It challenged the popular conception of Britain being a "nation of animal lovers" and carried the underlying message that animals and people all deserved a second chance. Let me clarify that for a second: there is something so complex about us when we talk about children and their loves, we mock them, so easily, for overtly investing emotionally in bands, or films, or celebrities.

Dora is concerned when she hears of a miners strike and that the horses are being left in the mine to starve.Dora is shocked when she discovers that the Colonel has enlisted the services of a manager to help Dora run Follyfoot. On seeing a horse being worked to death, Dora intervenes and offers the owner one of her horses to replace his. Chip, is unable to help them, but he sends a letter to Dora explaining everything and his feelings for her. Nostalgia Central covers the period 1950 to 1999 and contains some words and references which reflect the attitudes of those times and which may be considered culturally sensitive, offensive or inappropriate today. Anyone who loves horses and enjoyed Black Beauty for example would love this show as would anyone seeking good old fashioned entertainment.

Soon after this, she moved from her home in Hinxworth in Hertfordshire to the United States after marrying a United States Navy officer, Roy O. Jane Royston was the horse handler on the series and the book takes the format of giving a synopsis of each episode in turn and then Jane gives her own story about that episode. After almost attacking a horse, she breaks down and Dora and Steve comfort her, but Dora is still unhappy with all the changes taking place. She was also a regular columnist for the British women's magazine Woman's Own for twenty years (without admitting to being an expatriate). This book contains many unknown facts, identify locations used and will provide an ideal unique companion for the recently released Follyfoot DVD's.Dora is an idealist and a dreamer; she cannot cope with change and tries to shut out the fact the world is full of bad people. After Ron spins him a line about Follyfoot being a place where horses are tortured, Steve has his work cut out trying to convince him otherwise and it takes the near-death of Gip's horse to win him round.