WonderWorks
WonderWorks: Season 4

Air Date

October 10, 1987

Episodes

16 episodes

WonderWorks

Season 4

Episodes

1. The Fig Tree

October 10, 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)

October 17, 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)

October 24, 1987
60 min

A mine explosion threatens to sabotage the children's attempts to rescue the pit ponies.

4. Isaac Littlefeathers

November 14, 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

January 9, 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

January 16, 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

January 23, 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)

January 30, 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)

February 6, 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)

March 5, 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)

March 12, 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)

April 23, 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)

April 30, 1988
60 min

The children continue their dangerous odyssey through the Australian outback.

14. Hiroshima Maiden

May 14, 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

May 21, 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

May 28, 1988
60 min

An imaginative substitute teacher mesmerizes a tough Hispanic student and brightens his outlook.

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