Season 1

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  Search For A New Home

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 10/21/1979

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Thunder and Lightning Birds

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 10/28/1979

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Bellinis

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/1979

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Long Return

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/1979

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Whirlwind Voice

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/1979

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Test for the Tanners

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/1979

  A wilderness survival test becomes reality when Jenny loses her way in the forest and Matt is trapped in an abandoned mine.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  A Call to Arms

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/1979

  On the road, Matt, Jenny and Cardston meet a young homesteader who is about to give birth, and whose husband is a suspected deserter.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Devil's Gorge

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/1979

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Mast

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/1979

  In search of a tree for a ship's mast. Matt, Jenny and an absent-minded sea captain lose their way in the woods.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Fiddle Joe and The Devil Himself

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 12/23/1979

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 12/30/1979

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Teacher

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 1/4/1980

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Barnabus Bletcher

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 1/11/1980

  Matt and Jenny help a peddler when a pair of hoodlums try to steal his belongings and his performing bear.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Wolf Howl at Kennebec Cliff

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 1/18/1980

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Ceremony at Whispering Pines

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/25/1980

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Wilderness Photographer

  Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 2/1/1980

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Sport of Kings

  Season 1 Episode 17 - Aired 2/8/1980

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Skiba the Bear

  Season 1 Episode 18 - Aired 2/15/1980

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (1)

  Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/22/1980

  Jenny and Cardston try to stop a shady book publisher from making off with a writer's latest manuscript.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (2)

  Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/29/1980

  Cardston engineers a mock trial to scare a disreputable book publisher into mending his evil ways.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Frontier Justice

  Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 3/7/1980

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  A Woman's Place

  Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/14/1980

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Actress

  Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/21/1980

  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).

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Mystery of the Pikes

  Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/28/1980

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

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  The Highlanders

  Season 1 Episode 25 - Aired 4/6/1980

  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.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown

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  Wagon Train West

  Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/13/1980

  Jake Winfield and his daughter Ann are left behind when their wagon is unable to keep up with the wagon train.

  Director: Unknown

  Writer: Unknown