Sunday 22 February 2015

98 The Adventures of Black Beauty



First  watched  :1972

As  I  said  on  the  The  White  Horses  post  these  horse-y  dramas  have  blurred  into  one  as  far  as  my  memory  goes. With   this  one  I  had  a  vague  awareness  that  it  was  linked  to  a  classic  novel  as  it  had  been  read  to  us  in  one  of  my  infant  classes.

The  series  actually  had  little  to  do  with  Anna  Sewell's  novel  but  was  set  in  the  present  day. It  was  a  first  big  break  for  young  actress  Judi  Bowker  although  she  decided  to  leave  after  two  series  and  Stacy  Dorning  took  over  as  a  sister  of  the  original  character  for  the  last  series  in  1974.

It  was  revived  in  the  early  nineties  by  a  New  Zealand  company  although  two  of  the  original cast  took  part  and  the  shift  across  the  world  was  explained  in  the  first  two  episodes.    

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