All Creatures Great and Small (TV series) that be wanted to cast the role. Sellars, instead, asked Timothy if he would accept the role of Tristan Farnon. "I had a wife, I had children, I had a mortgage to pay, and I wasn't working. So I said, 'No. It's Herriot or nothing.'" Timothy put everything on the line. "I got home one night, at about 9 o'clock. My wife was washing up in the kitchen. I walked into the kitchen and she said, without turning round, 'You've got the Herriot part.'" Timothy also stated that, after all of the roles had been cast except that of Herriot,
All Creatures Great and Small (TV series) I am very, very grateful," added Robert Hardy. "The series means a great deal to me as it took up such a large span of my life." Peter Davison was the subject of "This Is Your Life" in 1982, early in the life of "All Creatures". Christopher Timothy, Davison and Jean Heywood attended Lynda Bellingham's appearance on the show in 1993. Christopher Timothy's time came in 2000, for which Robert Hardy, Peter Davison, Carol Drinkwater and Lynda Bellingham were in attendance. Christopher Timothy and Robert Hardy attended a service of thanksgiving for Alf Wight at York Minster on 20 October