All Creatures Great and Small (TV Series)

The Name of the Game (1978)

Mary Hignett: Mrs. Hall

Quotes 

• James Herriot : Hello, Mrs. Hall. Sounds like a very full surgery.

  Helen : Oh, just the Dimmock family.

  James Herriot : Oh, not again. How many of them this time?

  Helen : The entire brood, and Mr. Dimmock.

  James Herriot : They aren't a family they're more like a nation.

  Mrs. Hall : Aye, and from the look of Mrs. Dimmock from the side they're about to increase and multiply even further.

  James Herriot : Oh, this is the third time they've been back this month.

  Helen : They've adopted you.

  James Herriot : Yes, obviously.

  Helen : Well, they wouldn't come quite so often if you if you ever got around to charging them anything.

  James Herriot : Well, he always asks me to send him the bill.

  Helen : But you never do.

  James Herriot : Well, they haven't got any money, love. And if I do, well; they might stop coming.

  Mrs. Hall : He's never done a days work in his life, hasn't that Mr. Dimmock.

  James Herriot : He has learnt the art of gracious living, Mrs. Hall.

  Mrs. Hall : At our expense.

  James Herriot : He's got a bad back.

  Mrs. Hall : Huh! All I can say is; he never got it to work! How he gets his time over, I don't know.

  Helen : Oh, he always manages to make it look as if he's on his way to somewhere important.

  Mrs. Hall : Mostly, the vault of the Dog & Duck for a game of dominoes.

  James Herriot : Well, I like him Mrs. Hall.

  Mrs. Hall : Oh, yes, everybody likes him. You have to like him. That doesn't mean I have to approve of him, does it?