High Feather

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High Feather
Genre	Educational
Country of origin	United States
Language(s)	English
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Broadcast
Original channel	PBS
Original airing	1980

High Feather is a 13-episode educational television show which ran on PBS in the 1980s; each episode was 30 minutes long. The name came from the Old English expression "High Fettle", meaning enjoying life and cheerfully doing the tasks of living.

The series, produced by the New York State Education Department in 1980, followed eight teenagers (four boys and four girls) at the High Feather Summer Camp, where they learn values of honesty, sportsmanship, nutrition, physical fitness, and getting along with others. The heartfelt spirit of the show was captured in the lyrics to its theme song, "I'm in High Feather. Feel like the sun is shining on me. High Feather. I'm as free as I can be..."

Some of the most memorable episodes included "Ballerina", where Leslie, an anorexic, starves herself to the point of exhaustion to achieve a dancer's body, and "Swim Test", where Tom was afraid to go shirtless in the lake because of his obesity.