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The remakes of British TV classics that are BETTER than the originals and where to watch them on streaming (and the shows that were better first time around)
Magic formulas must exist for perfect TV shows... But writers keep falling back on the classics, remaking favourite shows in the hope that lightning will strike twice.
Christopher Timothy played the novice vet, viewed with suspicion as an outsider by the farmers in the pre-war Dales, but at the real heart of the story was curmudgeonly Siegfried Farnon (Robert Hardy) – irascible, unforgiving, perpetually apoplectic but a brilliant mentor and a loving brother to the ne'er-do-well Tristan (Peter Davison). Young Herriot's romance with farmer's daughter Helen (Carol Drinkwater and, later, Linda Bellingham) was almost irrelevant: what viewers wanted was plenty of anxious scenes in a freezing cow shed as James and Siegfried saved another newborn calf. The Larkins' 1950s Kent village was depicted as a woke paradise of multicultural multitudes, Bradley Walsh turned Pop into a bored gameshow host, the wheeler-dealing looked more like grubby petty crime, and Sabrina Bartlett left the show after one series of playing Mariette, amid rumours of a massive bust-up on set.
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