National Velvet (TV series)

*National Velvet*
National Velvet
	James McCallion as the ex-jockey Mi Taylor with the horse King (1960)
Genre	Drama
Directed by	Rudolph E. Abel; Abner Biberman; Harry Keller; Anton M. Leader; Frank McDonald; Gerald Schnitzer; Victor Stoloff
Starring	Lori Martin; Ann Doran; Arthur Space; Carole Wells; Joey Scott
Theme music composer	Robert Armbruster
Composers	Frank E. Anderson; Alexander Courage
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	2
No. of episodes	58
Production
Executive producer	Robert Maxwell
Producer	Rudolph E. Abel
Cinematography	Lucien Andriot; Stuart Thompson
Running time	22–24 minutes
Production company	MGM Television
Original release
Network	NBC
Release	September 18, 1960 –; September 17, 1962

National Velvet is an American drama series that originally aired from 1960 to 1962 on NBC. Based on the novel and film of the same name, the series ran for a total of fifty-eight episodes.

Synopsis

National Velvet stars Lori Martin as Velvet Brown, a girl who lives on a dairy farm with her parents, Martha (Ann Doran) and Herbert Brown (Arthur Space), an ex-jockey Mi Taylor, played by Scottish actor James McCallion (1918-1991), her brother, Donald (Joey Scott), and sister, Edwina (Carole Wells). Velvet owned a thoroughbred stallion named King which she hoped would one day run in the Grand National Steeplechase.

Guest stars

Production notes

First aired at 8 p.m. Eastern on Sunday preceding The Tab Hunter Show and opposite CBS's The Ed Sullivan Show. National Velvet was switched for its second season to 8 p.m. Monday opposite CBS's sitcom Pete and Gladys, starring Harry Morgan and Cara Williams, and the last half of ABC's Cheyenne western series starring Clint Walker.

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