After filming of the final series of Follyfoot had finished, producer Tony Essex gave Dora's horse, Copper Prince, to Gillian Blake, the actress who played Dora.
The TV series was based on the novel "Cobbler's Dream" by Monica Dickens. In this book, the farm was not named. The name "Follyfoot Farm" was devised by Tamara Essex, daughter of the programme's producer and writer Tony Essex, based on the village of Follifoot (note the slightly different spelling) in North Yorkshire, which was a few miles from Hollin Farm, the location used for the farm in the series. Monica Dickens wrote several more books in the early 1970s to coincide with the TV series, and referred to the previously un-named farm as "Follyfoot Farm" in those books.
Due to his filming commitments for the series, Desmond Llewelyn (The Colonel) was unable to reprise his role as Q in Live and Let Die (1973). This was the only Bond film from which he was absent between From Russia with Love (1963) and The World Is Not Enough (1999).
When the props department was preparing Hollin Hall farm (the location used for Follyfoot farm) they needed a dead tree to use as the Lightning Tree. They found one and planted it in the farmyard. However they soon found that it developed buds because it was still alive, so whenever it was included in shot, any green leaves had to be removed to make it look dead.
According to Monica Dickens' autobiography "An Open Book", actor James Bolam who was a keen horseman brought her novel "Cobbler's Dream" to the attention of Yorkshire Television, leading to the TV series "Follyfoot".
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