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,
Mark Curry (television presenter) coach. He has commentated at Wimbledon for BBC Radio 5, Radio Wimbledon and for Talk Radio Europe. He featured on the BBC One quiz show "Pointless" in December 2012 alongside Peter Duncan. In January 2014, Curry received a diploma in Life Coaching and contributed to ITV's "Piers Morgan's Life Stories", discussing his friendship with actress Beverley Callard known for her role in "Coronation Street". From May to August 2014, he played, "Siegfried Farnon", in the stage adaptation and UK tour of, "All Creatures Great and Small". In January 2015, Curry appears as a guest panelist in the Channel 5's daytime