8.7/10 15 votes#1 - Family Business
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 9/24/1999
Meg assumes control of Plumfield. Asia considers dropping out to run a restaurant.
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- 8.6/10 12 votes
#2 - Philanthropy
Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/2/1999
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.
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- 8.6/10 12 votes
#3 - For Love or Money
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 11/12/1999
Nan and Nat find saddlebags full of money on the banks of a stream.
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- 8.5/10 15 votes
#4 - Tough Choices
Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/28/1998
An old friend of Dan turns up at the school and asks Dan to leave with him.
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- 8.4/10 18 votes
#5 - Thanksgiving
Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/21/1998
As Thanksgiving nears Amy decides that doesn't want her daughter in school with boys. Nick decides to return to the sea.
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- 8.3/10 24 votes
#6 - Changes
Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/7/1998
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.
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- 8.3/10 12 votes
#7 - Father Figure
Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/20/1999
When Nat wants to enter a father son ski race with Nick as his surrogate fathers, Jo must teach Nick to ski.
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- 8.3/10 14 votes
#8 - Stepping Out
Season 2 Episode 2 - Aired 9/3/1999
An older boy is attracted to Bess; Nick's hesitation leads Jo to accept a date with an old nemesis.
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- 8.3/10 11 votes
#9 - The Sign
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1999
Melancholy Jo awaits her birthday, questioning the choices she has made.
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- 8.3/10 11 votes
#10 - Home for Christmas
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 12/17/1999
Nick is accused of killing a gambler to whom Ben owes money.
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- 8.2/10 12 votes
#11 - Bluffing
Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/16/1999
Nan plagiarizes one of Nat's essays. Laurie joins a poker game.
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- 8.2/10 13 votes
#12 - Blame
Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/6/1999
After Jo's carriage overturns, Nick searches for her; Dan is left in charge of the children.
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- 8.2/10 12 votes
#13 - Looking Forward
Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/6/1999
Amy moves to Plumfield. Dan befriends a native american and goes on a vision quest of his own.
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- 8.2/10 13 votes
#14 - Civil Disobedience
Season 2 Episode 1 - Aired 8/27/1999
Popular opinion turns against Jo when a boy breaks his leg.
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- 8.2/10 15 votes
#15 - The Lantern Man
Season 2 Episode 8 - Aired 10/29/1999
Nan, Nat and Tommy seek the grave of the legendary ghost, the Lantern Man.
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- 8.0/10 11 votes
#16 - Dangerous Lessons
Season 2 Episode 3 - Aired 9/10/1999
Nick and Dan track a lion that escaped from a traveling circus; Nat plays violin in a talent competition.
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- 7.9/10 11 votes
#17 - Coming Attractions
Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 1/30/1999
Meg is attracted to a friend of Laurie's. Dan and Bess are paired on a science project.
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- 7.9/10 12 votes
#18 - The Living Years
Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/13/1999
Asia's estranged father attempts a reconciliation; another woman pursues Nick.
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- 7.9/10 15 votes
#19 - Leap of Faith
Season 2 Episode 6 - Aired 10/1/1999
Jo becomes withdrawn after being robbed. Franz receives disturbing news from Isabel.
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- 7.9/10 11 votes
#20 - Brothers and Sisters
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 10/15/1999
Nick's charming brother is pursued by gamblers to whom he owes money.
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- 7.8/10 15 votes
#21 - Emancipation
Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 12/5/1998
Prejudice finds some unlikely allies when a poor black family arrives at Plumfield.
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- 7.7/10 12 votes
#22 - Opposites Attract
Season 2 Episode 4 - Aired 9/17/1999
Franz is smitten with a brassy boarding house maid.
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- 7.6/10 15 votes
#23 - The Christmas Angel
Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 12/12/1998
Nick and the children discover a battered pregnant woman in the forest.
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- 7.6/10 14 votes
#24 - The Weaker Sex
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/5/1999
Jo becomes a suffragist; Dr. Pierce urges Nan to become a nurse.
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- 7.5/10 19 votes
#25 - Quarantine
Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 11/14/1998
A dangerous measles epidemic breaks out at the school.
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Top Episode Ratings Summary
The best episode of "Little Men" is "Family Business", rated 8.7/10 from 15 user votes. It was directed by N/A and written by N/A. "Family Business" aired on 9/24/1999 and is rated 0.1 point(s) higher than the second highest rated, "Philanthropy".