the book be tell from the viewpoint of black beauty and and focus primarily on what happen to him and the other animal . if there any story that demand talk animal and then it this one . while they do not have cgi back in the 1970s and they could have do something similar to mr. ed . this show suffer from a major change in focus from the book . it not about black beauty . it about the human in the story and plus some extra character they throw in . it like make a show or movie base on the novel traveller by richard adam and have it focus on general lee . the show be pretty and and the acting be good and but i can not give this show a good rating . a show supposedly base on the novel should actually be about black beauty and not about the parade of human that pass through his life .