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02x04 - A Present for Sandy

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

02x04 - A Present for Sandy

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if you want them to then it's up to you

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is there anyone else in there

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there's nothing very much we can do

i'm sorry

it's a goner i'm afraid

is there anything special i can get

i could try

you're a good lad

where are you from i'm steve from folly

foot look i gotta get help come on

come on

now you just sit here okay

do you know where there's a telephone

a phone box is it

far

will you wait here

don't go away now

tell janet

you must tell janet

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any sign of steve there's been a fire

our old lady's place burnt down he sent

for the ambulance where i don't know he

phoned sounded a bit shook up and all oh

dear don't bury love he'll shortly die

oh

now you've done it you've been a gonna

cut the wrong bit

that's the mark there

well that's it then

my brigade's taking its time

still

not much they can do

awful in it seeing someone's home go up

like that

yeah

would she be all right all right she's

uh

asleep better get her in

yeah

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so

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hello

i can't leave you here can we

come on

hi steve

hi

where did you get that and we're all

right

yes thanks dora i'm fine

i'm sorry i can see you're okay

where did you get the horse the old lady

oh not so good i'm afraid they've taken

it to hospital thanks for asking though

oh steve

i don't know who he belongs to

i found him

but he's beautiful steve

like a thoroughbred

what would an old lady want with a horse

like that

can't imagine

what didn't you ask there wasn't anybody

no neighbors

nope

so what do we do

we'll have to ring the hospital

ask the old lady whose he is

come on bed early start tomorrow

okay

i just late with breakfast

on my stomach's fast

probably waiting for ron

probably

he's here i'll race you

hey that's cheating

is this volleyball

yes you've got miles

what horse you know damn well what also

don't call me anderson with me now look

i'm just not three-year-old was stolen

from my place the night or for lust

you see being led this way yesterday all

right

yes but i didn't know who was that right

well where is he

all right that's him

so she's got you on her side actually

doing her dirty work

a placebo belongs to me

anybody could say that you calling me a

liar are we to know who that was like

that is it well i know you some fun i

know about you because one of the

squires men saw you yesterday and he put

me right he used to work there didn't

you before they fired you and before

that prison what was that for senior

horses

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please

turn it off

oh dear dear dear fisty cuffs

get out of it ron

you'll make mince meat are you mate

that'll get himself into real trouble

one of these days but he did find the

horse

maybe he did

but he better find it back where he got

it from otherwise the police will want

to know the reason why all right

i'll be back at about eleven seas ready

for me to collect

south draper black no farm catcher

they just love dragging out your past

don't they

steve who's she

the old lady must be

we'll ring the hospital then we'll know

what that i didn't steal it who's the

horse really is

oh you don't think it's draper

don't tell me

it's a beautiful horse

he's awful

so it can't be his is that it

you slay me dora

you live in a dream

nothing cruel

no baddies like draper

a quick miracle in the whole world's

beautiful

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okay

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i'll phone the hospital

yeah

maybe she's a cat burglar 80 year old

moggy strikes again but it was an

awesome one here well she couldn't have

stolen it someone did surprising about

holding to get up to these days girl

yeah

frizzling bacon cooking eggs as hard as

b*ll*ts making toast like a burnt offer

in a tea like something out of yours

trough surprising in it

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what's the matter what's happened

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she's dead

oh no

during the night

all too much for her i suppose

no thanks roxanna i'm not hungry

so whose horse is it

we'll never know

she goes on and on about that horse

i am accused of stealing it remember yes

i know but you can easily yeah

go on

i can easily prove i didn't eh

with the old lady gone would you like to

tell me how

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hello

do you have

is there steve here yes

can i see him

he's

is he still with the colonel

yeah he's being grilled third degree

you know

where were you denied a sticker

can we help

i've got you into trouble

why

how cavalier it was me talking from

draper's

you did i've had him hidden at my aunt's

place

was that your aunt in the fire yes

i was with her when she

she told me about steve she said how

kind he was

but why did you take him what kevin

because he's mine

i knew it

the miracle

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this girl came and said cavalier was

hers

and you handed him over to her

right

yes

she took him from draper steve she

admits it

she admits it yes

and it's her horse you say yes

oh well

suppose it's okay

steve

yes

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she doesn't want us to tell draper

tell draper what

that she's got the horse

she says he'll just come and take him

back

not if he's not his he won't it's just

till tomorrow steve then it doesn't

matter but

oh don't be darf dora what am i gonna

tell draper

he's here for heaven's sake

well i have to think of something no we

don't

look he said he'd go to the police

didn't he

just a minute steve

please

look dora

i am not gonna get accused by the cops

so you can save some flaming horse

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you worry about people girl and i'll be

right there with you

but it's horses horses into hell with

people isn't it

i'm not having the police on my back

mate

not for any horse

help you settle copper i've got to warn

you

you don't know where she is she said

near the bridge i'll have to find it

well before he gets there oh come on ron

i'll have to try

agora can't stop

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hey

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so

hi

hello

is your mother in this is janet draper's

place yes

can i see her she's

grandpa's there

mr draper

oh

where are they

i shout as much as i please hey you

can't see if you can find that also

you'll be around here somewhere and i'm

not leaving without him is he here he's

mine seth you gave him to my husband ah

my son rest his soul

and what was his he left to me well what

do you know about horses look at this

place

look cavalier's a good horse now where

is he

you've got that also there's no could

you saying you haven't and he's not

stopping here and that hasn't to go near

him not to within a mile on him see

good lad get him loaded up and any more

your funny games my lady and you won't

know what's hit you so you've caught

enough double already if you did but no

it's a no more

you must be kidding

you want to take that horse back from

draper and give it to janet it's her

horse

okay so it's her horse

she knows where it is let her get it

she's afraid she's done it before draper

was away

well he's back

and i'm afraid

no do-it-yourself miracles dora

not for a horse

we could end up in prison

not if it's not his

no dora

if foreign

i'm not asking

i'll do it

why dora

why

janet's got her son

sandy

tomorrow it's sandy's 10th birthday

that's a milestone steve double figures

janet wants to give him the most

beautiful present in the world

draper's horse

her horse

so it's for the kid now is it

come off it dora

you're not thinking about sandy

you're trying to save cavalier from a

man you don't happen to like

no

don't be a hypocrite girl

doesn't suit you

when i was 10 steve

do you know what i wanted

a pony

nothing else

just a pony

do you know what i got

dresses

the best money could buy

books

oh they were beautiful leather bound

and games

i don't know what they were for

i didn't have any brothers or sisters or

friends to play with

at the party

they were the children of the people my

mother knew

so many i was frightened

i know my parents tried to be kind

i know we lived in london

and it's difficult

oh but steve i did

so want a pony

when i was 10

when i was 10 i cried all night

oh mate

how do we know which is cavaliers

have to try them all

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you start that end

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steve

hope you know what we're doing

there is

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give me some of that second quickly

hey dora tell me something

when sandy gets his uh

present tomorrow

what happens then

does draper decide he doesn't want the

horse anymore

does he go smiling home

and they all live happily ever after hey

he wouldn't take him back not once

you've given him to sandy

your faith in human nature amazes me

gotcha

you must think i'm a blithering idiot by

it

she hasn't even got the guts to do her

own dirty work

but cavaliers not his horse uncle that's

nothing to do with you he can't keep a

horse that doesn't belong to him is this

true draper

isn't the horse yours it's a present for

sandy dora janet had a heart set on it

will you stop interrupting says fair

uncle maybe we're both wrong

draper

hey you

fetch cavalier over here

well if he isn't your horse and they

didn't know the circumstances

you've seen this also

he's beautiful oh you're right he is

well coupled if you see what i mean

look at them legs

plenty of length and a bit of bone to go

with them

plenty of heart room and look at the

neck there you see the speed there

now you told me straight

would you give alms like that to a lad

not without proper schooling no

yeah right nor would i

i'll tell you

when we were a fall when i first gave

him to them i never catched on as he'd

turn into the fine animal he has

see i'm owning to it i've never catched

him

i saw him last year

and had died and

she was planning to give him to my

grandson well i couldn't have that not

the way he was

so took him back to school and

janet couldn't school a pussycat

but draper is one of the best trainers

in the county dora

well that lad will have a horse fit and

safe to ride

go on try and see if i'm not right see

if you'd harm anyone now

you'd have me to thank for that

i suppose you could have explained what

had happened

saved a lot of trouble look she had

cavalieri's first two year when my son

come out of the army she hadn't even

taught him to counter did you hear that

a two-year-old and didn't know how to

canter

through my son

but you don't give a lad the same horse

has k*lled his father well not unless

you're sure of his school in any road

what you mean

that horse your son not the horse uh

schooling

but she was going to give him to sandy

but she doesn't know

if she'd known she'd have had him shot

so i didn't tell

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it's your special present

watch over there grandpa's bringing it

the horse is kept at my place

that comes over for lessons you agreed

that

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man

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that's what you've been working for all

this time isn't

it miracles

by dora

it's how i wanted mighty's birthday

i've said some rotten things

i called you a hypocrite

i'm sorry

i've got to get used to your enchanted

world

learn to believe in miracles too

just give me time

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we

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trees