High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! "The Return of Harmony" is the collective name for the first and second episodes of the second season of the American animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and the 27th and 28th episodes of the series overall. Both episodes were written by M. A. Larson and directed by series director James Wootton. Part one of the episode aired in the United States on September 17, 2011 on The Hub network. Part two aired the following week, on September 24. The episode received a Nielsen household rating of 0.2 and was viewed by over 339,000 viewers, making it the highest-rated episode ever broadcast by The Hub at that point.