Matt and Jenny - Season 1

Matt and Jenny - Season 1

Season 1

"Matt and Jenny" not only aired in Canada but was also sold to Italy, France, and West Germany. Primarily Canadian, the show occasionally featured U.S. guest stars and animals like Hollywood wolves and bears, along with an elephant from Ohio.
Network
DatesOkt. 21, 1979 - Apr. 13, 1980

Episodes

Search for a New Home
Season 1Episode 130 min

Search for a New Home

After the death of their father, Matt and Jenny and their mother leave England for Nova Scotia only to encounter another tragedy- their mother dies of typhoid while at sea. The children fear that the captain will return them to England or else place them in an orphan's home in Montreal. They escape in Halifax but are falsely accused of theft. Adam Cardston comes to their rescue, offering to take them to their uncle's farm.
Okt. 21, 1979
Thunder and Lightning Birds
Season 1Episode 230 min

Thunder and Lightning Birds

Cardston, helped by Matt and Jenny, races against time to save the life of a seriously injured lumberjack. The Tanners meet Kit, a young man of the wilderness who helps them survive a forest fire and save the life of the man with a broken leg. Lebelle: Yvon Barrett.
Okt. 28, 1979
The Bellinis
Season 1Episode 330 min

The Bellinis

Matt and Jenny hitch a ride with a circus family, who are believed to be thieves and are being pursued by a man and haunted by series of mysterious accidents. Bellini: Cameron Mitchell.
Nov. 4, 1979
The Long Return
Season 1Episode 430 min

The Long Return

With Cardston's help. Matt and Jenny hope to find their lost relatives at a mysterious religious community. Reverend Hawthorne: Keenan Wynn. Pioneer Woman: Kay Hawtrey.
Nov. 11, 1979
The Whirlwind Voice
Season 1Episode 530 min

The Whirlwind Voice

Matt, Jenny and Kit help an Indian chief's adopted son search for his real parents. Takomis: Michael Ansara. Cokah: Lewis Dubrofsky. William: Ken James.
Nov. 18, 1979
Test for Tanners
Season 1Episode 630 min

Test for Tanners

A wilderness survival test becomes reality when Jenny loses her way in the forest and Matt is trapped in an abandoned mine.
Nov. 25, 1979
A Call to Arms
Season 1Episode 730 min

A Call to Arms

On the road, Matt, Jenny and Cardston meet a young homesteader who is about to give birth, and whose husband is a suspected deserter.
Dez. 2, 1979
Devil's Gorge
Season 1Episode 830 min

Devil's Gorge

Kit helps a woman search for her husband, who has disappeared in Devil's Gorge.
Dez. 9, 1979
The Mast
Season 1Episode 930 min

The Mast

In search of a tree for a ship's mast. Matt, Jenny and an absent-minded sea captain lose their way in the woods.
Dez. 16, 1979
Fiddle Joe and the Devil Himself
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Fiddle Joe and the Devil Himself

Kit, Matt and Jenny help a trapper who fears that his former friend is putting a curse on him for marrying the woman they both courted.
Dez. 23, 1979
Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp
Season 1Episode 1130 min

Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp

While Matt and Jenny are on their way to meet Kit, they hear strange, unearthly cries in the swamp. They lose their way while trying to solve the mystery.
Dez. 30, 1979
The Teacher
Season 1Episode 1230 min

The Teacher

In their further pursuit of the Tanner's relatives, Matt, Jenny and Adam Cardston visit a school-house and are introduced to the schoolteacher. She is overcome by Jenny's interest and intelligence and Mr. Cardston's worldly charms.
Jan. 4, 1980
Barnabus Bletcher
Season 1Episode 1330 min

Barnabus Bletcher

Matt and Jenny help a peddler when a pair of hoodlums try to steal his belongings and his performing bear.
Jan. 11, 1980
Wolf Howl at Kennebec Cliff
Season 1Episode 1430 min

Wolf Howl at Kennebec Cliff

The Tanners and Kit stop at Kennebec Cliff and learn about the trouble a man and his wife have been having with a pack of wolves.
Jan. 18, 1980
Ceremony at Whispering Pines
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Ceremony at Whispering Pines

The sound of drums draws Cardston, Matt and Jenny to the site of a secret Indian ceremony. Cardston is intent on helping the Indian tribe in order to cure the chief's son.
Jan. 25, 1980
Wilderness Photographer
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Wilderness Photographer

Kit helps a young woman search for her father, a somewhat absent-minded wildlife photographer.
Feb. 1, 1980
Sport of Kings
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Sport of Kings

A boy hopes to clear his father's debts by winning a horse race.
Feb. 8, 1980
Skiba the Bear
Season 1Episode 1830 min

Skiba the Bear

Matt meets Skiba, the evil bear of Indian legends that no man can kill.
Feb. 15, 1980
Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (1)
Season 1Episode 1930 min

Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (1)

Jenny and Cardston try to stop a shady book publisher from making off with a writer's latest manuscript.
Feb. 22, 1980
Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (2)
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (2)

Cardston engineers a mock trial to scare a disreputable book publisher into mending his evil ways.
Feb. 29, 1980
Frontier Justice
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Frontier Justice

Kit, accused of murdering a slave trader, is to be tried by a "hanging judge".
März 7, 1980
A Woman's Place
Season 1Episode 2230 min

A Woman's Place

Kit, Matt and Jenny try to help a women's rights activist escape from a band of angry men out to tar and feather her.
März 14, 1980
The Actress
Season 1Episode 2330 min

The Actress

The threat of Matt and Jenny being split up materializes when Matt and Cardston are offered leading roles in a New York play by a beautiful actress (Dina Merrill).
März 21, 1980
Mystery of the Pikes
Season 1Episode 2430 min

Mystery of the Pikes

Matt and Jenny are held prisoner by an evil-minded farmer who claims he's seen their relatives.
März 28, 1980
The Highlanders
Season 1Episode 2530 min

The Highlanders

Jenny and Cardston get involved when a young Scottish couple's marriage plans are stymied by the girls father, who refuses to forget an ancient feud between the two families.
Apr. 6, 1980
Wagon Train West
Season 1Episode 2630 min

Wagon Train West

Jake Winfield and his daughter Ann are left behind when their wagon is unable to keep up with the wagon train.
Apr. 13, 1980

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