My Friend Flicka is a 1941
novel by
Mary O'Hara, about Ken McLaughlin, the son of a
Wyoming rancher, and his
horse Flicka. It was the first in a
trilogy, followed by
Thunderhead (1943) and
Green Grass of Wyoming (1946). The popular
1943 film version featured young
Roddy McDowall. It was followed by two other film adaptations,
Thunderhead, Son of Flicka in 1945, and
Green Grass of Wyoming in 1948, both based on O'Hara's novels. A
television series followed during 1956-1957, that first aired on
CBS, then on
NBC, with reruns on
ABC and on CBS between 1959 and 1966.
The Disney Channel re-ran the program during the mid-1980s too.