Wind at My Back
Wind at My Back
TV ShowEnded

Wind at My Back

9.0 / 10
1996
5 seasons
65 episodes
DramaFamily

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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  • Ep 1

    1.Four Walls and a Roof (1)

    01-12-199660m

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

  • Ep 2

    2.Four Walls and a Roof (2)

    01-12-199660m

    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.

  • Ep 3

    3.No Way of Telling

    10.0
    08-12-199660m

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

  • Ep 4

    4.A Family of Independent Means

    15-12-199660m

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

  • Ep 5

    5.My Dog Pal

    22-12-199660m

    Hub and Fat earn money taking care of a dog.

  • Ep 6

    6.Something From Nothing

    05-01-199760m

    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 ch...

  • Ep 7

    7.Moonshine Struck

    12-01-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 8

    8.Train To Nowhere

    19-01-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 9

    9.Aunt Grace's Wedding

    26-01-199760m

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

  • Ep 10

    10.No Place Like Home

    02-02-199760m

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

  • Ep 11

    11.Chasing Rainbows

    09-02-199760m

    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.

  • Ep 12

    12.Moving Mountains

    16-02-199760m

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

  • Ep 13

    13.Back In My Arms Again

    23-02-199760m

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

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