Anne of Avonlea (1975 film) company's essay contest; fends off several suitors; and returns to Green Gables whenever she can to visit her adoptive mother, Marilla. Anne of Avonlea (1975 film) Anne of Avonlea is a film made for television 6-part miniseries, developed in the United Kingdom by the BBC as a sequel to its 1972 "Anne of Green Gables" miniseries. It is based on "Anne of Avonlea", the sequel to "Anne of Green Gables" by Lucy Maud Montgomery. This British version was directed by Joan Craft, with Kim Braden in the role of Anne. Anne begins a new job as a teacher at the
Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story Montgomery's novels; "Rilla of Ingleside" portrays Anne's sons going off to fight in World War I while Anne and husband Gilbert witness the War from the home-front of Prince Edward Island. (Rilla, the youngest daughter, raises someone else's little boy for a few years; he is referred to by the family as "Rilla's war-baby" and he was presumably the inspiration for Dominic in "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story".) While "The Continuing Story" was set in New York, England, France and Germany, it filmed almost entirely in studio or on locations in Montreal and Southern Ontario, including Toronto. In