Episodes

1. Cute guy in the black mask

2. My new friend

3. Friendship

4. Moon over Milwaukee

5. A gift for Oscar

6. Goodbye to the Skunk

7. Which is faster, horses or cars

8. Frog Boxing

9. Mother returns home

10. The first adventure

11. Disappearing sugar cubes

12. One cent books

13. The first day of summer vacation

14. A childless mother

15. Alice and friends

16. A fun party!

17. Adventures of Rascal

18. A mysterious young man I met in the forest

19. Rascal and corn

20. Sterling's grief

21. Rascal, stop!

22. Forests, lakes, and animals

23. Carl's Calamity

24. The canoe ride

25. The Fawn

26. Summer on the lake

27. A difficult decision

28. Caged

29. Fly the starry sky

30. No scrimping

31. Fireworks

32. The trick with the churn

33. Donnybrook wins the race

34. Preparing for the hunt

35. Carl and Flora

36. Finally a Job

37. Fresh morning milk

38. Nice memories

39. Forgotten birthday

40. First snow

41. A strange patient

42. Christmas is coming

43. A great gift

44. Battle on the ice

45. Alone in a snowstorm

46. Fathers lonely face

47. Miracle in the stable

48. Taming of the Shrew

49. Snow fort

50. Ceremonial canoe launch

51. One more week

52. Farewell

Overview

The story is set in 1914 in Breisford in Wisconsin, near Lake Koshgonong. One spring day the little Sterling finds in the forest a raccoon cub whose mother has just been killed by a hunter; He decides to treat him and keep him by giving him the name Rascal. The boy and the raccoon become inseparable friends from that day, although Sterling soon realizes, after a series of small disasters that Rascal causes in the gardens of neighbors, that cohabitation between men and wild animals can sometimes be very difficult . Thus began the last unforgettable year of Sterling childhood, punctuated by small and big adventures with its large Rascal friends, Oscar and Alice among the animals she loves so much, but marked by the death of the mother and the financial ruin of the father who lost almost all that he has to repay debts.

Details

Cast

Masako Nozawa

Toshihiko Utsumi

Yoshiko Matsuo

Michiko Hada

Masato Yamanouchi