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01x12 - Birthday at Follyfoot

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.

01x12 - Birthday at Follyfoot

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was born in a thunderstorm

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oh

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theme

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me

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question

ron

ron wrong

i don't think he's here very comical

listen how many times i've got to tell

you about ordinary's old paper i want to

read them

full of good things

could the butcher ain't come yet and if

i don't find hot rod ron there won't be

any stew for supper it's too hot for

stew we always have stew i know

hey slugger

what

you know our lake's full of trout i've

seen some real big ones in there

you ever use the old fishing rod in the

corner

no

i thought we could have a fish supper oh

yeah give me a spade and i'll dig up

some chips and all only a suggestion

well it's a bad one

it was hot very hot the sort of what you

only find in arizona

hundred horseback miles stretched out

behind hank wilson another twenty maybe

and he'd be in main street santa barbara

an appointment with death in a one horse

town

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his eyes searched the horizon not a

thing moved

hank before him of the law of the west

a man has to do what he has to do

are you hiding

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yes

what are you hiding from

work

look

if you don't go away you'll have me

spotted

why don't you go and see dora hey

that pretty little foam

all right

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have you

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be careful he's a bit frisky is he yours

then

yes he's mine

my uncle gave him to me happy birthday

no not for my birthday

just for a present

when is your birthday my birthday is

next week as a matter of fact the fifth

how old will you be oh

ever so old

grown up

yes

yes i suppose i am

will you have a party no i don't expect

so

why not won't your mummy and daddy give

you one

they're a long way away

in south america

what about your friends

at the firm

they don't know

wouldn't you like a party

i haven't thought about it i think you

ought to have one

come on funny

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what's your slugger

what are you using for bait

hey i want to see you

what about this hey hey

yeah well i'll see you when you're left

busy

has anybody seen my tiddler

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right yes

what would you like most in the world

how do you mean

well if you could have anything what

would you want

oh

just to go on working here i suppose at

folly foot

no no i didn't mean a place i meant a

thing

i mean if someone uh

gave you something what would you like

what do you mean like a horse

apart from an horse oh i don't know a

diamond bracelet

well something a little smaller than

that perhaps

here we are then

make way for the chef's special oh

snugger that looks fantastic well no

chips there's chips ships

wait for it

what are you doing here anyway you don't

usually stay for supper we don't usually

have fish and chips yeah and where

you've been all afternoon anyway i

thought you're supposed to be working i

have been working working up an appetite

oh very comical young fella listen i've

got a nice little job for you in the

morning

and steve and all

i know something you don't know

what's that then

it's dora's birthday next week

i know

you know

yeah fifth innit did she tell you nope

heard the colonel telling saga

i say

i was planning a sort of uh

birthday surprise

so was i

you were

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yeah but i was going to lay it all on in

secret and then spring it on her

so was i

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you see i thought we could take over a

big room at a colonel's posh house ask

lots of people plenty of birds eh

get in a few jars ira disco and have a

raver dora doesn't even drink how do you

know all these posh birds drink

champagne of course she'd hate it what

do you mean i mean she'd hate it shut up

a proper birthday oh you an authority on

birthdays then i've been thinking about

it we have to have tea at the farm

not loads of people just us big d

and a cape

with pink icing and candles and things

she'd like it

look you do your birthday mate i'll do

mine we can't do both it's gotta be one

way or the other and it's gonna be mine

watch it

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hey you finished that woodworking job i

gave ya i finished my bit my bit he said

what do you mean my bit

look this is a job of work not a

demarcation dispute what about ron's bit

better ask him

look i'm just about getting fed up with

all this nonsense

yeah

whoops

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hey

where's my cake

cake there was a box up here

a pink cardboard box with a cake in it

and now it's gone

dear dear

you are creeping around here at lunch

time

describe the cake

i mean was it uh

birthday cake you know damn well it was

round one

pink icing about that big

yes oh that cake

where is it

i ate it

you

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you've got no right touching my things

oh yum yum yum yum yum yum hey

do you want to fight do it outside he

ate my cake

jake

okay

never mind what's he talking about he

means the cake i hid under his bed

under his bed that's where i put it yeah

lester mice had got at it

what's the idea

i was just having him on it was a joke

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yeah you leave my things alone

happy birthday dear dora

and a pink birthday cake

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thank you

dora

could you ask the bloke on your left to

take it easy with the marmalade

dora

perhaps you tell the bloke on your right

to wait his turn

dora

would you pass me the marmalade please

if the bloke on your left is quite

finished

do me a favor

tell the bloke on your right to drop

dead

may i have the mom lay please

hmm

thank you you are wrong

lovely

thank you very much

what's the matter with you two

nothing amount with me yeah what is all

this not talking to each other got

nothing to say to him i'm very fussy who

i talked to yeah and i'm fussy i'll pick

will be over at breakfast so both of you

sitting there like a couple of

thunderstorms on a wet bank holiday

well i got the cure for that work

hardcraft toil

so finish the breakfast a pair of you

and get a move on

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hey

find yourself working

for dinner any luck good plenty of luck

all bad

there's some big ones out there you know

they keep popping up and looking at me

i'll bet that frightened the life out of

them

oh slugger

had a loose end on you

all's well with the world eh

do you dream slugger you know when

you're sleeping

depends what i've eat of course i mean

there are times

do you know how sometimes you can dream

something so beautiful

you don't wake up yeah

folly foot

the boys

horses

all this

don't let me wake up slagger

i couldn't bear to lose it any of it

i want it to be like this

always no growing up girl

one of these days you'll want to move

off

no spread your weight no never

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so

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so

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there you are

i've got the answer

you talking to me

pack it in will ya

i said i've got the answer to what to

settle the argument

how

we go in for this

i always reckon you as a knight in

shining armor

now's your chance

fight you you mean that's it

i challenge you to mortal flipping

combat

winner takes all

winner decides what goes for dora's

birthday

right

you're on

okay so lancelot choose your horse

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this really isn't known for clapped out

nags isn't he yep

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i'll have marty

okay

i'll have shammy

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come on

come on

come on

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come on

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oh

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ah marvelous very clever now get out of

them cocoa tins and do a bit of work

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ah

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but now these main events of the day is

the grand nightly tournament from our

own village the blackfoot jack garrett

meets the brothers harry townshend known

as mad jack and there are many more

besides so come on lads if you fancy

your chances

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that's the blacksmith

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yeah and there's mad harry

ross

striker yeah

in there get changed

warriors and most brutal men of battle

are here today purely for the joy of

proving

take this fine sport is for men over the

engines their amazings are asked not to

pay me because the ambulance men are

just too busy

but you can get her and let you know

what you're doing

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popularity then was only revived by our

antique henry behavior and you know what

a funny sense of humor he has

in days gone by smithfield was the

wembley of jousting and the present beat

market is just about as bloody

but now the turn of two novice knights

who've not been seen in the list before

your favor and your further please for

ron striker and steve roberts i'm told

that their battle is a matter of

confidential honor between them come on

youtube

there's a young maiden here who is their

queen of love and beauty alone and paley

loitering at the ringside with her heart

beating faster than ever before

the signals about to be given for these

young knights to do battle for the first

time in the list

down goes advisor and the signals about

to begin

i wonder what they're feeling now as

they get ready for the charge

off they go now the first time they've

ever fought in the list yeah

oh it's a little bit there because

they've missed in fact they've written

on the far end of the list and in fact

that should be really called a draw but

it looks as though they're not done yet

they're turning around for another

charge

both these men are expert horsemen so

they've no problems in that particular

direction

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is

this really is not in the rulebook

medieval or otherwise

using their lashes as stays now

an ancient form of fighting which is by

faith wasn't supposed to take place here

this afternoon

on striker seems to know what it's all

about beautiful parry there

it's quite nonsense about the whole

thing quickly really wants to get it yet

he does getting at his opponent now

rushing him

must be pretty difficult in all his

armor

is

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to be about but it hasn't happened here

if you two don't behave yourself i

shan't ask you to dora's real birthday

surprise who would have thought such

novice knights would give such a

splendid display it all goes to show

that there must be something or someone

very special at stake

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thank you thank you

oh you are a cunning old villain in you

you have us all week building is

stable yeah turns out to be a raft and

you get all the credit yeah

it should be son age before ignorance

makes no difference

as long as there's a cake it's a proper

birthday

in that right wrong

yeah

mind you it's also a proper birthday

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when is

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a champaign something you didn't get

a horse oh yes she did

look

not another blooming horse

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uh

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is

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is

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grow

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