Anne of Green Gables (1985 film)

Anne of Green Gables
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Genre	Drama Family
Based on	Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
Written by	Kevin Sullivan Joe Wiesenfeld
Directed by	Kevin Sullivan
Starring	Megan Follows Colleen Dewhurst Richard Farnsworth Patricia Hamilton Marilyn Lightstone Schuyler Grant Jonathan Crombie
Theme music composer	Hagood Hardy
Country of origin	Canada
Original language	English
No. of episodes	2
Production
Producers	Ian McDougall Kevin Sullivan
Running time	199 minutes
Budget	$3.5 million[1]
Original release
Network	CBC
Release	1 December (1985-12-01) – 2 December 1985 (1985-12-02)
Related
Anne of Green Gables: The Sequel (1987)
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Anne of Green Gables is a 1985 Canadian made-for-television drama film based on the 1908 novel of the same name by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, and is the first in a series of four films. The film stars Megan Follows in the title role of Anne Shirley and was produced and directed by Kevin Sullivan for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. It was released theatrically in Iran, Israel, Europe, and Japan.

The film aired on CBC Television as a two-part mini-series on December 1 and December 2, 1985. Both parts of the film were among the highest-rated programs of any genre ever to air on a Canadian television network. On February 17, 1986, the film aired on PBS in the US on the series WonderWorks. The film achieved high ratings in the United Kingdom when it aired on New Year’s Day 1987.^[2]