remake of the classic James Herriot memoirs arrives on Channel 5 this spring to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the bestselling books. Before it does, why not whet your appetite by revisiting the nourishingly nostalgic original adaptation? Skeldale House surgery in the fictional North Yorkshire village of Darrowby (filmed mostly in Askrigg) was staffed by three vets: Herriot himself (Christopher Timothy), his eccentric tweed-clad boss Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy) and Siegfried’s hapless “little brother” Tristan (Peter Davison). They tended to a mix of agricultural animals (spending many a scene with their arms inside cows) and local pets. The most memorable was posh Mrs Pumphrey’s pampered Pekingese called Tricky Woo....