Hetty Feather Season 1 Episode 2

Hetty Feather is a British children's drama series, which focuses on the life of the title character who was abandoned as a baby, lives first in a Foundling Hospital in London, and later works as a maid for a rich family in their home. It is based on the book of the same name by Jacqueline Wilson. The first series aired from 11 May 2015 to 6 July 2015. The series began airing in the United States on BYUtv in 2018. Cast member Fern Deacon confirmed that the sixth series, accompanied by a feature-length special, would be the final series.
Series 1 (2015)
"The Escape (Part 1)"
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.

First Appearances: Hetty Feather, Gideon Smeed, Sheila Ormsby, Polly Renfrew, Harriet Summers, Elizabeth Flounder, Monica Clackett, Mathias Grigg, Matron Bottomly, Donald Cranbourne, Walter Brittle, Ned, Judd Mortimer, Nurse Winterson, Nurse Macclesfield, Mary Crane and Vince Rickard