When one of New York's top drama critics pans a good friend's show and its leading lady's performance, war is declared by both. The reviewer, his wife, four bratty kids, and their English sheepdog move to the country, but it does not solve the reviewer's problems.

In 1933, a city boy arrives at his late mother's rural Utah birthplace to discover the locals have been pestered by drought, feuding, and a cougar.

A delightful story of a veterinarian's apprentice in rural England.

The 1983 special: "James returns to Darrowby following his wartime service in the R.A.F. though little has changed in the Dales in the intervening six years, James finds it difficult to adjust to the peacetime routine and to friends and family who seem like strangers"--Container. The 1985 special: "Siegfried waxes lyrical about the accelerating rate of scientific progress as James proceeds to plod along with tried and tested remedies. How long can...

Widow Kate Bradley and her three daughters run the Shady Rest Hotel on the outskirts of Hooterville. City folk escape from hectic urban life with brief stays in the rural village where nothing much ever happens. Floyd and Charley make regular runs in the Hooterville Cannonball, an ancient steam train that is still the town's chief public transportation to Drucker's General Store.

A Manhattan lawyer and his wife move to a farm outside Hooterville.

The Tilsons are a wealthy couple who have grown tired of the high stress of life in New York City and are looking to move. Upstate, they find a mansion in the village of Cold Creek which has fallen into disrepair after it was repossessed. Convinced the house has great possibilities, the Tilsons buy it, and with a little hard work they are soon living in their dream home. Before long the family begins to learn the disturbing truth about the history...

Wraps up the final installment of this heart-warming tale from the Yorkshire dales with James Herriot, his wife Helen, and his volatile but warm-hearted partner, Siegfried Farnon.