About this season
Anthology series aimed at children and families. Many of the episodes were based on popular children's and young adult novels.
Episodes (16)
1. The Fig Tree
Aired 10 October 1987 • 60 min
Miranda, a sensitive young loner, seeks help from her grandmother and an odd aunt in her struggle to understand death.
2. The Littlest Horse Thieves (1/2)
Aired 17 October 1987 • 60 min
In a Yorkshire mining town at the turn of the century, three brave children attempt to rescue a group of pit ponies from the slaughterhouse.
3. The Littlest Horse Thieves (2/2)
Aired 24 October 1987 • 60 min
A mine explosion threatens to sabotage the children's attempts to rescue the pit ponies.
4. Isaac Littlefeathers
Aired 14 November 1987 • 60 min
An American Indian boy's struggle with racial prejudice is eased by his friendship by a kind old Jewish man.
5. Home at Last
Aired 9 January 1988 • 60 min
A tough New York City boy gets a chance at a new life when he takes an orphan train to Nebraska to live with a hard-working farm family.
6. Taking Care of Terrific
Aired 16 January 1988 • 60 min
A police action results from efforts by a teenage girl and a street musician to provide a special evening for the neighborhood's homeless.
7. Frog
Aired 23 January 1988 • 60 min
After a witch turns him into a frog, a teenager makes use of his scientific talents to reclaim a poisoned pond.
8. Golden Pennies (1/2)
Aired 30 January 1988 • 60 min
Robbed of their fortune, an English family struggles to make a living in an Australian mining town, where they find close friends and a dangerous enemy.
9. Golden Pennies (2/2)
Aired 6 February 1988 • 60 min
Robbed of their fortune, an English family struggles to make a living in an Australian mining town, where they find close friends and a dangerous enemy. (Conclusion)
10. Anne of Green Gables, The Sequel (1/2)
Aired 5 March 1988 • 60 min
AKA Anne of Avonlea (Parts 1 & 2). Anne leaves home to teach at a girls' school in Kingsport.
11. Anne of Green Gables, The Sequel (2/2)
Aired 12 March 1988 • 60 min
AKA Anne of Avonlea (Parts 3 & 4). Anne finally wins acceptance by the Kingsport community and even finds romance with the widowed father of a student. Feeling homesick, Anne returns to Avonlea, where she finds Gilbert gravely ill.
12. A Waltz Through the Hills (1/2)
Aired 23 April 1988 • 60 min
Following their mother's death, two children begin a trek across western Australia, hoping to reach their grandparents in England.
13. A Waltz Through the Hills (2/2)
Aired 30 April 1988 • 60 min
The children continue their dangerous odyssey through the Australian outback.
14. Hiroshima Maiden
Aired 14 May 1988 • 60 min
A young Japanese woman scarred by atomic radiation lives with a U.S. family while undergoing plastic surgery.
15. Places Not Our Own
Aired 21 May 1988 • 60 min
A woman, abandoned by her husband, encounters prejudice against her Metis family as she struggles to support them in Depression-era Canada.
16. Gryphon
Aired 28 May 1988 • 60 min
An imaginative substitute teacher mesmerizes a tough Hispanic student and brightens his outlook.