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The Best Episodes of Road to Avonlea

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In the fictional small town of Avonlea, Prince Edward Island, in the early 20th century, 10-year-old Montreal heiress Sara Stanley is sent by her wealthy father to live with her two maiden aunts, Hetty and

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    Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 11 - High Society
    8.5/10(60 votes)

    #1 - High Society

    S3:E11

    Felicity is invited to Kingsport Ladies College, because of her academic excellence. Once there,she is intimidated by the other girl's worldliness, so she lies and pretends that she is Sara's rich sister, using the story's of Sara's life. Gus, worries that he is losing Felicity, and decides that if ""good manners and breeding "" are important, he is going to get them. Sara and Pierre further Gus's education. Felicity has to face her parents with her lies, and learns a lesson in humility.

    Director:George Bloomfield
    Writer:Unknown

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  2. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 1 - The Ties That Bind (aka Sister of the Bride)
    8.4/10(61 votes)

    #2 - The Ties That Bind (aka Sister of the Bride)

    S3:E1

    aka ""The Ties That Bind"" Hetty takes over the plans for Olivia and Jasper's wedding, changing the small intimate ceremony they planned into a three-ring-circus. Jasper & Olivia want to elope; Janet is forced to do all of the work; the wedding ring is lost; the wedding gown arrives three times too big; and Hetty and Olivia are not speaking to each other. Here comes the bride...

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  3. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 5 - But When She Was Bad... She Was Horrid (2)
    8.4/10(67 votes)

    #3 - But When She Was Bad... She Was Horrid (2)

    S3:E5

    Back in Avonlea, Jo Pitts is wreaking havoc with Hetty, who believes that ""Sara"" has become deranged. When Jo decides she has had enough of Hetty, she decides to drown her. Sara and Gus escape the gang of theives, who are run by Abe Pike, and sail back to Avonlea just in time to stop Jo from robbing the town blind. Gus offers the King women some advice on how to handle Jo, and she is offered a home with Sara and Hetty at Rose Cottage. However, Jo decides to take her fate into her own hands and leaves town.

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 2 - Felix and Blackie
    8.0/10(63 votes)

    #4 - Felix and Blackie

    S3:E2

    Alec wants to sell Blackie, an aging farm horse and somewhat of a pet of Felix, after he purchases a new horse. Felix won't hear of it and decides to start a delivery business, with Sara's help, to pay for Blackie's feed. Felix is teased by the local business men and makes a foolish wager. This causes heartbreak for young Felix, and then a new beginning.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  5. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 12 - The Calamitious Courting of Hetty King
    8.0/10(51 votes)

    #5 - The Calamitious Courting of Hetty King

    S3:E12

    Wally Higgins, an ice skate salesman visiting Avonlea decides that Hetty is the perfect woman for him, she has the perfect sized feet. Wellington Campbell decides that part of the King property is his. Now Hetty works to keep both her freedom and her land. Felicity expects Gus to take her to the skating party and he has yet to ask her to go with him, but he is too proud to admit that he has no skates. When he confides this to Sara, she gives him a pair, but Gus doesn't know how to skate!

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  6. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 3 - Another Point of View (aka Facts and Fictions)
    7.9/10(64 votes)

    #6 - Another Point of View (aka Facts and Fictions)

    S3:E3

    aka ""Another Point of View"" Alec is elected to the school board, and Hetty feels that she is being unfairly criticized so she quits her job as schoolmistress in Avonlea. Her replacement is Alistair Dimple, an impoverished actor, pretending to be a teacher. Alistair inspires the students to learn by doing role-playing and, in turn, inspires Hefty to write a book about the island. Alec finds out Dimples ""identity"", but keeps quiet as Avonlea school battles it out for the History Championship competition against rival Carmody.

    Director:Allan King
    Writer:Unknown

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  7. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 7 - A Dark and Stormy Night
    7.9/10(63 votes)

    #7 - A Dark and Stormy Night

    S3:E7

    It is a dark and stormy night when Gus falls under the spell of beautiful Amanda Stone, much to Felicity's chagrin. Robert Rutherford arrives in Avonlea, on Amanda's very heels, and claims the gems Amanda left in safe keeping with Gus are stolen. Gus, smitten with Amanda, refuses to believe Rutherford's claims, however Felicity smells a rat in fine french perfume. The town's people hear about Gus's gems and begin to treat him differently. Then a series of events causes Gus and Felix to be thrown in jail and Gus sets out to find the truth.

    Director:Allan King
    Writer:Hart Hanson

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  8. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 8 - Friends and Relations
    7.8/10(49 votes)

    #8 - Friends and Relations

    S3:E8

    Sisters Janet and Abilgail, and Olivia and Hetty, spend the day at an auction, and the men, Jasper, Alec and Felix, all go ice fishing. Before the afternoon is over the women are not on speaking terms. Alec, Gus and Jasper try to deal with questions from Felix on ""life"" and ""women and men, together"". Gus talks to Jasper about what it feels like to be in love. The day ends with the women out looking for Abigail's son Lucky, whom they believe is out lost in a snow storm and the men go looking for the women. A joyous reunion takes place in the woods, before they all retire to the King Farm for warmth and renewed feeling for each other, and Jasper makes a toast, to friends...and relations.

    Director:Stephen Surjik
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  9. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 10 - After the Honeymoon
    7.8/10(50 votes)

    #9 - After the Honeymoon

    S3:E10

    Jasper Dale is studying bats, and Olivia feels inadequate by not being able to help with his work. A woman scientist comes to help and is smitten with Jasper. Hetty tutors Olivia in science, but it seems that Jasper loves her for her special skills, and not for the scientific knowledge she gains. Sydney Carver, the scientist leaves after ""making a fool of herself"" over Jasper.

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 13 - Old Friends, Old Wounds
    7.8/10(61 votes)

    #10 - Old Friends, Old Wounds

    S3:E13

    It is heartbreak at Green Gables when Marilla Cuthbert dies suddenly, and leaves no will. The assumption is that Anne would always inherit Green Gables from the Cuthberts. When Gilbert Blythe arrives in Avonlea and tries to buy Green Gables it is too late, one of the neighbors has bought it. Rachel Lynde and the children are now homeless, unless Rachel can make friends with the new owner. A man who ""hates"" Rachel. Rachel has to learn to ""mind her tongue"" if she wants a to continue to live at Green Gables.

    Director:George Bloomfield
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  11. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 4 - But When She Was Bad... She Was Horrid (1)
    7.7/10(55 votes)

    #11 - But When She Was Bad... She Was Horrid (1)

    S3:E4

    Sara is suffering growing pains, and Hetty refuses to recognize that the 'Story Girl' is growing up. Gus has news of Captain Crane in Halifax, and plans to travel there to meet him. Sara meets a look alike named, Jo Pitts. When Sara finds living with Hetty unbearable, she forces Gus to take her to Halifax with him. Jo Pitts pretends to be Sara, with the help of Felix. Gus has been tricked by Abe Pike, not Captain Crane who sent the message and Abe wants Gus to take him to Captain Crane & the treasure, so he holds his captive until Gus captiulates, and in the meantime, nasty thieves believe that Sara is Jo Pitts, who is one of their own, and take her captive....

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Unknown

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  12. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 6 - Aunt Janet's Rebellion
    7.6/10(53 votes)

    #12 - Aunt Janet's Rebellion

    S3:E6

    The Womens Suffrage Movement comes to Avonlea, and after hearing a suffragette speak, Janet decides to get a petition signed asking for women to have the right to vote. Her zeal causes problems at home and problems at the McCorkindale cannery when she tries to get them better wages. When her efforts finally land her in jail, Alec regrets not helping Janet with her petition and gets Hetty and many others in town to sign. The cannery workers are then given a pay raise, because of Janet's efforts and Mrs. McCorkindale's practicality.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  13. Road to Avonlea Season 3 Episode 9 - Vows of Silence (aka True Confessions)
    7.4/10(49 votes)

    #13 - Vows of Silence (aka True Confessions)

    S3:E9

    aka ""Vows of Silence"" The new minister in town, gives a 'hell-fire-and-brimstone' sermon which convinces the children that the world is coming to an end. The adults have no idea that the children have taken the sermon so seriously. The children go to the lighthouse, prepared to confess their sins, and hope this will save the world. A lunar eclipse convinces them the end is nigh...and Felix's confession almost makes Felicity put an end to him.

    Director:Gilbert M. Shilton
    Writer:Hart Hanson

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  14. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 1 - The Journey Begins
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - The Journey Begins

    S1:E1

    Sara Stanley is a wealthy child sent to stay with distant relatives on Prince Edward Island, when her father is accused of embezzlement. She finds the life on the small island a challenge, and getting to know her mother's family is not much easier. At first Sara resents being in Avonlea. Her mother's sister, Hetty King, resents Sara's Nanny Louisa and sends her back to Montreal. Sara is left to live with her Aunt's Hetty and Olivia in Rose Cottage. My favourite quote: ""As the eldest in the family, I'm used to making unpopular decisions."" ~ Hetty King.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  15. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 2 - The Story Girl Earns Her Name
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Story Girl Earns Her Name

    S1:E2

    Content to stay on at Rose Cottage, with her Aunt's Hetty & Olivia, Sara makes friends with Jasper Dale, 'The Awkward Man' of Avonlea. In the meantime, the school board has decided to hold a 'magic lantern' show and use the proceeds for the school library fund. The man they hire to do this show is in actuality a confidence man, who Sara inadvertently helps skip town with the money. Sara wants to put on a show to replace the missing funds and asks the help of the shy Jasper, who is an inventor and owns a 'magic lantern'. Sara gives a heartfelt recitation of ""The Little Match Girl"", and she is forever known as ""The Story Girl"", in Avonlea.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  16. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 3 - The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's

    S1:E3

    A mischevious Sara and Felix sneak into grumpy old Alexander Abraham's house, on a dare, not knowing that he is ill and about to be quarantined. Avonlea busy-body, Rachel Lynde enters his house looking for his farm boy who has been skipping her Sunday School Class. All are quarantined together. Alexander is a woman hater, Rachel a 'do-gooder', and the house is an unmitigated mess. Rachel nurses Alexander through his illness, Felix too, when he falls ill. Sara helps cleans his house, and learns that there is more to life than just reading books all the time. Through the help of the children and Rachel Lynde, Alexander is no-longer a cranky old man, and somewhat less of a woman-hater. Mrs. Rachel, however, remains a 'do-gooder'.

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  17. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 4 - The Materializing of Duncan McTavish
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - The Materializing of Duncan McTavish

    S1:E4

    Everyone in Avonlea knows everything about everyone. Exasperated, Marilla Cuthbert, ""creates"" a beau for the ladies of the sewing circle. To Marilla's distress, a traveling salesman with the same name she 'made up' shows up in town. Marilla faces Duncan McTavish and tells him the truth. Realizing the predicament she is in, Duncan helps Marilla stop all of the wagging tongues in Avonlea.

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  18. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 5 - Old Lady Lloyd (aka Song in the Night)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Old Lady Lloyd (aka Song in the Night)

    S1:E5

    "Old Lady Lloyd" is believed to be a very wealthy woman, but she is actually living in poverty in her mansion. Sara befriends Miss Lloyd and wants to help her. Sylvia Gray, a friend of Olivia's visiting Avonlea, is the daughter of Miss Lloyd's former beau, who Miss Lloyd has never forgiven. Young Miss Gray has a magnificent singing voice, and Miss Lloyd, after a long conversation with Peg Bowen, walks through a thunder storm to get her cousin, with whom she has not spoken in years, to finance the young woman's career. The lesson is about forgiveness.

    Director:Bruce Pittman
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 6 - Proof of the Pudding
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Proof of the Pudding

    S1:E6

    Bossy cousin Felicity is left in charge of all the children when Aunt Janet and Uncle Alec go away to celebrate their 15th wedding anniversary, and then Aunt Hetty decides she must go to Charlottetown to protect the farms "water rights". Felicity soon antagonizes the other children into misbehaving. Felix eats ""poison berries"", Sara smears Felicity's cherry pie all over Felicity's dress and even cuts off some of her ""perfect"" hair. A visit by the Governor's wife makes for confusion as to her identity. By the story's end, the children have all ""learned lessons"" and Sara become friends with the formerly unfriendly Felix and Felicity. My favourite quote: ""Felicity King is known throughout Avonlea for her cherry pies and sawdust pudding"" ~ Felix King

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  20. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 7 - Conversions
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Conversions

    S1:E7

    The children are enthralled went a missionary visits Avonlea. Sara is distressed that Peter, the hired boy, has ""no religion"" and sets about getting him to go to church. Peter comes down with influenza and the children come to realize how precious life is. Hetty and Olivia start to treat him less like hired help and more like family; Peter goes to school with the King children.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 8 - Aunt Abigail's Beau
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Aunt Abigail's Beau

    S1:E8

    Janet King's sister, Abigail (Aunt 'Crabigail') Ward, is a fussy old maid, who lives in a spotlessly clean house. When her old beau, Malcolm McEwan comes back, rich, from the Yukon; he sets about wooing Abigail. At first she accepts, but the big man leaves such a mess, is so demonstrative, and buys her so many gifts that Abigail panics and returns his ring. Sara and Felicity are in raptures over the romance, and when they find out Malcolm is leaving town, they tell Abigail. She covers herself with Malcolm's gifts, and with Sara and Felicity holding on for dear life, races after the stage and begs Malcolm to return. Favourite quote: ""Let Mr. MacEwan drive the buggy home."" ~Sara to Abigail (after a wild buggy ride)

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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  22. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 9 - Malcolm and the Baby
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - Malcolm and the Baby

    S1:E9

    Back from their honeymoon, Malcolm suggests starting a family; Abigail says that she is too old for children, and they fuss quite a bit. Sara and Felicity find a newly orphaned baby and leave him on the McEwan's door step, hoping to smooth rough waters between the couple and give them something that they need. Enemies Rachel Lynde and Aunt Hetty both decide that they have a greater claim to the baby and both want him. In the end it is decided that the baby is better off with Malcolm and Abigail.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 10 - Felicity's Challenge
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Felicity's Challenge

    S1:E10

    Felicity's pride is her downfall. She brags that she could make anyone popular, even poor sweet Clemmie Ray. She even makes a bet with snooty Sally Potts and her co-hort Jane Spry that Clemmie will shine at the Harvest Ball.Alec King's principals are put to the test when a visiting politician, whom he supports, tries to ""buy"" his vote by offering to select Felicity's costume as the 'Best' at the Harvest Ball. Clemmie is Clemmie and is not popular at the ball, and Felicity, because of her fathers decision, does not win 'Best Costume' or her bet with Sally Potts. The children, however, learn about the value of friendship and being true to oneself.

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  24. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 11 - The Witch of Avonlea
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - The Witch of Avonlea

    S1:E11

    With Aunt Hetty as the Avonlea schoolmistress, Felix is feeling like the ""dunce"" that she tells him he is. With the help of Peg Bowen, the Witch of Avonlea and a ""magic stone"" Felix hopes to win the spelling bee, but then he loses the stone. His sister, Felicity sees her dream of becoming the Spelling Champion vanish, when it is Felix who wins. Felix learns that he always had the ability to win and he only needed a bit of self-confidence, just as the wise Peg Bowen wanted him to learn. Favourite quote: ""Cows and sows give birth as well, but to my knowledge, this doesn't qualify them for Teachers' College."" ~ Hetty King

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  25. Road to Avonlea Season 1 Episode 12 - The Blue Chest of Arabella King
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - The Blue Chest of Arabella King

    S1:E12

    aka ""The Blue Chest of Arabella King"" Arabella King, a distant relative, was jilted at the altar, and left all of her wedding finery in a chest which sits in the King Farm kitchen for years. The curious Sara and her cousins Felix and Felicity try to persuade the adults to open the chest. Upon the notification of Arabella's death, they are free to open the chest.Aunt Olivia has begun working for the newspaper and finds a story in the contents of the chest. With the help of Sara and Jasper Dale, Olivia gets her story and solves an old mystery. Jasper and Olivia also discover they share a mutual interest in one another.

    Director:Don McBrearty
    Writer:Heather Conkie

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Best Episodes Summary

"High Society" is the best rated episode of "Road to Avonlea". It scored 8.5/10 based on 60 votes. Directed by George Bloomfield and written by Unknown, it aired on 3/22/1992. This episode scored 0.1 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Ties That Bind (aka Sister of the Bride)".