The made-for-television version of Johanna Spyri's family classic. Heidi (Jennifer Edwards), a young orphan girl, is sent to live with her grandfather (Michael Redgrave) in the beautiful Swiss Alps. The gruff and bitter old man views Heidi at first as an ill-mannered child and an unwanted responsibility, but he soon becomes quite attached to her.
Freddie Bartholomew stars as a poor nine-year-old boy who turns out to be the long-lost heir to a British fortune. DVD also includes the "Our Gang Follies of 1938."