National Velvet (TV series)

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National Velvet was a 1960 television series starring Lori Martin as Velvet Brown who lives on a dairy farm with her parents, Martha and Herbert, an ex-jockey, Mi Taylor, her brother Donald, and her sister Edwina (who had a boyfriend called Teddy). Velvet owned a thoroughbred stallion named King which she hoped would one day run in the Grand National Steeplechase. The show ran for 54 episodes between 1960 and 1962 (at 8pm on Sunday evenings) and critics and audiences were extravagant in their praise for Martin’s performances. The show was axed by NBC in 1962 due to the enormous popularity of the competing CBS show, The Ed Sullivan Show.