Character's Bio: Miss Muriel Stacy

The former schoolteacher of Avonlea, Muriel Stacey, is named Provincial Superintendent of Schools and returns to Avonlea to inspect Hetty’s teaching methods - much to Hetty’s chagrin. The two women and their different teaching styles continue to clash and Hetty is often jealous of Sara’s admiration for Muriel’s progressive style and exciting life. However, the two women share a mutual respect for each other. During her stay in Avonlea, Muriel purchases the General Store and befriends the widower, Clive Pettibone. The two then fall in love.

Actress Bio: Marilyn Lightstone

Muriel Stacey is a well-known name to anyone who is a devotee of Sullivan Entertainment's Anne of Green Gables mini-series. As a two-time ETROG award winner as Best Supporting Actress for her role in the Avco Embassy release, In Praise of Older Women, and as Best Actress for her superb performance in the Columbia Pictures release, Lies My Father Told Me - films that were both critical and commercial successes - Miss Lightstone has gained recognition as an actress of international stature. Her film and television credits include the sensitive portrayal of a French Canadian working class mother in the television adaptation of Gabrielle Roy's The Tin Flute, as well as the her principal role in Sullivan’s The Wild Pony, as the shrewd and determined mother, Nora Fellows. Also notable are leading roles in NBC's Joseph and Mary and The Trojan Women, Blind Justice and Disaster in Time, with Jeff Daniels. She has also starred in such highly rated television series as The New Avengers, Witness To Yesterday, in which she portrayed Emma Goldman, and CBC's King of Kensington with Al Waxman. Her most recent credits involved providing voices for characters in the television series Madeline: My Fair Madeline and Dennis the Menace in Cruise Control.

Character's Bio: Great Aunt Eliza

Eliza Ward is Janet King and Abigail Ward’s aunt. Eliza visited King farm several times throughout the series and would prove to be very eccentric and extremely overbearing. In later seasons, Eliza moves to King farm and becomes a more permanent member of the family. Eventually, her wit and wisdom become an integral part of their lives.

Actor's Bio: Kay Tremblay

A life in the arts provided Kay Tremblay with ample research for the creation of the indomitable Aunt Eliza Ward on Road to Avonlea. In fact, she won a Gemini award for her performance of Eliza in 1997. Ms. Tremblay’s first professional appearance was with the George Balanchine Ballet at Theatre Royal in London. She then played the major variety theatres throughout Britain and toured the capitals of Europe. Ms. Tremblay married a Canadian and settled in Montreal where she resumed work in the theatre in 1954. During her years there, Ms Tremblay appeared in thirty leading roles on Shoestring Theatre, Tele-Play and Tele-Theatre for CBC Television and in numerous radio dramas produced by Rupert Caplan and Earl Pennington. Her extensive list of film and television credits include: Renegades, Shadowdancing, Diamonds, Night Heat, Hot Shots, Street Legal, and Kevin Sullivan’s Wind at My Back. Sadly, the talented actress passed away in 2005.

Character's Bio: Caleb Stoles

Caleb Stoles is a mysterious stranger who shows up in the King family barn during a rainstorm. Though he is tightlipped about his past, Alec decides to hire Caleb on as a farmhand. When Caleb saves Daniel from an accident and Olivia takes his photograph for the front page of the Avonlea paper, Caleb’s peaceful stay in Avonlea gets interrupted. His true past – one that involves a prison term of five years for fraud – is revealed. Though Caleb tried to pay his investors back, he could never right his tainted reputation. However, Alec’s support gives him the courage he needs to start a new life in the United States.

Actor's Bio: Bruce Greenwood

Actor Bruce Greenwood won a Gemini for his guest performance on Road to Avonlea as Caleb Stokes in Season 5’s episode “Stranger in the Night”. The Canadian actor first turned to acting while studying at the University of British Columbia and made his debut in the school's production of Tarzan. His first big role was Dr. Seth Griffin on St. Elsewhere from 1986-1988 and he continued to perform on such Canadian shows as The Beachcombers, St. Elsewhere and Road to Avonlea. Greenwood is known for picking diverse roles in Canadian films like Exotica and The Sweet Hereafter (which earned him a Genie nomination and also starred Road to Avonlea’s Sarah Polley), big-budget American films like Thirteen Days, in which he expertly played the role of John F. Kennedy, and comedies such as Dinner for Schmucks. The 54-year-old also starred in J.J. Abram’s recent version of Star Trek. In 2011, Greenwood was honoured with an ACTRA Award of Excellence. He can currently be seen in the award-winning film, Barney’s Version.

Character's Bio: Simon Tremayne

Simon Tremayne is the manager of the White Sands Hotel. He hires Felix as his personal assistant and, through a series of happy mistakes, is eventually reunited with his half-brother, the Duke of Arranagh, who visits the hotel. Later, though neither Hetty nor Simon would have predicted it, the two of them eventually strike up a friendship that ultimately leads to discussions of marriage. However, the couple soon realize that they make better friends than fiancées.

Actor's Bio: Ian D. Clark

Ian D. Clark brings his extensive experience on the stage and screen to his portrayal of Simon Tremayne, the fastidious inn keeper of the White Sands Hotel. No stranger to television audiences, Mr. Clark has starred in numerous episodic series and several television movies, including Paradise Falls and Little Men, as well as guest starring roles in The Associates, Doc, Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Twice in a Lifetime and Wind at my Back. A star on many of Canada's leading stages, Mr. Clark has performed all across the country, including three seasons at the Shaw Festival, various productions for Stage West, both in Calgary and Edmonton, and the lead role in The Foreigner at the Royal Alexander Theatre in Toronto.

Character's Bio: John Hodgson

A visiting politician, John Hodgson, courts Alec to run for office. He tries to convince Alec that in order to be elected, he will have to buy his votes – that it is an accepted practice by everyone in politics. However, his efforts to persuade Alec are in vain. When Felix confronts Hodgson with the fact that his daughter stole money from Aunt Hetty, Hodgson is also unable to buy Felix’s silence.

Actor's Bio: Gordon Pinsent

Gordon Pinsent is one of Canada's busiest and most recognizable character actors. Many viewers remember Pinsent as the President of the United States in Colossus: The Forbin Project (1969). And kids have heard him as the voice of the title character in the animated HBO series, Babar. Pinsent's other TV roles have included Sergeant Scott in The Forest Rangers, the title character in Quentin Dergens MP, Hap Shaughnessy in Red Green and Sergeant Frazer in Due South. Some of his more recent film credits include The Shipping News, Saint Ralph and Away from Her, which was directed by Sarah Polley. The actor has occasionally written and directed, as well. Pinsent also guest starred on Kevin Sullivan’s other television series, Wind at my Back. His recent credits include the mini-series The Pillars of the Earth and Republic of Doyle.

Character's Bio: Viola Elliot

Viola Elliot is the eccentric wife of Avonlea’s newest minister. Her soon, Booth, is quite worldly and his interests in jazz and dance fascinate Sara. Though the townspeople feel that Viola is not a suitable minister’s wife, Janet King befriends her anyway. However, when Janet discovers the true cause of Viola’s unguarded behaviour, it almost costs them their friendship.

Actor's Bio: Stockard Channing

Stockard Channing is an Academy Award-nominee for her lead role in Six Degrees of Separation, and a three-time Emmy Award-winner for her work in the series The West Wing, The Matthew Shepard Story and Jack. In total, she has been nominated for 12 Emmys and is considered one of America's leading stage actresses - receiving awards and nominations for such roles as Eleanor of Acquitane in The Lion in Winter. Channing's many film credits include Grease, Where the Heart Is, Le Divorce, Practical Magic, Twilight, The First Wives Club and Heartburn. She also starred in Sullivan Entertainment's The Piano Man's Daughter.

Character's Bio: Arthur Pettibone

Arthur Pettibone is the eldest son of Avonlea schoolteacher, Clive Pettibone. He first befriends the King family during a vacation home from veterinary school in Toronto when he helps save the life of Digger, the King’s beloved dog. Arthur then becomes involved in the personal lives of the family when both he and Gus Pike compete for Felicity’s affections.

Actor's Bio: Zachery Ansley

Zachary Ansley has been acting professionally since he was eleven years old and was honored with a Genie nomination while still a teenager. Ansley was also the winner of the first ever YTV Acting Award (1989). His many acting credits include Dead In A Heartbeat, The Spring, Cowboys Don't Cry, Princes in Exile, The Diary of Evelyn Lau, The X-Files, The Outer Limits, The Twilight Zone and the Sullivan film, An Avonlea Christmas.

Elva Mai Hoover: Mrs. Lawson

Maja Ardal: Mrs. Potts

Heather Brown: Izzy Pettibone

Barbara Hamilton: Mrs. Bugle

Ian D. Clark: Simon Tremayne

Roger Dunn: Bert Potts

John Friesen: Archie Gillis

David Fox: Clive Pettibone

Joel Blake: Andrew King

Kyle Labine: Davey Keith

Linsday Murrell: Dora Keith

Character's Bio: Sara Stanley

Eleven-year-old Sara Stanley is used to a luxurious lifestyle in her hometown of Montreal. Her mother, Ruth King, died of TB when Sara was only a baby. When Sara’s father runs into trouble, Sara is sent to live with her mother’s family - siblings Hetty, Alec, Roger and Olivia. When she arrives, Sara’s nanny is sent back to Montreal, and Sara must adjust to a simpler lifestyle in Avonlea while living at Rose Cottage with Hetty and Olivia. Throughout seasons 3, 4, and 5, Sara takes it upon herself to act as the Avonlea matchmaker. By season 6, her Aunt Hetty and her nanny, Louisa, begin planning her future without her. Sara, however, has other plans. She dreams of becoming a writer and attending a very prestigious school in Paris – alone. Hetty and Louisa agree to let her go, and Sara leaves Avonlea only to return in the final season for her cousin Felicity’s wedding to Gus Pike.

Actor's Bio: Sarah Polley

Sara Polley became a veteran of film and television while still in her teens, and grew up on Road to Avonlea - as did her character, Sara Stanley. Like her character, Sara is an intelligent, fiercely independent woman, and brought many talents and natural charm to the show. Sarah made her screen debut at age four, playing a street waif in the feature One Magic Christmas, starting Jan Rubes. She won North American critical acclaim at the age of nine for her performance in the PBS family series Ramona, and went on to win international recognition for her lead role in Terry Gilliam’s big screen fantasy adventure, The Adventures of Baron Manchausen. Polley’s portrayal of the only surviving child in a school bus crash in Atom Egoyan’s celebrated feature The Sweet Hereafter earned her a Genie nomination as best actress. Other credits include principal roles in feature films The Last Night, The Weight of Water, Exotica, Green Monkey, The Big Town and Pretty Kill. Most recently, Sara has demonstrated her abilities behind the camera as writer and director of the Canadian based feature Away From Her, which earned many nominations and won various awards. Her most recent film was the sci-fi thriller, Splice, starring Adrien Brody.

Character's Bio: Hetty King

The eldest of five siblings, Hetty is the head of the King family and respected schoolteacher of Avonlea. She is a humourless middle-aged woman, who finds change difficult to handle. Hetty lives at Rose Cottage with her sister, Olivia, and her niece, Sara. In later seasons, Hetty King gives up being a schoolteacher in order to pursue her dream of being a writer. Once Sara leaves for Paris, leaving Rose Cottage very much empty, Hetty decides to have Mrs. Lynde move in with her, along with the adopted twins Davey and Dora Keith.

Actor's Bio: Jackie Burroughs

An actress of incomparable breadth and talent, Jackie Burroughs earned a well-deserved reputation as one of Canada’s premiere actresses both on stage and screen. She had won just about every conceivable show business award in Canada. Her performance as the well-intentioned, headstrong and domineering Hetty King has garnered her three Gemini Awards for Best Actress in 1990, 1992 and 1994. Jackie Burroughs had a reputation for being an encouraging and enthusiastic supporter of Canada’s young actors and playwrights. She was known to turn down leading roles at some of Canada’s most prestigious theatres to work for nothing on small ‘fringe’ productions introducing a new playwright’s work. Her participation in many so-called alternative productions has been responsible for drawing public attention to many an independent work. Indeed, like her character Hetty, Jackie Burroughs placed a premium on her independence, both creative and personal. Her body of work is extensive, but she is best known in recent years for the critically acclaimed A Winter Tan, which she both co-directed and co-wrote as well as starred in. Filmed on location in Mexico, A Winter Tan garnered her a 1988 Best Actress Genie Award, and gave her a new love. During the hiatus periods of Road to Avonlea, Ms. Burroughs spent her summers in Mexico, overseeing the construction of her home.

Sadly, the beloved actress died of cancer on September 22, 2010, at the age of 71.

Character's Bio: Olivia Dale

Olivia is the youngest of the King siblings, and Sara’s most affectionate aunt. Olivia eventually begins working as a reporter for the local newspaper. It is here that she meets the man who will eventually become her husband, Jasper Dale - a photographer for the newspaper. Once she and Jasper are married, Olivia leaves Rose Cottage and has a son named Montgomery. Olivia and Jasper later adopt a baby girl named Alicia.

Actor's Bio: Mag Ruffman

Mag Ruffman brings an enthusiastic innocence to her work on Road to Avonlea, lending vitality to the determined career woman, Olivia Dale. Her natural charms and professionalism help her give a loving push to her shy, inventor husband Jasper. In addition to be being an accomplished actress, musician, dancer and singer, Ms. Ruffman possesses the unique gift of being able to relate to children on their own level. She was sought out constantly by the entire junior Avonlea cast for advice on everything from how to tune a flute to how to smuggle newts into the girls’ trailer. Ms Ruffman’s television credits include Anything I Can Do, A Repair to Remember, Debbie Travis and Mag Ruffman Live. She also appeared in Kevin Sullivan’s Emmy Award-winning film Looking For Miracles, and played the part of Alice Lawson in the Anne of Green Gables series.

Character's Bio: Alec King

Alec King was the first born son of the King family. He owns and operates King farm, which is next door to Rose Cottage, where his sisters, Hetty and Olivia, live. He has four children (Felicity, Felix, Cecily and Daniel) and is married to Janet King.

Actor's Bio: Cedric Smith

Cedric Smith never thought he would have children – until he was cast as Alec King, the calm and insightful father of four. His portrayal of the easy-going PEI farmer earned him a 1993 Best Actor Gemini Award, and prepared him for his role as father in his private life. Cedric began his career as a folk-singer in Stratford and has been involved with film and television productions since his first role as Dr. Zvarich in the 1977 film adaptation of Who Has Seen the Wind? Since then his credits number more than one hundred various roles, including Kevin Sullivan’s Butterbox Babies and Sleeping Dogs Lie. He has also provided his voice for a number of documentaries and characters in animated features, such as "Tupper" in Sullivan’s film Anne: Journey to Green Gables.

Character's Bio: Janet King

Janet King is married to Alec and has four children. She is a very loving wife, but is also very independent-minded. In addition to her role as mother, Janet becomes a leader of the women’s suffrage movement in Avonlea. She has a sister named Abigail (played by Rosemary Dunsmore).

Actor's Bio: Lally Cadeau

Since winning the ACTRA Award for best newcomer in 1981, Lally Cadeau has received over a dozen nominations and awards for her work in television, film, radio, and stage, including the 1995 Gemini for Best Actress in a leading role for her work as Aunt Janet on Road to Avonlea. Other awards have included a Bijou and an ACTRA for her work in the critically acclaimed You’ve Come a Long Way, Katie. Ms. Cadeau also starred in the CBC series Hangin’ In for six years before performing on Road to Avonlea. Other television credits include guest-starring roles in Street Legal, Kane and Abel, Adderly, Twilight Zone and King of Kensington.

Character's Bio: Felix King

Felix is the eldest son of Alec and Janet. He is very mischievous and will often get into trouble. He eventually befriends Isolde Pettibone (Izzy) who is the daughter of Mr. Pettibone, the widowed schoolteacher who takes over the Avonlea schoolhouse when Hetty retires. In later seasons, a romance begins to develop between Felix and his good friend, Izzy.

Actor's Bio: Zachary Bennett

Like Gema Zamprogna, who plays his sister, Felicity, on Road to Avonlea, Zachary Bennett also comes from an acting family. His father teaches drama, his mother is his coach, and his elder brother Gareth, and sisters Marion and Sophie, all work in the field.

Zachary’s role as the irrepressible Felix King matured over the course of the show. The Felix of Season 1 - indefatigable tease, lover of adventure stories and shirker of chores - matured into a responsible young man who knows his own mind and always has an eye for a quick dollar.

Zach is already a veteran actor on an international scale. Aside from his work in Canada, Zach has worked in the United States, Europe, New Zealand, the former Czechoslovakia and Mexico with some of the best known names in the entertainment industry, including Leonard Nimoy, Sam Waterson, Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson and Jan Rubes.

Film credits include The Good Mother with Diane Keaton, Back to Hannibal with Megan Follows, The Muppets Christmas Special, the lead in the four-hour mini-series By Way of the Stars and Sullivan Entertainment’s Looking for Miracles, for which he received an Emmy nomination. Television credits include Shattered City, Blind Faith, Lantern Hill and Twice in a Lifetime. His recent credits include appearances on a number of television series.

Character's Bio: Felicity King

Felicity is Alec and Janet’s eldest daughter. She often takes on adult responsibility and feels superior to her four siblings and her cousin Sara.

Actor's Bio: Gema Zamprogna

A talented actress, a scholarship winning student and an accomplished dancer, Gema Zamprogna, like her character Felicity King, is one of those enviable young adults who can turn their hand at almost anything with brilliant results. Gema is a native of Hamilton, Ontario and comes from a stage family. Her parents operate a dance school, and her father Lou is a professional Director/Choreographer and director of a performing arts program at Hamilton’s Theatre Aquaris. Dominic and Amanda, Gema’s twin siblings, are also accomplished stage and screen actors. Gema’s portrayal of the opinionated and frequently bossy Felicity King has brought her 1991 and 1994 Gemini nominations for Best Supporting Actress. Gema’s other film credits include a co-starring role on Sullivan’s four-hour mini-series, By Way of the Stars, the leading role in the TV film The Challengers, as well as principal roles in Defense of a Married Man, Amerika, Friday the 13th, War of the Worlds and Forever Knight. Her stage credits include The Queen in Winnie the Pooh, Little Marie Antionette in the opera Andrea Chenier as well as productions of Into the Woods, Chess and West Side Story.

Character's Bio: Cecily King

Cecily is the younger and quieter daughter of Alec and Janet King. She is more interested in farm work than her brother. As a result, Alec considers leaving King Farm to her after his death, knowing he will be leaving it in good hands. In the fourth season of the series, Cecily contracts tuberculosis and must leave the King farm to live at a sanatorium in order to recover her health.

Actor's Bio: Molly Atkinson

Actress Molly Atkinson took over the role of Cecily King in the fifth season of Road to Avonlea. Before her arrival on the series, Molly had appeared in the television series Ready or Not and The Mighty Jungle. After Road to Avonlea ended, Molly went on to portray the sweet-tempered Cecily in the film An Avonlea Christmas. Her other credits include Sam’s Lake and Snapshots for Henry.

Character's Bio: Daniel King

Daniel King is the youngest son of Janet and Alec King, born at the end of the second season during Avonlea's famous hockey match between the Misfits and the Avonlea Avengers. Since he is a few years younger than his siblings Felicity, Felix and Cecily, Daniel is considered the baby of the family.

Actor's Bio: Ryan Cooley

Young Ryan Cooley plays Daniel King in the film An Avonlea Christmas (or Happy Christmas, Miss King). His film and television credits include After and Day in the Country. On stage, he was the lead in Jacob Two-Two.

Character's Bio: Great Aunt Eliza

Eliza Ward is Janet King (married to Alec) and Abigail’s aunt. Eliza visited King farm several times throughout the series and would prove to be very eccentric and extremely overbearing. In later seasons, Eliza moves to King farm and becomes a more permanent member of the family. Eventually her wit and wisdom become an important part in the lives of the King family – one they cannot live without.

Actor's Bio: Kay Tremblay

A life in the arts provided Kay Tremblay with ample research for the creation of the indomitable Aunt Eliza Ward on ROAD TO AVONLEA. Ms. Tremblay’s first professional appearance was with the George Balanchine Ballet at Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London. She subsequently played the major variety theatres throughout Britain and toured the capitals of Europe.

Ms. Tremblay married a Canadian and settled in Montreal where she resumed work in the theatre in 1954. During her years in Montreal, Ms Tremblay appeared in thirty leading roles on Shoestring Theatre, Tele-Play and Tele-Theatre for CBC Television and in numerous radio dramas produced by Rupert Caplan and Earl Pennington.

Her extensive list of film and television credits include: Renegades, Shadowdancing, Diamonds, Night Heat, Hot Shots and Street Legal.

Character's Bio: Jasper Dale

Jasper Dale is perhaps the most eccentric resident of Avonlea. His shy awkwardness and fantastic inventions often make him the subject of ridicule by the other townspeople. But after Sara Stanley befriends the stumbling genius, and he gains the affections of Olivia King, Jasper becomes more sure of himself.

Actor's Bio: R.H. Thomson

R.H. Thomson is one of Canada’s busiest and most accomplished stage and film actors. He has won every major Canadian award – a 1989 Gemini Award for his portrayal of Dr. Frederick Banting in the CBC mini-series Glory Enough for All, a Genie Award for If You Could See What I Hear and a Dora Mavor Moore Award for his stage work in the Toronto Free Theatre production of Hand to Hand. Thomson’s incredible dramatic range is heightened by an extraordinary command of physical characterization, a skill he utilizes to great affect in portraying the awkward inventor Jasper Dale. His more recent credits include roles in Chloe and The Englishman’s Boy – for which he received a Gemini Award nomination in 2008.

Character's Bio: Gus Pike

Gus is a young vagabond and sailor who eventually earns the respect of the residents of Avonlea. At one point, Gus leaves town to search for his mother, who he thought had died years earlier. After news of a hurricane, the people of Avonlea assumed Gus lost at sea. However, Felicity and Hetty eventually find a blind Gus along the eastern shore of the United States and he returns to Canada where he has surgery to restore his eyesight and marries Felicity.

Actor's Bio: Michael Mahonen

A graduate of George Brown Theatre School in Toronto, Michael Mahonen was born in the small Ontario town of Kirkland Lake. Mahonen was introduced in the second season of Road to Avonlea as a migrant worker employed at the Cannery. His television debut in this series attracted the attention of critics, marking him as a young talent to watch. Later that year, he drew rave reviews for his performance as Lee Colgan in the critically-acclaimed mini-series Conspiracy of Silence (CBC/CBS) – a performance which garnered him a Gemini Award. He was also the writer, director and co-producer of the award-winning film, Sandstorm.

Character's Bio: Rachel Lynde

Rachel is the local gossip and the self-appointed moral guardian to the town of Avonlea. Her character originally appeared in the Anne of Green Gables trilogy, at the end of which she had moved in with her best friend, Marilla Cuthbert. She continues to live at Green Gables until Marilla’s death at the end of the third season of Road to Avonlea. Eventually, Rachel will suffer a stroke and is forced to move in with Hetty King, with whom she doesn’t always see eye to eye. Now that Rachel is at Rose Cottage, she and Hetty will raise the twins that Marilla had previously cared for with Rachel - Davy and Dora Keith.

Actor's Bio: Patricia Hamilton

A dynamo with limitless energy, Patricia Hamilton performed the role of the self-righteous Rachel Lynde in "Anne of Green Gables". She continued to delight audiences with this character in Road to Avonlea, and recently in Kevin Sullivan's animated film Anne: Journey to Green Gables and Anne: The Animated Series on PBS. Over the course of her career she has worked with the American Shakespeare Festival, the National Shakespeare Festival and the Stratford Festival. She was the recipient of a Dora Mavor Moore Award for her role in I Am Yours with the Tarragon Theatre. Her film and television credits include Night Heat, A Bridge to Silence, Echoes in Darkness, Fight for Life and The Last Detail. Her role in A Bird in the House garnered her a 1975 Canadian Film Award. Hamilton has served as the Head of Drama at the Banff School of Fine Arts. She is also the founder and producer of Masterclass Theatre, and was honoured with a Brenda Donohue Award for Distinguished Contribution to the Toronto Theatre in 1987.

Kevin Sullivan: Executive Producer, Writer, Director

Kevin Sullivan is the President of Sullivan Entertainment Inc. which he and his partner, Trudy Grant, founded in 1979. Internationally recognized as one of the leading producers of high quality entertainment and renowned for his directorial ease with children and top performers, Mr. Sullivan has achieved myriad accolades and awards over the past two decades. His ability to consistently produce top-notch entertainment as well as to attract big name stars has enhanced the image of Sullivan Entertainment throughout the world.

Under Mr. Sullivan’s guidance Sullivan Entertainment has developed a distinctive brand of story-telling. Lavish productions that are emotionally compelling and entertaining have become the hallmark of the company Mr. Sullivan founded more than 20 years ago.

Trudy Grant: Co-Executive Producer

Trudy Grant is the President of Sullivan Entertainment International, which she founded in 1981. Through her leadership, the company has emerged as a major player in the world marketplace and particularly in the television arena.

Her involvement in distribution prompted her to form Sullivan Entertainment International to better administer the Sullivan product. The company’s penetration into many of the world’s less accessible markets makes it one of the few companies that can truly be considered international, having developed key relationships with buyers and financiers for various co-productions. One of Ms. Grant’s main achievements is the sale of the mini-series “Anne of Green Gables” to more than 120 countries around the globe.

Ms. Grant has evolved into the guiding light behind the company’s financial success. By strategically maximizing financial opportunities, Ms. Grant has built a very successful international business around the Sullivan brand.

Raymond Storey: Writer

Raymond Storey is a writer and producer who has written for a number of Sullivan titles, including Butterbox Babies, Sleeping Dogs Lie and An Avonlea Christmas. He was also the associate-producer of a number of episodes for the award-winning series, Wind at My Back. In addition, Raymond's recent credits include Search and Rescue and Iron Road.

Heather Conkie: Writer

Heather Conkie’s credits include the Canadian television show Heartland, and the Emmy Award-winning made-for-TV movie Beethoven Lives Upstairs. She has also been credited as a producer, actress and composer.

John Welsman: Composer

John Welsman has won four Gemini Awards in recognition of his compositions for Road to Avonlea, and has been nominated an additional six times for his work on the programs Borrowed Hearts, Marie Curie: More Than Meets the Eye, Stolen Miracle and Kevin Sullivan’s By Way of the Stars. Some of Welsman’s countless other credits include War of the Worlds, Lantern Hill and more recently, My Friend Rabbit, Nurse Fighter Boy and The Mighty Jungle.

Allan King: Direction

Allan King began his career by making documentaries for the CBC. There are a long list of credits to his name, which include Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Twilight Zone and Dying at Grace – just three of the many titles over the course of a career that spanned six decades. The Canadian director died on June 15th, 2009, leaving behind his wife and four children.

Nancey Pankiw: Art Director

Road to Avonlea is not the only Sullivan Entertainment production to which Nancey Pankiw has brought her expertise in art direction. The award-winning production designer also worked on Lantern Hill, Wind at my Back, Butterbox Babies and By Way of the Stars. Some of Nancey’s other credits include the feature films The Fly, Dick, Chicago, Urban Legends: Final Cut, Cold Creek Manor, and the series Nothing Too Good for a Cowboy and Salem Witch Trials - for which she won a Directors Guild of Canada award for production design.

Don Gillis: Composer

Don is a three-time Gemini Award nominee who has contributed his musical talents to several of Kevin Sullivan’s productions, including Wind at my Back, A Wind at my Back Christmas, Road to Avonlea and An Avonlea Christmas. He was nominated for a Gemini for his compositions for two Road to Avonlea seasons in 1994 and 1995, as well as for the TV series Danger Bay. In addition, Gillis was the musical director of episodes of The Jim Henson Hour and was the musical director of Fraggle Rock – also created by Jim Henson.

Madeleine Stewart: Costume Designer

Madeleine’s authentic costume designs for the cast of Road to Avonlea have not gone unnoticed. In 1995, her work on the episode “Strictly Melodrama” earned her an Emmy award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Costume Design for a Series. She was also nominated the following year for the episode “What a Tangled Web We Weave” and received two Gemini Award nominations for her designs in 1995 and 1996. Since then, Madeleine has worked as a costume designer for Earth: Final Conflict, The Murdoch Mysteries, Painted Angels and Custody.

Felix is caught between a rock and a hard place. His father gives him more chores around the farm to prepare him for the day he will take over, and Mr. Tremayne has assigned him to take special care of a particularly obnoxious guest – millionaire clothier Samuel Boddin. Felix loves his job at the hotel and is saving money to fulfill his dream of owning his own tea room. He can’t bring himself to tell Alec that he doesn’t want to take over the farm. As he tries to please everyone, he ends up pleasing no one. His chores are shoddily done and mistakes are made at the hotel. At his wits end, Felix unhappily quits his job at the hotel. But Alec urges Felix to go back to his job, realizing his son’s happiness comes first.

Special Guest Star: Paul Soles

With Hetty in Charlottetown meeting her publisher, the King family feverishly prepares a surprise 50th birthday party for her. But Hetty receives bad news – her publishers think her writing is stale and they terminate her contract. Hetty, suffering from stomach upset and a deflated ego, returns early to Avonlea and finds that Muriel Stacy (Marilyn Lightstone) has moved back. Sara is enamoured with Muriel’s exciting life, and Hetty’s stomach ache is worsened by pangs of jealousy. Hetty refuses to budge when Sara tries to entice her to the party. So the Kings decide to bring the party to her, and discover her collapsed on the floor. Hetty undergoes an emergency appendectomy, and two weeks later, finally has her party. With a new lease on life, Hetty regains some of the youthful abandon she had lost. She decides to stop writing pulp fiction, and instead, write about what she knows – her love for the island.

Jasper has taken a job as a bank teller, but becomes increasingly depressed as he is too tired to invent. Hetty buys Mr. Dunn’s lobster cannery when she discovers that he intends to turn it into a distillery. Jasper’s mood lifts when he starts to design a lobster-canning production line and Hetty agrees to let him and Olivia run the business. Olivia finds that she must offer the lobster at such discount prices, that it will cost them money. Luckily for Olivia, a lobster boat has run aground and she buys the cargo at rock-bottom price. But now they have to can 1500 lbs. of lobster - and fast. After a few false starts, the production line finally whips along, and with Hetty and the King family helping, all the lobster is canned. Jasper and Olivia make such a good profit, that Hetty – heavily prompted by Jasper, insists that he and Olivia buy her cannery for themselves.

It’s the first day of school and Davey Keith is already in trouble. Clive Pettibone catches him fighting in the playground and assigns Davey 100 lines. But Davey doesn’t know how to read or write – his tricky maneuvers often helped him get out of doing school work. After one of these maneuvers, when he inadvertently lands Sara in trouble, she discovers his “awful” secret. Sara tells Davey that there is no shame in not knowing to how to read, as long as Davey really wants to learn. Together, they embark on teaching Davey to read.

Itinerant farmhand Caleb Stoles (Bruce Greenwood) takes shelter from a rainstorm in the King barn, and Alec hires him for a few days work, even though Caleb is mysterious about his past. When Caleb saves Daniel from an accident, Olivia photographs him for a front-page story. Travelling salesman William McMillan then sees the picture. He’s searched for Caleb since his parents lost their life savings in Caleb’s mining company. When Alec and Caleb go to town, they are attacked by McMillan and his brother, and Caleb’s past is revealed: He spent five years in prison for fraud, then sold his family farm to pay back his investors, but there wasn’t enough to pay back everyone. Since then, he has been unable to keep a job when people find out who he is. Caleb declines Alec’s offer of a permanent job, not wanting to bring danger to the Kings. But Alec’s confidence in him gives Caleb the courage to start a new life in the States, where nobody knows him.
Special Guest Star: Bruce Greenwood

Janet won’t allow Felix to enter the Harvest Fair steeplechase, fearing he will be injured. Undaunted, Felix sneakily enlists Mr. Tremayne to coach him. Alec is angry when he fins out, but Tremayne convinces him that Felix only did what Alec would have done at fourteen years old. Alec relents, but the problem remains – how to convince Janet? Clive Pettibone is determined to win the race, despite the pain he suffers from the jumps. Arthur tries to dissuade him, only increasing tension between them. When Felix is injured slightly in a fall, Janet sees that he is now afraid of the horse – duplicating her own childhood experience. Janet decides to allow him to enter the race if he overcomes his fear and gets back on the horse.

Felix is smitten with Adeline, the daughter of a visiting politician, Jon Hodgson (Gordon Pinsent), who is courting Alec to run for office. When things go missing at the hotel, including Aunt Hetty’s purse holding a ten dollar bill, everyone suspects the new impoverished waiter, Elbert, despite Adeline’s possession of a ten dollar bill. Elbert finds the purse, and now his job is on the line. Adeline and Felix put some money into the safe and when that’s stolen too, Felix realizes who the thief must be. As Hodgson tries in vain to convince Alec he’ll need to buy votes – everyone does it – Felix confronts him about Adeline’s stealing. Hodgson tries unsuccessfully to buy Felix’s silence. The police dismiss the thefts as a prank, and Elbert’s job is saved, but Felix thinks he’s “ruined everything” for Alec. Alec then assures him that raising his children to have integrity is a more important contribution to life than any he can make in political office.

Special Guest Star: Gordon Pinsent

The Kings are shocked and frightened when Cecily is diagnosed with tuberculosis. Janet won’t hear of sending Cecily to a sanatorium, and cares for her at home, but is soon fun off her feet. Muriel advises a frightened Felicity to learn as much as she can about the disease and takes her to the Charlottetown library. They discover that a leading TB researcher lives in PEI. Dr. Jones, a woman, tells Felicity about the increasingly successful treatment of patients at sanatoriums in dryer climates than PEI. Felicity attempts to convince Janet that Cecily’s recovery chances would be much better at a sanatorium. Janet eventually realizes that Cecily is not getting any better at home, and she and Alec decide to send Cecily away, accompanied by Janet. Meanwhile, Dr. Jones has inspired Felicity to go to medical school rather than teacher’s college.

It’s the annual Drama competition, and after 22 losing years, Hetty has an ace up her sleeve: Muriel Stacey, who had the lead in Avonlea’s last wining entry, will play the lead. And this year, Avonlea must win or Hetty must give her secret King family recipe for cranberry pie to her arch rival – Eleanor McHugh. To everyone’s surprise, Janet, who usually prompts, has asked for a small role in the play. When Muriel is suddenly called away to tend to her sick brother, Janet lands the lead. But not for long. Isabelle Carrington (Linda Sorenson), star of the European and New York stage, arrives in Avonlea to hide from a scandal, and Hetty enlists her to play the lead instead. But soon, Hetty regrets ever laying eyes on the actress, as Isabelle’s demands and ego become overwhelming. The final straw comes when Isabelle rewrites Hetty’s script. Hetty finally explodes.
Special Guest Star: Linda Sorenson

When Davey Keith visits Jasper’s workshop, things go awry with a happy result. Jasper invents a remarkable hard plastic and enlists his cousin Jeremiah, a businessman, to help sell it. Jeremiah convinces everyone in town to invest, including Hetty, but Olivia becomes suspicious when she discovers that Jeremiah has had shady dealings in the past.

Gus is promoted to assistant manager at the hotel, and with his new position and salary, asks Felicity to marry him. Felicity has just been accepted to medical school and wants to wait until she is finished her studies before they marry. But Gus feels he has waited long enough already. Will she or won’t she say yes? Meanwhile, Izzy thinks that Clive should remarry, and with Davey and Dora’s help, she attempts to engineer a date between Clive and Muriel Stacy.

A new minister comes to town, along with his eccentric wife, Viola (Stockard Channing), and worldly son, Booth. Sara is fascinated by Booth, who introduces her to jazz and teache her the latest dances from New Orleans – unchaperoned and without gloves! Sara deceives Hetty about being ill so she can sneak out to hear Acadian music with Booth, and miss the Churchwomen’s Musical evening…be she can’t fool Hetty for long.
Special Guest Stars: Stockard Channing and Jaimz Woolvett

Janet befriends Viola (Stockard Channing), the minister’s wife, who the townsfolk feel is too eccentric for the position she holds. When Janet thinks she has discovered the cause of Viola’s behaviour, it almost ruins their friendship. Meanwhile, Sara and Booth, the minister’s son, are seeing quite a lot of one another. But they are never alone – Hetty is a constant presence, watching them like a hawk.
Special Guest Stars: Stockard Channing and Jaimz Woolvett