The BEST episodes written by Anthony Steven

Merry Gentlemen
star
9.06
50 votes

#1 - Merry Gentlemen

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 2 - Episode 14

Christmas at Skeldale House can be a formidable undertaking, what with sick foals, overfed dogs and a skeleton guarding Siegfried's secret hoard of goodies.

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Sleeping Partners
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8.46
52 votes

#2 - Sleeping Partners

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 1 - Episode 10

James and Helen's wedding day has finally arrived, though their honeymoon destination couldn't have been further from the Mediterranean. Finally, Siegfried bestows the best wedding present of all.

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The Last Furlong
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8.24
84 votes

#3 - The Last Furlong

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 1 - Episode 9

The sport of kings beckons James and Siegfried to the Broughton Races -- James in search of a dead cert to raise forty pounds for a Mediterranean honeymoon, and Siegfried in pursuit of a dream job at the track.

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Fair Means and Fowl
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8.22
85 votes

#4 - Fair Means and Fowl

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 2 - Episode 3

Nerves are frayed as Tristan's encounter with an "exploding" bullock leads to a lawsuit, and Siegfried's venture in guinea raising runs foul. Meanwhile, James is sent to assist "on of the biggest boozers in the business."

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Faint Hearts
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8.15
85 votes

#5 - Faint Hearts

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 2 - Episode 6

While James struggles to cope with the procrastinations of the Bellerby family, Tristan succumbs to the charms of a millionaire shipbuilder's daughter with a penchant for lobster.

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Calf Love
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8.05
74 votes

#6 - Calf Love

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 1 - Episode 4

Siegfried has a major victory, and his brother Tristan has to deal with pigs in more ways than one. James discovers he has a rival for Helen's affections.

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Pride of Possession
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7.90
82 votes

#7 - Pride of Possession

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 2 - Episode 8

The atmosphere is tense as James prepares to perform groundbreaking surgery. Meanwhile, Siegfried wrestles with a disinterested prize bull, and Tristan's hormones run riot over Darrowby's merry widow.

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Matters of Life and Death
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7.70
44 votes

#8 - Matters of Life and Death

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 3 - Episode 12

James treats Paul Cotterell's dog Theo, who has been losing weight and is diagnosed with Hodgkin's disease. James recommends that Theo be put down and Paul agrees. James doesn't realize the impact this has on Paul and the tragic results that ensue. James meets Lord Hulton, a hard working farm owner despite his aristocratic background. Hulton takes a liking to a horse that has wandered onto his property from the nearby military depot. At the Billings farm, James finds young calves who are wasting away. He thinks they have ingested an irritant of some kind, but the vets simply can't isolate it.

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Breath of Life
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7.60
80 votes

#9 - Breath of Life

All Creatures Great and Small - Season 1 - Episode 13

Siegfried discovers that a gift given in good faith has brought the deadly foot-and-mouth disease to the dales, and James accidentally hits upon a "sleep cure" for Mrs. Flaxton's poodle.

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The Twin Dilemma (2)
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6.67
151 votes

#10 - The Twin Dilemma (2)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 22

The Doctor takes Peri to Titan 3, a desolate hunk of rock in space where he hopes to find some solitude for a while. Instead he finds the lone but unconscious survivor of a recent spaceship crash in sight of a mound-shaped complex where no formalised structure should exist.

The Twin Dilemma (1)
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6.62
175 votes

#11 - The Twin Dilemma (1)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 21

Earth, the future. The genius Sylvest twins, child prodigies, are kidnapped by the mysterious Professor Edgeworth and taken to the planet Jaconda. But who is Edgeworth? Why does he serve the giant slug Mestor? And what is Mestor's plan?

The Twin Dilemma (4)
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6.24
163 votes

#12 - The Twin Dilemma (4)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 24

The Doctor and Edgeworth deduce that the real plan of Mestor, the gastropod ruler of Jaconda, will not only destroy Jaconda but lead to the devastation of other planets. Together they hope to thwart him despite his formidable ability at slipping into people's minds and controlling them.

The Twin Dilemma (3)
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6.10
139 votes

#13 - The Twin Dilemma (3)

Doctor Who - Season 21 - Episode 23

The Doctor arrives on Jaconda, once lush and green, to find it completely devastated by giant gastropods. Old legends about the planet's half-human/half-slugs weren't just myths after all. With or without help from the Doctor and his unpredictable mood swings, Lt. Lang is up for rescuing the twins, who are finally informed of the grand purpose they've been brought to Jaconda to accomplish.