Matt and Jenny

S1 E1 - 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.

Oct 21, 1979 • 30m

S1 E2 - 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.

Oct 28, 1979 • 30m

S1 E3 - 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 • 30m

S1 E4 - 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 • 30m

S1 E5 - 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 • 30m

S1 E6 - Test for the 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 • 30m

S1 E7 - 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.

Dec 2, 1979 • 30m

S1 E8 - Devil's Gorge

Kit helps a woman search for her husband, who has disappeared in Devil's Gorge.

Dec 9, 1979 • 30m

S1 E9 - 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.

Dec 16, 1979 • 30m

S1 E10 - 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.

Dec 23, 1979 • 30m

S1 E11 - 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.

Dec 30, 1979 • 30m

S1 E12 - 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 • 30m

S1 E13 - 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 • 30m

S1 E14 - 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 • 30m

S1 E15 - 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 • 30m

S1 E16 - Wilderness Photographer

Kit helps a young woman search for her father, a somewhat absent-minded wildlife photographer.

Feb 1, 1980 • 30m

S1 E17 - Sport of Kings

A boy hopes to clear his father's debts by winning a horse race.

Feb 8, 1980 • 30m

S1 E18 - Skiba the Bear

Matt meets Skiba, the evil bear of Indian legends that no man can kill.

Feb 15, 1980 • 30m

S1 E19 - 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 • 30m

S1 E20 - 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 • 30m

S1 E21 - Frontier Justice

Kit, accused of murdering a slave trader, is to be tried by a "hanging judge".

Mar 7, 1980 • 30m

S1 E22 - 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.

Mar 14, 1980 • 30m

S1 E23 - 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).

Mar 21, 1980 • 30m

S1 E24 - Mystery of the Pikes

Matt and Jenny are held prisoner by an evil-minded farmer who claims he's seen their relatives.

Mar 28, 1980 • 30m

S1 E25 - 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 • 30m

S1 E26 - 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 • 30m