Episode | Air date | Synopsis |
It's a Long Way Up | January 24, 1975[16] |
Three teens climb Mount Hood in Oregon.[17] |
Give the Circus a Tumble | February 19, 1975[3][18] |
Three 11-year-olds spend a week with Circus Vargas as it tours and performs in Colorado.[3] |
Fly like a Bird | March 19, 1975[19] |
Two San Franciscans take glider and hang gliding lessons.[19] |
Once Upon a Horse | April 20, 1975[20] |
Two 12-year-olds get horse riding lessons and participate in a riding competition.[21] |
Sail on the Winds of Time | April 24, 1975[22] |
Teens learn aboard a replica of a 19th century schooner.[22] |
Texas Tenderfoot | May 30, 1975[23] |
Three teens from the San Francisco Bay region become wranglers, helping to drive horses from Big Bend National Park in West Texas to a ranch 60 miles (97 km) away.[23] |
Exploring Yesterday | June 6, 1975[24] |
Three children get to experience how the Native Americans of northern Minnesota lived.[25] |
A Seaful of Adventure | July 22, 1975[26] |
Three youngsters from the Boston area take a cruise on the Florida shrimp boat Lady Gin.[26][27] |
The Boys and Girls of Summer | September 4, 1975[28] |
A boy and a girl from Philadelphia go to the Philadelphia Phillies spring training camp in Florida.[28] |
Path of Papagos | November 16, 1975[29] |
Three youngsters experience the Native American way of life.[29] |
Puppets and Other People[30] | December 6, 1975[31] |
Three children from Boston construct a puppet under the supervision of puppeteer Kermit Love.[31][32] Kevin Clash, the best known puppeteer to perform as Sesame Street's Elmo, saw this episode as a teen and asked his mother to help him contact Love;[33] she succeeded, and Love eventually became his mentor. |
Where Do we Sign Up, When Do We Leave? | December 15, 1975[34] |
Three kids from the San Francisco area spend a week on a racing schooner exploring the Channel Islands of California.[35] |
Nashville: Over the Rainbow |
April 18, 1976[36] |
In the first episode of the second year,[9] a 13-year-old Dobro guitar player goes to Nashville and gets to perform with Bobby Bare.[37] |
Lights, Camels, Action | May 21, 1976[38] |
Three New Yorkers join a production company working on the film Hawmps!, a comedy about the United States Camel Corps, on location in Arizona and become extras in one scene.[39] |
And That's Jazz | June 11, 1976[40] |
Two budding musicians from New York go to New Orleans and join a jazz session.[41] |
Rogue Runners | July 23, 1976[42] | Some youngsters go on a five-day rafting trip on the Rogue River.[42] |
Some of My Best Friends are Dolphins | August 20, 1976[43] |
Two children work with dolphins at the Miami Seaquarium.[44] |
It's Really Magic | September 21, 1976[45] |
Two 11-year-olds from New York travel to Hollywood to work with the magician Shimada and perform at the Magic Castle.[45][46] |
How Do You Make a Moose Smile? | October 1, 1976[47] |
Three New York 11- and 12-year-olds are taught by a professional how to photograph wildlife in the wilderness.[48] |
North of the Arctic | December 4, 1976[49] |
Two youngsters from Portland, Oregon, become acquainted with an Eskimo family in Alaska.[49][50] |
Dance to the Music | December 5, 1976[51] |
Two teens spend a week at the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater in New York.[51][52] |
When Bold Knights Lanced | January 10, 1977[53] |
A boy and a girl attend the annual Medieval Festival at Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan.[53] |
Gym Dandys | February 11, 1977[54][55] |
Two kids from San Francisco receive lessons from gymnasts training for the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow.[54] |
Sing, West Virginia, Sing | March 15, 1977[56] |
Two young Philadelphians learn about the music and culture of Appalachia.[56] |