Lisa Harrow is the only cast member to reprise her role from All Creatures Great and Small (1975) in this sequel.
Two years later, in 1978, John Alderton was offered the role of "James Herriot" again, this time, in the BBC tv series All Creatures Great and Small, (after Richard Beckinsale had turned it down,) but he also refused, choosing instead, the Upstairs Downstairs spin-off, Thomas and Sarah with wife, Pauline Collins.