High Feather
High Feather is a 10-episode educational television show which ran on PBS in the 1980s; each episode was 30 minutes long. The program's name came from the Old English expression "High Fettle", meaning enjoying life and cheerfully doing the tasks of living. The heartfelt spirit of the show was captured in the lyrics to its theme song: "I'm in High Feather. Feel like the sun is shining on me. High Feather. I'm as free as I can be..." The series, produced by the New York State Education Department in 1980, followed eight teenagers at the High Feather Summer Camp, where they learn values of honesty, sportsmanship, nutrition, physical fitness, and getting along with others. The series was filmed at Camp Madison-Felicia and Camp Minisink. Some of the most memorable episodes included "Ballerina", where Leslie, an anorexic, starves herself to the point of exhaustion to achieve a dancer's body, and "Swim Test", where Tom was afraid to go shirtless in the lake because of his obesity.
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Seasons
- Ep 1
1.Deep Water Test
21-04-198030m - Ep 2
2.Stan's Secret
19-02-198030m - Ep 3
3.Swifty
21-04-198030m - Ep 4
4.A Nose for News
TBA30m - Ep 5
5.Ballerina
19-02-198030m - Ep 6
6.Lost in the Woods
21-04-198030m - Ep 7
7.Going Home
21-05-198030m - Ep 8
8.The County Fair
18-03-198030m - Ep 9
9.Saved from the Pound
21-04-198030m - Ep 10
10.Food Follies
12-05-198030m
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