Adventures in Rainbow Country - Season 1

Adventures in Rainbow Country - Season 1

Season 1

Lois Maxwell portrayed "Nancy Williams," a widow and mother living with her two teenagers, Billy and Hanna, in a secluded Lake Huron cove. Maxwell, famous for her role as Miss Moneypenny in the James Bond films, anchored the drama. The series focused on the adventures of Billy and his Ojibway friend Pete in the northern Ontario wilderness. It was a collaborative international effort involving Manitou Productions, CBC, Television Films Ltd. (Britain), and ABC Films (Britain) alongside the Australian Broadcasting Commission.
Network
Episodes26
DatesSep 20, 1970 - Mar 28, 1971

Episodes

La Chute
Season 1Episode 130 min

La Chute

Father Corbin is the leader of a modern voyageur organization determined to prove that an early explorer could have navigated the dangerous rapids of La Chute.

Sep 20, 1970
The Tower
Season 1Episode 230 min

The Tower

While Pete and Billy are fishing, Hannah climbs a forest ranger's observation tower, but panics at the top and can't get down.

Sep 27, 1970
The Frank Williams' File
Season 1Episode 330 min

The Frank Williams' File

A man is obsessed with the story of Billy's father and comes to the lodge to relive the accounts he has read.

Oct 4, 1970
Skydiver
Season 1Episode 430 min

Skydiver

When skydiving champion Jack Sheldon becomes nervous during the filming of a movie Billy, who has made 80 jumps, offers to take his place.

Oct 11, 1970
The Kid from Spanish Harlem
Season 1Episode 530 min

The Kid from Spanish Harlem

A social worker from New York City arrives at the Williams' lodge with a group of boys from the city slums. The toughest of the boys, Rico, causes trouble for Billy and Pete when they go to explore an abandoned mine.

Oct 18, 1970
Panic in the Bush
Season 1Episode 630 min

Panic in the Bush

Billy deals with a strange malady, bush panic, which fills him with fear and confusion.

Oct 25, 1970
Long, Tough Race
Season 1Episode 730 min

Long, Tough Race

The big 10-mile race at Whitefish Falls is about to begin and the town is betting on its own John Onaman, a runner of great endurance. But John is worried about his sick sister.

Nov 1, 1970
Town That Died
Season 1Episode 830 min

Town That Died

Roger Lemieux arrives in Bourke's Creek to do a story about the town whose industry died when its mine was closed. But he encounters hostility from the townspeople.

Nov 8, 1970
Eye of the Needle
Season 1Episode 930 min

Eye of the Needle

After a near accident with his Great Lakes tug, it looks as if Dougal MacGregor may be losing his eyesight. But the stubborn old codger won't admit he's having recurrent blurred vision.

Nov 15, 1970
Girl on a Tightrope
Season 1Episode 1030 min

Girl on a Tightrope

A clown performing with a travelling circus passing through Espanola sees a picture of Hannah and believes she is his dead daughter come to life.

Nov 22, 1970
The Return of Eli Roqcue
Season 1Episode 1130 min

The Return of Eli Roqcue

Two years ago Eli Rocque accompanied Billy's father on a plane into the bush from which neither returned. Now he is back and the whole community is alive with speculation. But Eli seems to be under a spell. Can he tell what he knows about the past? Is Billy's father still alive?

Nov 29, 1970
Roar of the Hornet
Season 1Episode 1230 min

Roar of the Hornet

Garage owner Wilbur Massey, a man with a passion for fast sports cars, takes on a helper, Vince, a motorcyclist.

Dec 6, 1970
Lac du Diable
Season 1Episode 1330 min

Lac du Diable

Roger Lemieux is assigned to do a photo story about mysterious Lac Du Diable, a remote body of water with a reputation for evil.

Dec 13, 1970
The Muskies Have Lost Their Teeth
Season 1Episode 1430 min

The Muskies Have Lost Their Teeth

A man with an illustrious past in swimming takes his son musky fishing and learns about fatherhood.

Dec 20, 1970
Milk Run
Season 1Episode 1530 min

Milk Run

An escaped convict forces Dennis and Billy to divert their scheduled course to Sudbury and fly him to the U.S. border. However, a violent storm forces Dennis to make an emergency landing and he is injured during the crash. The young convict is forced to make an agonizing choice: Can he let a man die to save his own skin?

Dec 27, 1970
Wall of Silence
Season 1Episode 1630 min

Wall of Silence

The army try to find a lost box, accidentally dropped into a lake. Billy and Pete find a shroud of secrecy must be maintained because the box contains valuable information which is vital to the safety of the free world.

Jan 3, 1971
Where the Rice Grows Wild
Season 1Episode 1730 min

Where the Rice Grows Wild

There is a frantic air-ground search for two Indians who have stolen some food and gone into the bush because it is discovered that the canned salmon they took with them is tainted with fatal poison.

Jan 10, 1971
The Bird Watchers
Season 1Episode 1830 min

The Bird Watchers

A pretty young French girl comes to stay with the Williams and some young punks in town try to pick her up at the local bar where Billy's band is playing.

Jan 17, 1971
The Boy Who Loved Animals
Season 1Episode 1930 min

The Boy Who Loved Animals

As Dennis and Billy guide an expert hunter on a trip into the bush, the man's son keeps trying to sabotage the hunter's efforts.

Jan 24, 1971
Mystery at Whaleback Bay
Season 1Episode 2030 min

Mystery at Whaleback Bay

Dougal's tug is hired by two men posing as divers searching for a Great Lakes wreck but who are really after stolen jewelry cached on the lake bottom by the thieves after a Montreal robbery.

Jan 31, 1971
Night Caller
Season 1Episode 2130 min

Night Caller

Billy and Pete bypass the police and conduct their own investigation into a case of vandalism of the Williams' lodge, which leads to a dangerous midnight confrontation.

Feb 7, 1971
Lake on Blue Mountain
Season 1Episode 2230 min

Lake on Blue Mountain

Those two intrepid fishermen, Billy and Pete, hike into the mountains to visit their secret fishing place - a jewel-like lake filled with fine pike. To their amazement, they find that the fish are dying and it appears that bush pilot Dennis Mogubgub has something to do with it. Horrified, the boys try to trap and remove the fish to another lake before it's too late to save them. That's when they learn a lesson in conservation.

Feb 14, 1971
Stolen Tugboat
Season 1Episode 2330 min

Stolen Tugboat

Dougal MacGregor's aging tugboat goes on the blink. As he and Billy leave the boat to buy some new parts, a sailor from an Iron Curtain ship deserts and steals the ailing tug.

Mar 7, 1971
The Hermit
Season 1Episode 2430 min

The Hermit

Pete, Billy and Roger run into trouble with a hermit who mistakes them for hostile intruders.

Mar 14, 1971
Pursuit Along the Aux Sauble
Season 1Episode 2530 min

Pursuit Along the Aux Sauble

Billy and Pete are on a guiding expedition when they discover strange signs along the trail. Following these clues, they discover an embittered man has kidnapped a wealthy boy and is holding him for ransom in the bush.

Mar 21, 1971
Dreamer's Rock
Season 1Episode 2630 min

Dreamer's Rock

A mining company wants the rights to "Dreamer's Rock" but the local Indian band won't go for it. The businessman's plan to destroy the sacred Indian rock revives Pete's distrust of the white man's ways.

Mar 28, 1971

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