Meg assumes control of Plumfield. Asia considers dropping out to run a restaurant.

Nan and Nat find saddlebags full of money on the banks of a stream.

Jo finds out that Nick can't read. The students are tasked with doing a good deed in order to learn the meaning of the word Philanthropy.

As Thanksgiving nears Amy decides that doesn't want her daughter in school with boys. Nick decides to return to the sea.

An old friend of Dan turns up at the school and asks Dan to leave with him.

Josephine (Jo) Bhaer and her husband Fritz have run a boarding school for boys for several years. Now that Fritz has died everyone assumes that Jo will close the school. When Nick, a sailor home from the sea, hires on as handyman, Jo sees that there is a chance to keep the school open.

When Nat wants to enter a father son ski race with Nick as his surrogate fathers, Jo must teach Nick to ski.

An older boy is attracted to Bess; Nick's hesitation leads Jo to accept a date with an old nemesis.

Melancholy Jo awaits her birthday, questioning the choices she has made.

Nick is accused of killing a gambler to whom Ben owes money.

Nan plagiarizes one of Nat's essays. Laurie joins a poker game.

Amy moves to Plumfield. Dan befriends a native american and goes on a vision quest of his own.

Popular opinion turns against Jo when a boy breaks his leg.

Nan, Nat and Tommy seek the grave of the legendary ghost, the Lantern Man.

After Jo's carriage overturns, Nick searches for her; Dan is left in charge of the children.

Nick and Dan track a lion that escaped from a traveling circus; Nat plays violin in a talent competition.

Meg is attracted to a friend of Laurie's. Dan and Bess are paired on a science project.

Asia's estranged father attempts a reconciliation; another woman pursues Nick.

Jo becomes withdrawn after being robbed. Franz receives disturbing news from Isabel.

Nick's charming brother is pursued by gamblers to whom he owes money.

Prejudice finds some unlikely allies when a poor black family arrives at Plumfield.

Franz is smitten with a brassy boarding house maid.

Nick and the children discover a battered pregnant woman in the forest.

Jo becomes a suffragist; Dr. Pierce urges Nan to become a nurse.

A dangerous measles epidemic breaks out at the school.