Welcome to our World! Where we serve you cookies to ensure you get the best viewing experience on our site.

Did you know that you can remove censorship board-wide, use our advanced search functions, be notified when new content is posted, join our memberships, set episodes to show in any order you want & more if you are logged into your account?

Register or sign in here: ucp.php?mode=register

02x03 - Family of Strangers

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Follyfoot". Aired: 28 June 1971 – 15 September 1973.*
Watch/Buy Amazon


Originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream (republished in 1995 as New Arrival at Follyfoot); she later wrote four further books in conjunction with the series—Follyfoot in 1971, Dora at Follyfoot in 1972, The Horses of Follyfoot in 1975, and Stranger at Follyfoot in 1976.

02x03 - Family of Strangers

Post by bunniefuu »

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

the tree was born in a thunderstorm

[Music]

[Music]

when the wind

[Music]

is

[Music]

oh goodness

[Music]

yeah what's happening no breakfast

you'll have to wait

just come in slider overslept

i thought you was dead or something

didn't you care

well well i've started laying a plate

for breakfast for you just in case shall

be a minute

right we can start then

bacon and eggs suit your lordship this

morning

bacon and eggs

oh what a lovely surprise

hey

what's this

the postman brought it

no really

we're full of surprises this morning

didn't we

hi

and the next contestant miss folly foot

wearing an off-the-edge neglige

with a tantalizing tear on the tongue

yeah

and now that miss folly foot has joined

us

what about curled eggs and fizzle up old

bacon

her thoughts he starts the mucking out

it's not from your mum

[Music]

there you are go sunshine breakfast for

one

yeah

still it could have been sluggish bacon

and eight

i heard that chicky monkey

and here's yours scrumptious we don't

need it all at once

we need some corn i'll get it oh don't

worry me i'll mate if it's goodies

thereafter leave it your old uncle wrong

something bothering you

a

me

no

it's the letter isn't it

it's from an old school friend

something very

old i was wondering if the colonel would

mind her staying with us for a few days

you might put in a good word for me

while you're at it you'll be lucky

morning

[Music]

morning colonel

sir

is that all you can manage

but

morning dora morning steve who are you

behind this morning i overslept well get

on with it uncle yeah

i was wondering

can i ask an old school friend to stay

just for a few days

i've had a letter

not the oversleeping kind is she no

good

one's quite enough

[Music]

you didn't tell me you kept horses here

i thought you knew

i know the colonel keeps them i thought

they were all up at his place

we just have a few

yeah we get a scraggins dora's

collection of dropouts

here i'll uh

i'll show you around if you like

[Music]

no

pardon me i'm sure

still i can't say i'll blame you

horrible great lot

oh

here are your things

we'll get the rest

there you go get yourself around that

little lock oh slugs forever sake

is that the way to give coffee to a lady

let me fetch you a saucer cleo it's no

trouble

sorcery says saucer why can't she drink

it straight out of the mud like anybody

else

then we'll pick a horse for you and i

don't ride dora

well no not now but after a bit

i told you dora

i don't ride

i never will

good boy walk on

good boy

walk on

you wouldn't think she was once a school

riding champion would you

she won everything

walk on good boy walk on copper

showing jumping she was great

the girls were madly jealous

and you

more than any of them

whoa stan copper stand

good point we'll stand good boy

good bye

i think i'll take him for a counter okay

i'll go up slugs okay

what happened dora

i mean

she's no schoolgirl champion now is she

she won't even go near them

i know

i don't understand

hi

hi

never stops does it

what

horsework

oh

do you know anything about it

about

looking after horses i mean

are you pretending dora hasn't said

anything about me

well

no i

that's telling you in it mate

shut up ron

your uh new year aren't you mate

yeah well when you've been here a bit

longer got used to our ways you'll find

we don't go nosy park room where we

ain't wanted

see

i know right

wish it would stop

we just turn the horses loose while

we're mucking out makes it so easy

you can't do that when it's raining

what's happened cleo

why can't we talk about it wouldn't it

help

no

do you remember jasmine

that chess snap you rode on prize giving

when you jumped the fence into the

visitor's enclosure i lost my way i

thought the fence was part of the course

and you knocked over a table with the

sandwiches salmon and cucumber too what

a memory you heard gosh we had fun

you've not seen my horse have you copper

he's beautiful

would you like to

well i've got to take steven's slug of

their coffee come and say hello

no

[Music]

no

come and talk to steve

he wants to apologize

you don't have to look at the horses

they're all in stalls

they can't hurt you

over at the colonel's place taking

another horse i ask you where we're

going to put them all

oh what are they traps

are they not used now

they used all right

poachers vandals

we had a horse lose its leg once

one of them things

no

i'm all right here

[Music]

fancy a great big thing like you being

afraid of a bit of thunder hey

steve wait

cleopath

[Music]

wait

hey

[Music]

here drink this

it can make you feel better thanks

i'm sorry dora it was silly of me

for a moment i thought it was galahad

girl ahead

whose g*n

my sister's horse

the one

the one

the horse that trampled her

trampled

he tried to k*ll her

what happened

you won't believe it

diane didn't like horses in fact i think

she hated them

but i rode so she had to ride i had a

horse so she had to have a horse

i think if i'd had a wooden leg

she treated ghana head horribly

i could get jasmine to do anything

if you're kind there's no animal or

eager to show gratitude it's true isn't

it

what jasmine did to please me

diane tried to make galahad do

by force

day after day dora

i tried to tell her

in the end

galahad was so frightened he'd shake

actually shaped with fear whenever diane

went near him

the other week we were out riding

galahad took her to the top of the hill

there are lots of rocks there and

he walked into the middle of them

and he threw her off

i jumped down and ran across but

before i could get there

gal had trampled on her he seemed to be

kicking her

he tried to k*ll her oh come on you're

imagining things

as i got to where she was lying on the

ground

galahad came for me

his eyes were red dora

he reared

i i ran away

some men went out

i don't know if he attacked deanna again

or not

she was unconscious

her ribs her arms

face

and galahad

they shot him

i don't believe it

so you keep saying

do you

well something scared her

dora have you ever heard of a horse that

they're not like that dora

it was panic what do you bet i've seen

it a dozen times

do you know what this one's called

no

it's called caesar

why is he here

he's a hunter

but you've given up jumping haven't you

lad

he lost his nerve

colonel wants me to school him wants you

to

[Music]

do you mind

no

it can be tricky

i usually do the tricky ones

i know dora i'm not trying to

anyway

i think cleo to take him on

leo yeah

caesar and cleopatra

hey

they were made for each other

they both lost their nerve

they can both get it back again

together

you won't get her near him

we'll find a way

we'll get them together if it's the last

thing we do

we can hypnotize her oh run no why not

you are a world's champion jockey and a

big race is about to begin

we're trying to be serious ron we could

put her in the middle of a desert and

the only way home

is on horseback and you just happen to

have a horse handy

well

yeah forever sacrum if you can't help

just

here i'll tell you what we could shut

caesar in the loo

she'd have to go in there sooner or

later

oh run

cleo cleo

can you shut the gate

caesar's got a yarn for the wide open

spaces

it's okay

i'll hold him

does he still look like galahad

even in daylight

yes

i'm just gonna groom him

cleo

i'm sorry for being so nosy

it's all right

you're new here aren't you

not really

i went away

just got back a few days ago

i feel like an intruder

they're very close

just work and horses

it's a family of strangers

yeah

that's what it is

family of strangers

hey

would you hold him a minute

dora's got the comb oh no steve oh come

on

it won't hurt you

[Music]

thanks

hey that's good how did you manage it

we just found out we had something in

common

can i borrow the coke

[Music]

[Music]

see

um yes

that's the one i think don't you

steve ron's got a fabulous idea to get

cleo on caesar

oh yeah

something daft like hypnotism i suppose

no it's good really i think it'll work

what is

it oh well it's cunning see very clever

i bet

devious mind like yours wouldn't expect

it to be anything simple

look do you wanna hear about it or not

okay right

well then

this is what we do

oh

are you going out

covers a bit frisky i think i'll take

him for a run

well we're just going over to the

village won't be long

leave it open you're gone you're running

out of you shut it um

see you later then

steve

we're off

[Music]

we're off to the village girl be about

20 minutes

right

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Music]

me

[Music]

caesar's escaped he's run off

oh blazes

which way did he go over there come on

no steve

come on

no steve

for heaven's sake clearly won't hurt us

he wouldn't come in here

we can cut through

you stay there i'll have a look over

here

oh

[Music]

she ever discovers

there was a trick there

she'll never forgive us

get her on the horse

cleo

[Music]

you've got to be quick through there

hurry

[Music]

[Applause]

[Music]

[Applause]

quick out there steve's causing a trap

dear dear dear what a terrible thing to

happen oh god he's in dreadful pain oh

dear dear dear

come on slugs let us see what has been

falling i'll go and phone the doctor

yeah hey no hang about

like a dreamy

[Applause]

oh steve

trust ron

any idea is bound to go wrong

[Music]

that's what it takes my friend

[Music]

he's caught

[Applause]

get a branch a thick one

hang on son we'll still get you out

what was it slogs

poachers hooligans more like their idea

of a joke yeah this too yeah

now grab old and when i say pull it

clear right

hold on son

this may hurt a bit

careful there may be another one

the doctor's on his way

he is beautiful

right

right

[Music]

easy lad easy go look up at the doctor

my still

will soon have you fixed up now

[Music]

steady stop here oh lucky there ain't

nothing broke

we are doors once oh slagger don't it's

bad enough bad enough it's me

but if it had been a horse oh

you're impossible dora

here sounds like ron

[Applause]

[Music]

is he all right

he will be

nothing broken thank goodness

you found caesar then yes munching

happily no idea what trouble he's caused

he had you worried then didn't he

a steve i mean

well i mean he's

sort of one of the family isn't he

[Music]

yes

yes

one of the family

[Music]

it's never too late for you and me to

grow

the lightning trees

[Music]

easily

[Music]