High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Adventures of The Black Stallion is a television series that was loosely based on the movies The Black Stallion (1979) and The Black Stallion Returns (1983), which starred Mickey Rooney and Richard Ian Cox, as a trainer and a teenaged horse racer. The series originally ran on The Family Channel from September 15, 1990 to May 16, 1993, before cancellation. It has since been shown in re-runs throughout the world.