A set of videos I watch over & over again & loan to friends

The review about this product

When this series was first bradcast on our PBS TV staion WGBH Boston, I taped the series off air. Then, I discovered I recorded the third episode twice & missed the second completely. When I saw the set for sale in the WGBH catalog, I ordered it & finally, got to see the second episode! This is a video set I watch over & over again. I do this before I loan it to friends, just so I can keep the plots of the episodes "straght" in my mind. When these series are broadcast, Russell Baker gives an opening & closing commentary on the episode. These are missing from the commercial versions. Without this commentary, the viewe may not know that the female lead Jemma Redgrave is related to Lyn Redgrave & Venessa Redgrave - They are Jemms's aunts.

I am a student of history, especially medical & nursing history. This series gives me lots of insight into treatments that worked & didn't work in that era. The actor Robert Hardy, who played Sigfried Farnan in "All Creatures Great & Small" plays a devious "Sir Herbert", one of the surgical professors at the East London Hospital. He only appears in a small number of the episdes. But, he is a prominent character in the first episode. I got the impression Elanor Bramwell would have liked to kill Sir Herbert in that first episode, but when Lady Cora Petersgave Elanor the opportunity to serve the sick & poor in another setting, Elanor no longer had to deal with Sir Herbert.