All Episodes 1972 - 1990

A millionaire's yacht goes adrift during a storm and beachcomber Nick Adonidas foresees a fortune in salvage. The yacht is found, but aboard her sits Indian teenager Jesse Jim who says he saw her first, and finders keepers.

Nick Adonidas wants Jesse Jim to be his partner. Jesse's uncle wants him to come home. Jesse just wants to be allowed to make up his own mind. And caught in the middle is Molly Carmody, proprietor of "Molly's Reach" cafe, Nick's landlady and Jesse's friend

The successful beachcomber is the man who gets there first, whether it's picking up logs in a storm .or rescuing a novice sailor in trouble. But what can you co when your chief rival starts using a boat that is jet propelled? Nick Adonidas' rival, Ol' Relic, has done just that, and it is the beginning of what looks like very unfair competition.

An anonymous admirer sends Nick a present in honour of Greek Independence Day. When the present turns out to be a bottle of Greece's famous "Ouao", Nick becomes very independent Indeed, and Jesse Jim is first marooned and then deserted to cope with a pair of unhappy pigs they have somehow inherited during their wanderings.

Nick has always loathed the job of building a log boom even though it's the best way for a beachcomber to run his business. Determined to expand the partnership, Jesse Jim and Hugh Carmody persuade Nick to try just once, and Nick and Jesse set off to make their fortune in logs. Hugh is left at home to look after the office. But Hugh has some ideas of his own about building up the business.

Nick wakes up in "Persephone's" cabin to discover that Hugh has disappeared overboard while he's been asleep. Because the boat is drifting he cannot even be sure where it happened. And so the search for Hugh begins, with Nick and Jesse hunting frantically in one direction while a calm and competent Hugh works his way home in another one.

Jesse Jim and Hugh Carmody set out to learn how to fish for salmon from Swede, an old troller man on the verge of retirement who they hope will let them lease his boat. Back at home Nick Adonidas tries his best to find out what's wrong with Swede's wife. They have been married for forty years and she says she is leaving him .

An old abandoned totem pole lies in the undergrowth on one of the islands near Gibsons Landing. But when someone wants to move it and put it up to decorate the front of a new motel, everyone gets into the act. In the course of the action Jesse comes close to becominq a murderer, and Nick succeeds in setting fire to the "Persephone".

(aka: The Miraculous Clam Digging Machine) A fantastic character named Antoine de Roquefort arrives in town aboard a floating marvel he says is a mechanical clam digger. And Nick is offered the chance - without cost - to make a fortune, no strings attached. Who could resist the chance?

A rash of stolen pleasure boats leaves the police puzzled, but both Nick and Jesse Jim figure they can solve the mystery. The problem, the stolen boats literally disappear in the middle of open water.

An abandoned gravel crusher and a row of concrete silos are an irresistible playground for Hugh and Margaret, especially since their grandmother has warned them not to go there. So they make sure no one knows where they are going, and a very dangerous game begins. (Working Title: "Two Shishkebobs")

The beachcombers take over full operation of the cafe for a day when Molly goes to the city. A bus accident deposits thirty elderly ladies at the door, hungry and tired and totally unprepared for a menu that features Greek lemon soup and shishkebabs.

Among the Coast Indians the potlatch is one of the great traditions - a formal giving of gifts in which a man may give away everything he owns. When Jesse Jim decides to throw a potlatch, Molly gets mad, Nick misses a San Francisco holiday, and Jesse has to capture a bear to start the party.

The foreman of the local booming ground has an unusual hobby - he likes firing people. He's fired so many recently that there's no one left to work for him, so Nick can't sell his logs. The obvious solution is for the beachcombers to fill the gap. But it's not a job with much of a future, even when Hugh gets the foreman's job.

When a business venture goes sour, Nick blames the whole- thing on Relic using the evil eye. He warns the kids that the evil eye is catching, but not soon enough. Margaret discovers she already has it, but she can't find the cure. Then Jesse disappears.

Hugh is in love for the first time. But the girl involved doesn't pay much attention to anyone who doesn't belong to the school's most secret society, the Wharf Rats. Hugh finds that their initiation ceremony is worse than losing the girl, but there is no way of backing out.

Someone is deliberately sabotaging Chuck Howes' logging truck and trying to drive him out of business, and it has to be someone working right beside him. Nick and Jesse volunteer to keep him company on what turns out to be a really dangerous ride down five miles of mountain side.

Electric fences, radar installations, and a harbour full of mines are part of the unreal world created by an old man on his private island. When Hugh steps ashore he thinks it's funny for the first thirty seconds, right up to the moment he finds he's staring into a loaded gun.

Sadie is a lady in her forties. She is also a trapper and guide, and the best shot in the country. She claims to have a map for a gold mine, and she'll share the gold if our friends will help. But who believes in lost gold mines? Nick does, for one.

As the captain of a luxury cruiser, Axel Dashwood makes a good cattle rancher, which is what he really is. He loses a propellor at sea, leaves his family adrift and goes to Nick for help. The only problem is he doesn't remember where he left the cruiser.

Relic has been arrested for log stealing, and no one knows who turned him In. Relic worries about it and Nick worries about it. In fact they worry themselves sick about it, and find themselves.in a makeshift hospital ward set up in Nick's bedroom. And that doesn't make either one of them feel any better.

Molly gets a chance for a quiet holiday looking after a nearby boarding kennel, but the quiet is soon disturbed by the combination of two donkeys, a sheep, an abandoned well and Nick's fear of animals.

The beachcombers stumble onto a unique pair of friends - a wolf with a crippled foot and an old man with a crippled mind. They soon find themselves defending the wolf from a group of bounty hunters and the old man from himself.

The local pool hall becomes the centre of.attention when Jesse and Hugh set up as pool sharks. Nick sets out to show them the error of their ways, but the problem is that he plays lousy pool, and can't resist betting.

Dynamite Jim is a legend - the best black powder man who ever blasted a cliff-face without rattling the teacups in the house on top. And it's his last job, to blast a new water channel for the pulp mill. Only Nick and Jesse know that Dynamite Jim is going to make sure it is the last thing he ever does.

Sea Cavalcade is carnival time in the village. Firemen's water fights, log burling, a long distance swimming race and a demolition derby are all parts of this story of the family at Molly's Reach.

Hugh and Margaret's efforts to provide their grandmother with a surprise birthday breakfast result in a fire which destroys the interior of the Reach. Their alarmingly haphazard (but eventually successful) redecorating efforts provide the framework of the episode

A comically ruthless beachcomber from the Fraser River moves in on the Gibsons' territory. In their efforts to run him off, Nick and the kids inadvertently provoke a 'shooting war' between the invader and Ol' Relic and are forced to intervene to restore peace.

A bush crazy logger, menacing an Injured mother and child with a stolen rifle, Involves Nick and Hugh in a breathless chase through the woods. G

Which village keeps the new fire engine? That's the question to be solved by a boat race Between Reggie Wainwright, representing the upper-crust snobs from down the road, and Ol' Relic, who is hammered into shape by a relentless Nick. The race itself Is a wild, steeplechasing affair that ends in a photo finish with Relic out of gas, but rowing home to victory.

A chance reunion with an old Greek wartime flying buddy forces Nick, on a point of honour, to take up piloting again. Jesse and Molly are his unwilling passengers on a hair-raising trip to the interior.

Margaret and her overly imaginative girlfriend, Tizzy, mistakenly persuade themselves that the local garbage man, Mcloskey, is really a mass murderer with corpses buried all over the inlet. Circumstances persuade Nick and Molly to engage in some amateur sleuthing, which eventually discloses that Mcloskey's "graves" are full of moonshine, which he is peddling in cahoots with his double-crossing crony, Relic

Nick's legs are trapped beneath a monster log on the beach. As the tide rises, the boys fight to extricate Nick, but when brute force fails, imagination succeeds. They fit up Nick with Oesse's mask and snorkel, and then it is Nick's turn to fight panic as the water rises over him and floats the log free.

A logging strike reduces Nick and Hugh to picking rocks for Relic at a dollar an hour. Too late they realize that Relic's using the stones to build his own private reef, and making fat fees from rescuing the boats that go aground on her. The unexpected arrival of the Lt. Governor brings an end to the gravy train, as Relic, Nick and Hugh dynamite the telltale evidence under the very nose of the distinguished gent's incoming yacht.

Nick's pride is at stake when Ol' Relic inveigles Reggie Wainwright to challenge Persephone to a tug of war -- the losing boat to change her name. Relic and Reggie rig the contest, by secretly adding the jet boat's pulling power to Reggie's boat, but Hugh discovers the trick in time to save Persephone's name.

Sadie's trap-line is confiscated by the game warden. Nick, Molly and the kids try to reshape her for life in town but her bush-bred innocence and her frontiers' woman approach get her in trouble, first at the booming grounds where she tangles with the men, then at the Reach where misguided efforts to make her into a waitress provoke a knockdown, drag-out brawl. In self-defence, the town gangs up on the Game Warden, and Sadie's trap-line is restored fifty miles up the coast.

Relic goes down with the ship - a derelict that sinks on him as he tries to salvage. her. The fateful evidence is found by Nick and Jesse who involve Molly and the kids in a prolonged funeral rites, while down below, the 'corpse' is wildly hammering for attention as the oxygen in his air pocket runs out. Discovered at last, he and the boat are hauled to safety; Relic proves an ungrateful Lazarus.

A sailing accident strands Margaret and her friend Tizzy on an isolated beach Where Tizzy reveals that she is a diabetic and can go into a coma unless Margaret gets help. After a long exhausting swim to the nearest cottage, Margaret finds it deserted and has to use her wits to make a powerless radio and a gasless motor boat effect a rescue.

A sweet little old lady wrongly suspects Jesse of stealing her diamonds. Eventually realizing her error, she involves Nick and Margaret in a wild goose chase to the Gibsons garbage dump where, in his efforts to retrieve the missing diamonds, Nick winds up with a flower pot firmly wedged on his head - a helpless passenger as Margaret navigates Jesse's runaway car down the mountainous roads on a wild ride home.

The arrival in Gibsons of a nubile "nature child" of nineteen wreaks havoc in the Reach when, one by one, Hugh, Dessex, and Nick all succumb to her charms. Did scores and new grudges are aired in the boxing ring.

Nick and Hugh spot one of the hairy monsters, and enlist everyone but Jesse, the amused skeptic, to hunt it down with Sadie's help. While Relic sells "Sasquatch Tours" to thrill-seeking tourists, our intrepid hunters litter the bush with pits and snares -and then are all snared, netted and undone when the fearsome beast attacks their camp! They rally and run the monster to a cliff, where it makes a death-defying leap to the sea, and flees - driving Persephone! It is Jesse - in cahoots with Relic on the whole hoax.

Nick and Co. underbid Relic on a delivery job, and Relic gets even by causing them to deliver the wrong cargo - several hundred pounds of fuxn~ance bricks, which they painstakingly carry up several hundred stairs before the shipper discovers their error! Then Relic moves in and undertakes to bring the whole load down by pulley - but his engineering is faulty, and when the bricks go down, Relic flies up. Bricks and Relic end up in the sea, to be rescued by Nick and the kids.

When a rebellious and misguidedly romantic Molly tries to elope with Mcloskey, she is dragged home by the kids. There Nick, encouraged by the widow McPhee, subjects the runaway lovers to a series of courtship rituals, which dampen everyone's ardor; the harassed bride bolts from the altar. But since the reception's all paid for, Nick insists they hold it anyway.

The long summer ferry line-ups prompt Nick to set up a private service for well-to-do summer residents, sponsored by a formidable lady judge. Snapped cables, seasickness, a sudden storm and a sand bar bring the venture to a hapless conclusion; the barge full of cars is stranded and while Nick delivers his disgruntled customers to shore, the Coast Guard, prompted by Relic, spirits away the cars.

Kim is a waif from the ports of the middle east, a street_urchin who jumps ship in Vancouver and beguiles Margaret into helping him flee from "the wicked Captain". Living by their wits in the streets of Vancouver, they elude the frantic family for a couple of days; Kim is returned to the "evil Captain", who turns out to be his grandfather. Margaret sees this as a betrayal, and is inconsolable. She is also unaware that Kim has already jumped ship again and is conning his way to Gibsons to catch up with Nick, "his father".

Relic's father, a ferocious old Welsh coal miner, descends on Gibsons unannounced, and sets out to make a success of his ne'er-do-well son by taking over Molly's Reach and Adonidas and Associates. Ol' Da's unprincipled methods make Relic look like a Boy Scout by comparison. Finally, at Relic's instigation, the old man is bested by Nick in a contest of strength, but the beating Ol' Da takes moves Relic to a rare and generous act of family loyalty.

Mcloskey starts an epidemic of Bathtub Fever in Gibsons, arranging "secret Partnerships" with half the town, and thereby ensuring healthy profits for himself by selling second-hand tubs from his junkyard. When the ruse is uncovered, Mcloskey bluffs his way out of it by arranging a competition for 'big prize money'. Relic accidentally demolishes all the tubs - no competition, no prize, and he and Mcloskey split the loot.

A soul-stirring belief in Love comics triggers Nick to invent a romantic fantasy about a Vancouver belly dancer for Margaret's benefit. To Nick's amazement and confusion, the kids import the belly-dancer to Gibsons and a bewildered Nick is faced with a fantasy come to life. The dancer, who is in on the joke, has a terrified Nick almost at the altar before she relents^making a broken-hearted and suitably tragic exit for Margaret's benefit.

A winter storm strands Nick and Relic on a remote shore, without boats, and they are forced to try their luck as roommates in a broken-down old cabin with predictably dreadful results.

Mcloskey, the irrepressible Irishman, gets onto a scheme for fiddling the insurance company by insuring a boat he means to sink. He suckers an unwitting Nick into his fraudulent endeavors, and the two of them strive heroically (and criminally) to sink the old scow, despite the insistent intervention of well-meaning friends, who keep "saving" her.

Gus Calhoun, 9, city-bred, and full of the doubtful wisdom of the streets, makes his debut in, this episode, and promptly clashes head-on with Relic. Nick's cash box goes missing - Angus inadvertently took it, but circumstances point to Relic, who feigns amnesia while stalking the boy to discover the whereabouts of the missing money. An exciting boat chase unravels the mystery.

Jesse is beguiled by the harum-scarum antics of the crew of "The Swell", and decides to sign on, abandoning Molly's Reach and Nick's Salvage for a change of pace aboard this madcap tug-cum-freighter. An incredulous Molly spearheads a series of efforts to bring Jesse to his senses before she and the family realize they must let him go his own way.

While attempting to help a young ladyrestore her abandoned sawmill, Nick, Hugh and Margaret fall victims to the whimsies of a cruelly capricious 'ghost'. Eventually, the young lady's eccentric Uncle Bo, long believed dead, is discovered to be the culprit -- or is he ...?

Out of gas, with a damaged boat and an injured leg, Col. Spranklin fights to save his own life and Margaret's when they are caught in the middle of a war of practical jokes being waged between Nick and Relic.

Relic mistakes an elderly beekeeper's cargo of "liquid gold" for the real thing. He battles Persephone for possession of the gold, and finds himself overwhelmed by a swarming hive of honey bees. It's up to Nick and Hugh to rescue the bees from their tree-top perch.

Gus Calhoun's natural animosity towards Relic accelerates into furious rivalry as the two slug it out in a fierce air-sea battle between their radio-controlled giant model planes, with each determined to be 'king o' the skies'.

A ruthless imposter masquerades as Relic, with an identical jet-boat. Relic is blamed for a series of increasingly impudent crimes until Gus and Margaret finger the Imposter, and the two jet-boats clash head-on in a ferocious dog-fight to the death.

Relic betrays his brother beachcombers by going to work as the Boom Inspector - a position designed to eliminate floating logs and therefore the beachcombers' livelihood, from Howe Sound. He nearly runs them all out of business before Nick out-foxes him.

Hughie gets a new girl friend, but antagonism between her rich parents and the gang at Molly's Reach involves the young pair in a sailboat race that nearly wrecks their romance.

Gus Calhoun and Relic are at it again, this time vying for undersea treasure by fishing with magnets. Their rivalry literally blows up in their faces when what they think is a treasure chest turns out to be an explosive mine.

Prompted by Gus, Margaret develops the fantasy that she is adopted. Preoccupation with the imminent Beachcombers' Ball prevents Molly and Nick from realizing what she is up to, until she confronts Nick with the accusation that he is her real father. Molly persuades her it is untrue by finally revealing the real story of her parents' death in a boating accident.

The Brotherhood of Unaffiliated Beachcombers sponsors the annual Christmas cruise to carry "Santa" Nick and his sleigh to the kids on the outlying islands. When an accident puts Relic in the Santa Claus suit, events get wildly out of hand.

Is Hughie a man? Or just the 'kid' Nick and Relic believe him to be? His struggle to salvage a monster log decides the issue.

Three renegade schoolgirls in revolt against their school's old-fashioned ways involve Margaret in a madcap scheme to kidnap Nick. It is up to their games mistress to teach them that the ends do not justify the means.

Gibson's has its first bank robbery In fifty years, and the loot ends up right in Nick's lap. Half the town gets into this game of "Money, money, who's got the money" before the robbery is solved.

A government yacht with visiting royalty aboard triggers an adventure for Nick and the kids at Molly's Reach, which threatens to end in heartbreak for Margaret's friend, old Col. Spranklin.

Nick and Mcloskey salt a gold mine to tempt Relic and are caught in a local gold rush when Relic turns up with the genuine article.

Nick goes acourting but it is Hughie who takes the rap when the young lady turns out to have two great big brothers and a father with a shotgun and oldfashioned ideas about marriage.

Margaret's pen pal has tried to keep her mongoloid brother a secret. The secret explodes in her face and both girls learn something about how dangerous lies can be.

Jesse is on his way through Gibson's Landing to a wild weekend in a Vancouver gambling club. But Molly gets wind of his plans and decides to teach him that money does not necessarily buy fun.

Nick and the kids are condemned to Ma Calhoun's cooking when Molly goes on a trip, and ends up on Vancouver's skidroad.

A chance exploration of a fish packer creates unexpected danger for Hughie, his girlfriend Francesca, and Margaret when the packer sails with the three kids as reluctant stowaways

The Irish Rovers are to give a concert in Gibsons Landing. Jimmy Ferguson falls in love with the beachcombing life - and resigns from the Rovers! With only hours to go, and the whole town turning out for the concert, Nick volunteers to sing in Jimmy's place, with hilarious and surprising results.

The "clowns" are Mcloskey and slow-witted Ceece Neville, keeping a precarious footing as they leap fromlog to log on their newly acquired booming grounds. Relic seems likely to swindle them and their partner, Jesse Jim, out of the whole operation until Nick lends a hand. The comedy features lots of booming-ground action with the boats and the logs.

Relic believes McLoskey fell overboard and died because he refused to tow him in over a matter of $50, and the locals begin pretending Relic doesn't even exist.

Margaret and Gus go into business selling oysters. Their first harvest goes into circulation; then, they discover that the oysters are contaminated. A wild game of Oyster, Oyster, Who's Got the Oyster? evolves as the poisonous shellfish pass from Nick to Mcloskey to Molly to Relic, and threaten to end up in the stew pot at the Reach as the "Special of the Day".

While Hugh and Jesse are diving, Ol' Relic pinches Persephone, then claims her as salvage on a trumped-up technicality. It's up to Hugh and Jesse to beat the old pirate at his own game.

It's Halloween at the Reach and Gus Calhoun's mischievous spirit gets out of hand. He starts yarning hard-luck stories to a child welfare officer. But the lady, Miss Eldritch, displays remarkable powers, and before she's through with Gus, he is either bewitched or bamboozled - into owning up to his lies.

Gus Calhoun succumbs to temptation and pinches a yachting cap from the sporting goods store. As if his guilty conscience wasn't enough, he's cauaht and blackmailed by Ol' Relic, and learns the hard way crime doesn't pay.

A weird swordfisherman from down east and his ghostly companion engage with Nick and Jesse and Jesse's grandad, a shaman, in a battle of magical powers for possession of a prize log.

Margaret topples over a cliff while pursuing a fugitive on the run from the law. She and Nick engage in a deadly battle-of-wills with the man, who is also a mountain climber and the only one who might rescue Margaret from her precarious toe-hold on the precipice above the ocean.

Hugh's at an age where he needs a pad of his own. His determination to get it causes a game of "Musical Rooms" that turns the Reach upside down, and nearly brings the walls tumbling down when Jesse Jim, moves back in too, with a stereo set even bigger - and louder than Hugh's.

While bringing home the Christmas tree, Nick and the gang from Molly's Reach become innocently embroiled in illicit whiskey-making operations at a logging camp, and end up spending a good part of Christmas Eve in the local jail.

Hughie and family befriend a young Japanese-Canadian who has come to Gibsons Landing to locate his father's old fishboat, confiscated during World War Two when the West Coast Japanese were ignominiously stripped of their belongings and shipped inland as "enemy aliens". They run head-on into entrenched prejudice from a completely unexpected quarter, old Colonel Spranklin, one of the Carmody family's best-beloved friends. Finding the old fishboat and the effort to get it water-borne again form the action of this moving two-part episode.

While diving for antique glass bottles, Jesse Jim takes a foolish risk and is swept out to sea on a dangerous, fast-moving tide. His frightening struggle for survival and the massive search for him give a fascinating insight into West Coast Search and Rescue procedures.

Hugh and Jesse are featured in the adventuresome story as they battle perverse tides and rocky shores to tow a motley lot of equipment to Jesse's new booming-grounds.

Nick and Molly have a wonderful surprise for Margaret- a bike! Trouble is, Nick and Molly don't know much about current fashions in bikes, instead of a ten-speed racer, they buy her a great balloon-tired antique that makes her a virtual laughing-stock among her pals. Afraid of hurting Molly's feelings, Margaret tries ways of her own to get rid of the ugly duckling, and, in the process, learns something about conformity - when it's good and when being different isn't so bad.

Relic is ailing, and Nick's efforts to play Good Samaritan end up stranding him aboard a driting raft with the feverish, delirious Relic. To save themselves, each is forced to face and conquer his deepest fear.

It's Gus Calhoun's birthday. His gift is a fishing rod, but he must follow a trail of clues laid by Hughie. One 'mystery' clue leads Gus and Margaret on an increasingly dangerous and sinister hunt to find a strange and mysterious treasure at the end.

In Molly's absence, Nick and Gus Calhoun turn the Reach into a Greek bistro, and all but put the place out of business when they make the mistake of taking on union-minded Ol' Relic as bus-boy-cum-waiter.

A light plane crashes on a remote mountainside with Jesse Jim and one of Nick's oldest upcoast buddies aboard. Nick must choose between sitting tight with two badly injured men, or making the desperate rescue attempt with all odds against him.

Introduces Charlene Aleck as Sara, Jesse's six-year-old sister. She is unceremoniously presented at the Reach by Grandpa Jim and Uncle Louie. Troubles follow swiftly as the family attempts to adjust to the new youngest child, and Sara tries to solve matters on her own, making a pal out of Ol' Relic in the process.

Margaret and Nick mistakenly imagine a love affair between Ol' Relic and Sadie, a lady trapper from upcoast whose notion of romance goes no farther than skinnin' her next coyote. Relic nearly gets skinned himself when an indignant Sadie takes after him with her rifle.

It's the Gibsons Annual Salmon Derby and Sara has her heart set on winning the third prize for kids - a cowboy suit. Relic and Mcloskey hatch an elaborate hoax to ensure first prize for themselves - and take the innocent Sara along to witness their fraudulent "catch."

A bargeload of heavy construction machinery goes adrift in a storm. Relic and Margaret are trapped thereon, and Nick's every effort to rescue them threatens to bring tons of equipment showering down on the helpless pair.

The idyllic existence of thirty-eight goats is threatened when their peaceful island home becomes the site for a new highway. Ecology-minded Margaret enlists Mcloskey's help to save Goat Island, and before they're through the whole town is up in arms and Nick finds himself the unwilling goatherd.

Persephone is swamped by heavy seas that turn the cabin upside down and leave her immobilized. Nick, Jesse and Hugh fight to keep her from being wrecked on the rocks. The exertion proves too much for Nick, who collapses from exposure; it's up to the boys to try to save both Nick and the boat.

Sara's innocent determination to crack Relic's tough shell is the driving force in this touching comedy about the battle of wits between the little girl and the 'meanest man in town'. And who's the meanest man? Ol' Relic, of course.

Self-styled "progressive" elements in Jesse Jim's former home on the Seahost Reserve are making trouble for the wise old chief. The old man, with an assist from Nick, conspires to teach the troublemakers a gentle lesson by nominating Jesse as Acting Chief. The sudden appearance of a cow in the kitchen of Molly's Reach is only the beginning of the troubles that ensue.

Gus Calhoun has his heart set on a chemistry set- one that will make invisible ink. Nick promises to get It for him, and then leads Gus on a merry chase from store to store up the Sunshine Coast. The chase becomes a near-disaster when Nick's determination to find something better nearly breaks Gus's heart.

Christmas is coming and little Sara is sick. In the mind of the feverish six-year-old Santa Claus becomes confused with the Great Shaman, who comes like a sinister Angel of Death, driving a sled and dog team. Hilarious complications ensue when Nick masquerades as the Shaman, complete with dog sled and team, to prove to the stricken Sara that he's not coming to carry her away.

Good Samaritans Nick and Jesse attempt to rescue an old curmudgeon who's determined, despite ill health, to sail his decrepit vessel to the South Seas. In the course of nursing the cantankerous old man back to health Nick discovers hers been the old fellow's unwitting nemesis for yearsi In fact, the Old Man mistankenly supposes Nick is the devil--come to thwart his glorious scheme.

Relic and Mcloskey are at it again-- this time with an illegal get-rich-quick scheme for dynamiting fish. It's known as "The Games Island Lure". They deliberately involve Nick in their rascally plot, and he's up to his ears in explosives before he catches on.

Every year hundreds of unwanted dogs and cats are "dumped" in the Gibsons area-- turned loose to forage and eventually starve or be eaten by bigger game. Among them is a splendid German Shepherd which Hugh is determined to save from starvation and the threat of the Conservation Officer's gun. Hughie's single-handed battle to bring the half-wild dog back to civilization provides an exciting and dramatic episode with a startling climax.

The unlikely victim of Margaret's first crush is none other than Jesse Jim, seen in a new heroic light by the starry-eyed girl. Jesse wants none of it, but Nick is determined to ease Margaret out of her infatuation with clever psychology. His methods lead poor Jesse into a bundle of ridiculous situations before the situation is resolved.

Hughie tries to save a bunch of arrogant Sunday sailors from a nasty accident with their boat, and suddenly finds himself facing possible charges for theft and assault. Hughie's only hope lies in persuading a young Dutch immigrant boy to testify for him--but the boy works for the boat owners and will certainly lose his job if he speaks out.

To atone for forgetting Margaret's grade-school graduation, Hugh makes a silly promise - he'll buy Margaret a one-hundred dollar gift! It's the beginning of a hundred-dollar misunderstanding that threatens to break Hugh's bank account and Margaret's heart before they straighten it out.

Hughie has flunked his university entrance exams, and cannot share the festive mood of the Reach when his great-uncle, Sam Carmody, is welcomed back after an absence of many years. The stories of Sam's worldly success, his millions, his business empire, only aggravate an already despondent Hughie, until he learns the strange secret of Sam's success.

The Sunshine Coast in summer is strewn with young hitchhikers; their example is hard for Sara to resist, despite repeated warnings by the family. When Sara does take a ride from a stranger, their encounter grows into a strange friendship with wildly unforeseen consequences.

Nick's promoter cousin takes on the uphill task of turning Ol' Relic into a TV Celebrity with a hair-raising boat stunt that parodies the heart-stopping displays of motorcycle daredevils.

The curse of the Vikings threatens Nick when both police and clergy conspire to prevent him from giving an old Norseman the Viking funeral Nick promised him. A comedy of conflicting values high-lighted by a car chase involving the police, the hearse, and Mcloskey's rattletrap truck.

An old girlfriend of Nick's collapses from a heart attack while on an errand of mercy at a deserted logging site. Nick fights to save her life as medical help battles its way to the rescue.

Relic tricks Nick into an all-out wrestling contest with a gigantic so-called Turk named Abdul. It's Nick's brains against Abdul's brawn in this lighthearted free-for-all.

Jesse retires to the mountains on a spirit fast to seek his true self. Nick comes along for the ride --a bumpy one on a pair of packhorses -- and gets more than he bargained for when a marauding bear leaves Nick and Jesse to face the danger of real starvation.

Hugh is on a supposedly solitary hunting expedition when a bullet zings by his earl The hunter is actually a friend, but so troubled by his determination to prove his manhood that he endangers both their lives.

Hugh, Margaret and Sara are stranded overnight In a haunted house. A stranger who spies on them from the surrounding bush enters their lives with frightening impact, determined to drive them out before they can discover the old house's strange secret.

Relic jumps aboard the government gravy train when the politicians make an ill-advised bid to bureau-cratize beachcombing. Nick takes on the provincial government in his effort to preserve the independence of his way of life.

A half-forgotten war canoe is repaired and made to race again for Jesse's little Seahost band and their old Chief. When the tiny band can't muster a full crew, Nick is 'captured' as a slave and set to work with a paddle.

It's a whale--it's a seal--no by George, it's a genuine sea serpent and old is out to record its existence for science. Relic and Mcloskey are also in hot pursuit of the monster--for profit! What nobody knows is that Nick and the gang from the Reach determine to make the Colonel's dream come true by rigging their own sea.

Against Nick's better judgment, Jesse dynamites a log to dislodge it. He sets in motion a chain of events which results in Nick and Jesse both getting pinned below logs, with no one but little Sara to try and help when a brush fire begins advancing on the two trapped beachcombers.

The Georgia Strait - seventeen long, cold miles of churning ocean. It killed Margaret's mother, father, and grandfather; all her life, it's been waiting for her. Her bid to swim these ferocious waters provides the action in a tense and thrilling drama.

A deadhead is a partially submerged log capable of impaling and sinking unsuspecting boats. Nick and Margaret spot such a log, but are unable to flag it. When the deadhead wrecks Ceece Neville's boat, and poor old Ceece is hospitalized, Margaret conducts her own vendetta on the killer log, with Relic providing unexpected complications.

Nick has not spoken with his father in thirty years. Suddenly, the old man arrives in Gibsons to mend a quarrel that reveals some startling secrets about Nick's war-torn boyhood in Greece, to which the old man now demands that Nick return to resume his disrupted family life.