Advanced search
- TITLES
- NAMES
- COLLABORATIONS
Search filters
Enter full date
to
or just enter yyyy, or yyyy-mm below
to
to
to
Exclude
Only includes titles with the selected topics
to
In minutes
to
1-55 of 55
- Jack has a romantic proposal in mind, but a new butler and his daughter, Flo, spells trouble for the gang, while Ashok reveals his secret - a priceless diamond hidden in Calendar Hall.
- The gang follow clues as they search for the Dawn Star, not realising that Ambrose is looking for it, too. Rosamund surprises everyone when she brings an old enemy back to the house.
- Hetty and the gang find crucial clues to the Dawn Star, although Flo and Ambrose are now watching them closely and Lady Grenford appears to know more about the diamond than she is letting on.
- Lizzie discovers a secret tunnel with a clue, while the gang races Ambrose to find the jewel, and Hetty fears that Ashok is growing too friendly with Lady Grenford.
- The gang realise they need to break through a wall to get to the jewel - but can they do it without being discovered? And what will Agnes do when she finds out Gideon and the others have been lying to her?
- The gang are in danger when Rosamund leaves Lady Grenford and Ambrose in charge. Hetty finally cracks the code - but can the gang get to the Dawn Star in time?
- The gang are stunned when Hetty is accused of stealing the Dawn Star, and a fire in the barn leads to a dramatic escape.
- Hetty, on the run in London, is shocked to discover an old friend in the workhouse. Back at Calendar Hall, the gang have a plan to prove Hetty is innocent and that Ambrose is the real thief.
- Hetty and the gang race back to Calendar Hall to stop Ambrose before anyone gets hurt, and to discover the truth about what really happened at the house.
- An introduction to the last series of Hetty Feather. Based on the books by Jacqueline Wilson, Hetty is fired from Calendar Hall after a tragic crisis. Also some familiar faces are shown.
- Hetty, now on the streets, is shocked when she discovers her greatest enemy in a desperate situation.
- In great danger, Hetty will need all her strength to save Matron.
- A musical episode. Hetty is determined to bring Sheila back from the workhouse. When she and Gideon go on a charity mission to London, however, they are caught up in a street gang. The whole crew are trying to get back to Calendar Hall by Christmas.
- In Victorian London foundlings Hetty Feather and Gideon Smeed are fostered by the Cotton family until the age of five when they are taken to the foundling hospital, run by the austere Matron Bottomly and separated into different wings for boys and girls. Having sworn that she would look after Gideon Hetty makes efforts to see him, meeting Mathias, an older boy who looks after Gideon and who plans to escape and run away to sea. Hetty helps Mathias craft a letter to the man who will facilitate this and plans to join him and other boys in an escape attempt. However, thanks to the She-Mob, a group of nasty girls who seek to ingratiate themselves with matron, she fails to join the escapees. Following the discovery that three boys have gone the hospital is subject to an even harsher regime.
- Gideon plans on escaping in search of his parents, but Vince and Judd have other plans.
- Hetty tells her friends Harriet and Polly that it will soon be her and Gideon's birthdays as celebrated at the foster parents and, since the sexes are segregated, she must think of a way to meet Gideon for a celebration. When food is stolen from the kitchen Matron orders a lockdown but Hetty takes advantage of a rat infestation to get a message to Gideon and later, under the guise of helping the rat-catcher lay traps, she and her friends obtain access through the loft to a tower where they meet Gideon and his friends and establish their own den. Later that night the food thief is caught - it is Mathias who, having escaped, has returned to the hospital where he is hiding.
- Matron attempts to coerce a cowed Mathias into being her spy as she sets the orphans to work making toys, supposedly destined for charities though Gus discovers that she and tradesman Cooper are planning to sell them to stores for profit and leads the others in sabotaging the goods. They are almost caught but Mathias rescues them before explaining how he returned to the hospital to avoid being sold as a slave. Matron is angry when she sees the damaged toys but, as the children are falling ill due to lead paint, humane teacher Mr Cranbourne persuades her to stop her venture, pointing out that the governors would not be happy to know about her deal with a rogue like Cooper.
- A new foundling arrives, a little girl called Eliza, who was fostered with the same family as Hetty though Hetty is disappointed that her borrowed brother Jem seems to have forgotten her. Matron also receives a visitor, her kindly sister Annie, appalled that Matron will not visit their dying mother. When Eliza takes revenge on Matron by shredding her clothes Hetty takes the blame and is put in solitary but Annie discovers the real culprit and rescues Hetty, explaining that she and her sister were also raised in a workhouse, hence Matron's severe attitude. Thus Hetty has information to use against her enemy and is also cheered to find that Jem has not forgotten her at all.
- The foundlings must perform a hymn by composer Mr Melrose to sing at a charity lunch but they are bored by it so kindly Nurse Winterson teaches them a music hall song, with the result that Matron sacks her. Hetty, aware that the nurse is the sole provider for her invalid father, persuades the children to go on strike and refuse to sing at the lunch but Matron tries to call her bluff by threatening punishment. Fortunately the children stage a concert of their own which so impresses Mr Melrose that he persuades Matron to reinstate Nurse Winterson.
- An army sergeant visits the hospital to recruit a drummer boy, the successful candidate being decided on the outcome of a series of tests. In the event the sergeant picks both Walter and Matthias - who has stood up for his friend against the bullying Vince but Matthias declines the offer, stating that his fight is within the hospital. Meanwhile Hetty and Sheila are forced to work together in the infirmary and call a brief truce whilst they help to bring the withdrawn Charlie out of his shell.
- Gideon gets a letter from his mother wanting to see him and he attempts to escape but Hetty proves to him it was a hoax perpetrated by the unpleasant Sheila. Meanwhile Hannah and Arthur Prestwick come to the hospital to reclaim the little girl they left there. Matron claims that no such child was ever admitted but Hetty comes up with proof and her friend Mary is reunited with her parents. Hetty's attempts to persuade a humane governor, Lady Asquith, that Matron is selling the foundlings to cruel masters as apprentices are, however, less successful as Matron lies her way out of it.
- Sheila uses the open day as an opportunity to make some money, but ends up getting caught thieving! What will Matron Bottomly say?
- The bullying Blanche Newbould continues to be deliberately rude and threatening to everybody and even Matron seems too scared to punish her though one night Monica finds Blanche crying and reminds her that they were once good friends. Next day Blanche denies knowing her and Monica is later found dead, having fallen down a flight of stairs. Whilst it is an obvious accident Matron claims Monica tripped over brushes left by young decorator Stan Pollard, though Hetty and her sleuthing friends exonerate Stan when they force a surprising confession from Matron
- Matron holds a fund-raising art exhibition for the patrons, having locked Hetty in a dark outhouse as a punishment but Hetty is comforted by Ida, who gives her some surprising news whilst Blanche gets Sheila and Elizabeth into trouble and Mathias sneaks off to visit Harriet, who is now working for Lady Asquith. Meanwhile Matron is horrified when the governors decide that Mr Cranbourne should be appointed in joint control of the orphanage with her - his first act being to release Hetty.