The Circus

what happens

A ragtag circus, consisting only of Heart and Atlantis, a mother-and-daughter team, arrives in Colorado Springs. Heart, the mother, enlists the townsfolk to participate as performers. Everyone accepts but Mike, whom Heart tries to engage as a trapeze performer. Later, in the homestead, Colleen reveals her fear of being in the limelight, and Brian asks Sully if he'll perform on the trapeze, per Heart's request. Sully says to Mike, ""I will, if you will,"" upon which Mike says she'll perform if Colleen will. Colleen reluctantly accepts the challenge. Heart engages the Reverend to be a magician, with Miss Dorothy as his lovely magician's assistant. Brian and Loren are the designated clowns. Colleen, Atlantis and Matthew do a tightrope act together, and Jake is pressed into service as the ring announcer. The town happily embraces their various roles in the circus, but friction occurs between Mike and Heart when Mike discovers that Atlantis, Heart's daughter, has webbed fingers. Mike wants to

who made it

directed

Lorraine Senna

written

Jeanne C. Davis

guest cast

Billed for this episode only — the turn people remember an episode for.

• Lisa Rieffel as Atlantis
• Jim Knobeloch as Jake Slicker
• Orson Bean as Loren Bray
• Fionnula Flanagan as Heart
• Helene Udy as Myra Bing
• JJennifer Youngs as Ingrid
• Frank Collison as Horace Bing
• Geoffrey Lower as Rev. Timothy Johnson