Follyfoot

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Personally, I couldn't give a stuff about the horses; it was the little "family of strangers" at the heart of the programme, the ramshackle farmhouse and the idea of working in the open air in the countryside, looking after animals that caught my imagination, coming, as I did, from a semi-rural village and spending much of my free time tramping through farm fields, crossing muddy paddocks and walking down Castle Clough just to sit and look at my own personal "Follyfoot", Shuttleworth Old Hall Farm.

This bound copy of four stories is held together by tape and the pages are ripped, and it will endure, I think, for some time yet. On seeing a horse being worked to death, Dora intervenes and offers the owner one of her horses to replace his. Between 1971 and 1976, Monica Dickens wrote four more novels linked to the series including Follyfoot, Dora at Follyfoot, Stranger at Follyfoot and The Horses of Follyfoot. Most people of our vintage remember the theme tune, Lightning Tree or maybe one of the characters, either Steve or Dora.

Follyfoot has been asked to take in a horse by an old woman who has lived with her sister for 20 years, but they have never spoken to each other. From the publisher: MONICA DICKENS, born in 1915, was brought up in London and was the great-granddaughter of Charles Dickens. The book contains rare and up-to-date interviews with the cast, and the reader will discover how they got the part and their personal memories of working on the series.

He is complicit in the death of two of the Squire's horses, which leads to Steve being wrongly implicated and sacked. After Ron spins him a line about Follyfoot being a place where horses are tortured, Steve has his work cut out trying to convince him otherwise and it takes the near-death of Gip's horse to win him round. A huge plus is the vast array of previously unpublished photos, both from the episodes and from behind the scenes. The children's magazine Look-in featured a picture-strip of the series each week as well as regular features, while five annuals were released in association with Yorkshire Television.Dora takes an initial dislike to her, especially when she almost attacks her favourite horse Copper and forms a bond with Steve, but Hazel is essentially a younger version of Dora with the same background and strained relationship with her parents. Although I enjoyed it, overall it was disappointing after the first book and the TV series is still a much better watch than the accompanying books are a read!

He was given a second chance in life when Dora's uncle took him on to care for the elderly and abandoned horses at Follyfoot. Her Follyfoot books were made into one of the most successful TV series for children of the 1970s and remain a favourite of horse-lovers everywhere. His father persuaded the Colonel to give him a job at Follyfoot to help keep him out of trouble, yet Ron is workshy and ignores constant warnings not to burst through the main gate at Follyfoot with his distinctive Triumph Tiger motorbike. Cobbler's Dream was written before the programme began, whereas Follyfoot must have been written alongside the screenplays for the TV programme and Dora at Follyfoot after the success of the programme. Follifoot (note the slightly different spelling) is a small village just three miles from Harrogate, not far from the Yorkshire Television studios in Leeds.He joins her at Follyfoot, and throughout the series, there is a certain romantic chemistry between them. She was also a regular columnist for the British women's magazine Woman's Own for twenty years (without admitting to being an expatriate).

In 1971 she landed the lead role in a Yorkshire Television Production Follyfoot, which ran for three series until 1973.These three have plenty to do at the stables, but can always find time to get involved in the mystery and adventure that abound at the farm.