Who wrote the book 'Black Beauty?
The Adventures of Black Beauty 1980s. In July 2009, Retro Television Network picked up all 104 episodes of "The Adventures of Black Beauty" and "The New Adventures of Black Beauty", and affiliates began airing the show, listing both shows as simply "Black Beauty". The series was not an adaptation of the book by Anna Sewell, but a "continuation" featuring new characters created by Ted Willis, most prominently Dr James Gordon, played by William Lucas, and his children Vicky, played by Judi Bowker (who became Jenny, played by Stacy Dorning, in the second series) and Kevin, played by Roderick Shaw (at the beginning of the "New
Black Beauty of the novel is still very much recognised today. Writing in the "Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare", Bernard Unti calls "Black Beauty" "the most influential anticruelty novel of all time". Comparisons have also been made between "Black Beauty" and the most important social protest novel in the United States, "Uncle Tom's Cabin", by Harriet Beecher Stowe, on account of the strong degree of outrage and protest action that both novels triggered in society. The book has been adapted into film and television several times, including: "Black Beauty" was adapted for the stage in 2011 by playwright James Stone.