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All Creatures Great and Small: Season 6

12 episodes Premiered Sep 2, 1989 Updated Sep 29, 2026
Previously on All Creatures Great and Small

Season 6 Lore Primer

Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.

  • ⚡ Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of All Creatures Great and Small Season 5.
  • ⚡ Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
  • ⚡ Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
  • ⚡ Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
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Season 6 Episodes

Episode Guide

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Season 6: Filler vs. Essential Canon

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Mytharc (3): Crucial lore & season climaxes
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S6·E1 Mytharc

Here and There

Sep 2, 1989

James meets Basil Courtney, a cowhand for a local farmer. Basil has worked in a circus, been a teacher, has knowledge of art and a nose for good wine! James is intrigued until he

S6·E2 Core

The Course of True Love

Sep 9, 1989

The romance between Calum Buchanan and Deidre McEwan flourishes. Siegfried has been hoping that the love affair would quiet down but instead it seems to be going full blast. Howeve

S6·E3 Core

The Call of the Wild

Sep 16, 1989

Deidre and Calum are busy planning their wedding. Deidre discusses her future with Helen, who hopes the couple will stay in Darrowby. However, Calum gets offered a job in Nova Scot

S6·E4 Core

The Nelson Touch

Sep 23, 1989

Siegfried visits a farm to treat a sick cat and pulls off a brilliant piece of human diagnosis at the same time. He also gets an unexpected visit from the puritan Mr. Hopps -- who

S6·E5 Core

Blood and Water

Sep 30, 1989

James meets a pair of elderly twins. Oliver and Roland Strong, rabbit breeder and prize cabbage-grower respectively, have divided the cottage left to them by their mother and have

S6·E6 Core

Where Sheep May Safely Graze

Oct 7, 1989

When James treats a sick cat, he finds himself in an awkward position with Mrs. Pumphrey and Mrs.Tibbett. These two formidable and mutually ferocious Darrowby matrons compete both

S6·E7 Core

The New World

Oct 14, 1989

When Lady Hulton's cat falls ill, Siegfried embarks, with typical zeal, on updating the practice to cater for such refined clients. Lady Hulton, however, catches him out at every t

S6·E8 Core

Mending Fences

Oct 21, 1989

Jenny Garston and David Rayner, individually charming farmer and horse-breeder, have been sworn enemies since their earliest school days. When a triple birthday is marred by traged

S6·E9 Core

Big Fish, Little Fish

Oct 28, 1989

Siegfried once again gets James to play cricket in a charity match for the village against the county team. The tables are turned however when James is injured and Siegfried is pre

S6·E10 Core

In Whom We Trust

Nov 4, 1989

An old friend of James and Siegfried, an itinerant raveler called Roddy Travers, arrives in Darrowby. He appears to be stealing instruments from the practice but Siegfried and Jam

S6·E11 Mytharc

The Rough and the Smooth

Nov 11, 1989

Siegfried insists on singing the praises of his new time- management system, a personal diary, much to the annoyance of James. James is particularly put out by Siegfried's successf

S6·E12 Mytharc

The Best Time

Nov 18, 1989

Siegfried is perplexed when the usually-caring Grandma Clarke snubs her neighbor, Franco Pedretti, who is the new shepherd on the estate where she is a tenant farmer. It soon becom

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