'All Creatures Great and Small' Season 4 to Take Us Back to the Yorkshire Dales In January

It's official: We'll once again be headed back to the picturesque Yorkshire Dales this winter for a brand new season of All Creatures Great and Small. This news is unlikely to come as a surprise to most viewers, who have essentially adopted the popular period drama as their annual winter viewing since it first arrived on PBS in the middle of that first pandemic winter back in 2021. But it's still nice to have the news that Season 4 will premiere in January confirmed, and there's certainly plenty to look forward to in the new season.

According to Masterpiece, Season 4 will begin in the springtime of 1940, and change is on the horizon for everyone at Skeldale House. James and Helen are considering whether it's the right time to start a family, given that he might be called up to serve in the Royal Air Force at any moment. Tristan's absence has left a hole behind, and Siegfried tries his best to hold both their household and himself together as he braves a world without his brother. A genuine friendship takes hold between Mrs. Hall and Helen as they look to the future and the arrival of new trainee veterinary student Richard Carmody causes complications in the house.

Though viewers knew the looming threat of World War II was in the distance for much of the series' previous time on air, Season 4 is the first in which see what that means for the day-to-day lives of the people of Yorkshire. With Tristan gone and the threat of James leaving hanging over everyone's heads like the proverbial Sword of Damocles, how will the residents of Skeldale House adapt? Will they turn to one another or fall apart on their own?