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The First Date
Candy Candy - S1 - E23
An incident reveals that the prize of the rodeo was a calf. Unable to keep it, Anthony leaves with Candy to find a way to get rid of it before managing to sell it to Tom's father. So they decide to spend their money on small pleasures, and visit the fortune teller who seems to see a bad omen for Anthony.
Candy Candy: Season 1 - 73 Episode s
1x1 - Candy's Birthday
October 1, 1976
At Pony's Home, an old church and orphanage run by Miss Pony and Sister Mary, young Tom discovers that something is amiss outside. When Miss Pony and Sister Mary go outside to investigate, they find two abandoned babies, Annie and Candy White. Over the next decade, the girls become best friends who try to sabotage visits from possible future parents in order not to be adopted.
1x2 - Candy and Annie's Picnic
October 8, 1976
Annie thinks more and more about having parents. To console her, Candy takes her on a picnic without telling the Pony House where they are going. Candy just leaves a letter explaining that they will return before nightfall. During their journey, they are swept away by the current of a river but brought back safely to the Brighton house.
1x3 - Goodbye Annie
October 15, 1976
The Brightons pretend to have a barbecue at the orphanage to ask to adopt Candy, but she wants to stay with Annie so she forces them to change their mind, which makes them fall back on Annie who agrees to be adopted.
1x4 - A Letter from Annie
October 22, 1976
Candy's life is punctuated by the passage of the letter carrier, Mr. Mathieu: she harasses him to get letters from Annie. But one day, Annie, under the pressure of her adoptive parents, writes her a farewell letter. In her sadness, she wanders to the hill where she meets a young man in a Scottish outfit who encourages her and whom she calls her "prince of the hill".
1x5 - From Today, I'll be a princess?
October 29, 1976
Candy departs for Lakeweood together with her raccoon Klint. She hitches a ride with Tom and his father Mr. Steave on their wagon. Mr. Steave expresses his doubts about the Leagans and advises Candy to be strong and never cry. From the very moment of her arrival, Candy is the victim of the nasty pranks by the Leagan children, Neil and Eliza.
1x6 - The Prince of the Hill
November 5, 1976
Candy wins the sympathy of the servants, but Daniel and Elisa continue to play nasty tricks on her. She hides Klint in the stable after trying to abandon him, but Daniel and Elisa take advantage of this to blackmail her. She runs away and meets a handsome boy at a flowery gate who reminds her of her prince from the hill, which encourages her to stay with the Legrands.
1x7 - Am I Elegant?
November 12, 1976
Candy attracts the wrath of the Legrands again and they punish her. So she decides to make an effort and become a real lady, but the Legrands want to make her a servant, so she runs away again and meets Archibald who is gallant.
1x8 - Invitation of Happiness
November 19, 1976
Elisa takes Candy to the city, but only to be a carrier. Elisa abandons her there, but Candy meets Alistair who helps her to come back home very quickly despite some adventures. Candy is invited to the party that welcomes Aunt Elroy who is going to live here (and at which she hopes to find her prince), but only because of her new friends.
1x9 - The Dance Where I Met Him
November 26, 1976
At the party, Elisa makes fun of Candy's outfit, but her friends put on casual clothes to support her. During Aunt Elroy's speech, Archibald makes Candy laugh, which brings shame on her. Archibald and Alistair make her a dress, and she gets a dance with Anthony at Elisa's expense.
1x10 - The Barn Princess
December 3, 1976
Unhappy with Candy's performance, the Legrands move her to the barn, but Sister Maria and John come to visit her, so she must keep up appearances, despite Elisa's protests. But the visitors discover the truth and Sister Maria gives her recommendations. Anthony, in compensation for Candy's difficult life, promises her a special rose for her birthday.
1x11 - The Small Ribbon
December 10, 1976
The Brightons visit the Legrands, but Annie must not show that she knows Candy. She is offered a horseback ride, but a trick by Daniel and Elisa wraps up the horse, and Candy must go to Annie's rescue, who shows her friendship by giving her a ribbon.
1x12 - A Rose-Scented Birthday
December 17, 1976
Candy discovers roses in the barn, but ends up understanding that it is Daniel who wanted to anger Anthony by making her look like a thief. She implicates him, but he says that the cat scratched her hands and accuses Candy of having stolen the ribbon, which discredits her. She flees to the river where she is saved by Albert, a vagrant, to be brought back by her three friends who have discovered the truth. Anthony gives her a new variety of rose, tender Candy.
1x13 - The Lonesome Three
December 24, 1976
Neil attempts to poison the horses, however, a shadow rushes into the barn and punches him, before running out again just as Candy arrives. Eliza blames Candy for Neil's black eye at the first opportunity, and torn between his pride, Eliza's wishes and his mother's insistence, Neil elects to blame Candy. Candy realizes it must have been Albert.
1x14 - The Old Tree in Spring
January 1, 1977
Mr. Leagan returns home from a long absence to find Candy downgraded to a servant, and decides Candy deserves a holiday at Pony's Home. Once there, Candy learns their neighbor, Mr. Cartwright, sold Father Tree to the eccentric Mr. Flannigan from Washington. He wants the tree all to himself, because he believes it would surrender the best business ideas. Candy leads the orphans and farm animals into an insurgency against the workers preparing the cutting and transportation of the tree.
1x15 - The Decision Which Took Away My Happiness
January 8, 1977
At the Leagans, Candy learns that Dorothy will be sent off to Mexico as an extra hand for the Ardley property. Mr. Leagan is absent again and cannot intervene. Anthony helps Candy to retrieve the horses Eliza and Neil chased out of the barn and compliments her on her lasso throwing skills. The Leagan children chased off the horses as a distraction, so they can frame Candy for thievery. As a result, Mrs. Leagan decides Candy will be sent to Mexico in Dorothy's place.
1x16 - Departure to an Unknown Country
January 15, 1977
The day before leaving for Mexico, Candy wishes to say farewell to Anthony, but instead witnesses how Anthony denounces his great-aunt when she orders her cousins never to play with the "thief" Candy. It does Candy's heart much good that all three believe in her, but she does not want Anthony to lose his family over her. She will go to Mexico and write him each day.
1x17 - In the Arid, Wild West
January 22, 1977
Candy discovers that Garcia, her pilot, has a bad temper. She discovers in the cart a poor family who is also leaving for Mexico. She leaves once to find milk for the baby, then she "borrows" the cart to have him treated in the nearest town. To pay the doctor, she has to sell her rosebush, then the family leaves.
1x18 - The Cross of Happiness
January 29, 1977
Candy saves Garcia from a snake bite and gives him her medallion, but he delivers her to bandits to save himself. Remorseful, he frees her, but she is kidnapped by a motorist.
1x19 - At the End of the Difficult Journey
January 5, 1977
Candy thinks she will be sold in Europe, but she manages to escape while her friends search for her. She arrives at the Rose Gate to discover that it is George who has kidnapped her, as Great Uncle William has decided to adopt her; the Legrands and Aunt Elroy can do nothing about it, as Uncle William is the absolute master of the Ardley family.
1x20 - Happy Like in a Dream
February 12, 1977
Candy now lives at the Ardley estate, together with the Cornwell brothers and Anthony and a closet full of dresses given by great-aunt Elroy. Neil and Eliza still try to persist in their lies and accusations, embarrassing great-aunt and provoking Anthony and the Cornwell brothers to remind them that Candy is a member of the family. When they make Neil beg on his knees for forgiveness, Candy stops them: without their deception, she would not have been sent to Mexico and Grandfather William would not have adopted her to save her.
1x21 - A Pigeon That Carried Friendship
February 19, 1977
To get back at Candy, Elisa takes Anthony into the woods and causes an accident with Tom who is carrying milk. Anthony brings Elisa, injured, back home, then fights with Tom who called him a coward. For this, Anthony is punished and confined in a castle in the woods with a ban on contacting Candy, who would have a bad influence on him.
1x22 - Don't Give Up, Anthony!
February 26, 1977
Despite the ban, Anthony and Candy correspond, first by carrier pigeon, then by a balloon designed by Alistair, which arrives at Elisa's house. Aunt Elroy discovers that Anthony wants to participate in a rodeo and tries to dissuade him, but a clever campaign convinces her to let him participate. And Anthony wins the rodeo.
1x23 - The First Date
March 5, 1977
An incident reveals that the prize of the rodeo was a calf. Unable to keep it, Anthony leaves with Candy to find a way to get rid of it before managing to sell it to Tom's father. So they decide to spend their money on small pleasures, and visit the fortune teller who seems to see a bad omen for Anthony.
1x24 - My Anthony
March 12, 1977
The bad omens are piling up but do not dampen Anthony's good mood. A fox hunt is organized to officially welcome Candy to the Ardley family. Candy and Anthony isolate themselves from the group, and as Anthony prepares to reveal the identity of Candy's prince, his horse catches his leg in a trap and throws his rider off, breaking his neck.
1x25 - Overcoming the Pain
March 19, 1977
The whole family is in mourning, and Anthony is buried in the cemetery, Candy being relegated to the church. Aunt Elroy sees Candy as a bird of misfortune and Elisa accuses her of being responsible for Anthony's death. Finally, Candy decides to go back to Pony's house.
1x26 - Father-tree Knows
March 26, 1977
Candy spends her time moping at Pony's house, so Jimmy, a newbie, doubts her status as a leader and is unpleasant with her. Then he challenges her to running and climbing, ignoring that Candy excels in these disciplines. She wins, earning his esteem.
1x27 - A Present of Angels
April 2, 1977
Christmas Eve promises to be gloomy for Miss Pony and Sister Maria, because Mr. Cartwright, their landlord, wants to enlarge his ranch by taking the house. Candy and Jimmy decide to persuade him not to do so. After a first approach which proves to be a failure, they take all the orphans, dressed as angels, to present their wishes to the men of the ranch. The orphanage is saved!
1x28 - Scar on the Healed Soul
April 9, 1977
Mr. Cartwright has become a friend of Pony's house. He lends his cart so that everyone can visit Tom. He proposes to Candy to adopt him. Candy goes for a walk with Archibald and Alistair who tell her that they are leaving for England soon.
1x29 - A Departure Full of Hope
April 16, 1977
Candy declines Mr. Cartwright's offer. She feels the vocation of becoming a teacher, but George comes to seek her. She runs away in the rain with Jimmy, who is already sick and whose condition is getting worse. She is finally not mature enough to be a teacher, but watches over Jimmy until he recovers, then leaves with George.
1x30 - Love Transcends Raging Waves
April 23, 1977
Candy shows her altruism on the boat that takes her to England: she treats a seagull and then supports the captain who wants to deviate from his course to save shipwrecked people while the influential passengers are opposed to it. But her stubbornness and her good heart make them change their minds, so a party is organized for the captain who risked his place. On the rail, she sees a young man who looks like Anthony.
1x31 - A New Day in the Old Capital
April 30, 1977
This young man goes from tears to laughter as Candy approaches him and makes fun of her. Archibald and Alistair come to pick her up and want to take Klint to the zoo because he will not be allowed to go to college. He runs away and is almost killed by a hunter. She goes to the hotel where she thinks she will meet Uncle William, but she finds this young man, Terrence, from a big family.
1x32 - Another Pony Hill
May 7, 1977
Candy gets Klint into St. Paul's College, but he gets her into trouble. The rules are very strict. She meets Patricia, but Elisa starts to bully her again and plays new tricks on her using Patricia who doesn't dare to oppose her. Finally, Terrence makes a scandal during the service of the mass. She discovers a hill which reminds her of her own.
1x33 - A Strange Student
May 14, 1977
Candy is quarantined by Elisa, but Patricia's grandmother steps up and pushes her granddaughter to bond with Candy, all the while wanting to experience life as a middle schooler in a strange way.
1x34 - The Returned Envelope
May 21, 1977
A bad trick of Elisa's turns against her, as she was making fun of Candy's letter. So, she sends Daniel and his cronies to take revenge on her, but Terrence intervenes. Alistair and Archibald invite Candy and tell her that Archibald had a fight with Terrence and that Annie will come to the school.
1x35 - A Wonderful Sunday
May 28, 1977
The Ardley's got permission to go out this Sunday and see Aunt Elroy, but Candy didn't request it, so she has to stay. So she joins Terrence at the hill. Then Mr. Brighton takes her to see the horse races and tells her that Annie is coming.
1x36 - Revived smiles
June 4, 1977
1x37 - A wondrous encounter
June 11, 1977
1x38 - The secret of Terrius
June 18, 1977
1x39 - A treasure which caused anger
June 25, 1977
1x40 - Freely leaving the contemplation room
July 2, 1977
1x41 - Fairy of the school festival
July 9, 1977
1x42 - A midnight picnic
July 16, 1977
1x43 - Summer school at the shore of a lake
July 23, 1977
1x44 - The link between a mother and a child
July 30, 1977
1x45 - White party for two
August 7, 1977
1x46 - Excitement at the end of the summer
August 14, 1977
1x47 - Eliza's trap
September 16, 1977
1x48 - Within the cold, thick walls
September 23, 1977
1x49 - Terry's decision
September 30, 1977
1x50 - Departure shrouded by the morning mist
October 7, 1977
1x51 - Long way to the port
October 14, 1977
1x52 - The star I saw from the barn
October 21, 1977
1x53 - The dawn at Mount Rodney
October 28, 1977
1x54 - Night fog at the Southampton port
November 4, 1977
1x55 - Two Stowaways
November 11, 1977
1x56 - On the Other Shore of the Stormy Sea
November 18, 1977
1x57 - The Port Through the Window
November 25, 1977
1x58 - Silvery Homeland
December 2, 1977
1x59 - One Day as a Naughty Teacher
December 9, 1977
1x60 - Determined Footsteps That Resound in One's Heart
December 16, 1977
1x61 - The Sob Underneath the Snow
December 23, 1977
1x62 - Steam Whistle Towards New Frontiers
December 30, 1977
1x63 - The Granny in the Street
January 6, 1978
1x64 - The Angel in White is a Dim-Wit
January 13, 1978
1x65 - The Smiling Nurse
January 20, 1978
1x66 - Grandfather From Dreams
January 27, 1978
1x67 - Where is She?
February 3, 1978
1x68 - Scattering Flower Petals of Springtime
February 10, 1978
1x69 - White Rose of Memories
February 17, 1978
1x70 - A Cute Bride
February 24, 1978
1x71 - Mr. Sailor on the Hill
March 3, 1978
1x72 - The Young Lady at the Special Care Ward
March 10, 1978
1x73 - Rumors About Terrius
March 17, 1978