Road To Avonlea: Seasons 1-7

My wife and I ordered "The Road to Avonlea" the complete series from Amazon through "Two Thumbs Up." The set arrived as scheduled and we immediately started binge watching the show because we wanted to make sure all of the DVD's worked. We loved watching The Road to Avonlea series, and apparently many others did as well since the series was nominated and won numerous awards, including 16 Emmy nominations, four Emmy Award wins, 18 Gemini Awards & Cable Ace Awards: Best Dramatic Series, 1991; Best Dramatic Series, 1993; Best Dramatic Series, 1994. Upon watching a few episodes, it's easy to see why Jackie Burroughs won (3 Gemini Awards) for Best Performance by a Lead Actress for her role as Hetty King in 1990, 1991 & 1993. Her physical comedy is amazing. Cedric Smith won a Gemini Award in 1993 for Best Leading Actor for his role as Alec King Lally Cadeau won a Gemini Award in 1994 for Best Actress for her role as Janet King Patricia Hamilton won a Gemini Award in 1995 for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rachel Lynde Kay Tremblay won a Gemini Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1996 for her role as Great Aunt Eliza "The Road to Avonlea" also featured all-star guest appearances such as Peter Coyote (Romney Penhallow), Michael York (Ezekiel Crane), Madeline Kahn (Pigeon Plumtree), Christopher Lloyd (Alistair Dimple), Christopher Reeve (Robert Rutherford), Ned Beatty (Wally Higgins), Treat Williams (Zak Morgan), August Schellenberg (Simon Redfox), Meg Tilly (Evelyn Grier), Robby Benson (Jonathan Ravenhurst Blackwell), Bruce Greenwood (Caleb Stokes), Stockard Channing (Viola Elliot), Faye Dunaway (Countess Polenska), Maureen Stapleton (Maggie MacPhee), Eugene Levy (Rudy Blaine), Sheila McCarthy (Betty Blaine), Ryan Gosling (Bret McNulty)… Apologies to anyone we missed. A few of these guest appearances resulted in awards, such as Christopher Lloyd won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Dramatic Series for his role as Alistair Dimple, 1992 Dianne Wiest won an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Dramatic Series for her role as Lillian Hepworth, 1997 Stockard Channing won a CableACE Award in 1995 for Actress in a Dramatic Series & was nominated for an Emmy for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 1994 for her role as Viola Elliot. Bruce Greenwood won a Gemini Award for Best Guest Performance in a Series by an Actor in 1995 for his role as Caleb Stokes. We did have a problem with disc 4 of season 5 not being able to load. We tried running it on 4 different players (2 Macs, Dell, and XBOX One), but still were unable to get it to load. Upon looking at the center of the disc you could see the circle where the DVD manufacturing process the "print" did not complete. Since we were still under warranty we sent an email to "Two Thumbs Up" informing them of the problem with the defective disc and included pictures. Within the two days we got a response letting us know that "Two Thumbs Up" was sending us a replacement disc and that they had verified it was good. We were so happy we were going to be getting a replacement disc and not have to take the time to repackage and return the entire set. Amazon does make it difficult to contact a seller directly but the information is there if you dig deep enough. The replacement disc arrived by two-day delivery, and was incredibly well packaged (5 layers). The disc arrived in a small 8 and ½ by 6 and ½ box (layer 1) with a sealed cushioned envelope (layer 2) with additional packaging material around it to prevent damage (layer 3). Inside the cushioned envelope was a basic hard plastic DVD case (layer 4) and inside the case, a paper towel was carefully placed around the DVD itself to prevent any damage (layer5). We have been impressed with the level of customer service. We highly recommend "Two Thumbs Up" and would buy from them again. The Road to Avonlea was first broadcast in Canada between January 7, 1990, and March 31, 1996, and Avonlea, as it was known on The Disney Channel, aired consistently between March 1990 and January 1997. As you watch the episodes, you will notice the order which the episodes should have appeared is off (I.e. the age of the children clearly older in one episode than appearing much younger in another episode, then back to being older again in the following episode). Not sure if it was CBC or Disney that may have opted to air some episodes out of order but it is a bit annoying. Warning: If you are against animals in entertainment and/or the wearing of fur, be prepared for numerous cringeworthy moments. Over all the series has been well worth the money and we would highly recommend people to buy/rent/watch the Road to Avonlea series. This is definitely a series we will watch for over and over again for years to come.

Love, love, love this show! I first saw it on the Disney Channel in the early 1990s. I loved it then and I love it now. The story writing and musical score are first rate. The scenery and costumes are beautiful. The actors are amazing. Sarah Stanley and the King children are perfect in their roles. Gus Pike was a welcome addition and the adults are great. Felix is my absolute favorite, but I have to confess a sneaking liking for Aunt Hetty as well. This is not just a children’s series. It appeals to adults as well. Kevin Sullivan, the producer, has done many other shows, including the acclaimed Anne of Green Gables series. These DVDs are well worth the price.

This is a great series, akin to Anne of Green Gables with some crossover between the two series. Each episode is a vignette into these lovely characters' lives and after a while you feel like you're visiting old friends. There's lessons to be learned, so it's great for kids too, but it's not at all preachy. Wonderfully flawed characters, variety of plot lines, and gorgeous sets to boot - there's not much missing here. The acting isn't always top notch, but the veteran actors just hit it out of the park every time. As for the quality of this DVD set, don't expect HD. It's a slightly older series and your eyes (or expectations) need to adapt a bit. I was ready to return it after watching the first few minutes because of the poor video quality (a bit blurry and unfocused), but after fiddling around with the tv settings, I was able to improve the quality. Just don't watch it up close on a large tv and check the digital noise filter in the tv settings (I set mine to high). This is definitely one of my favorite series of all time!

I watched this on TV as a teenager. Liked it thin love it now. It keeps my kids artention and we have a new movie night favorite for the whole family. Its definitely not 4k, not even HD, but its a rich visual either way. Beautiful cinematography.

I watched seasons 1-6 with no issues barring a few descriptions being attached to the wrong episode. However, while watching season 7, the second disc wouldn't work at all. Upon examination, I realized that the disc was a cd rather than a DVD. Every other disc seems to work just fine, but that one is completely inoperable.

It's the complete series, but there's some quality playback issues on non dedicated blu ray players (eg. PS4) in other words, pixelation and noise is pretty bad unless you have a dedicated DVD player for this, maybe even with a CRT. It translates poorly, but the series itself is great!

We have only come to watch the 2nd season and have already had issues with discs freezing up and a digitize section in its view. When this happens we have to take the disc out and restart the episode. Sometimes that takes care of it, other times it happens again or it will happen in a different spot. So far Season 2, Disk 4, is the worst as we have had more time spent trying to watch it then the episode length of time more than tripled and haven't even been able to watch the game and evidently the birth as well. We started to watch the next disc but then discovered that the birth was in the one we had such a time with. Trying to get it to play all the way through. Restarting and Restarting over and over again. It doesn't start up where you left off nor give you that option. You have to start the whole episode all over. Even skipping and fast forwarding doesn't help. We get close and it freezes up again and again. After 3 hrs. we gave up... DON'T WASTE YOUR MONEY with this set it is beyond frustrating, a waste of money and what should be enjoyable to watch and relax to in the evening well, just plain frustrating. Hoping we can get through the series being able to enjoy this wonderful story. Sorry to have to deal with poor quality discs. BTW, we know it is not our machine as we have a 2nd machine and it does the same thing and our other movies do not have this issue on either machine as well. If there is an update, better or worse we will update.

Waited a long time. So worth it.

Nice relaxing home entertainment

Got the series today and although I haven't watched it all yet I've checked some of the dvds from each saison to see the quality and if they were working ok. So far I'm really pleased that I decided to go ahead and purchase it. It's just as I remember a nice period drama with wonderful scenery and a great cast. Loving it. The only downside is the cases that holds the dvds. Some of the discs were loose and one had a scratch seems to be working fine anyway but it makes me nervous that the discs will get scratch easily and for the price of the serie I would've like something more durable. Otherwise this show is great and the images and sound are really nice quality.

Ravie de revoir cette série attendrissante à souhait qui m'a accompagnée dans mon enfance et comme tant d' autres... dans le même style. La petite maison de la prairie, Anne aux pignons vert..Mais dont je n' ai jamais pu voir la fin. Durant des années il était impossible de le trouver en français, chose faite pour les fans nostalgique de cette séries.

I love this series. The dvd's are good, just on the first one.

I watched this show as a kid Anne was happy to introduce my daughter's to it. Great wholesome movie