WonderWorks Season 4, Episode 16: Gryphon

1

The Fig Tree

Miranda, a sensitive young loner, seeks help from her grandmother and an odd aunt in her struggle to understand death.

60 min

2

The Littlest Horse Thieves (1/2)

In a Yorkshire mining town at the turn of the century, three brave children attempt to rescue a group of pit ponies from the slaughterhouse.

60 min

3

The Littlest Horse Thieves (2/2)

A mine explosion threatens to sabotage the children's attempts to rescue the pit ponies.

60 min

4

Isaac Littlefeathers

An American Indian boy's struggle with racial prejudice is eased by his friendship by a kind old Jewish man.

60 min

5

Home at Last

A tough New York City boy gets a chance at a new life when he takes an orphan train to Nebraska to live with a hard-working farm family.

60 min

6

Taking Care of Terrific

A police action results from efforts by a teenage girl and a street musician to provide a special evening for the neighborhood's homeless.

60 min

7

Frog

After a witch turns him into a frog, a teenager makes use of his scientific talents to reclaim a poisoned pond.

60 min

8

Golden Pennies (1/2)

Robbed of their fortune, an English family struggles to make a living in an Australian mining town, where they find close friends and a dangerous enemy.

60 min

9

Golden Pennies (2/2)

Robbed of their fortune, an English family struggles to make a living in an Australian mining town, where they find close friends and a dangerous enemy. (Conclusion)

60 min

10

Anne of Green Gables, The Sequel (1/2)

AKA Anne of Avonlea (Parts 1 & 2). Anne leaves home to teach at a girls' school in Kingsport.

60 min

11

Anne of Green Gables, The Sequel (2/2)

AKA Anne of Avonlea (Parts 3 & 4). Anne finally wins acceptance by the Kingsport community and even finds romance with the widowed father of a student. Feeling homesick, Anne returns to Avonlea, where she finds Gilbert gravely ill.

60 min

12

A Waltz Through the Hills (1/2)

Following their mother's death, two children begin a trek across western Australia, hoping to reach their grandparents in England.

60 min

13

A Waltz Through the Hills (2/2)

The children continue their dangerous odyssey through the Australian outback.

60 min

14

Hiroshima Maiden

A young Japanese woman scarred by atomic radiation lives with a U.S. family while undergoing plastic surgery.

60 min

15

Places Not Our Own

A woman, abandoned by her husband, encounters prejudice against her Metis family as she struggles to support them in Depression-era Canada.

60 min

16

Gryphon

An imaginative substitute teacher mesmerizes a tough Hispanic student and brightens his outlook.

60 min