Product Details

• Actors: Sarah Polley, Jackie Burroughs, Mag Ruffman, Zachary Bennett, Lally Cadeau
• Directors: Kevin Sullivan
• Format: Box set, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Original recording remastered, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English, French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 4
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Sullivan Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: November 10, 2009
• Run Time: 600 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (46 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B000T2DK1A
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #16,251 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Studio: Sullivan Home Entertmnt Release Date: 10/06/2009

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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Delightful family-friendly TV series!!, November 17, 2005

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randomartco "period film aficionado" (Greater Washington D.C. area) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Road To Avonlea - The Complete First Season (Box Set) (DVD)

This great family-friendly series brings back great memories from my childhood; I would definitely consider this my favorite TV show of all time! Each episode is full of sweet moments, family life, exciting adventures, beautiful scenery, and much more. The content of these is minimal: it's a very family-friendly series, with only a few episodes with some objectionable content (like the Witches of Avonlea episode in this season).

The storyline centers around Sarah Stanley, who comes to Prince Edward Island when her father is accused of embezzlement to live with relatives in a little town called Avonlea. As she struggles to accept her new life and get along with her strict Aunt Hettie, her stuck-up cousin Felcity King, & tormenting cousin Felix King, Sarah must accept the changes in her young life. But not everything is bad: small town life can be loads of fun, and her new Aunt Olivia is wondeful!

Check out this amazing series produced by Sullivan in Canada, the same company who brought up "Anne of Green Gables" and "Anne of Avonlea" in the 90's with Megan Follows. Aired in the U.S. under the title "Avonlea" on the Disney Channel, you will enjoy watching these fantastic episodes again and again! My favorite episodes from this season include: "The Journey Begins," "The Story Girl Earns Her Name," and "Felicity's Challenge"...

Season One contains the following episodes:

1. The Journey Begins
2. The Story Girl Earns Her Name
3. The Quarantine at Alexander Abraham's
4. The Materializing of Duncan McTavish
5. Old Lady Lloyd
6. Proof of the Pudding
7. Conversions
8. Aunt Abigail's Beau
9. Malcolm and the Baby
10. Felicity's Challenge
11. The Witch of Avonlea
12. The Hope Chest of Arabella King
13. Nothing Endures But Change

28 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Technical note, December 27, 2010

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octobercountry (the Land of Trees and Heroes) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Road to Avonlea: The Complete First Season (DVD)

Looking through the Amazon listings for the "Road to Avonlea" series can be a little confusing, if you're trying to figure out exactly which edition of the series you're getting.

The programme is slowly being re-released on DVD by the Sullivan company in a new edition described as a "widescreen hi-def digital restoration." Well, that's all to the good, but please keep in mind that these are NOT high-definition Blu-ray releases. They are standard DVDs which will play on any DVD machine. I think it's extremely misleading to use the term "HI-DEF" in the promotional material.

That said, these new releases are vastly superior to the old DVD sets, which had terrible quality-control issues and generally looked dreadful, with picture quality so grainy that the episodes looked like they were shot through a screen door. The new transfers are very clean and sharp, and presented in a 1.78:1 aspect ratio---fitting the screen width of modern widescreen televisions. Now, the series was shot on 35 mm film stock, which has an aspect ratio of 1.33:1. So, these new releases do re-frame the picture slightly, cropping a bit off the top and bottom of the film frame. However, I've done frame-to-frame comparisons of the old and new transfers, and I see that while there is a little cropping at the top and bottom, at the same time in the new transfer there is a little more picture visible on each side of the frame (which had been cropped off in the original release). So, it's a bit of a trade-off in terms of how much of the picture you're getting, when comparing the old and new versions. But the quality of the new transfers is so extremely superior to the old, I can't say I mind missing that tiny bit of picture from the upper and lower portions of the screen at all.

A quick way to tell which edition of the series you're buying, is to look at the covers. The new transfers have a wide bar of solid colour running across the top of the DVD case, with "Road to Avonlea" printed in large capital letters. As of this writing (December 2010), the first three seasons have been re-released in this new format, and I do hope the remaining seasons will follow, as this is an EXCELLENT series!

32 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Wonderful, but..., December 9, 2004

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Susan Edgington "madcatgirl" (Florida) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Road To Avonlea - The Complete First Season (Box Set) (DVD)

Ah, Road to Avonlea. One of my favorite shows, ever since I first saw it as a ten year old, watching the Disney Channel! Of course, I desperately wanted copies of all the episodes, so last year, I bought a bunch of the videos. But now that I finally have a DVD player, I was eager to buy this set of the complete first season. I was sooo happy when it arrived, and I popped it in and began watching. The screen tests are so funny! I just wish there were more of those, and it would be great if they added more cast interviews and things like that. It was nice to see the episodes in order and a nice clear image onscreen. I would have given this set five stars except for one itsy bitsy major disappointment. Nowhere on any of the discs did they play the opening theme song! AAACCKKK!!!! For me, this was tragic. I love and adore the theme song, and I love to watch the opening credits, the familiar scenes, ending in the back of Sarah Polley looking at the ocean with her hair blowing in the breeze... If you are a fan of this show, then you must know what I am talking about. Not for the first episode, or even the first one on each disc. No theme song. I am very sad. Because of this, the set lost a star, but it is truly otherwise a wonderful thing. If you love this show, go for it. I guess it is good I got the videos after all. They had the theme song on them!