Shows Like All Creatures Great and Small

The Short Answer

1. Call the Midwife — Nurse-midwives and nuns serve London's East End from the late 1950s onward — the same big-hearted ensemble warmth as Darrowby, balanced with real emotional weight. (PBS Masterpiece)
2. The Durrells in Corfu — A eccentric British family relocates to a sun-drenched Greek island — a different setting entirely, but the same gentle, character-driven charm and a found family full of warmth. (PBS Masterpiece)
3. Doc Martin — A brilliant, socially awkward doctor relocates to a small Cornish fishing village — a similar fish-out-of-water setup to James Herriot's own arrival in Darrowby, with the same eccentric-locals warmth. (Acorn TV)
4. Lark Rise to Candleford — A young woman leaves her rural hamlet for a market town, discovering a whole community of farmers, craftsmen, and gentry — the same slow, pastoral charm and community-first storytelling as Darrowby. (BritBox)
5. Home Fires — On the WWII home front, the women of a rural English village band together to keep the community intact — a bit more dramatic stakes than Darrowby, but the same rural-village found-family heart. (PBS Masterpiece)
6. Grantchester — A crime-solving vicar and his detective friend build their own version of a family in 1950s Cambridgeshire — a touch more plot-driven than Darrowby, but the same warm, character-first English village world. (PBS Masterpiece)
7. Sanditon — A young woman finds her footing in a picturesque English seaside town — the same warm Masterpiece Sunday-night charm, with a touch more romance than Darrowby's veterinary practice. (PBS Masterpiece)