Road to Avonlea was an hour-long drama based on the works of Lucy Maud Montgomery. Story Girl, The Golden Road, Chronicles of Avonlea and Further Chronicles of Avonlea.

The year is 1903 and Blair Stanley is embroiled in a financial scandal. To protect his daughter Sara (Polley), he sends her to live her deceased mothers relatives on Prince Edward Island. Although she does not fit, in at the beginning she soon makes friends with the rest of the King cousins, Felicity (Zamprogna), Felix Cecily (Cramp/Atkinson) and Andrew (Blake). Soon she has the whole town enchanted with her magnificent story telling capabilities.

The program highlighted the talents of many Canadian actors such as, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Lally Cadeau, R.H Thomson, Colleen Dewhurst, and Cedric Smith. Some notable guest stars included, Stockard Channing, Faye Dunaway, Madeline Kahn, and Christopher Lloyd.

The series ended in 1996. Kevin Sullivan gave three reasons why he had pulled the plug on the highly rated show. “All possible plot and story combinations had been used and any new episodes would risk being redundant. Second, the cast grew up ... Sullivan didn’t want to keep replacing older cast members with younger ones.” The third and final reason that in a short time WW1 would begin and the town would be so deeply affected that it would be forever changed. So in the summer 1912 the wedding that all the fans had been waiting for took place and ended the era of innocence.

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