Pit Pony

Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, 1904. Willie MacLean is an 12-year-old with a passion for horses and is helping his family get by the best since the death of...

Nellie's Aunt Rose arrives for a visit, and she does not get along with Ned after learning that Nellie lied to her about him being a farmer instead of...

Willie and schoolmates, Mollie and Angus, are forced to spend the night in an abandoned house reputed to be haunted on a dare from pit boy Spider. The...

In the aftermath of the recent pit flooding, Ned wants to organize a protest of the working conditions. But Mr. Frawley, and his MORE cynical and nast...

With Ned unjustly fired as an example by Mr. Frawley, Rose wants to take Maggie, Sarah, and Willie back to Halifax with her. Willie refuses to leave,...

With Ned and Nellie away in nearby Sydney celebrating their honeymoon, the snobbish, city slicker Rose finds herself the center of attention by a trav...

After Willie thinks he sees a ghostly pirate ship in the cove, he tries to get Mollie and Angus to help him search for a supposed buried treasure. Onl...

After Willie's horse, Sable, goes missing, Willie suspects that he may have been stolen and he is forced to sneak into the coal mine, disguised at a p...

Ben vouches for Ned to prove that the pit pony Sable is Willie's horse. Willie becomes determined to find out who stole his horse, and soon discovers...

More technology comes to Glace Bay starting with a public telephone installed in the lobby of Mrs. MacTavish's train station. After doing a school rep...

Using his new photo camera given to him by Alexander Graham Bell, Willie takes a photo of the old Borso haunted house, and it leads him to try to find...

L.B. Collins, a noted newspaper reporter from Halifax, arrives in Glace Bay to interview Willie after his photo of Stringy and his mother make news he...

When Ned is temporally laid off as the mine puts in new electric wires, Nellie thinks about getting a job. But Ned, due to his pride and ego, strongly...

When Ned is temporally laid off as the mine puts in new electric wires, Nellie thinks about getting a job. But Ned, due to his pride and ego, strongly...

When Rose offers to buy a large farmhouse for Nellie and Ned, they both find that there are naturally strings attached as Rose wants to model the hous...

Nellie decides to open her own laundry business, as Willie continues struggling between schoolwork and delivering packages for Mr. Frawley. Meanwhile,...

The evil and greedy Wendell Crowe begins to play hardball with Miss Harper by threatening to having her teaching license revoked unless she stops hold...

When Ned is nominated by the miners to run for president of the Provencial Workers Association, his rival, the head wrangler Jack Doyle, plots to use...

Willie and Charley look after Spider Davis' pit pony, Zack, after he falls ill. Willie asks Helen Borso for some special healing medicine for the hors...

Mollie asks Nellie to do a makeover on her in order to shed her tomboy image from hanging around Willie and Angus, and make her into a more of a girl....

When Nellie's laundry machine goes bust, she tries taking another job as assistant teacher at Miss Harper's school, but learns that there are no funds...

Maggie returns unexpectedly from Halifax, and soon finds how everything with Nellie, Willie, and Ned have changed for both better and worse. Meanwhile...

Charley finds himself haunted by his past involving the ghost of an old friend who keeps appearing before him involving a 30-year-old tragedy. Meanwhi...

Nellie begins to think that she might be pregnant which puts both a glimmer of hope for everyone as Willie and Maggie take over for one evening Nellie...

With Nellie now bedridden, she fears she may have Scarlet Fever, but is instead diagnosed with consumption. Willie and Maggie are forced to take over...

With Willie back working in the mine as the pit pony driver to cover for Stringy while he's still in the hospital recovering from his injuries, Willie...

As the newly elected first president of the Junior Mine Workers' Association, Willie asks Mr. Crowe to recruit a doctor who can treat consumption. Nel...

The national coal company's new doctor arrives in Glace Bay to treat the bedridden Nellie's advance case of consumption. In a surprising twist of fate...

Willie is given responsibility for checking a dangerous seam for methane. When an explosion brings down the roof, he's held accountable.

Mine owner Wendell Crowe, tired of Willie's combative attitude toward management, makes plans to teach him a lesson and keep him under control - start...

The Ponies are about to play their first big game without Willie. Charley takes him on a fishing trip to get his mind off the game, and Willie struggl...

After a fire breaks out, Ned accidentally stumbles upon the secret location that Spider Davis calls home. Ned is surprised to find that Spider has bee...

Tony's appointment as mine doctor proves to be a mixed blessing when the men find themselves over-billed for his services.

The Ponies are about to play for the championship, but the game might have to be forfeited. Ned and Dr. Tony Moressa get into a heated confrontation,...

Love is in the air, or is it? Willie and Maggie conspire to ignite a romance between Charley McGinnis and Anne Harper, the schoolteacher. Their plan r...

Ned feels the weight of his new responsibilities in his new position as the mine's overman. During some dangerous work involving the use of explosives...

While staying in Halifax, Sarah has turned into a tiny Aunt Rose, full of sophistication and pretension. Maggie tries to deal with her sister's new at...

Stringy Borso is leaving Glace Bay for baseball camp, and Nellie's choir is planning its first public performance in honour of this special occasion....

Glace Bay's new advances in technology results in more mechanization at the mine. Consequently, a large number of miners lose their jobs, and many ar...

The annual Fiddler's Fall is in jeopardy of being cancelled when beautiful and talented Theresa Cameron (Natalie MacMaster) arrives in town expecting...

A wild stallion is stealing ponies from the mine. In order to keep Doyle from shooting the animal, Willie and Charley must tame the stallion.

Ned's modern coal cutters continue to cause problems at the mine. Rufus and Scotty have trouble maintaining their machine and enlist Spider as their a...

Ned and Nellie unexpectedly receive a bundle of joy at their house. Unfortunately, the baby's arrival leads to a confrontation between the couple as t...

When Willie gets an opportunity of a lifetime to leave behind his life as a pit boy and attend photography school in Boston, he has to make a decision...