Episode #1.1 (18 Dec. 2011)

In 1933 earnest young James Herriot arrives to study at the Glasgow Veterinary School and rooms with predatory,tipsy Mrs. Munro,along with fellow students,wealthy,cavalier McAloon and the ... See full summary »

Director:

Michael Keillor

Writers:

Johnny Byrne (devised by), Ann McManus,

Stars:

Iain De Caestecker, Amy Manson, Ben Lloyd-Hughes

Cast

Episode cast overview:
Iain De Caestecker	...	James Herriot
Amy Manson	...	Whirly Tyson
Ben Lloyd-Hughes	...	Rob McAloon
Gary Lewis	...	Professor Quintin Gunnell
Joanna Vanderham	...	Jenny Muirhead
Ryan Smith	...	Cameron Skinner
Jake Wilson	...	Robbie Halliday
Stephen McCole	...	Tommy Halliday
Tony Curran	...	Professor Donald Richie
Danny Rahim	...	Jagdeep Gakhal
Ralph Riach	...	Professor Henry Legge
Louise Goodall	...	Mary
Natasha Little	...	Mrs. Munro

Storyline

In 1933 earnest young James Herriot arrives to study at the Glasgow Veterinary School and rooms with predatory,tipsy Mrs. Munro,along with fellow students,wealthy,cavalier McAloon and the fiercely feminist Whirly Tyson. James impresses one of his tutors,the modern-thinking Professor Ritchie when he correctly diagnoses a dray horse's illness. However James must learn that not all animals can be quickly cured and that sacrifices must be made to keep families together. Whirly falls foul of the reactionary Professor Gunnell,who demands her expulsion, but the apparently indolent McAloon turns up trumps by forcing the college principal,Professor Legge to make Gunnell back down.

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Plot Keywords:

period drama

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Genres:

Drama

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Details

Release Date:

18 December 2011 (UK)

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Quotes

[When Whirly hands out leaflets calling for women's toilets in college, Professor Gunnell threatens to resign unless Whirly is expelled for insubordination. When Professor Legge, the Principal, calls his bluff, Gunnell is forced to withdraw his ultimatum. The toilets are built]
Professor Quintin Gunnell: [menacingly] How you have pulled all this off, I'll never know. But you have made an enemy of me. Don't count on qualifying from this college - it'll be over my dead body.
Whirly Tyson: [equally menacingly] If needs must.

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