All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 finale: What questions were left unanswered heading into Season 7? Details revealed

All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 finale aired on February 22, 2026, on MASTERPIECE on PBS.

This Christmas special, titled Comfort and Joy, takes place in December 1945, when Darrowby finally gets to enjoy its first quiet Christmas after the war. If you missed it on TV, you can catch it on PBS.org or the PBS app.

All Creatures Great and Small pulls you into the English countryside of the 1930s. It’s a British drama inspired by the classic books of James Herriot, real name James Alfred Wight, a veteran who actually lived these stories. You meet James Herriot, a young veterinarian from Glasgow, as he lands in the Yorkshire Dales to work under Siegfried Farnon, who is a bit eccentric but has a big heart.

As the show goes on, you watch their lives unfold through the challenges of World War II and everything that follows.

The best part of this news is that the story is not coming to an end. The series has already been renewed for a seventh and eighth season, and Season 7 has already begun shooting. Nevertheless, several storylines were not solved at the end. There is much to look forward to when the show returns, whether it is a surprise comeback, an intricate relationship that has no clear end, or a romance that has only begun.

Below is the preview of all things left open by the All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 finale.

All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 finale: Several big stories without a clear resolution

What will become of Siegfried and Mrs. Hall?

This has been the most discussed and largest storyline of All Creatures Great and Small Season 6. Through the entire season, Siegfried Farnon (Samuel West) leaned on his housekeeper, Audrey Hall (Anna Madeley), in ways that were well beyond their work relationship. During the Season finale, Siegfried came to understand that the answers to all the questions in his universe appeared to be her, and he finally said it, telling Mrs. Hall that he would always need her. It was something the fans were looking forward to.

But then Dorothy showed up.

It is the first time Dorothy appears since the Series 1 Christmas special, The Night Before Christmas. She is an old flame of Siegfried, and her reappearance stirred the waters. In All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 finale, Siegfried informed Dorothy that he had missed her, which caught the viewers off guard, considering the extent to which much of the season had hinged on his relationship with Mrs. Hall. Dorothy even stated that she was going to stay at nearby Broughton, which means she will be around now.

This plot was confusing and frustrating to many fans. They had seen Siegfried spend the entire Season telling Mrs. Hall that he needed her, that there was no one like her, and that he was afraid of losing her. All of a sudden, however, an old flame he had hardly referred to was now in the picture. The question that enters into Season 7 is a small but crucial one: where do Siegfried and Mrs. Hall stand? Do they head in the right direction? Or shall Dorothy’s appearance stop what has been slowly creeping up between them over the years?

Where does Tristan go from here?

In numerous aspects, All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 was the Season of Tristan Farnon (Callum Woodhouse). He returned home after the war with a lot of pain. He had been struggling since he came back from Sicily, and it was not until VJ Day that Siegfried found him and asked him to open up. Tristan revealed how his military friend, Billy, had died trying to warn Tristan about a landmine, and Tristan had received the Military Cross for treating the injured, which he had hidden rather than displayed.

Tristan had come to terms with some of his war trauma with the help of Siegfried, and he had even found love by the end of All Creatures Great and Small Season 6. He was in love with Charlotte Beauvoir, played by Gaia Wise, the daughter of General Beauvoir. Although the General had not initially liked Tristan, he later had to decide in favor of his daughter. In the finale, we see Tristan and Charlotte together celebrating Christmas, which is among the heart-warming moments of the Episode.

However, viewers will be left wanting to know what happens to this couple. Charlotte was a former member of the Auxiliary Territorial Service and is obviously a very strong and independent woman. Will they stay together? Will Tristan make a home in Darrowby, or will his past keep pulling him? In the final scene, he confessed that he was no longer the same man he was before the war. That type of honesty begs the question of the type of future he will create for himself during peacetime.

Will Helen and Will be more stable at home?

The Herriots now include a family of four: James, Helen, Jimmy, and baby Rosie, and they are all staying at Heston Grange with Helen’s father, Richard. Helen was ill in the All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 finale, and James was left to handle the running of the village Nativity play and a long to-do list. It was a little but significant scene. At a time when the whole world was partying, James was near breaking point, trying to hold it all together by himself.

During Season 6, James (Nicholas Ralph) was also at odds with Siegfried due to new technology in the practice, including a conflict over an X-ray machine. The two men obviously admire one another, yet the strain between the differences in their style of doing things is not altogether gone. Season 7 will have to answer the question of how the practice will shift now that the war has ended and life is gradually returning to normal. Also, can James and Siegfried be better partners?

What does a post-war Darrowby look like?

All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 was set against the backdrop of the end of World War II, and its context partly shaped the emotions of the Season: the joy of peace, the difficulty of returning home, and the gradual process of getting oneself back together. Season 7 will now be set in a world that is struggling to recover, now that the war is long gone.

In a show that has always been best served when it concerns the beats of daily life in the Yorkshire Dales, the animals, the farms, the community, a peacetime atmosphere must have plenty of space to breathe. Some viewers have complained that the show is no longer about the animals but about the personal lives of its characters. Season 7 will have an opportunity to balance this again.

Seasons 7 and 8 have already been confirmed, and the production is underway. That means there is certainly a plan in place. No matter where the show goes, the All Creatures Great and Small Season 6 finale has served its purpose. It has left some unanswered questions to ensure the wait for Season 7 is not a waste.

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