All Creatures Great and Small star reveals how two ton bull left cast and crew running after it escaped on set

An All Creatures Great and Small star has revealed how a two ton bull left cast and crew running after it escaped on set. 

The series, which is set to return to Channel 5 for a festive special set to air Monday, descended into chaos when filming took a dramatic turn. 

Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot, recalled a scary incident during a previous series when a bull escaped. 

He told The Sun: ‘We had one bull who was two tons. This was like one of the earlier series, but we were heading towards, through one field into another field. 

‘Then we just heard kind of a, do-do-do-do, kind of like Jurassic Park. And so we turned around and we just saw this two ton bull racing towards us.

‘So we just parted, like it was me, the director and the DOP. I think we parted like the Red Sea, like two of us went that way, one of us went that way, and the bull ran straight through.’

Nicholas Ralph, who plays James Herriot, told The Sun : ‘We had one bull who was two tons. Then we just heard kind of a, do-do-do-do, kind of like Jurassic Park’ (Rachel Shenton as Helen Herriot and Nicholas as James pictured)

Since the comforting drama debuted in September 2020, fans have become hooked on the lives of veterinary surgeon James Herriot, his wife Helen and their pals at Skeldale House.

With its positive outlook and warming tales, the series is loosely inspired by the popular novel series which is written by real-life vet James Herriot.

The show returned for series five in September and has since been recommissioned for another two seasons. 

The titular vet’s name was actually just the pen name of the real surgeon, James Alfred Wight.

The doctor, who was nicknamed Akf, was born in Sunderland in 1916 and relocated to Scotland at age three.

Similar to the period drama, the medical professional lived and worked with his employer.

The family and the employer were so close that Donald was James’s best man at his wedding.

James practiced as a vet for almost five decades while solidifying himself as a successful author.

He added: And so we turned around and we just saw this two ton bull racing towards us. ‘So we just parted, like it was me, the director and the DOP. I think we parted like the Red Sea’ 

His book series, which debuted with the 1970’s If Only They Could Talk, sold 60 million copies worldwide.

He retired in 1989 and was diagnosed with prostate cancer two years later but passed in aged 78 in 1995.

His two children, Jim and Rosie, have been supportive of the TV adaption and believed their father would very much approve.

Jim Wright previously said: ‘I hope and believe this could be a breath of fresh air to the population at the moment. Would my father have approved of it? Oh, I think so.’

James’s daughter Rosie Page added: ‘We feel that there is a very big generation gap between those brought up with Herriot and those who have never heard of him and we think there is a whole new generation who has never read those wonderful books.’