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Matt and Jenny

Season 1 1979 - 1980
NR

  • 1979-10-21T04:00:00Z on Global
  • 30m
  • 13h (26 episodes)
  • Canada
  • English
  • Drama
"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.

26 episodes

Series Premiere

1979-10-21T04:00:00Z

1x01 Search For A New Home

Series Premiere

1x01 Search For A New Home

  • 1979-10-21T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1x02 Thunder and Lightning Birds

  • 1979-10-28T04:00:00Z30m

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.

1979-11-04T05:00:00Z

1x03 The Bellinis

1x03 The Bellinis

  • 1979-11-04T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1979-11-11T05:00:00Z

1x04 The Long Return

1x04 The Long Return

  • 1979-11-11T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1979-11-18T05:00:00Z

1x05 The Whirlwind Voice

1x05 The Whirlwind Voice

  • 1979-11-18T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1979-11-25T05:00:00Z

1x06 Test for the Tanners

1x06 Test for the Tanners

  • 1979-11-25T05:00:00Z30m

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

1979-12-02T05:00:00Z

1x07 A Call to Arms

1x07 A Call to Arms

  • 1979-12-02T05:00:00Z30m

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

1979-12-09T05:00:00Z

1x08 Devil's Gorge

1x08 Devil's Gorge

  • 1979-12-09T05:00:00Z30m

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

1979-12-16T05:00:00Z

1x09 The Mast

1x09 The Mast

  • 1979-12-16T05:00:00Z30m

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

1x10 Fiddle Joe and The Devil Himself

  • 1979-12-23T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1x11 Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp

  • 1979-12-30T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1980-01-04T05:00:00Z

1x12 The Teacher

1x12 The Teacher

  • 1980-01-04T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1980-01-11T05:00:00Z

1x13 Barnabus Bletcher

1x13 Barnabus Bletcher

  • 1980-01-11T05:00:00Z30m

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

1x14 Wolf Howl at Kennebec Cliff

  • 1980-01-18T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1x15 Ceremony at Whispering Pines

  • 1980-01-25T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1980-02-01T05:00:00Z

1x16 Wilderness Photographer

1x16 Wilderness Photographer

  • 1980-02-01T05:00:00Z30m

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

1980-02-08T05:00:00Z

1x17 Sport of Kings

1x17 Sport of Kings

  • 1980-02-08T05:00:00Z30m

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

1980-02-15T05:00:00Z

1x18 Skiba the Bear

1x18 Skiba the Bear

  • 1980-02-15T05:00:00Z30m

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

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

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

1980-03-07T05:00:00Z

1x21 Frontier Justice

1x21 Frontier Justice

  • 1980-03-07T05:00:00Z30m

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

1980-03-14T05:00:00Z

1x22 A Woman's Place

1x22 A Woman's Place

  • 1980-03-14T05:00:00Z30m

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.

1980-03-21T05:00:00Z

1x23 The Actress

1x23 The Actress

  • 1980-03-21T05:00:00Z30m

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).

1980-03-28T05:00:00Z

1x24 Mystery of the Pikes

1x24 Mystery of the Pikes

  • 1980-03-28T05:00:00Z30m

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

1980-04-06T05:00:00Z

1x25 The Highlanders

1x25 The Highlanders

  • 1980-04-06T05:00:00Z30m

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.

Season Finale

1980-04-13T05:00:00Z

1x26 Wagon Train West

Season Finale

1x26 Wagon Train West

  • 1980-04-13T05:00:00Z30m

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

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