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 (franchise) as Siegfried Farnon. "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" is based on the two following novels, "Let Sleeping Vets Lie" (1973) and "Vet in Harness" (1974), and was released in 1976. It was directed by Eric Till, written by Alan Plater, and starred John Alderton as James Herriot and Colin Blakely as Siegfried Farnon. "All Creatures Great and Small" is a BBC television series based initially on first two novels, "If Only They Could Talk" (1970) and "It Shouldn't Happen to a Vet" (1972). As the novels are written in an episodic style, with each chapter generally containing a short