The recently widowed Jo March Behr continues to run the school she and her late husband founded, a school for boys called "Plumfield."
4.3 / 5
Episode 1
Josephine (Jo) Bhaer and her husband Fritz have run a boarding school for boys for several years. Now that Fritz has died everyone assumes that Jo will close the school. When Nick, a sailor home from the sea, hires on as handyman, Jo sees that there is a chance to keep the school open.
Episode 2
A dangerous measles epidemic breaks out at the school.
Episode 3
As Thanksgiving nears Amy decides that doesn't want her daughter in school with boys. Nick decides to return to the sea.
Episode 4
An old friend of Dan turns up at the school and asks Dan to leave with him.
Episode 5
Prejudice finds some unlikely allies when a poor black family arrives at Plumfield.
Episode 6
Nick and the children discover a battered pregnant woman in the forest.
Episode 7
Jo finds out that Nick can't read. The students are tasked with doing a good deed in order to learn the meaning of the word Philanthropy.
Episode 8
Nan plagiarizes one of Nat's essays. Laurie joins a poker game.
Episode 9
Meg is attracted to a friend of Laurie's. Dan and Bess are paired on a science project.
Episode 10
After Jo's carriage overturns, Nick searches for her; Dan is left in charge of the children.
Episode 11
Asia's estranged father attempts a reconciliation; another woman pursues Nick.
Episode 12
When Nat wants to enter a father son ski race with Nick as his surrogate fathers, Jo must teach Nick to ski.
Episode 13
Amy moves to Plumfield. Dan befriends a native american and goes on a vision quest of his own.