Season 1 poster

Season 1

(1979)

Overview

"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.

Cast

Megan Follows as Jenny Tanner
Megan Follows

as Jenny Tanner

Duncan Regehr as Matt Tanner
Duncan Regehr

as Matt Tanner

Neil Dainard as Adam Cardston
Neil Dainard

as Adam Cardston

Duncan Regehr as Kit

Episodes

Search For A New Home poster

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October 21, 1979

After the death of their father, Matt and Jenny and their mother leave England for Nova Scotia only to encounter anothe…

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October 28, 1979

Cardston, helped by Matt and Jenny, races against time to save the life of a seriously injured lumberjack. The Tanners …

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November 4, 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 hau…

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November 11, 1979

With Cardston's help. Matt and Jenny hope to find their lost relatives at a mysterious religious community. Reverend Ha…

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November 18, 1979

Matt, Jenny and Kit help an Indian chief's adopted son search for his real parents. Takomis: Michael Ansara. Cokah: Lew…

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November 25, 1979

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

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December 2, 1979

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

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December 9, 1979

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

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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.

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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 th…

Ghost of Pocomoonshine Swamp poster

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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…

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January 4, 1980

In their further pursuit of the Tanner's relatives, Matt, Jenny and Adam Cardston visit a school-house and are introduc…

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January 11, 1980

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

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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 …

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January 25, 1980

The sound of drums draws Cardston, Matt and Jenny to the site of a secret Indian ceremony. Cardston is intent on helpin…

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February 1, 1980

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

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February 8, 1980

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

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February 15, 1980

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

Harry Alfred Teasdale Rides Again (1) poster

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February 22, 1980

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

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February 29, 1980

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

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March 7, 1980

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

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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.

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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…

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March 28, 1980

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

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April 6, 1980

Jenny and Cardston get involved when a young Scottish couple's marriage plans are stymied by the girls father, who refu…

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April 13, 1980

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