Wind at My Back (1996)
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
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Episode 1 - Four Walls and a Roof (1)
Release Date: 1996-12-01Financial hardships of the Great Depression hit Honey Bailey and her family, changing the life they had known.
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Episode 2 - Four Walls and a Roof (2)
Release Date: 1996-12-01May 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.
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Episode 3 - No Way of Telling
Release Date: 1996-12-08Honey's brother disappears with her savings. Meanwhile, the boys search for clues to a bank robbery.
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Episode 4 - A Family of Independent Means
Release Date: 1996-12-15Honey is fired and cannot find another job. Meanwhile, Hub and Fat try to earn money.
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Episode 5 - My Dog Pal
Release Date: 1996-12-22Hub and Fat earn money taking care of a dog.
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Episode 6 - Something From Nothing
Release Date: 1997-01-05Uncle 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.
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Episode 7 - Moonshine Struck
Release Date: 1997-01-12While 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.
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Episode 8 - Train To Nowhere
Release Date: 1997-01-19Honey 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.
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Episode 9 - Aunt Grace's Wedding
Release Date: 1997-01-26Complications and a disapproving May threaten Grace's secret plans to attend an out-of-town wedding with Judd.
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Episode 10 - No Place Like Home
Release Date: 1997-02-02Trouble ensues when Uncle Joe makes a surprise visit to New Bedford; Honey and the boys continue their battle to bring baby Violet home.
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Episode 11 - Chasing Rainbows
Release Date: 1997-02-09The boys concoct some hair-brained schemes to raise money for Honey's birthday present; May gets into hot water when fundraising proceeds go missing.
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Episode 12 - Moving Mountains
Release Date: 1997-02-16Hub has trouble with school and gets involved with a bad crowd.
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Episode 13 - Back In My Arms Again
Release Date: 1997-02-23With Honey away at a hairdressing course, Fat learns that Matilda and Hugh plan to leave the country with Violet.