For original fans of All Creatures Great and Small, they will fondly remember Carol Drinkwater, who played the beloved Helen Alderson. The actress worked alongside Christopher Timothy, who played her onscreen love interest James Herriot at the time.
In the Channel 5 series, Rachel Shenton portrays Helen, while Nicholas Ralph has taken on the role of the iconic vet.
The first series ran between 1978 and 1990, however, Carol didn’t stay in the series for its full run.
The actress left the show in 1985 after appearing in 42 episodes.
Speaking in a new interview, Carol reflected on her time playing Helen.
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“I was already thinking about leaving because I felt that there was no more stretch for Helen,” she explained.
“They wanted to stay very strictly to the books because Alf was alive and at that stage, he was quite adamant that they did.
“And I didn’t feel that there was anywhere else I could take Helen, I thought that I’d reheated that teabag – ‘Oh James, let me make you a cup of tea’ – enough times and unless there was new material for me I felt that it was time for me to move on.”
“And I was getting lots and lots of offers because the series was very successful,” the Helen Alderson star added to The Yorkshire Post.
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