Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story the course of developing original characters and stories for seven seasons of "Road to Avonlea", the time frame of Sullivan's fictional world evolved into a 20-year difference from the Montgomery novels. As a result, Sullivan decided to make "Anne of Green Gables: The Continuing Story" a completely original work that took Anne and Gilbert to the battlefields of World War I instead of their children as in Montgomery's novels. The film was also criticised for introducing a continuity problem. Following Colleen Dewhurst's death in 1991, Marilla Cuthbert's death was written into the series "Road to Avonlea". At Marilla's funeral, Hetty
Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 Canadian television miniseries drama film based on the novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, and is the first in a series of four films. The film starred Megan Follows and was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Iran, Israel, Europe, and Japan. The film aired on CBC Television as a two-part mini-series on December 1 and December 2, 1985. Both parts of the film were among the highest-rated programs of any genre