This is the toy that served me when I played “Fury”
A 1950s American middle-class childhood–I wouldn’t trade it for gold.
Fury was a long-running TV show about an orphan boy, a horse nobody wanted, and the healing power of love.
If you showed up in Hollywood with a script like this today, they’d think you’d lost your mind. Or they’d buy it and then find some way to make it dirty.
But for those of us who knew and loved this show, way back when, the memories are sweet.
(Thanks to Linda for reminding me of this great old TV show.)
It’s almost inconceivable that a kids’ TV show like Fury would be made today: the story of a troubled orphaned boy and a wild, untameable horse–and how the boy and the horse bring love and healing to each other.
This show, starring a young and not-yet-famous Peter Graves ( Mission: Impossible), took off in 1955 and ran until the child star, Bobby Diamond, started shaving. Looking in my box of toy animals, I find I have an awful lot of horses, especially shiny black ones: Fury surrogates, one and all.
Go ahead, tell me the kids’ stuff that we’ve got now is better.
I won’t believe you.