuse board.
29:59You learn many different skills in the core, you know.
30:00Well done!
30:02Don't know what you'll do with all those lamps now.
30:04Ha, ha, ha.
30:08Hey, see?
30:12Mr. Herriot!
30:13Mr. Herriot!
30:16Mr. Herriot!
30:18It's Geoffrey.
30:20He won't stop vomiting.
30:21Bring him in.
30:22Please.
30:22You said the stomach powders were clearing it.
30:29He hasn't missed a single dose.
30:32Perhaps Geoffrey doesn't have gastritis after all.
30:35Well, what else could it be?
30:36Have you checked for any foreign bodies?
30:38I couldn't feel one.
30:40But his abdomen was very tense.
30:44What do you think?
30:45Hey.
30:49Hey.
30:52No, I can't feel anything either.
30:55The muscles are very tense, so he's guarding his abdomen.
30:58It must be very painful.
31:00It was getting better.
31:02I'm sorry, Sister Rose.
31:04That can happen while the object makes its way through the system to the pole.
31:07Helped by the stomach powders, no doubt.
31:09It's possible, yes.
31:11The problem is there are other potential explanations.
31:13Normally, we'd risk the surgery if we weren't sure, but Geoffrey is so frail.
31:19He was clearly fending for himself for some time before he found him.
31:23But if he don't operate, and he has swallowed something...
31:27We could lose him, I'm afraid.
31:34Thankfully, we don't have to guess.
31:37Triss.
31:39All right, lad.
31:40All right.
31:41That's it.
31:42All right, lad.
31:44You're all right.
31:52Bring her across, please.
31:54All right, Geoffrey.
31:55Let's get you x-rayed.
31:57Afternoon.
32:00Mr Farnham.
32:01I'd like to speak to you about your sister.
32:04It seems I...
32:05Beryl?
32:06Oh, she's here.
32:08How...
32:08How lucky for me.
32:09Yes?
32:14I wanted to apologise for anything I may have said or done.
32:18I'd not even heard some of those words before.
32:20The way you were treated was wholly inappropriate, and the blame was entirely mine.
32:26Oh.
32:28At least you've had the gumption to admit it.
32:35Right.
32:35Well, um...
32:36Good day to you both.
32:38Your account's still overdue, by the way.
32:41So I still can't say for sure if there's a foreign body.
32:48It's not a very good image.
32:50I need better exposure.
32:51Our facilities are quite limited.
32:53Take another x-ray.
32:54We can develop it at the hospital.
32:56I think that would be the best course of action.
32:58Like I say, I can't operate on a poorly dog if we're not absolutely certain.
33:02May I?
33:08Vomiting for 48 hours or so.
33:10Subsided after stomach powders.
33:11Vomiting again for several hours earlier today.
33:13And you examined him thoroughly?
33:15Of course.
33:16He had a very tense abdomen.
33:18I say operate.
33:18The dog is extremely weak.
33:21He's been nursed back to full health by Sister Rose after living wild.
33:25I'm not sure he survives the surgery.
33:28If he has swallowed something, and we wait for better x-rays, he may not make it.
33:33But of course it's your decision.
33:37James.
33:39He's just vomited again.
33:42Mr. Herriot.
33:45We operate.
33:48There you go.
33:58A cup of tea.
33:59Very kind, Mrs. Hall.
34:01Look at me.
34:02You think I'd be used to this kind of thing by now?
34:05Oh, well, it's because you care.
34:09It's hard being on the other side.
34:11I'm not used to feeling helpless.
34:13I suppose as a nurse,
34:15you can't let yourself get too close.
34:17I try to be like that with the dogs.
34:21To keep up a wall, you know?
34:23But sometimes they get by.
34:25Like that rascal.
34:26He's cleared the wall.
34:30And how did he manage that?
34:33He stayed at the poor creature when I found him.
34:39He was at his lowest.
34:40But I could see he had a good heart.
34:44You know, I don't think many people would see what you see.
34:48And sometimes he will snap at people and growl.
34:51But he is only like that because he was hurt.
34:56Damaged.
34:58He has to learn to trust again.
35:03What if he can't?
35:06I haven't found one that can't, Mrs. Hall.
35:08They all want the same thing.
35:12A home and love.
35:16And also, they need to know they are not the ones in charge.
35:23Sister Rose, he'd swallowed a pebble.
35:26Oh, Geoffrey.
35:27We've managed to remove it.
35:29And how is he now?
35:31He's doing well.
35:33But he's been through the wars.
35:34All we can do now is hope for the best.
35:44He seems comfortable.
35:45I hope so.
35:46He's at a rough time.
35:48Of course, if you've thoroughly examined the dog in the first place.
35:50I told you he was guarding his abdomen.
35:53There's no way anyone could have known.
36:00I might not have operated if you hadn't given a second opinion.
36:04Well, we always need to take a view.
36:07But maybe, once we've ironed out the problems with that new machine, there'll be less margin for error.
36:13You can wipe that bloody grin off your face.
36:16I've never been against new equipment or ideas.
36:19I just want to say in which ones and when.
36:22Sorry.
36:24Perhaps I should have consulted you properly.
36:27Perhaps I should have let you.
36:28You're just an expensive piece of kit.
36:34I know.
36:36But the war's almost over.
36:38The world has changed.
36:40We need to change with it.
36:42I think we already have.
36:43Get a broom.
37:10They're still.
37:14Your problem is you take this place for bloody granted.
37:18Not the only one either.
37:23Jenny's finally applied for nursing college.
37:26When did this happen?
37:27Sent the letter last week.
37:29We think it were just the war holding her back.
37:32We'll have another sister, Rose, eh?
37:33Don't tell anyone.
37:35She don't want folk knowing in case she don't get in.
37:37Of course she'll get in.
37:38I'll put that fence back.
37:42Should hold for now anyway.
37:45What's wrong with you lot?
37:51Dad, are them your boots?
37:53Grandad said that all the boots make the farmer.
37:57Oh, he did, did he?
38:00I'll, um...
38:02get the broom.
38:03I think these are a bit big for you yet, lad.
38:15Ready?
38:15One, two, three.
38:19And you should be in bed, like your sister.
38:21Yes.
38:22Come on, farmer Jimmy.
38:23Good night.
38:24Farmer.
38:31He's getting a bit ahead of himself, isn't he?
38:35If I, um...
38:36get ahead of myself sometimes,
38:40it's because I want you to be proud of me.
38:47I want to give you the best life I can.
38:50I've got the best life.
38:57Right now.
38:58In this moment.
39:01Best life we could have.
39:08Lesterfine and...
39:09Mrs. Hall.
39:10I trust you met less unpleasantness in the village?
39:14I did get a better lettuce.
39:16I'm glad.
39:20I hope I didn't say too much.
39:24You said what needed to be said.
39:27But if you ever compare me to a blind mole rat again,
39:29we shall have words.
39:31Oh, before you light up,
39:33I'm afraid that were Mrs. Pumphrey on the telephone.
39:36Oh, Lord.
39:36She wants you to call over.
39:38Urgent, apparently.
39:39I told her it would take time to heal.
39:41What, don't forget Jimmy's cart?
39:42Oh, yes.
39:42James said if you're going up there...
39:44This will put him right back at the top of the favourite Uncle League table.
39:47Set up the game, Mrs. Hall.
39:48I shan't be late.
39:55As I said, the medicine won't work overnight.
39:58Oh, I understand.
39:59It's getting better already.
40:01No, it's not about his years.
40:02It's not?
40:03No, perhaps you were right.
40:06Tricky isn't as young as he was.
40:09Time trickles through one's fingers, doesn't it?
40:12Time has a habit of doing that, yes.
40:14I always thought that Tricky would be here long after me,
40:16but perhaps I was wrong.
40:18I couldn't bear to be left alone.
40:20I don't follow.
40:21Oh, I'd like to breed from him.
40:24Breed from Tricky?
40:25Oh, don't you be offended, young man.
40:29No.
40:30No one can replace you, not even your own offspring.
40:33Mrs. Pumphrey...
40:34I don't want to waste a moment longer.
40:36You understand that any owner would want to ensure
40:38his dog's breeding partner was in good health?
40:40Tricky's fighting fit.
40:43And where do you propose to find this Pekingese partner?
40:47I thought you could help with that.
40:49Me?
40:50Well, you're the only uncle I would trust.
40:52The only one who remembered his birthday.
40:55Oh, but I wasn't.
40:57The delay was simply that Jimmy wanted to do
41:01the very best job he could.
41:04Jimmy?
41:05Oh, look.
41:10Isn't that beautiful?
41:13Look, he's drawn you a nice squirrel.
41:16I think that's tricky.
41:17I'm pleased to say he's made an excellent recovery.
41:33And more importantly,
41:35he looks very stylish in this.
41:37Best way to stop him getting at the stitches.
41:39And yes, it does suit him.
41:42He's lucky he ran into you, you know.
41:44Not at all.
41:46Thank you for everything you've done for him.
41:48He deserves a happy home.
41:50Hope you can find him one.
41:52Perhaps I already have.
41:53Someone's agreed to take him?
41:55Well, no.
41:56I may hold on to him just a little while longer.
42:00Who says you can't overturn the natural order of things once in a while?
42:04If anyone can, Sister Rose, it's you.
42:06Don't you cheek me, young man.
42:13You're so easy to kid.
42:16You just make sure you don't run into the same problem again.
42:20Use the hospital darkroom.
42:23I'll arrange it.
42:24No, I couldn't.
42:25The difference between your darkroom and ours might save an animal's life.
42:30I'll tell you what, then.
42:33If you can arrange that, we'll waive the cost of treating your dogs.
42:38Mr. Herriot, you have a deal.
42:42Deal.
42:44Good boy.
42:45Good boy, good.
42:46James?
42:55He's ready.
43:01Smells delicious, Mrs. H.
43:03My old bellynin put out.
43:05You eat in here.
43:06She's relieved.
43:07So am I.
43:09Much deserved after a hard day's work.
43:11For most of us, anyway.
43:13Ah.
43:14So I see Jim's turn and the firing line is over, is it?
43:16I just wish you'd find something to do that didn't involve messing up my dispensary.
43:21Our dispensary.
43:22There were former staff in there who didn't know the war was over.
43:24The first war.
43:27Besides, I was thinking perhaps I...
43:29might start going back on calls while I'm here.
43:33Are you volunteering for work?
43:35Well, it's unfair you darting back and forth.
43:37You'll be exhausted, man.
43:39Next thing you know, you'll be buying elaborate machinery from our clients.
43:43Well, only if you're certain.
43:45I'd love to have you back.
43:47Cheers.
43:49Decent timing, as a matter of fact.
43:50James, I've got a new job for you to get your teeth into.
43:54Mrs. Pumphrey would like you to find a suitable breeding partner for Tricky.
43:58What?
43:59Did you tell her he's a bit past it?
44:00Oh, I think the old dog's got a few tricks left in him yet.
44:03I'd have taken it on myself, but she was won over by that beautiful card.
44:08Ah, you dropped me in it.
44:09If anyone can find a pedigree Pekingese that meets Mrs. Pumphrey's high standards, it's you.
44:14I don't have the first clue.
44:16Oh, well, when a boy dog likes a girl dog very, very much.
44:20Oi.
44:21He'll put him off his cobbler.
44:23Yes, eat your cobbler.
44:24Might be the last decent meal we have now we've bought that bloody machine.
44:31I want 12 peas, please.
44:34Reverend Goward, can you tell us about the murder last night?
44:42No, what did you tell him?
44:43I said no comment.
44:44I've always wanted to say that.
44:47That's where we're going to find the killer.
44:48In your congregation.
44:50Take care walking home.
44:51Haven't you heard there's a killer about?
44:55Verda, Before Evensong is your brand new drama starting Tuesday at nine.
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