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The Adventures of The Black Stallion: The Complete First Season

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I am so excited about them finally releasing this wonderful series on DVD. This Series shows Beautiful scenes of Horses and Race Tracks. It also stars two Wonderful actors. Richard Ian Cox (Inuyasha) and Mickey Rooney (The Black Stallion Movie). It will be nice to finally have the Series on a clear screen. I am counting down the days till the 5th!!!This is a must have for any one who LOVES Horses...^_^

I was so glad to find out this series has finally been released on DVD (though disappointed the company refused to allowed TVShowsOnDVD to announce it or even list the released on their site). This is a great show I grew up watching on the Family Channel and I can still remember so many episodes from it. A great classic for all ages, which is a rarity in this age of nothing but toilet humor and stupid pranks.

Despite the lack of features, on the whole this is a great release. The audio and visual are great. It has closed captions, though not as a language track so you'll have to activate them with your TV instead. The embossed cover is really nice. My only disappointment is that the chapter stops are very meager. You can only jump from episode to episode rather than scene to scene. You can't even skip the opening sequence. While it is a nice song, after 26 episodes it can get tiring.

Still, I highly recommend this release as well as the season two set that is out. I hope they will release season 3 to finish out the series, and maybe follow up with Rin Tin Tin K-9 Cop (which aired together with this show and I believe was made by the same company)

I watched this as a little kid and was very excited to see it had come out on DVD. I'm a big time horse lover and watched all 4 DVD over a span of two days :). If you are a horse lover this is a must have. I can't wait for seasons 2 and 3 to come out!!!! Anyone have any ideas on when that will be????

I'm writing this before the DVDs are even released because I was a huge fan of this show when it aired on television. This is a great show loosely based on the books by Walter Farley. Though it pulls details more from the movie than the book (main fact that comes to mind is concerning Alec's father) Still it's a great series, and I will be estatic to finally own it.

I have been in love with The Black Stallion since I was a little kid. I watched this show as a child when it aired on the Family Channel back in the 90s and loved it then. I was so excited when the first season came out on DVD and I received it for Christmas. I'm an adult now, and I still love the series. I can hardly wait for the rest of it to come out on DVD.

WOW! I'm so excited. This is a wonderful series. Good, clean entertainment for the entire family. It starrs the great Mickey Rooney. Reprising his role as Henry Daily from his Academy Award performance in The Black Stallion movie. I'm so glad this is finally coming to DVD.
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this was a great series but amazon left out a very important part of this show. the main actor is MICKEY ROONEY. i dont know how they missed it.

I read all the black stallion books over and over growing up. I liked the movies okay. But this series is a travesty! I've watched six eps of the first series and have yet to see a race (and it's not as if it starts where the book did). They talk about racing; they seem to be on the fair circuit, which is a huge problem for me. The acting is horrible. They yell at each other all the time. Alec is unbelievable. Mickey Rooney makes William Shatner's Denny Crane look restrained. Every plot is like an after school special. This is not the black stallion and Alec Ramsey I grew up with and I'm not going to bother to finish this series because I'm so disappointed. Buyer beware.

1.Very LOOSELY based on Walter Farley's book and set in 1990's. The original book was published in 1941 and the premise that a horse while obviously an extremely well bred animally with predominately Arabian bloodlines but with no papers could be raced on any thoroughbred circuit does not update to the 1990's.
2.Old TV shows are not made to be viewed multiple times or on a large screen, so that plays into the lack of quality: acting, production, directing, use of stock footage.
3. The biggest problem in this series is The Black is the lead character, and they never established a strong lead character: A) Suspension of all reality: They used so many different horses to portray The Black, sometimes different horses in back to back scenes. Sorry, but horse lovers are going to know the difference between breeds, and I swear in one episode they had a huge Thoroughbred MARE and a few scenes later a Friesian!! I'm pretty sure they were using black dye on bays, and half the time the horses still looked brown anyway. B)The Black was a huge personality and had a special bond with Alec. There was no effort made to find a horse to bond with the actor to portray The Black.