i be lead to buy the first two dvd from the glow comment i read on this site and from have really enjoy james herriot book which i have read and reread over the year . well and book do not age or hardly but film ( and tv film most especially ) do . so i really do not recommend buy those dvds unless one be nostalgic of static camera work and slow pace and bad special effect and mediocre act from all but robert hardy and the actor portray siegfried ( but i never picture him that way from read the book i think he describe a tall and dark and elegant and and i imagine him much and much young . ) . in fact neither i nor my child have be able to finish watch the 2nd dvd . i have seldom watch something so slow paced . i suppose in any case that much of herriot humour come from exaggeration and choice of word and and that probably next to impossible to render on screen .