As a Canadian, making a tribute to Lucy Maud Montgomery's "Anne Of Green Gables", the miniseries and its spinoff, "Road To Avonlea" is a must. First published in 1908, "Anne Of Green Gables" is the classic story of a mischevious, redheaded orphan, Anne Shirley (Megan Follows), who desperately longs for a place to call home. When she is adopted by elderly siblings, the Cuthberts, stern Marilla (Colleen Dewhurst), and kindly Matthew (Richard Farnsworth) of Prince Edward Island, she is saddened to learn that they had sent for a boy. However, Marilla, despite her occasional exasperation with the child, decides to keep Anne and, with her imagination, spunky personality and irresistable charm, the girl soon wins over everyone she meets, and Marilla and Matthew discover the familial love their lives have been lacking. Anne's adventures in the town of Avonlea, alongside her "bosom friend" Diana Barry (Schulyer Grant, grand-niece of Katharine Hepburn), and her adversary turned love interest Gilbert Blythe (Jonathan Crombie), continues along into the sequel, where Anne, rejecting Gilbert's proposal, decides she needs a new challenge and takes on a teaching assignment at Kingsport. She meets a man who is her "ideal" but discovers that home is really where her heart is, and that Gilbert is the man who has it. (This was followed in 1999 by another sequel which was not based on Montgomery's works). In 1989, Kevin Sullivan, producer of the "Anne" films, decided to make a television <b>...</b>