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02x13 - Fly Away Home

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.

02x13 - Fly Away Home

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trees come

true them to if you want them to then

it's up to you

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didn't you hear me

i'm sorry

i'm going to the village come and tell

me all your news

there isn't any

your father and i are away for nearly a

year and you haven't anything to say

i don't think you'll ever change

too much to expect i suppose

your uncle says you didn't live here

no

at some point with old horses

yes

doesn't sound really nice

are you going to show it to us

for heaven's sake dora i can't have a

date i take with you hovering on the

stairs go and put on something nice the

drive will do you good

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oh do i really am not a child

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what is it

whatever's matter

i really don't know

what you say it's no use arthur i don't

understand her at all

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is it uncle jed

you all

right have to take it easy that's all

when he's on his feet

go home

start all over again

how's that

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will they do you think

what

take her back to london

so

what will happen to this place

when she goes

she managed on her own when you were

away

yeah

but with both of us

gone both

how do you mean both

i'll see to the horses oh no you don't

come on out of it you ain't planning to

push off again are you

oh slugs

and this is what the last one beautiful

specimen it's a clivia miniature it's

lovely i'll have it and this is begonia

rex

good morning

what do you want i like some flowers

what sort

some uh damsel in distress flowers

will you please take the dreadful things

away oh spoken like a connoisseur

trouble is you see this damsel rescues

old horribles like these and we peasants

have to fetch them in for i don't know

what you're talking about and she's been

taken away ain't she dragged off some

old dragon what lives in a castle

so

if you just happen to have a

clavier miniature it would cheer up

this lady was first oh you have the very

thing but it's the last one this lady

was first

oh oh very well say no more i'll uh i'll

think of something else

just give me five minutes five minutes

oh for heaven's sake let him have it

anything to get those beastly things

away

he's not touched a

can't i see him he's having a nap

i just want to see how he is oh we'll be

right as rain you see

just wants to be kept quiet

ah mrs porter put these in water take

them up next time you go right what a

time i've had in the village awful

people i had no idea you were so far

from anywhere the sooner we get home the

better it can't be good fedora isolation

odd people and a dreadful boy

slugger

oh slacker oh look out

is everything all right

yeah

yeah fine

and copper

couldn't be better

good

and i'm a liar the place ain't the same

don't

it's like the sun's gone in

i don't know what i'm gonna do slacker

gone him for me too

i wanted nothing to change but

we're all leaving him when he needs us

most

i'm going up i see him

they keep saying he's resting resting

he's never rested in his life

keep a lookout and if mrs porter comes

tyler on his new doctor

will you tell him i'm here

you think he won't know

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hey

what are they

what are what

oh these

they're uh

they're all she's mate

don't be funny whose are they ours

where do you get them from parsons

bakery he's gone and bought a van any

so

so

they joined dora's collection of grotty

old great uncared for not wantings don't

they

come on

and where do you propose to put them

well they shared a stall at parsons

place so they can share one ear

dora says it'll be okay we don't have a

stall ah we're gonna put ladybird out

touch any old dr green

she knows jolly well she won't go out

dora said to be persuasive

very obedient to dora all of a sudden

aren't we

didn't notice it when she was here

no

you're right i know

one of these had me gift of repentance

for breakfast and all

come on vandals let's go and tell

ladybird the bad news

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darling do calm down

your mother wants to see that farm place

folly food whatever it is

just wants to see it that's all

daddy

she'll hate it

why don't you say that very

understanding

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she won't go into the field

she'll just hang about you should regard

yourself lucky girl it's like a prison

in here

let me out i want to be free

dark don't think

yeah it's old slugs

all right

what a pool said have ya

might be doris people

oh my god

let's try and sell them ladybirds shall

we

steve these are my parents

mummy this is steve

he's mad is he

wrong no why does he always take horses

shopping with him

he called me an old dragon

come and see the horses

whose are they gifts

they're streets

horses no one wants horses with problems

hello

where did you live down here

yes in the farmhouse oh dear

well i'll go and see

come along arthur

daddy

can i talk to you

of course darling

daddy i want to stay here

i've been so happy

i want to be happy

i don't want to go on

on what

i don't know

i just know

this is where i belong

that i'm useful

and complete

will you help dora

it's quite suitable

i'm sure your mother won't oh she'll

never understand never let me stay we'll

see you shall we

to her daddy please of course of course

where is she in the house

how's she doing

not so good

she won't go into the field she wants to

be in a stable

oh ladybird

you're not being very helpful are you

what am i supposed to do with you

it's gorgeous out there

lovely grass

the other horses

you're free

what actually is the problem do you know

it's the first real home she's ever had

first place she's felt wanted

and loved

and cared for

lived all of her life cooped up with a

family who hardly knew she existed let

alone cared

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this place is safe

it's

home out there

that's the wide wide world and she's

frightened of it

she wants to stay here

for real thing but

i meant dora actually

i was talking about dora

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so

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uncle

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oh uncle i've been so worried i'm all

right dora

now

help me down

well

what have you been doing

nothing

sitting on the stairs like a saint

bernard

what would i do without you that's what

i tell her the place wouldn't be the

same

no

i don't want to go you have to talk to

them dora i can't

i mustn't decide for you

could i steve if you could persuade them

well

let's see what we can do

has my sister arrived does someone in

with them know

oh god

well

let's see what they've decided

my dear fellow what a dreadful thing

such a mercy

my brother died you know such a mercy

yes yes well i'm not thinking of

departing it brickelbank

there's too much to do

you must take things more quietly i'm

quite sure i all agree jeffrey

no good kidding yourself you can't go on

as you have been

you'll have to slow up

brickell bank says it'll be quite easy

to find a small house somewhere

you can sell all this move in there

no

yes

that's what i may do

but uncle volley foot

ah

folly foot

dreadful place

daddy i want to stay there

i don't want to be taken away daughter

please daddy

i've never been before

it's not a fit place dora it's pokey

miles from anywhere your bedroom's damp

and the stairs haven't been sweat for

months and some frightful horses

heaven knows what kind of diseases you

might pick up

it's where i was born

where i belong

fiddlesticks i think it's true

i've seen her prudence

for the first time as a matter of

factors

a person

we don't know her

you have given her what she needed

haven't you

purpose in life

what she had a right to offer

happiness

do you ever remember hearing dora laugh

may i visit you

i shall be in england for a couple of

months

i'll pop down

we'll get to each other

and

see how ladybird's getting on

you'll be fine

ladybird ladybird fly away home

remember

this is insane you can't keep this place

just because dora has some hair-brained

idea oh for heaven's sake stop worrying

prudence

now brycobank

on my client's instructions i've drawn

up a deed of conveyance

folly foot the lands are joining the

properties and effects we are signed on

signature to uh

young dora here who being a minor will

accept and trust with myself and colonel

maddox as trustees heyo adora

mistress of folly foot

i'm giving it to you

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[Applause]

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hello ladies

still don't want the wide wide world eh

well why should you

come

let's go home

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steve

steve

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hello

what are you doing

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packing

why

where are you going

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i don't know dora

don't know what i'm doing

don't go steve

i'm not going

it's all settled i'm staying what about

the colonel

i don't know

i think he'll retire

we'll have a lot more to do steve

we can do it together

it could be fun

yeah

hey steve guess what

oh there you are

madam

your eyes

ron strider

you're rumble servant

may i

on behalf of working labs at a folly

foot estate say how honoured we are that

you should grace our humble abode with

your illustrious presence what's this

about

what's happened

psychophone didn't he

mate orionis

the new owner of folly

rest assured

that we shall continue to give you our

oil sir

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steve

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yeah

steve it won't make any difference

nothing will change

please stay

is that an order

don't leave me steve

i couldn't bear it again

you don't understand dora

it's not folly foot you owning it

it's me

do you think i love this place any less

than you do

ladybird you me

all in the same boat aren't we

it's a haven dora

it protects us

it may be a lousy world but

we can't hide

what i think you'll give me a ride

oh hello miss only a joke

what about him

oh slugs

i'm so tired

i've had a bad dream don't be frightened

open your eyes it's all over

it'll be all right won't it slugs of

course it will

hey troy to prove it

steve spotted it this morning he didn't

want you to know if well if you was

going away

hey steve

come and show dory your discovery

out here

where's steve he's coming

i uh

i bought you this

oh ron thank you it's

beautiful yeah well it met with what you

might call a

small setback

we all do don't we

just have to get over them

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uh what do you want doing with ladybird

some goon's gonna let her in she'll

chuck her out again

no

some ghoul knows her more than she'll

ever know

it's her home run

let her stay

don't you know what it is

guess

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look

up at the top

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you never gave up did you

well we won't give up now

i'll stay for a bit make sure you're all

right

worry about tomorrow when it comes eh

oh steve

welcome home

come on work to do

down

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dreams come true when you want them to

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

never give up

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