Genre: | Drama |
Developer: | Johnny Byrne |
Starring: | Anton Rodgers Peter Wingfield Angela Thorne Orla Brady Kate Alderton |
Language: | English |
Country: | United Kingdom |
Composer: | Colin Towns |
Producer: | Sue Bennett-Urwin Michael Whitehall |
Executive Producer: | Jonathan Powell |
Num Series: | 2 |
Num Episodes: | 12 |
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Company: | Whitehall Films Carlton Television |
Network: | ITV |
Location: | Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK |
Noah's Ark is a British television series about a country vet and his family, aired on ITV. The first series of six episodes was broadcast in September to October 1997. A second series, also of six episodes, aired a year later.
Noah's Ark was a family TV story of a country vet, Noah Kirby, his wife Valerie, son Tom and his girlfriend, Noah’s assistant, Clare. Noah and Tom Kirby, father and son, are both vets.
Noah has a country practice, and is still running it much as he did when Tom was a child. He wants Tom to join the practice, but Tom has other, and bigger, ideas. He has just quit his job with a large multi-national company, and has returned home for what he intends to be a flying visit: disillusioned, but a lot richer, but his father has a car crash brought on by a dizzy spell. It is clear that he badly needs full-time help.
Tom is reluctantly drawn into helping, temporarily of course, while his father recovers, but Clare Somers, the local wildlife vet, is there.
Filming was done around Worcester. The surgery was at a farmhouse Bed & Breakfast opposite the Leigh & Bransford Memorial Hall about 6 miles West of Worcester. The mountains often seen in the background are the Malvern Hills.