National Velvet

- Season 1

(1960)

Velvet sets up a raffle to save a horse named The Pie from being slaughtered. So she rides the Pie in the junior steeplechase competition and wins riding bareback.

King is being broken to the saddle but Velvet wants to break him without using the whip like the professional trainer do.

Chip, a troubled kid from the city, has been mistreating King but Velvet want's to help him.

Marilyn Winters' wants to buy King so her father tries purchase him from the Brown's but Herbert won't sell him. So Marilyn trick Velvet into showing King at the club knowing that because Velvet isn't a member she cannot ride him in the show, only Marilyn can.

Velvet sister Edwina has an army-bound boyfriend who she's sneaking out of the house to have a last visit with him.

A drought causes the well to go dry, then the water well pump stops working from no rain. Velvet even offers to sell King.

Velvet's sister Edwina canary dies while in Donald care and he's suffering from guilt.

Mrs. Sinclair's pretty niece comes over for visit where Mi becomes smitten with her and Velvet becomes very jealous.

Mr. Brown need's a new generator but he just can't afford it because he's already pledged the last $100 in his savings for getting his wife a new coat for their anniversary, so Velvet tries to raise the money.

Mr. Brown's truck breaks down so he hooks King up to pull a cart which Velvet blames' for King's subsequent injury.

The Brown Family is going to have a BBQ and Edwina invites Teddy and his father who is the principal of their High School. Edwina wants everything to be perfect so Mi gets Teddy's father to relax with Herbert's Elderberry Wine. Teddy even starts helping the Brown's with the milking.

Malcome Porter who drives the milk wagon with his horse Whitey gets laid off from the dairy and has to find a place to retire his old horse. Velvet volunteers to keep the horse on the farm but Whitey does not want to retire yet.

Donald has no one to play with so he creates an imaginary a friend and calls him Willy. Donald decides to leaves and takes King with him, then hides him. Soon a new boy who's named is Willy shows up.

Edwina falls for a big-talking college boy, who seems to be good at everything. This really annoys' Velvet and Teddy.

Edwina comes home and tells the family that her friend Holly Baker's father is building a new Quarter Horse ranch.

At the County Fair Martha wins the Blue Ribbon for her jam, soon a salesman comes to the farm to buy her receipe and sell it nationwide. Herbert gets upset because they will make lots of money and won't need the farm anymore.

Velvet decides to enter King in an upcoming steeplechase competition but Mi's advice against it.

Because Edwina forgets to get the books that Teddy needs for an upcoming exam, he does not take her to the dance.

Velvet has found out that King has sired a colt with another family's mare who are moving away and they want to find him a good home for the colt. Mi and Velvet take the colt back to the farm but King does not want him around.

Velvet's little brother Donald finds a stray calf on the Brown farm and wants to raise it as a pet instead of selling it.

Marilyn is having a jumping race with Velvet but when her groom tells Mi that the beautiful white horse she's riding better jumper than King he tries calls off the race. Velvet decides she wants to race anyway just to win.

With a brush fire getting too close to the Brown farm Herbert and Mi have to go and try and put it out, but in a panic King escapes from his paddock. Then a wolf runs into the barn to escape from the fire.

John Oliver Hadley and his over protective mother, Helen move in next door to the Brown Farm. John rides King without permission then falls off and his mother tries to get the horse put to sleep for being mean.

Velvet's Grandpa comes over for a family visit and after seeing her riding King suggests that they should ride in the up coming Grand National steeplechase competition.

The Brown's neighbor tries to cover the fact that their cows are sick with Foot and Mouth disease that Mi claims they have.

Edwina and Velvet are overjoyed when a forthcoming beauty contest causes the sisters to become involved together in the activities.

Two men come to the Brown Farm claiming King is really Highland Star, a horse that was stolen from Randolph Stables and they have papers to prove it.

Mi's former employer, Wilbur Gray, comes to the Brown Farm wanting to lease King from Velvet to compete on the Racing Circuit and even offers Mi the job of taking care of the horse.

To earn money for new jumping saddle Velvet get's job teaching a spoiled rich kid named Bradley Walton III how to ride.

Velvet's Grandfather returns to the Brown Farm believing there's oil on the property that he starts drilling for it all over the place.

Mi's adult cousin Leona who he has never seen shows up from Ireland to marry him because an old family arrangement by his Father.

Production Engineer, Harrison Willobee, who is also an Efficiency Expert from the Winters Dairy is sent to the Brown's Farm to see if they are handling their milking business properly.