It’s laborious for horse followers of a sure age to to listen to the acquainted theme tune with no smile – and now extra individuals will have the ability to benefit from the traditional TV model of Black Magnificence in celebration of its fiftieth anniversary.
Anna Sewell’s literary masterpiece was tailored for the tv sequence, which ran on Sunday teatimes within the early Nineteen Seventies. It has now been newly scanned, remastered and introduced in excessive definition, as a restricted version, for the primary time.
“One of the vital profitable tv sequence ever made, The Adventures of Black Magnificence’s profitable mixture of appeal, interval element and delicate peril thrilled viewers the world over – and 5 a long time later it nonetheless stays a benchmark manufacturing in kids’s tv,” stated a spokesman for Community Distributing Restricted, the corporate behind the re-release.
“That includes scripts by Richard Carpenter, Victor Pemberton and David Butler, amongst others, this sequence guest-starred John Thaw, Geoffrey Bayldon, Peter Bowles, Mike Pratt, Jack Shepherd, Stuart Damon, Lesley Dunlop and Gerald Flood.”
The sequence, which differs from Anna Sewell’s authentic story, follows physician James Gordon as he strikes from London to the nation.
As his two kids discover 5 Oaks, they discover an exhausted, wounded horse. They turn out to be very hooked up to Black Magnificence as they nurse him again to well being – so it comes as a shock when his proprietor tries to reclaim him.
The discharge contains new interviews, together with with Judi Bowker, Stephen Garlick and director John Reardon.
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