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Season 1

Matt and Jenny Season 1

October. 20,1979
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7.6
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NR
| 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.

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Matt and Jenny Season 1 Full Episode Guide

Episode 26 - Wagon Train West
First Aired: April. 13,1980

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

Episode 25 - The Highlanders
First Aired: April. 06,1980

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.

Episode 24 - Mystery of the Pikes
First Aired: March. 28,1980

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

Episode 23 - The Actress
First Aired: March. 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).

Episode 22 - A Woman's Place
First Aired: March. 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.

Episode 21 - Frontier Justice
First Aired: March. 07,1980

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

Episode 20 - Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (2)
First Aired: February. 29,1980

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

Episode 19 - Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (1)
First Aired: February. 22,1980

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

Episode 18 - Skiba the Bear
First Aired: February. 15,1980

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

Episode 17 - Sport of Kings
First Aired: February. 08,1980

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

Episode 16 - Wilderness Photographer
First Aired: February. 01,1980

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

Episode 15 - Ceremony at Whispering Pines
First Aired: January. 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.

Episode 14 - Wolf Howl at Kennebec Cliff
First Aired: January. 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.

Episode 13 - Barnabus Bletcher
First Aired: January. 11,1980

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

Episode 12 - The Teacher
First Aired: January. 04,1980

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.

Episode 11 - Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 10 - Fiddle Joe and The Devil Himself
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 9 - The Mast
First Aired: December. 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.

Episode 8 - Devil's Gorge
First Aired: December. 09,1979

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

Episode 7 - A Call to Arms
First Aired: December. 02,1979

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

Episode 6 - Test for the Tanners
First Aired: November. 25,1979

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

Episode 5 - The Whirlwind Voice
First Aired: November. 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.

Episode 4 - The Long Return
First Aired: November. 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.

Episode 3 - The Bellinis
First Aired: November. 04,1979

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.

Episode 2 - Thunder and Lightning Birds
First Aired: October. 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.

Episode 1 - Search For A New Home
First Aired: October. 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.

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