Season 3 • Episode 13
LatestDora becomes restless and disillusioned and looks to her future, but she also has the futures of those who depend upon her to worry about. It's not only a decision on if she should leave Follyfoot, it's also a question of if she can.
Follyfoot is a children's television series co-produced by the majority-partner British television company Yorkshire Television and the independent West German company TV Munich. It aired in the United Kingdom between 1971 and 1973, repeated for two years after that and again in the late 1980s. The series starred Gillian Blake in the lead role. Notable people connected with the series were actors Desmond Llewelyn and Arthur English and directors Jack Cardiff, Stephen Frears, Michael Apted and David Hemmings. It was originally inspired by Monica Dickens' 1963 novel Cobbler's Dream; 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.
Direction
Future legends Frears, Apted, and Hemmings cut teeth on horse melodrama.
Production
Authentic Yorkshire locations that basically function as another character.
Creator
Monica Dickens
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Monica Dickens was Charles Dickens' great-granddaughter, making this literary royalty writing about horse orphans.
Stephen Frears directed episodes here before My Beautiful Laundrette and The Queen—imagine that career trajectory meeting in a stable.
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