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
DatesOct 21, 1979 - Apr 13, 1980
Episodes
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.
Oct 21, 1979
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.
Oct 28, 1979
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
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
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
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
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.
Dec 2, 1979
Season 1Episode 830 min
Devil's Gorge
Kit helps a woman search for her husband, who has disappeared in Devil's Gorge.
Dec 9, 1979
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.
Dec 16, 1979
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.
Dec 23, 1979
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.
Dec 30, 1979
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
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
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
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
Season 1Episode 1630 min
Wilderness Photographer
Kit helps a young woman search for her father, a somewhat absent-minded wildlife photographer.
Feb 1, 1980
Season 1Episode 1730 min
Sport of Kings
A boy hopes to clear his father's debts by winning a horse race.
Feb 8, 1980
Season 1Episode 1830 min
Skiba the Bear
Matt meets Skiba, the evil bear of Indian legends that no man can kill.
Feb 15, 1980
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
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
Season 1Episode 2130 min
Frontier Justice
Kit, accused of murdering a slave trader, is to be tried by a "hanging judge".
Mar 7, 1980
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.
Mar 14, 1980
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).
Mar 21, 1980
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.
Mar 28, 1980
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
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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