Megan Follows
Jenny Tanner
Matt and Jenny (1979)
Season 1
"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.
Released Oct. 21, 1979
Episode 30 min
None+
Genres: Adventure, Drama, Family, Western
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Watch Providers: Amazon Prime Video, Tubi TV, The Roku Channel, Xumo Play, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
Network: Global
S1E1 - Search For A New Home
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.
Oct. 21, 1979, midnight
S1E2 - Thunder and Lightning Birds
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.
Oct. 28, 1979, midnight
S1E3 - The Bellinis
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.
Nov. 4, 1979, midnight
S1E4 - The Long Return
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.
Nov. 11, 1979, midnight
S1E5 - The Whirlwind Voice
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.
Nov. 18, 1979, midnight
S1E6 - Test for the Tanners
A wilderness survival test becomes reality when Jenny loses her way in the forest and Matt is trapped in an abandoned mine.
Nov. 25, 1979, midnight
S1E7 - A Call to Arms
On the road, Matt, Jenny and Cardston meet a young homesteader who is about to give birth, and whose husband is a suspected deserter.
Dec. 2, 1979, midnight
S1E8 - Devil's Gorge
Kit helps a woman search for her husband, who has disappeared in Devil's Gorge.
Dec. 9, 1979, midnight
S1E9 - The Mast
In search of a tree for a ship's mast. Matt, Jenny and an absent-minded sea captain lose their way in the woods.
Dec. 16, 1979, midnight
S1E10 - Fiddle Joe and The Devil Himself
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.
Dec. 23, 1979, midnight
S1E11 - Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp
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.
Dec. 30, 1979, midnight
S1E12 - The Teacher
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.
Jan. 4, 1980, midnight
S1E13 - Barnabus Bletcher
Matt and Jenny help a peddler when a pair of hoodlums try to steal his belongings and his performing bear.
Jan. 11, 1980, midnight
S1E14 - Wolf Howl at Kennebec Cliff
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.
Jan. 18, 1980, midnight
S1E15 - Ceremony at Whispering Pines
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.
Jan. 25, 1980, midnight
S1E16 - Wilderness Photographer
Kit helps a young woman search for her father, a somewhat absent-minded wildlife photographer.
Feb. 1, 1980, midnight
S1E17 - Sport of Kings
A boy hopes to clear his father's debts by winning a horse race.
Feb. 8, 1980, midnight
S1E18 - Skiba the Bear
Matt meets Skiba, the evil bear of Indian legends that no man can kill.
Feb. 15, 1980, midnight
S1E19 - Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (1)
Jenny and Cardston try to stop a shady book publisher from making off with a writer's latest manuscript.
Feb. 22, 1980, midnight
S1E20 - Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (2)
Cardston engineers a mock trial to scare a disreputable book publisher into mending his evil ways.
Feb. 29, 1980, midnight
S1E21 - Frontier Justice
Kit, accused of murdering a slave trader, is to be tried by a "hanging judge".
March 7, 1980, midnight
S1E22 - A Woman's Place
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.
March 14, 1980, midnight
S1E23 - The Actress
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).
March 21, 1980, midnight
S1E24 - Mystery of the Pikes
Matt and Jenny are held prisoner by an evil-minded farmer who claims he's seen their relatives.
March 28, 1980, midnight
S1E25 - The Highlanders
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.
April 6, 1980, midnight
S1E26 - Wagon Train West
Jake Winfield and his daughter Ann are left behind when their wagon is unable to keep up with the wagon train.
April 13, 1980, midnight
Network: Global
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 30 min.
Released: Oct. 21, 1979
Last Air Date: April 13, 1980, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: NR
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