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- On Hetty's 50th birthday, the King family plan a surprise birthday party.
- Felicity's attempt to invite Gus Pike to dinner with no one else around ends in disaster.
- All the citizens of Avonlea gather one last time at Gus and Felicity's wedding. In the wake of the cannery fire, Jasper and Olivia decide to leave Avonlea, which vexes Hetty.
- A mysterious telephone call interrupts Felicity King and Stuart's wedding plans and leads Hetty King and Felicity to search for Gus in Charleston, South Carolina.
- While Felicity is at university in Halifax, she and Felix are reunited with Gus Pike. They run into a raggedy flower girl named Eliza, and Gus thinks that this woman may be his mother, who was presumed dead.
- Alec and Janet go away to celebrate their wedding anniversary, leaving Felicity in charge. When Hetty makes a trip to Charlottetown to settle a water rights dispute, Sara is sent to stay with her cousins and immediately clashes with Felicity and her know-it-all attitude.
- Mother's Own magazine is holding a regional essay contest on the topic "Mother of the Year". Initially Sara feels left out, until she decides to write about her Aunt Hetty. Some of the local girls, including Felicity, ridicule Sara for even thinking that Hetty King is Sara's mother in any form. Regardless, Felicity, feeling and sounding superior, is certain that she herself is going to win. Similarly, the mothers all disregard the work that Hetty does with Sara as any kind of mothering. Once the essays are written and ready to be mailed, Felicity and the other girls steal Sara's essay before it can be mailed. With Felix's help, Sara vows revenge against Felicity, ultimately using some information she learns about Felicity and Sally Potts' identical birthdates as the basis for her revenge. The ruse works, however Sara is uncertain how to undo the prank once it gets out of hand. Once Hetty learns what Sara has done, her reaction is somewhat surprising. After all is said and done, Sara's prank has some unexpected consequences.
- Felicity is interviewed by Kingsport Ladies College, while Gus tries to become a real gentleman.
- Several changes are happening at the King farm. First, Janet's judgmental and demanding Aunt Eliza comes for a visit. Much to Alec's chagrin, they learn that Aunt Eliza's stay at the last relation's lasted eight months. Second, Janet herself is feeling strange, not knowing the cause. Third, a pipe-smoking, fiddle-playing young man named Gus Pike is staying temporarily in their hayloft. All alone in the world, Gus, recently arrived on the island looking for work, is uneducated but world traveled, having sailed the seas on merchant and fishing ships. And fourth, Felicity, aged 13¾, is feeling no longer like a child but a young woman. First and foremost on her mind is wanting the affection of young man and to be kissed before the summer is out. She believes she's found that man when she meets David Hawes, the bowler of a visiting cricket team and who Sara thinks is at least 18 years old. Felicity does whatever she can to spend time with David while he's in Avonlea. She sees an opportunity with him at the post-cricket match ball, which is only for adults. Thus she will need her parent's permission to attend, something which is not a foregone conclusion. Through Felicity's attempts to be grown up, Gus unexpectedly acts as her guardian and protector.
- Gus is promoted to assistant manager at the hotel, and asks Felicity to marry him. Felicity has just been accepted to medical school, and wants to wait until she is finished her studies, but Gus feels he's waited long enough already.
- Muriel Stacey, former teacher at Avonlea School and Hetty's colleague at teachers college, has just been promoted to Provincial Superintendent of Schools. This promotion irks Hetty, who has always finished second to Miss Stacey and who was expecting the promotion herself. Miss Stacey is coming to Avonlea for a visit, which further irks Hetty, who sees the visit as an inspection. To prove her success as a teacher especially at this important time just before a school presentation to the Lieutenant Governor, Hetty vows to increase school enrollment. Thinking the workers at the cannery a good source for possible students, Hetty manages to recruit one: Gus Pike, but Gus agrees only on the stipulation that he can continue working. Despite Gus' rough edges, Hetty admires the quest for betterment that Gus displays. In turn, Gus respects everything that Hetty has to teach and say to him. However unwittingly through a discussion with Hetty, Gus is convinced that many of his old habits, including his fiddle playing, are a path straight toward being just like his convict father. This news makes Gus miserable as music is an integral part of who he is. When Miss Stacey arrives in Avonlea, she sees Gus' internal conflict when she herself meets and gets to know him.
- When Alec is elected to the School Board, Hetty quits teaching and Alastair Dimple,an out-of-work actor posing as a substitute teacher, is hired. His unorthodox teaching methods impress the children but bother Hetty.
- Tempers flare as the King family prepare for Olivia's wedding to Jasper Dale.
- While an American developer comes to town with big plans for Avonlea's future, Sara goes behind Aunt Hetty's back and uses part of her trust fund to buy a movie camera for Jasper.
- Alec struggles to finish harvesting the hay before the rain comes, and is assisted by a mysterious young stranger named Caleb. Other strangers enter the plot as the truth about Caleb's past unfolds.
- Hetty takes a sabbatical to take care of Olivia and her newborn son, Montgomery. During this time, retired Colonel Clive Pettibone becomes the school's new teacher, and Hetty finds success writing short stories.
- Circumstances throw Rachel Lynde, the most disagreeable woman in Avonlea, and Alexander Abraham, the most disagreeable man in Avonlea, along with Sara and Felix, in close quarters while waiting out a Small Pox outbreak. Everyone learns not to take things on face value, and Sara shows everyone about making friends.
- Felix wants a rifle for his birthday but he gets a telescope instead. So he takes his father's rifle without asking, goes to the woods, aims at a deer, but accidentally shoots the family's dog Digger.
- Sara resents Aunt Hetty for not letting her pick out her own clothes. When she meets a young runaway named Jo Pitts (who happens to looks just like her), she decides to trick her aunt by trading places with the girl.
- As Valentine's Day approaches, Hetty buys a half-interest in the White Sands hotel, and Chef Pierre LaPierre's niece takes an interest in Gus.
- When Felicity finds orphans living in an abandoned house, she petitions the town to establish a home for foundlings, which leads to the introduction of a new man in her life.
- Olivia is getting tired of Hetty interfering in her life, especially Hetty's continual bad mouthing of Jasper. It is much like the bad mouthing Hetty did of Edwin Clark, Olivia's beau ten years earlier. It was because of Hetty that Edwin and Olivia broke up and that Edwin left Avonlea for good. Now a wealthy widower, Edwin is back in town and wants to reacquaint himself with Olivia. Hetty has a change of heart about Edwin - in her view, anyone is better than Jasper. Sara on the other hand doesn't much like Edwin and she tries to convince Jasper to sweep Olivia off her feet despite Edwin's return. Sara does whatever she can, including using a little witchcraft by Peg Bowen, to assist Jasper. Meanwhile, recently widowed Jim Armstrong is feeling cheated in life, and has become sullen and reclusive, even pulling his son, Teddy, out of school to work on the farm. Teddy wants to go back to school to be with his friends, but he wants his father to be happy even more.
- Clive Pettibone's oldest son Arthur shows an interest in Felicity, much to Gus's dismay. Felicity seems to enjoy having two men fight over her.
- Alec coaches a hockey team of misfits in a game that will decide the fate of the forests around Avonlea. Janet, who is close to giving birth to her fourth child, worries that she won't be able to handle having a baby again.
- When Montreal industrialist Blair Stanley is indicted for embezzlement, he sends his 10-year-old daughter Sara to the small town of Avonlea on Prince Edward Island, where she lives with her two aunts, Hetty and Olivia King.
- After dark one evening, Sara, Felicity, Felix and Gus see a clipper off shore with no flag identifying its origin. They aren't sure if it's real or a figment of their imagination. Initially they believe it is a ghost ship that's come to take away reclusive Ezekiel Crane, a former sea captain who currently is the lighthouse operator. Ezekiel shows specific interest in Gus. Gus soon learns a secret that Ezekiel has been keeping, and the real reason why he has taken Gus into his confidence. Based on a later encounter, Sara and Felix then believe that the ship's purpose is for rum running. Rumors take Avonlea by storm when evidence is found that someone has been camping in the local cemetery, that evidence which includes a jug of rum and shackles. Most of the townsfolk believe the rum running story, and that Ezekiel and Gus are part of the smuggling ring. Sara tries to protect her new friend Gus from this witch-hunt, she who knows that even if there are rum runners that Gus is not involved.
- Fans of 'Anne of Green Gables' will remember Marilla getting on Anne's case for her wild imagination. Now the shoe is on Mirilla's foot - during a gossip section at the town's Sewing Circle where Sara is trying to learn simple stitches despite the less than helpful remarks from Hettie and Felicity. Marilla makes up a tale which ends up coming true, to her chagrin, for now the gossips will have much more to say about the tarnish on her honest reputation.
- The King's Aunt Arabella has just passed away. For fifty years in the King's attic sat her blue chest, which she asked to be opened only after her death. She left it there when she left Avonlea for good shortly after her fiancé committed suicide the day before their planned wedding. There is great anticipation amongst the family of treasures in the chest, but they find primarily moth eaten wedding mementos. Sara is certain that there is more - why would Arabella forbid the chest to be opened otherwise - and she indeed does find something hidden in the chest, something that most would not consider a treasure except someone like romantic Sara. Meanwhile, Olivia, who has been badmouthed by Hetty for frittering away her life, applies for a job writing for the Avonlea District Chronicle newspaper. The newspaper is in financial straits, but Mr. Tyler, the newspaper's owner, hires her on a trial basis on the condition that she make good on her promise to find exciting local stories and find an in-kind photographer to take photographs to accompany her stories, photographs missing from the newspaper in its current version. Sara can see the interest that Jasper Dale is showing in Olivia and is certain he will do Olivia the favor of being her photographer despite his shyness. Indeed, he does agree. Jasper thinks that Sara's find in the blue chest is newsworthy, but Olivia and Sara will have to do some more investigative work to uncover the full story. Mr. Tyler, however, seems to have a problem with this specific story, the reason he is reluctant to divulge.
- Sara escapes to the mainland where street toughs believe she is Jo Pitts. Meanwhile, Hetty is still unaware that Sara and Jo switched places, while Janet suspects Felix of keeping a secret from her.
- Felix gets a job as Mr. Tremayne's assistant at the White Sands Hotel but he learns that having a lot of power is a big responsibility.
- Hetty and Rachel recently reconciled after their thirty-six year old feud that started in the seventh grade over a boy named Romney Penhallow. Hetty broke up with Romney, the two having a love/hate relationship, when Romney asked Rachel to a dance to make Hetty jealous. Hetty's feud specifically with Romney may erupt all over again since Romney, now a famous artist, has returned to Avonlea for a family wedding. After initially wanting to avoid Romney while he's in town, Hetty instead decides to confront him head on, this tactic with unexpected results. But in their confrontation, Romney purposely withholds some important information from her. Meanwhile, the Avonlea District Chronicle may shut down for good since all the businesses are now advertising in the less expensive Carmody newspaper. With the shut down, Olivia's promising career will go down with it. She decides to do whatever she needs to to save her career.
- A traveling salesman falls in love with Hetty. Meanwhile, Felicity wonders why Gus won't ask her to the winter carnival.
- After inadvertently helping a con-man skip town with the proceeds raised for new books for the school library, Sara launches a number of money raising schemes to recoup the funds. Jasper Dale, the town recluse who is painfully shy, comes to the rescue and puts on a memorable magic lantern show.
- Gold fever strikes in Avonlea. Sara Stanley finds a Spanish gold coin and throws everyone in to a tizzy about finding treasure.
- Gus, Sara and the King children are drawn into a mystery involving a beautiful woman and her potentially evil pursuer.
- When a carnival visits, Davey falls under the spell of the beautiful sideshow mermaid, Melusina, but soon realizes something fishy is going on with the double-dealing owner and his no-good chums.
- Hetty purchases the cannery to prevent it from being turned into a liquor distillery, and she reluctantly allows Jasper and Olivia to run it.
- When Sara's father is acquitted of the fraud charges against him, he insists that she return to Montreal. Sara must decide whether or not she will stay in Avonlea or return to her Father's house.
- When Davey Keith inadvertently lands Sara in trouble at school, she discovers his "shameful" secret.
- Olivia misinterprets Jasper's interest in a female scientist, who has come to the island to study bats, and worries over the state of their marriage.
- When Alec's friend dies in a boating accident, Alec feels obligated to take care of his widow and their infant son, setting the Avonlea gossip circle into a tizzy.
- A former student teacher of Hettie's and her husband die leaving no will, but plenty of property and a small baby. Hettie and Rachael Lynde battle over who will care for the child, but Sara and Felicity have a better idea they have found the perfect couple to be the child's parents. However the law has other ideas.
- Marilla Cuthbert dies suddenly, meaning Rachel, Davey, and Dora may have to leave Green Gables unless Gilbert Blythe can find a way that they can stay.
- When Felix throws a rock through the window of the Old Lloyd house, Sara soon discovers that the reclusive old woman is more than she seems and that she might have a startling connection to Olivia's good friend, aspiring concert singer Sylvia Gray, who has come to Avonlea for a visit.
- An upcoming spelling bee shows that there is more than one definition for the word "witch" ... and that Peg Bowen isn't as much of a witch as some of Avonlea's prominent citizens - Hetty and Janet King.
- Jasper Dale's new-found but fragile sense of self confidence is rattled when his latest invention, a flying machine, fails miserably. It is further shattered when he overhears the town gossip, Clara Potts pronouncing that Olivia King is throwing her life away on a "dreamer". Meanwhile, Sara and Felicity write an advice column called "Madame X", which is accidentally published in the Avonlea Chronicle when their papers get mixed up with Olivia's, tarnishing her reputation.
- After the death of her father, Sara comes back to King Farm.
- It doesn't sit well with Hetty when Sara convinces Peter Craig that not only should he attend church with the family, but that he should also spend sometime playing with the other kids in an effort to get them to stop teasing him about his father who is in jail. Meanwhile, Peg Bowan, the Witch of Avonlea has also been convinced to go to church much to the chagrin of the townspeople.
- Judson Parker is passing through Avonlea, he a candidate for the provincial election being held the following week. He is trying to buy his way to an election win. Some of the Avonlea voters see through his tricks, however some out of circumstance get caught up in his manipulation. Meanwhile, it's Harvest Festival time, and the children in particular are looking forward to the party. Felicity is sure she will win best costume as she does every year. Clemmie, who does like harvest time, doesn't seem to allow herself to enjoy the party due to her shyness. Sally and Jane have been talking negatively about Clemmie behind her back to Felicity and Sara, Felicity who doesn't stand up for her friend just to stay in Sally and Jane's good books. Thinking she's doing Clemmie a favor, Felicity takes up a bet from Sally about transforming Clemmie into the belle of the party. Despite Sara's vows that Felicity's plan will ultimately end up hurting Clemmie, Felicity goes ahead with her transformation without letting Clemmie know its real purpose.
- As Cecily returns home from the sanitarium, she comes to feel that her family treats her like an invalid. Meanwhile, Felicity awaits news of Gus Pike's return from Jamaica.
- After a school assignment to write about one's next ten years, Sara worries about her future. An antiques dealer with an interesting secret identity comes to town.
- When Cecily is diagnosed with tuberculosis, Alec and Janet must make a difficult decision regarding her care.
- Instead of taking care of a husband, Janet's spinster sister, Abigail Ward, has funneled her energies into being a meticulous homemaker despite not really enjoying it. Things may change when into her life returns Malcolm McEwan, an old beau who has been away from Avonlea for seven years. He has returned to make good on a promise: Abigail's father would not allow the two to marry until Malcolm made a fortune, which he has now done in Yukon gold. He now wants to marry Abby as he calls her. Abby is in a quandary. She likes having the attention of a man, but realizes that she and Malcolm are extremes in personality (he loud and brash, she overly meticulous). But mostly, she fears two things: that she will lose her independence, and if she truly does fall in love with him all over again that he may run off much like he did seven years ago. Malcolm's return not only affects Abby, but also Alec, who is feeling restless about the choices he's made in life.
- The men go on an ice fishing expedition while the women go to an auction at the White Sands hotel.
- When Marilla agrees to take in Davey and Dora Keith, two mischievous and recently orphaned youngsters, her friendship with Rachel is sorely tried.
- Janet takes up the cause of women's suffrage, sending the town of Avonlea into an uproar. Her efforts to get votes for women bring up questions about the working conditions and pay of the Avonlea Cannery employees.
- When Andrew's father, Roger King, comes home to Avonlea he clashes with Alec over the running of the farm. Meanwhile, Andrew is let down by the lack of attention his absent father pays to him.
- Felix is in dilemma. Alec is trying to prepare him for the day he will take over the farm and he can't bring himself to tell him that's not what he wants. Meanwhile, Mr. Tremayne has assigned him to take special care of an obnoxious guest.
- An eclipse is coming and Felix sees it as the perfect opportunity to make money. He takes in strange guests from the overcrowded White Sands, perturbing his sisters.
- Felix starts a delivery business using a beat-up cart pulled by the family's old horse, Blackie.
- Everyone must band together to work through problems at the King Farm. Janet's Aunt Eliza comes to to stay and Janet is convinced she has come to say her last goodbyes before dying.
- The town is surprised by the engagement of Hetty and Tremayne , her partner in the White Sands Hotel.
- A clash between Clive Pettibone and Alec King affects Avonlea's newly-formed volunteer fire department.
- Rachel Lynde suffers another stroke on her way back to Avonlea. Robbed of the ability to speak, Hetty takes her in at Rose Cottage while Rachel's sons come to town to discuss her future care.
- While her cousin, the world-famous actress Pigeon Plumtree, is visiting, Sara teaches social graces to a shy pig farmer.
- A drama competition causes tempers to flare when Hetty replaces Janet as the lead in her play with the well-known (but arrogant) actress Isabelle Carrington.
- Felicity loses her space for the next term at university, so she takes a job as assistant to a doctor.
- A visiting politician courts Alec to run for office, while Felix becomes involved in a scandal when things begin to go missing from the White Sands Hotel.
- Izzy is upset when she learns that her father plans to marry Muriel Stacey.
- As Olivia prepares for the birth of her first child, Jasper's eccentric relatives invade the King farm.
- Convinced that judgment day is at hand, the children confess their sins to each other. Janet feels pressured to wear an ugly hair comb because it's a King Family heirloom and scrambles to replace it when it goes missing.
- Sara wants to go to school in Paris, but both Hetty and Nanny Louisa have other plans for her.
- The townspeople are put off by the free-spirited ways of the new minister and his family. Aunt Hetty is especially perturbed when Sara takes an interest in the minister's son.
- 1990–19961hTV-G7.2 (44)TV EpisodeRumors spread that Felix and Izzy are romantically involved and that Olivia and Jasper are getting divorced. Felicity considers a proposal.
- Janet becomes friendly with Mrs. Elliot, while Hetty tries to spy on Sara and Booth Elliot.
- As penance for a careless accident he caused, Hetty orders Davey to perform three good deeds, the first being directed towards Jasper Dale. despite his best intentions, Davey causes another accident, this time with exciting results.
- Love and humor are in the air as women bid on the eligible Avonlea men at the White Sands Charity Bachelor Auction.
- When US Marshal Zak Morgan brings his wild west show to Avonlea, Sara develops a crush on him.
- Felix competes against the more experienced Clive Pettibone in a horse race.
- Always searching for a new money-making scheme, Felix , with the help of Izzy , wants to start his own fox farm. Learning that he needs an adult co-signer for his bank loan, Felix enlists Nat Lester as his new business partner.
- Against Hetty's wishes, Davey helps two misbehaved orphans reunite with their older brother.
- When Janet's sister Abigail and her husband Malcolm return to Avonlea, tension increases in the King family. Abigail's constant criticizing of Janet's family and their circumstances gets on everyone's nerves - especially Cecily's.
- After hearing him sing, famous song writers Rudy and Betty Blaine become determined to make Alec a star. Hetty is unimpressed, until she discovers they are personally acquainted with King George V of England.
- Felix is having troubles at school and is in real danger of not graduating with his class. Because of his difficulties at school, Hetty decides to relieve Felix of his duties at the hotel, which is a double blow for him since his work at the hotel is one of the few things that gives him true pleasure. It's a bad time for Hetty's decision as the hotel is the site of an upcoming royal wedding. Felix decides to take extraordinary measures to get away from his troubles. With the wedding, the royal family in question is headed by its matriarch, the Polish Countess Polenska. Her son, Count Marek, is the groom, his bride being Adele MacPhee, who happens to be Pierre's sister. Pierre has not seen either his sister or his mother, an ethnic Irish scrub-woman named Maggie MacPhee, in twenty years. This gathering brings together many who are keeping secrets: Pierre was unaware that Adele was the bride in the wedding; Pierre told his family that he owned the hotel, and as such Maggie offered the hotel for the wedding on behalf of Pierre; the Polenskas believe Adele's family to be wealthy and cultured (in part because of Pierre owning the hotel), the misunderstanding which neither Pierre or Maggie make any effort to correct; and the Polenska fortune is almost gone. If any of these secrets come to light, Simon and Hetty will find out that no one has the money to pay for the wedding.
- When Davey refuses to go to school, Hetty thinks that some time in the working world will help change his mind about education. She sends him to work at the Dale Cannery, but her plan backfires when Davey actually enjoys the work.
- Hetty takes in Davey and Dora after Rachel Lynde suffers a stroke.
- Abigail coerces Janet into planning a huge party for Great Aunt Eliza's 90th birthday. Aged cousin Winifred arrives for the party, bringing with her memories of Owen Briar, a lost love that both Eliza and Winifred had shared.
- Alec is not supportive of Janet's desire to run a business from their home and is too busy to listen to her reasoning. The men's club and the women's group are at odds when the two organizations run simultaneous raffles.
- At the sanitarium, Cecily befriends a streetwise paperboy from Brooklyn who gets her into trouble with the administrators.
- Jasper Dale returns from England to find that Olivia has taken in poverty stricken cannery worker Lottie Cooper and her baby girl. The town is threatened by a potential amalgamation with Carmody.
- Things are not going well in the Pettibone house beyond the one bright light of Arthur being home having graduated from veterinary school and about to take over the local practice. Izzy is still feeling uncomfortable with the new feminine influence of Muriel in their family, Izzy thinking that Muriel has taken her place in the home. Izzy is also still not speaking to Felix, who tries repeatedly to apologize and Morgan is home unexpectedly having been expelled from military college, which he hated. The final straw in his expulsion was a bookful of caricatures, albeit well done ones, he drew of his superiors, including one of Clive. Feeling the need for some fonder times, Izzy takes it upon herself to invite her maternal aunt, Lillian Hepworth, to visit from Boston. Lillian has not seen the family in years since she and Clive do not get along as she felt her sister Jessica settled for a life of domestic drudgery in marrying Clive, whereas Lillian went into business as a women's milliner. Upon Lillian's arrival in Avonlea, she impresses her feelings about her sister's life to Izzy, which further places a strain between herself and Clive but she also fails to tell the Pettibones that her business has failed, leaving her penniless. Instead, she pretends still to be a woman of means and regales stories of the rich and famous that she knows and of high society. Izzy,wanting to escape what she sees as her problems, wants a life much like her aunt's and as such wants to live in Boston with Lillian and Morgan wants not to return to military college but enroll in a liberal arts program at Dalhousie. Arthur and Muriel act as the mediators in the family issues, the latter who knows of Lillian's precarious financial situation.