Wind at My Back

1h

Drama

Family

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

Episodes

Cast

Four Walls and a Roof (1)

1. Four Walls and a Roof (1)

1h

1st Dec 1996

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

Four Walls and a Roof (2)

2. Four Walls and a Roof (2)

1h

1st Dec 1996

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.

No Way of Telling

3. No Way of Telling

1h

8th Dec 1996

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

A Family of Independent Means

4. A Family of Independent Means

1h

15th Dec 1996

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

My Dog Pal

5. My Dog Pal

1h

22nd Dec 1996

Hub and Fat earn money taking care of a dog.

Something From Nothing

6. Something From Nothing

1h

5th Jan 1997

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.

Moonshine Struck

7. Moonshine Struck

1h

12th Jan 1997

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.

Train To Nowhere

8. Train To Nowhere

1h

19th Jan 1997

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.

Aunt Grace's Wedding

9. Aunt Grace's Wedding

1h

26th Jan 1997

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

No Place Like Home

10. No Place Like Home

1h

2nd Feb 1997

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

Chasing Rainbows

11. Chasing Rainbows

1h

9th Feb 1997

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.

Moving Mountains

12. Moving Mountains

1h

16th Feb 1997

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

Back In My Arms Again

13. Back In My Arms Again

1h

23rd Feb 1997

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

First air date

1st Dec 1996

Last air date

1st Apr 2001

Status

Ended

Type

Scripted

Original language

en

Networks