Season 1
26 episodes · Oct 20, 1979
"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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- S1E1
Search For A New Home
Oct 21, 197930mAfter 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.
- S1E2
Thunder and Lightning Birds
Oct 28, 197930mCardston, 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.
- S1E3
The Bellinis
Nov 4, 197930mMatt 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.
- S1E4
The Long Return
Nov 11, 197930mWith 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.
- S1E5
The Whirlwind Voice
Nov 18, 197930mMatt, Jenny and Kit help an Indian chief's adopted son search for his real parents. Takomis: Michael Ansara. Cokah: Lewis Dubrofsky. William: Ken James.
- S1E6
Test for the Tanners
Nov 25, 197930mA wilderness survival test becomes reality when Jenny loses her way in the forest and Matt is trapped in an abandoned mine.
- S1E7
A Call to Arms
Dec 2, 197930mOn the road, Matt, Jenny and Cardston meet a young homesteader who is about to give birth, and whose husband is a suspected deserter.
- S1E8
Devil's Gorge
Dec 9, 197930mKit helps a woman search for her husband, who has disappeared in Devil's Gorge.
- S1E9
The Mast
Dec 16, 197930mIn search of a tree for a ship's mast. Matt, Jenny and an absent-minded sea captain lose their way in the woods.
- S1E10
Fiddle Joe and The Devil Himself
Dec 23, 197930mKit, 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.
- S1E11
Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp
Dec 30, 197930mWhile 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.
- S1E12
The Teacher
Jan 4, 198030mIn 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.
- S1E13
Barnabus Bletcher
Jan 11, 198030mMatt and Jenny help a peddler when a pair of hoodlums try to steal his belongings and his performing bear.
- S1E14
Wolf Howl at Kennebec Cliff
Jan 18, 198030mThe 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.
- S1E15
Ceremony at Whispering Pines
Jan 25, 198030mThe 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.
- S1E16
Wilderness Photographer
Feb 1, 198030mKit helps a young woman search for her father, a somewhat absent-minded wildlife photographer.
- S1E17
Sport of Kings
Feb 8, 198030mA boy hopes to clear his father's debts by winning a horse race.
- S1E18
Skiba the Bear
Feb 15, 198030mMatt meets Skiba, the evil bear of Indian legends that no man can kill.
- S1E19
Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (1)
Feb 22, 198030mJenny and Cardston try to stop a shady book publisher from making off with a writer's latest manuscript.
- S1E20
Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (2)
Feb 29, 198030mCardston engineers a mock trial to scare a disreputable book publisher into mending his evil ways.
- S1E21
Frontier Justice
Mar 7, 198030mKit, accused of murdering a slave trader, is to be tried by a "hanging judge".
- S1E22
A Woman's Place
Mar 14, 198030mKit, Matt and Jenny try to help a women's rights activist escape from a band of angry men out to tar and feather her.
- S1E23
The Actress
Mar 21, 198030mThe 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).
- S1E24
Mystery of the Pikes
Mar 28, 198030mMatt and Jenny are held prisoner by an evil-minded farmer who claims he's seen their relatives.
- S1E25
The Highlanders
Apr 6, 198030mJenny 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.
- S1E26
Wagon Train West
Apr 13, 198030mJake Winfield and his daughter Ann are left behind when their wagon is unable to keep up with the wagon train.