Wind at My Back

📊 Series Specifications

Network CBC Television
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 5
Total Episodes 67
Original Language EN

Wind at My Back (1996)

⭐ 4.5 / 5 (5 votes) 🎬 5 Seasons 📼 67 Episodes 🏷️ Drama, Family 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

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

Seasons & Episodes

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E1 Four Walls and a Roof (1)

Financial hardships of the Great Depression hit Honey Bailey and her family, changing the life they had known.

E2 Four Walls and a Roof (2)

May 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.

E3 No Way of Telling

Honey's brother disappears with her savings. Meanwhile, the boys search for clues to a bank robbery.

E4 A Family of Independent Means

Honey is fired and cannot find another job. Meanwhile, Hub and Fat try to earn money.

E5 My Dog Pal

Hub and Fat earn money taking care of a dog.

E6 Something From Nothing

Uncle 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.

E7 Moonshine Struck

While 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.

E8 Train To Nowhere

Honey 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.

E9 Aunt Grace's Wedding

Complications and a disapproving May threaten Grace's secret plans to attend an out-of-town wedding with Judd.

E10 No Place Like Home

Trouble ensues when Uncle Joe makes a surprise visit to New Bedford; Honey and the boys continue their battle to bring baby Violet home.

E11 Chasing Rainbows

The boys concoct some hair-brained schemes to raise money for Honey's birthday present; May gets into hot water when fundraising proceeds go missing.

E12 Moving Mountains

Hub has trouble with school and gets involved with a bad crowd.

E13 Back In My Arms Again

With Honey away at a hairdressing course, Fat learns that Matilda and Hugh plan to leave the country with Violet.

Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →
Episodes for this season are available via edge tracking. View Episode 1 →