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Season 1

50 listed episodes · First aired January 7, 1979

Season overview

It is 1907 on Prince Edward Island. An orphan, Anne Shirley is mistakenly sent there to Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, a middle-aged brother and sister who had intended to adopt a boy to help them on their farm. Anne must make learn to live with the Cuthberts, in school, and in the town of Avonlea to make sure she is never sent back to the orphanage again.

EPISODE GUIDE

Episodes

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E1Matthew Cuthbert Is Surprised

Matthew Cuthbert and his sister decided to take in an orphan boy to help on their farm, but he's surprised to find red haired Anne waiting for him at the train station. Though not expected, Anne doesn't take long until …

E2Marilla Cuthbert Is Surprised

E3Morning at Green Gables

E4Anne's History

During the time in the carriage Marilla asks about Anne's past and she tells the story of how she ended up in the orphanage.

E5Marilla Makes Up Her Mind

Anne and Marilla arrive at Mrs. Spencer's, but the woman is moved by the sad story and already finds herself wavering. Though the final decision is made when she sees where Anne is supposed to go if the Cuthberts don't …

E6Anne of Green Gables

E7Mrs. Rachel Lynde Is Properly Horrified

Anne meets Mrs. Rachel Linde, a good friend of Marilla, but the encounter doesn't go well. Mrs Linde comments on Anne's looks in a negative way, which hurts the girl. But instead of taking it, she fights back by saying …

E8Anne's Impressions of Sunday School

Anne is disappointed that her new Sunday clothes (made by Marilla) are so plain, so along the way to church she dresses up her hat with wildflowers. Afterward she talks about what she thinks of Sunday School.

E9A Solemn Vow

Anne gets to meet Diana for the first time and desperately hopes to find a best friend. Unknowing to her Diana wishes for the exact same thing, and the girls hit it off right away.

E10Anne Plays with a Bosom Friend

Anne and Diana have their first play date and are very excited. They are evenly matched when it comes to fantasizing about a world of their own, and Anne gets to share her chocolate.

E11Marilla's Brooch Disappears

Anne admires Marilla's amethyst brooch, but afterwards it disappears. Marilla is disappointed when Anne tells her she doesn't know where it is and thinks she's lying to her.

E12Anne's Confession

Marilla still thinks Anne is not telling her the truth, so she won't let her attend the picnic. So the girl finally comes up with a confession.

E13Anne Goes to School

It's Anne's first day of school, and though she's not as educated as the others, she makes a lot of new friends.

E14A Tempest in Class

The flirtatious and bold prankster Gilbert Blythe returns to town. But he goes too far when he jokingly calls Anne "Carrots," and she responds by breaking her slate over his head.

E15Fall Is Coming

Anne is still angry at Gilbert. Deep in thought about him she forgets to do something Marilla told her to, which results in an embarrassing incident.

E16Diana Is Invited to Tea

Anne is allowed to invite Diana over for tea when the Cuthberts are away.

E17Anne Returns to School

After Diana is forbidden from playing with Anne, Anne decides to return to school.

E18Anne Rescues Minnie May

Minnie May falls seriously ill while she and Diana are being babysat, and Anne is the only one who may know what to do.

E19Diana's Birthday

Anne has been invited to go to concert and sleepover for Diana's birthday. But things go wrong for Diana when the girls get too boisterous during the sleepover.

E20Spring Once Again

Anne enjoys the spring atmosphere and takes over the chores when Marilla gets a headache.

E21The New Minister's Wife

Mr. Phillips leaves the school, and Anne meets the new minister and his wife.

E22The Wrong Ingredient

Anne catches a cold, and because she loses her sense of taste, mistakenly uses the wrong ingredient in a cake for Mrs. Allen.

E23Anne Is Invited to Tea

Anne is invited to tea with the new minister and his wife.

E24An Affair of Honor

The "dare game" has taken on popularity with the girls of Avonlea, but to protect her pride from Josie Pye, Anne takes on an extremely dangerous dare: Walk the ridgepole of the Barry's house.

E25A Letter to Diana

When Diana takes ill in another town, Anne thinks back and realizes she hasn't been as good a friend as she should have.

E26The Concert Plan

Anne returns to school. The new teacher is wonderful and fair, and the teacher plans to have a concert to raise money to have a school flag made.

E27Matthew and the Puffed Sleeves

Matthew, unlike Marilla, sees no problem with Anne having a nice dress with puffed sleeves like the other girls. He sets out to get one for her for Christmas, but his well-intentioned plan goes awry when the clerk at th…

E28The Christmas Concert

Anne receives her Christmas presents, and the eve of the concert arrives.

E29Anne Starts the Story-Telling Club

Anne finds it hard to settle back into mundane life after the concert, so she starts a creative writing club.

E30Vanity and Vexation of Spirit

Anne buys black hair dye from a peddler, but she doesn't get the raven black hair she'd hoped for.

E31An Unfortunate Lily Maiden

Anne and her friends act out the Lady of Shalott, but Anne soon finds herself in trouble. After her friends run to get Diana's parents, who will come to her rescue?

E32An Epoch in Anne's Life

Anne and Diana are invited to Charlottetown by Aunt Josephine. She realizes that while city life and fancy things are a lot of fun once in a while, she prefers her country life and leaving things to the imagination.

E33An Invitation to Queen's Class

Anne and Diana has a quarrel regarding the future which was primarily about marriage. Anne, looking for Matthew for comfort, eats a few apples on a barrel that Jerry claimed to be poisoned, a bad joke on his part. Later…

E34Diana and Students at Queen's

Anne learns about what Diana wants to do in the future. After hearing what Marilla has to say, Anne realizes the importance of hearing other people's opinions and accepts Diana's decision as the two makes a vow once aga…

E35Longing for the Summer Holidays

For the holidays, Anne decides to spend her entire break having fun as she is tired of studying. Without realizing it herself, studying has taken its toll on Anne. The reason for why Matthew and Marilla wanted to adopt …

E36The Future of the Story Club

After visiting Idlewild once again, Anna and Diana are filled with bittersweet memories after seeing the current condition. Throughout the episode, Anne can't help but to realize how things have started to change as she…

E37A 15-Year-Old's Spring

Marilla constantly thinks back of the old times when Anne would talk. With the arrival of the new train station at Carmody, Aunt Josephine visits Green Gables and offers to let Anne stay with her when Anne is at Charlot…

E38My Number Is 13

E39The Results

Anne, Jane, Gilbert and everyone else waits restlessly for the results. Seeing how tensed Anne is, Marilla lets Anne help Matthew out which puts her at ease. The results come as Diana runs up the hill to Green Gables.

E40The Concert Hotel

Anne is invited to recite at a concert to help and earn funds to give to a hospital in Charlottetown.

E41Off to Queen's College

Mrs.Spencer comes to Green Gables with a new adoption offer made by an American couple, but Anne listened to it as if she was hearing a story. Marilla decides to get a gown made for Anne. Mutual thoughts surrounds the h…

E42Life on a New Campus

A wave of sadness hits Marilla, Matthew and Anne as they face the first night of a new lifestyle. Anne initially saddened, is visited by Jane, Josie and Ruby at her room where they mention a scholarship for a university…

E43Home for the Weekend

Anne is unable to tell Marilla and Matthew of her future plans for further studies. At Green Gables and Avonlea, Anne spends some quality time with the two throughout the area.

E44The Winter at Queen's

Hearing Matthew's condition from Ms Barry, Anne immediately departs for Green Gables and walks through a snowstorm. After a warming visit at Green Gables, Anne returns to Queen's with an even stronger passion to succeed…

E45The Glory and the Dream

Anne is afraid of seeing the results, and was in a moment of despair when everyone was cheering for Gilbert, to only also hear cheering starting for her as she passes by crying where she was then overwhelmed by happines…

E46Matthew's Love

Anne is stuck between a rock and a hard place while thinking of her future: to stay at Green Gables and help out seeing how old Matthew and Marilla has gotten, or to continue her education. Matthew's condition made Anne…

E47The Reaper Whose Name Is Death

The sudden news of Abbey's Bank going bankrupt was a huge shock to Matthew's already fragile heart, and killed him instantly. Marilla is seen performing present-day CPR on Matthew to no avail. Everyone in Avonlea goes t…

E48Matthew's Farewell

The funeral ends with Matthew's burial. Anne plants Matthew's favourite flowers right beside his tombstone. As life moves on, Anne feels guilty how she can still have fun and laugh despite Matthew's death, which holds h…

E49The Bend in the Road

Marilla learns the fate of her eyes from the eye specialist and now has to change her lifestyle entirely to help ease the strains on her eyes. Anne seeing Marilla's situation changes her dream and turns the current pred…

E50God's in Heaven, All Is Well on Earth

News of Anne no longer going to university spreads while Anne gets used to a new life where she helps out Marilla a lot. Ms. Lynde tells Anne about Gilbert and his withdrawal on teaching in Avonlea, but at a different s…