Who's old enough to remember this
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Cobbytype
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Unfortunately I am indeed old enough to remember Follyfoot - I loved it.
JJS
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I livery on the farm where it was filmed 
Cobbytype
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I livery on the farm where it was filmed
Oh wow, your yard could do Follyfoot weekends for zimmer framed old groupies like me
twiggy2
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I know the writer and the original farm it was written about
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I livery on the farm where it was filmed
Haha is the "tree" still there? Feather cuts and flares and that dreadful whiny actress. I'm going to be singing the theme tune all day now ...
hobo
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Oh wow, your yard could do Follyfoot weekends for zimmer framed old groupies like me
This I loved it and have bought the DVD. The theme tune is now going through my head, we have a lightning tree in my horse field and it got battered last winter and I was very sad to lose it.
catkin
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what a co-incidence that this thread came up!!! - I re-read Cobbler's Dream this week. (would recommend)
rhylis
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I'm old enough, although I was quite young when it was on and can't remember much about it. Although the theme tune is definitely ingrained on my brain! 70's telly was certainly something, I'm currently reliving my childhood by rewatching Blakes 7. My OH thinks I'm having some sort of mid life crisis!
Pinkvboots
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I remember it vaguely as I was quite young but loved horses so I had to watch it, I think I had some follyfoot books when I was older.
I remember the black beauty series more I really loved that and used to pretend I was the blond girl that rode beauty in the series and even wanted my hair like hers, I wouldn't let my mum cut my hair for years for that reason.
I remember the black beauty series more I really loved that and used to pretend I was the blond girl that rode beauty in the series and even wanted my hair like hers, I wouldn't let my mum cut my hair for years for that reason.
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ozpoz
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I didn't often watch it but as children,we all loved to remind ourselves that the lead actress kept falling off for no reason at all!
DTV
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Yup,that and White Horses (remember that?,black and white dubbed French series with a haunting theme) ALWAYS on during school hols.Must get round to watching it again lol.
JJS
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Yes, it's still there, and the whole site is still noticeably Follyfoot Farm.
fburton
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I remember all of these. There was Flambards too. I think White Horses was German TV, but based on books by a Yugoslavian author and filmed in Yugoslavia near Lipica (now Slovenia, where Lipizzaners originated).
ETA: There was a French series called The Flashing Blade which had a lot of horses galloping about in it, but was probably more for boys than for girls because of all the fighting.
ETA: There was a French series called The Flashing Blade which had a lot of horses galloping about in it, but was probably more for boys than for girls because of all the fighting.
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sjb10
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Ah, yes, I remember White Horses and the Flashing Blade on Saturday mornings. I think I must have missed out on Follyfoot, although having googled it can't really claim I am too young!
MiJodsR2BlinkinTite
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Oh wow, your yard could do Follyfoot weekends for zimmer framed old groupies like me
Hee hee!!
I LOVED this series, and the books too. Takes me right back.
cremedemonthe
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I remember this.
Does anyone remember a series about White Horses I think it was called, in black and white about Lipizzaners?
I can remember the theme tune too which I used to like.
It was this one, filmed in the 60's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Horses
Does anyone remember a series about White Horses I think it was called, in black and white about Lipizzaners?
I can remember the theme tune too which I used to like.
It was this one, filmed in the 60's
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Horses
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Oh White Horses! Loved that
Have got the theme tune on my phone for some selected horsey folk lol and the others have the black beauty theme, tho non- horse people have R2D2 chattering...https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtCNbERKvMs
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happyclappy
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Folly Foot. White Horses. Black Beauty - was addicted
Yubbie
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Also dont forget Champion the Wonder Horse.......happy childhood memories!!
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Greylegs
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Lol ... you beat me to it. I was a big Champion fan. Wasn't there another one called "Fury, Son of the Wild" or similar. Off to google it now .....
....... shuffles off, feeling very ancient indeed ......
Greylegs
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fury_(TV_series)
..... yes .... here it is ...... been horse mad (well, just mad really ...!!!) ever since ....
..... yes .... here it is ...... been horse mad (well, just mad really ...!!!) ever since ....
MochaDun
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Yes had a Follyfoot jigsaw too I think at one point. We had a 78rpm record of the Wonder Horse music also! And I had 3 Sindy horses from the 1960s...scroll down past the bed on this link for the grey and the bay...I still have two of them, the grey has a broken leg held together with ancient sellotape
http://www.oursindymuseum.com/1966scenesetters.htm
And I also had a Patch's Pony (semi melted from being left in front of mushroom heater) and a Bonanza dark grey horse on ballbearings, not sure which Cartwright that belonged to Just looked on eBay and an unmelted Patch's pony is on at £25..I might be sitting on a gold mine if they weren't like all real horses and not all broken in some way or another lol. I could never look after my toys well, my sister's by comparison were always immaculate.
http://www.oursindymuseum.com/1966scenesetters.htm
And I also had a Patch's Pony (semi melted from being left in front of mushroom heater) and a Bonanza dark grey horse on ballbearings, not sure which Cartwright that belonged to
Just looked on eBay and an unmelted Patch's pony is on at £25..I might be sitting on a gold mine if they weren't like all real horses and not all broken in some way or another lol. I could never look after my toys well, my sister's by comparison were always immaculate.Caracarrie
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Oh dear, I can remember all of these too. And the nerd part of my brain has just reminded me that the composer of Black Beauty theme was Harry Rabinowitz, a very well known conductor, and the Master of Horse for it was Reg Dent. How bad is that?
Caracarrie
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Yes had a Follyfoot jigsaw too I think at one point. We had a 78rpm record of the Wonder Horse music also! And I had 3 Sindy horses from the 1960s...scroll down past the bed on this link for the grey and the bay...I still have two of them, the grey has a broken leg held together with ancient sellotape
http://www.oursindymuseum.com/1966scenesetters.htm
And I also had a Patch's Pony (semi melted from being left in front of mushroom heater) and a Bonanza dark grey horse on ballbearings, not sure which Cartwright that belonged to
None of the Cartrights rode a dark grey.
Fidgety
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I loved that series! I remember Hugo, but not the other character's names. I don't know what it is about the theme tune but it makes my eyes well up too
blodwyn1
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I remember them all! I have a boxed DVD set of champion the wonder horse and watched the whole lot when I was ill last year! Do you remember Belle and Sebastian as well?
Fidgety
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I do!! As with WH, it seemed like it was was always on during the school hols (that and Jaques Clousteau!!
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