As of July 2026, Candy Candy Season 1 aired in 1976 with 115 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.

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Candy Candy Season 1

1976 115 Episodes Animation · Drama ⭐ 9/10

If you want animation that is not just for kids, Candy Candy Season 1 is available on streaming right now. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. Its 9/10 TMDB score, built from 711 ratings, reflects a title that consistently delivers. Minori Matsushima brings more to the role than the format usually demands. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Candy Candy Season 1 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Candy Candy Season 1 has the visual identity that makes it immediately recognisable, and the writing to back it up. Season 1 of Candy Candy includes 115 episodes. It aired from October 1976 to February 1979. This season stars Minori Matsushima, Makio Inoue and Kei Tomiyama. Minori Matsushima and Makio Inoue lead a cast that brings real weight to the material. It was aired in 1976. The animation style is distinctive enough to be immediately recognisable, but it is the writing underneath that keeps viewers coming back for more. It sustains a level of quality that very few manage to hold onto all the way through.

Genuinely enjoyable for a wide range of viewers, Candy Candy Season 1 treats animation as a delivery mechanism, not a limitation. It stands on its own even without an obvious comparison point. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. Minori Matsushima's voice work is a big part of what makes it distinctive. If you have been sleeping on it because of the format, the format is not the thing here.

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🎬 Candy Candy Season 1 — Episode Guide

Candy's Birthday

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 ...

Candy and Annie's Picnic

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 brou...

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.

A Letter from Annie

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 ou...

From Today, I'll be a princess?

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 pra...

The Prince of the Hill

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...

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.

Invitation of Happiness

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 princ...

The Dance Where I Met Him

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.

The Barn Princess

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 ...

The Small Ribbon

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.

A Rose-Scented Birthday

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 whe...

The Lonesome Three

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 C...

The Old Tree in Spring

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 ...

The Decision Which Took Away My Happiness

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 Leaga...

Departure to an Unknown Country

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 los...

In the Arid, Wild West

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 ...

The Cross of Happiness

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.

At the End of the Difficult Journey

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 Willia...

Happy Like in a Dream

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...

🎭 Cast of Candy Candy Season 1

Minori Matsushima

Minori Matsushima

Candice White Ardlay (voice)

Makio Inoue

Makio Inoue

William Albert Ardlay (voice)

Kei Tomiyama

Kei Tomiyama

Terruce G. Granchester (voice)

Kazuhiko Inoue

Kazuhiko Inoue

Anthony Brown (voice)

Kaneta Kimotsuki

Kaneta Kimotsuki

Alistair Cornwell (voice)

Yuji Mitsuya

Yuji Mitsuya

Archibald Cornwell (voice)

Mami Koyama

Mami Koyama

Annie Brighton (voice)

Chiyoko Kawashima

Chiyoko Kawashima

Patricia O'Brien (voice)

Yumi Nakatani

Yumi Nakatani

Eliza Leagan (voice)

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Kiyoshi Komiyama

Neil Leagan (voice)

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