About this season
A recently widowed mother loses her children to a cold mother-in-law in Ontario during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Based loosely on the books "Never Sleep Three in a Bed" and "The Night We Stole the Mounties’ Car" by Max Braithwaite
Episodes (13)
1. Four Walls and a Roof (1)
Aired 1 December 1996 • 60 min
Financial hardships of the Great Depression hit Honey Bailey and her family, changing the life they had known.
2. Four Walls and a Roof (2)
Aired 1 December 1996 • 60 min
May struggles to handle the boys, especially a defiant Hub, who resolves to get he and his brother back to their mother. In North Bridge, Honey looks for work.
3. No Way of Telling
10.0Aired 8 December 1996 • 60 min
Honey's brother disappears with her savings. Meanwhile, the boys search for clues to a bank robbery.
4. A Family of Independent Means
Aired 15 December 1996 • 60 min
Honey is fired and cannot find another job. Meanwhile, Hub and Fat try to earn money.
5. My Dog Pal
Aired 22 December 1996 • 60 min
Hub and Fat earn money taking care of a dog.
6. Something From Nothing
Aired 5 January 1997 • 60 min
Uncle Bob gets Hub a job on weekends at a local farm and Fat manages to win a small part in a local Chautaugua show. Meanwhile, when Honey loses everything and is forced inot a charity mission, Aunt Grace intervenes and May Bailey finally agrees that her duaghter-in-law may return.
7. Moonshine Struck
Aired 12 January 1997 • 60 min
While adapting to life with her mother-in-law and coping with her new job, Honey becomes attracted to a charming, but self-centred, local policeman.
8. Train To Nowhere
Aired 19 January 1997 • 60 min
Honey and Grace help Max adapt one of his unsold radio plays for the local drama society, only to see it consume Aunt Toppy's life.
9. Aunt Grace's Wedding
Aired 26 January 1997 • 60 min
Complications and a disapproving May threaten Grace's secret plans to attend an out-of-town wedding with Judd.
10. No Place Like Home
Aired 2 February 1997 • 60 min
Trouble ensues when Uncle Joe makes a surprise visit to New Bedford; Honey and the boys continue their battle to bring baby Violet home.
11. Chasing Rainbows
Aired 9 February 1997 • 60 min
The boys concoct some hair-brained schemes to raise money for Honey's birthday present; May gets into hot water when fundraising proceeds go missing.
12. Moving Mountains
Aired 16 February 1997 • 60 min
Hub has trouble with school and gets involved with a bad crowd.
13. Back In My Arms Again
Aired 23 February 1997 • 60 min
With Honey away at a hairdressing course, Fat learns that Matilda and Hugh plan to leave the country with Violet.