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Episode Synopses

"You will notice at the end of each synopsis there is a note called the Cryometer... one of the enduring memories I had of the series before I started to re-watch it, was that Dora seemed to cry in every episode. After watching I realised that wasn’t the case, but that when she did become upset it was for a very good reason, one I would probably have cried at myself!!"

Click the links below to see how many times Dora cried in each series!

Series One Synopsis

Series Two Synopsis

Series Three Synopsis

Originally written by Louise in 2003. Updated and edited by Nik Short 2005. Updated and added to/corrected by Simon 2007.Tweaked again by David in 2009. Updated and added to by Jane in 2013.

Episode listings

Series Two

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Series Three

TV Times Articles

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Series review from To The Hill and Beyond

To The Hill and Beyond Website

The Campaign for Follyfoot on DVD

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Follyfoot Cast List

Listed Alphabetically by first name of Actor

A - F

Alastair Hunter - Mr Carlton - The Distant Voice

Alethea Charlton - Phyllis Wetherby - The Helping Hand

Alphonse Kaminski - Walk In The Woods

Ambrosine Phillpotts- Lady Martha Carne - Debt of Honour

Andrew Sweeney - The Debt

Ann Way - Mrs Buckley - Barney

Anthony Andrews - Lord Beck - The Awakening

Anthony Woodruff - Mr Bricklebank - Fly Away Home

Arthur English - Slugger Jones - 38 episodes

(Didn't appear in The Challenge)

Arthur Hewlett - A Day In The Sun

Arthur Lambert - Policeman - Gypsy

Barbara Keogh - Apple woman - Miss Him When He's Gone

Basil Henson- Arthur Maddocks - Dora, Fly Away Home

Bernadette Milnes - Noreen - Moonstone

Bernard Lee - Woodman - Walk In The Woods

Bert Palmer - Tom Platt - One White Foot Charley,

The Innocents

Beryl Cooke - Miss Patience - Out of the Blue Horse,

The Bridge Builder, Uncle Joe

Betty Turner - Emily Derwent - Treasure Hunt

Betty Turner - Mrs Barrett - The Four Legged hat

Bill Dean - Mr Clegg - The Dream

Brenda Cowling - Lady Caroline Beck - The Awakening

Brian Osborne - Tyler - The Innocents

Bryan Sweeney - Gip Willens - The Charity Horse,

Know-All's Nag, Stryker's Good Deed

Celia Hewitt - Anna Holmes - Moonstone

Charles Lamb - Someone, Somewhere

Charles Pemberton - Police Sergeant - Uncle Joe

Chloe Franks - Angela - Uncle Joe

Christian Rodska - Ron Stryker - 38 episodes

(Didn't appear in Out of the Blue Horse)

Christopher Coll - George Platt - One White Foot Charley

Clare Kelly - Katherine Ross - Someone, Somewhere, The Debt

Clifford Rose - Mr Dockerty - Poor Bald Head

Colin Bell - Johnnie Clegg - The Dream

Colin Douglas - Matt - The Innocents

Colin Rix - Vet - Dora, A Day In The Sun

Daphne Oxenford - Secretary - Poor Bald Head

David Hemmings - Uncle Joe Rimmington - Uncle Joe

David Richardson - Groom - Steve

David Swift - Mr Bendiger - Poor Bald Head

David Wilkinson - Hooligan - Hazel

Desmond Llewelyn - Colonel Geoffrey Maddocks - 35 episodes

(Didn't appear in Barney, The Challenge, The Letter, The Helping Hand)

Dorothea Rundle - Agnes Derwent - Treasure Hunt

Dorothy Reynolds - Prudence Maddocks - Dora, Fly Away Home

Edward Underdown - Matthew - Steve

Elaine Donnelly - Wendy Bendiger - Poor Bald Head, The Prize

Freda Jeffries - Cauliflower Woman - Miss Him When He's Gone

Frederick Treves - Sam Lockwood - Barney, The Dream,

The Challenge, The Letter

Fulton Mackay - Mr Wilmot - Someone, Somewhere

G - J

Garfield Morgan - Brian Donnelly - Hazel

Garth Watkins - Parkinson - The Letter

Geoffrey Morris - Vet - The Prize, The Distant Voice,

The Dream, The Helping Hand, Hazel, Walk In The Woods

George Malpas - Mr Plum - The Letter

George Waring - Bert - Moonstone, Someone, Somewhere

Geraldine Newman - Janet Draper - A Present for Sandy

Gillian Bailey - Callie Holmes - Steve, One White Foot Charley,

Moonstone, Out of the Blue Horse

Gillian Blake - Dora Maddocks - Appeared in 39 episodes

Godfrey James - Willie - The Innocents

Gorden Kaye - Man with Court Order - The Dream

Greg Powell - 3rd man - Steve

Gretchen Franklin - Mrs Porter - The Awakening, Fly Away Home, Hazel

Harold Goodwin - Bill - The Innocents

Harry Littlewood - Bargee - Someone, Somewhere

Harry Markham - Hercule's owner - Someone, Somewhere

Howard Goorney - Reuben Kellet - Gypsy

Ivan Beavis - Liverpool Policeman - Someone, Somewhere, The Debt

James Ottaway - Bill Chadwick - Rain On Friday

Jack Le White - Weighman - Poor Bald Head

Jack Woolgar - Seth Draper - A Present for Sandy

Jane Hutcheson - Judy - Someone, Somewhere

Janet Hargreaves - Lady Millicent Longchild - The Debt

Jill Summers - Mrs Ginwood - The Letter

Jean Lockhart - Shopkeeper - Fly Away Home

Jo Warne - Onion Woman - Miss Him When He's Gone

Joe Ritchie - Bert - The Debt

John Barrard - Pilkington - The Letter

John Barrett - Ernie Perkins - Poor Bald Head

John Barrie - Ed Foley - Miss Him When He's Gone

John Cater - Clem Barrett - The Four Legged Hat

John Lyons - Photographer - The Charity Horse

John Stratton - Arnold Berwick - Out of the Blue Horse

John Swindells - Stryker's Good Deed

K- P

Kareen Hofsass - Birthday at Follyfoot

Kathleen Michael - Mrs Wilmot - Someone, Somewhere

Kathleen St. John - A Present for Sandy

Kathy Staff - One White Foot Charley

Kathy Staff - The Letter

Kay Gallie - One White Foot Charley

Keith Buckley - Geoff Shaw - The Hundred Pound Horse

Keith James - Shopkeeper - One White Foot Charley

Ken Watson - Charlie - The Innocents

Larry Noble - Tanner - Treasure Hunt

Len Jones - Willy Willens - The Charity Horse, Know-All's Nag

Leon Vitali - Brian Foley - Miss Him When He's Gone

Lesley Roach - Angie Buckley - Barney

Leslie Dwyer - Mr Wimble - The Debt

Leslie Schofield - Someone, Somewhere

Lewis Wilson - Ambulance man - A Present for Sandy

Leyland Vincent - Walk In The Woods

Lynne Frederick - Tina - The Bridge Builder, Uncle Joe

Lynne Perrie - Stryker's Good Deed

Maggie Flint - Mrs Widgeon - The Debt

Margaret Boyd - Steve's Grandmother - A Day In The Sun

Marc Granger - Tim Shaw - The Hundred Pound Horse

Margery Mason - Mrs Willens - The Charity Horse, Know-All's Nag

Maxine Barrie - Stryker's Good Deed

Michael Collins - Garage Owner - The Debt

Mollie Maureen - Mrs Padgett - The Distant Voice

Neil Hallett - Mr Whitaker - Uncle Joe

Nigel Crewe - Chip Lockwood - Barney, The Dream,

The Challenge, The Letter

Norma Shebbeare - Minnie Foley - Miss Him When He's Gone

Norman Atkyns - Mr Buckley - Barney

Norman Mitchell - The Dream

Pam St. Clement - Cafe Assistant - Someone, Somewhere

Pamela Alan - Dorothy Corbett - Hazel

Paul Ambrose - Jackie - Uncle Joe

Paul Frith - The Standstill Horse

Paul Guess - Lewis Hammond - Dora, Steve, Shadow,

One White Foot Charley, The Standstill Horse

Paul Luty- Groom - Dora

Paul Rosebury - Mick - Walk In The Woods

Paul Whitsun-Jones - Lollipop's owner - The Helping Hand

Peter Porteous - Wally - The Innocents

Peter Schofield - Van Driver - Fly Away Home

Peter Whitbread - Auctioneer - The Four Legged Hat

Peter Copley - Sir John - The Bridge Builder

Petra Markham - Ginny Tuckwood - The Standstill Horse

Phil Wood - Ben - The Innocents

Q - Z

Ralph Lawton - Doctor - The Awakening

Ray Mort - Miss Him When He's Gone

Ray Witch - Shopkeeper - The Four Legged Hat

Raymond Adamson - Major Lewis - The Challenge

Reginald Barratt - Vet - The Standstill Horse

Richard Beaumont - Gavin Foley - Miss Him When He's Gone

Richard Goolden - Mr Mallet - Mr She-Knows

Rio Fanning - Reporter - The Charity Horse

Ron Pember - The Innocents

Ron Welling - Horse Owner - The Four Legged Hat

Ronald Leigh-Hunt - Bernard Fox - The Helping Hand

Rosamond Burne - Florist - Fly Away Home

Rosamond Greenwood - Aunt Millie - A day In The Sun

Ruth Holden - Mrs Dickerson - The Letter

Sadie Eddon - Stunt woman - Barney

Sam Kydd - Bookmaker - Shadow

Sammy Sharples - Jon-Jon's Owner - Stryker's Good deed

Sheila Fay - Judy's Mother - Someone, Somewhere

Shelagh Fraser - Vera Berwick - Out of the Blue Horse

Simon Thompson - Sandy Draper - A Present For Sandy

Simon Roebuck - Simon - The Bridge Builder

Stan Jay - Mr Linnett - The Dream

Stephen Bent - Noreen's boyfriend - Moonstone

Sue Cornell - Jacqueline - The Bridge Builder

Steven Leslie Hodson - Steve Ross - Appeared in 39 episodes

Ted Carroll - The Charity Horse

Ted Carroll - Moonstone

Ted Carroll - A Day in the Sun

Ted Carroll - The Debt

Ted Carroll - The Letter

Terence Davies - Davey - The Innocents

Terence de Marney - Groom - Dora

Terry Cantor - Stryker's Good Deed

Tim Pearce - Picket - The Innocents

Tommy Boyle - The Gypsy - Gypsy

Tommy Godfrey - Mr Stryker - Mr She-Knows

Tony Steedman - Mr Tuckwood - The Standstill Horse

Tracy Eddon - Lisa Pilkington - The Letter

Valerie Holliman - Cleo - Family of Strangers

Veronica Quilligan - Hazel Donnelly - Hazel, Walk In The Woods

Virginia Denham - Isobel Mathews - Shadow

Wallace Campbell - Vet - One White Foot Charley

Walter Horsbrugh - Doctor - Treasure Hunt, The Awakening

Walter Randall - Tinker - Walk In The Woods

Walter Sparrow - Amos Kellet - Gypsy

William Mervyn - Squire Mathews - Dora, Shadow

Wolfe Morris - Mr Parkes - Debt of Honour

Directors/Camera men

An article about Camera Man Peter Jackson provided by Nik 2004

Frost bound - and happy to be so

In these freelance days your typical film crew perceives itself as a bunch of skilled individuals who band (and bond) transiently for a specific job, the making of a film, and then disperse. There are exceptions. Peter Jackson BSC, GBCT, and his crew are currently (autumn 1998) shooting the sixth series of A Touch of Frost, for Yorkshire TV, with no permanent change of personnel. For this to happen in Yorkshire, where fools are not suffered gladly, somebody is doing something right. Probably they all are.

Peter and cinematography first came together in his late teens over a clockwork 9.5 mm PathÃ©. Hooked from then on, it was a few years later (1958) that he got his start as a trainee assistant editor with a small documentary company in London's New Bond Street. "I later moved to another company; one so small that almost immediately you became a cameraman/director working with a client. This not only gave me the chance to shoot but also to follow the job through editing and sound-dubbing. It was very interesting and very good training."
Sufficient training indeed that, on moving back north, he leaped the loader/focus stages to become a newsreel stringer for Granada and ABCTV. Then came a spell with a Bradford commercials production company before, in 1968, he joined Yorkshire TV as they started their film unit.
“. . . the speed and accuracy with which retakes and reverses were shot emphasised the benefits . . . of having experienced crews and casts who are well-accustomed to working together. I was certainly the first cameraman there, because I unpacked their three new Arri BL 16s which were all they then owned. Initially, YTV camera work was news or documentaries. Docs had always been on film. Alan Whicker also joined YTV in 1968, and I did a couple of trips with him to Hollywood and a European tour and worked a lot with Antony Thomas (Death of a Princess). I went with him to the Middle East, to Japan and twice to Africa, doing a series of personalised travel documentaries.
YTV Drama then was studio-based and tape-originated, but we were soon being sent out to shoot taxis drawing up, and people getting out. Then, when we'd got really good at that, we were allowed to do taxis drawing up right-to-left. Slowly they got more ambitious and put whole sequences out to film but these still had to cut back into studio stuff, usually giving a horrible match because 16mm stock wasn't a patch on what we have today. Finally, in the early 1970s, they became brave enough to do whole productions on film and TV drama had arrived."
Since then for Peter, it has been largely TV drama all the way. "I stayed with YTV until October 1995, which makes me one of their longest-serving inhabitants. I stuck with them because they kept offering me assignments which were as good as I could have got anywhere.”

Peter Jackson - Cinematographer & Filmography

By Nik, August 2004

Peter Jackson appeared to start his career with Follyfoot, judging by the list of his later work, the series was very fortunate to have had him!

The Second Quest (2004) (TV)
Shipman (2002) (TV)
The Quest (2002) (TV)
Hamish Macbeth (1995) TV Series
The Wanderer (1994/I) TV Series
Stalag Luft (1993) (TV)
A Touch of Frost (1992) TV Series (episode "Nothing to Hide")
The Darling Buds of May (1991) TV Series
Missing Persons (1990) (TV)
A Day in Summer (1989) (TV)
The Beiderbecke Connection (1988) (mini) TV Series
Out of the Shadows (1988) (TV)
The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank (1988) (TV)
The Beiderbecke Tapes (1987) (TV)
Comeback (1987) (TV)
Cloud Waltzing (1987) (TV)
May We Borrow Your Husband? (1986) (TV)
Romance on the Orient Express (1985) (TV)
The Beiderbecke Affair (1984) (mini) TV Series
One Summer (1983) TV Series
The Racing Game (1979) (mini) TV Series
Follyfoot (1971-73) TV Series.