Fury - Black stallion on the live-action Saturday morning western adventure FURY/NBC/1955-60 (rerun in 1966). Fury belonged to an orphaned boy named Joey (Bobby Diamond) who lived at the Broken Wheel Ranch with his foster father, Jim Newton (Peter Graves) and his ranch hand Pete (William Fawcett). Joey was given Fury to teach him responsibility. The program began with the narrator proclaiming "Fury!...the story of a horse and the boy who loves him."

In reality, Fury was a black American Saddlehorse from Missouri. Trained by Ralph McCutcheon, Fury responded to both hand and voice commands/signals. Originally named Highland Dale, Fury has also been called Beauty and Gypsy.

Fury debuted in the movie Black Beauty (1946), a screen adaptation of Anna Sewell's novel and later was featured in Lone Star (1952), Johnny Guitar (1954), Gypsy Colt (1955), Giant (1957), and Wild is the Wind (1958).

 

Fury was raised/trained by Ralph McCutcheon, the same trainer of both the Lone Ranger's "Silver" and the Cisco Kid's "Diablo." In 1960-61 Fury was recipient of the PATSY Award for outstanding performances in a TV series.

Born March 4, 1943 (Sire: Liberty Dale; Dam: Marian Highland), Fury died at the age of 29 years.

TRIVIA NOTE: According to the book The Gentle Jungle (1980) by Toni Ringo Helfer, Fury much older and mistreated was sold by a cowboy to Helfer and his wife who owned Africa, USA an animal preserve in Southern California. However, according to the Fury web site Broken Wheel Ranch, the stories of Fury being mistreated are erroneous. They point out (based on a photo comparison) that the real Fury was well cared for and that the horse in question referenced in the book was one of the several other horses used as Fury during the series production.