Season 1 (1998)
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Episodes 13
Changes
Josephine (Jo) Bhaer and her husband Fritz have run a boarding school for boys for several years. Now that Fritz has died everyone assumes that Jo will close the school. When Nick, a sailor home from the sea, hires on as handyman, Jo sees that there is a chance to keep the school open.
Read MoreQuarantine
A dangerous measles epidemic breaks out at the school.
Read MoreThanksgiving
As Thanksgiving nears Amy decides that doesn't want her daughter in school with boys. Nick decides to return to the sea.
Read MoreTough Choices
An old friend of Dan turns up at the school and asks Dan to leave with him.
Read MoreEmancipation
Prejudice finds some unlikely allies when a poor black family arrives at Plumfield.
Read MoreThe Christmas Angel
Nick and the children discover a battered pregnant woman in the forest.
Read MorePhilanthropy
Jo finds out that Nick can't read. The students are tasked with doing a good deed in order to learn the meaning of the word Philanthropy.
Read MoreComing Attractions
Meg is attracted to a friend of Laurie's. Dan and Bess are paired on a science project.
Read MoreThe Living Years
Asia's estranged father attempts a reconciliation; another woman pursues Nick.
Read MoreFather Figure
When Nat wants to enter a father son ski race with Nick as his surrogate fathers, Jo must teach Nick to ski.
Read MoreLooking Forward
Amy moves to Plumfield. Dan befriends a native american and goes on a vision quest of his own.
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