Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel the Disney Channel as "Anne of Avonlea: The Continuing Story of Anne of Green Gables", and in two 150-minute installments, in December 1987 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, and in March 1988 on PBS, as "Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel". The film was also shown theatrically in Israel, Japan, and Europe as "Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel" and has been released on DVD under that title. Finally, in 2017, the miniseries was officially retitled "Anne of Avonlea" for its North American Blu-ray Disc release by Sullivan Films, as part of the "Anne of Green Gables" Collector's Set. The
Anne of Green Gables (1985 film) boy. Matthew and his sister Marilla had requested a boy to help them with the farm chores. He decides that he couldn't very well just leave the girl at the train station. Matthew takes Anne to meet Marilla, and on the buggy ride home, becomes completely smitten with the red-haired orphan girl. When Anne Shirley arrives at the Cuthberts' farm, called "Green Gables", she is a precocious, romantic child desperate to be loved and highly sensitive about her red hair and homely looks. In her own unique headstrong manner, Anne manages to insult the town gossip, Rachel Lynde, in a