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,
Creatures (video game series) targeted at younger children (ages 6–9), "Creatures Adventures" dropped the complex interface of the main series in favour of brighter graphics and a more childlike atmosphere. The second game in the younger children's series, "Creatures Playground" (released the same year), could be connected to Adventures to create an even bigger world to explore. It has a theme park for the creatures, including mini-games like whack-a-mole. The "Creatures" concept was made into three different games for consoles: "Creatures" for the Game Boy Advance and "Creatures" and "" for PlayStation. In the PlayStation games, the hand is replaced by a fairy named