50
Score: 3.91 / 280 votes
1
2005 Rank: 49Grade:
B
Alec suggests that the town adopt a volunteer fire department after a fire at the blacksmith shop. A rivalry heats up between Alec and Clive in a battle for fire chief.
51
Score: 3.91 / 211 votes
5
2005 Rank: 56Grade:
B
Rachel suffers another stroke while returning to Avonlea. Her inability to speak causes the town to gossip about her mental capabilities.
52
Score: 3.91 / 460 votes
--Grade:
B
Marilla Cuthbert fabricates a beau named Duncan McTavish after village gossips pry into her romantic life.
Comments: An improbable Montgomery short story becomes even more improbable when Marilla becomes the white-lie spinning spinster.
53
Score: 3.87 / 260 votes
19
2005 Rank: 72Grade:
B-
The new reverend's son becomes interested in Sara and introduces her to rag time music. Sara deceives Hetty and goes to an Acadian celebration.
54
Score: 3.85 / 261 votes
--Grade:
B-
Eliza Ward returns and begins her usual clamoring, except this time it includes premonitions of death.
Comments: If only I had a dime for every character that's been lost in the snow...
55
Score: 3.83 / 366 votes
3
2005 Rank: 58Grade:
B-
Peter invites Sara to a carnival where she meets a fortune teller, who claims to reunite the Story Girl with her father.
Comments: Sara's importance fades after this episode and the following episode steers the series in a new direction.
56
Score: 3.82 / 304 votes
6
2005 Rank: 62Grade:
B-
A long-term feud between Alec and Roger King is re-ignited over distribution of the King family savings.
Comments: A few fans have mentioned missing Andrew following his premature departure from the series. I'm not sure why, considering that he never actually did anything.
57
Score: 3.77 / 213 votes
12
2005 Rank: 69Grade:
B-
Clive proposes to Muriel, which causes Izzy to feel mixed emotions. The school children plan to buy a wedding present, but plans go wrong when Davy loses the money.
Comments: Not only does Clive Pettibone give the most lackluster marriage proposal to Muriel--He also deprives us of seeing a wedding that could have breathed life into this droning episode. What a jerk!
58
Score: 3.76 / 349 votes
2
2005 Rank: 60Grade:
B-
Davy's troublesome behavior, along with a nagging toothache, becomes too much for Rachel Lynde to bare.
Comments: The highest ranked Davy-centric episode. Rachel is hilarious and Davy is entertaining. Unfortunately, Davy's antics begin to ware on the audience as the series progresses.
59
Score: 3.75 / 205 votes
4
2005 Rank: 55Grade:
B-
Jasper returns from England and argues against a plan to amalgate Avonlea with Carmody.
Comments: The penultimate episode of the series goes out with a bang. Olivia shines again and Jasper tells the villagers not to sell out to gadgets. I wonder if he would still hold this position if any of his gadgets actually sold?
60
Score: 3.75 / 297 votes
3
2005 Rank: 63Grade:
B-
Alec purchases a new horse and has plans to sell the aging horse Blackie. Felix starts his own delivery service in order to keep Blackie at King farm.
Comments: Felix learns a lesson.
61
Score: 3.72 / 290 votes
3
2005 Rank: 64Grade:
B-
Janet joins the suffragette movement and campaigns for equal wages for the cannery workers. Her struggle and absence from King farm puts tremendous stress on her family and marriage.
Comments: Janet "bakes pies and exposes McCorkndale lies." Shh -- Just don't tell Sullivan that there never was a suffragette movement on Prince Edward Island.
62
Score: 3.68 / 362 votes
9
2005 Rank: 53Grade:
C+
Sara befriends a petty thief named Jo Pitts, who looks exactly like her. When Hetty's disciplinarian nature becomes too much for Sara to tolerate, she switches places with Jo.
63
Score: 3.67 / 256 votes
2
2005 Rank: 65Grade:
C+
Viola and Janet cause a town uproar and the church committee calls for John Elliot's resignation.
64
Score: 3.66 / 196 votes
10
2005 Rank: 74Grade:
C+
Hetty challenges Carmody to a contest between the two schools to determine the fate of the Avonlea schoolhouse.
Comments: Wait, are you telling me the formerly illiterate Davy is now inexplicably an English language whiz? That might be the real mystery of this episode.
65
Score: 3.66 / 362 votes
4
2005 Rank: 61Grade:
C+
After enduring taunting from his peers, Peter Craig becomes deathly ill.
Comments: Peg Bowen shines and Peter whines. Montgomery's implied future beau for Felicity, Peter Craig, is weakly portrayed and goes out with a whimper.
66
Score: 3.64 / 351 votes
15
2005 Rank: 51Grade:
C+
Gus makes a deal with his infamous father, Abe Pike, in order to free Sara from his clutches. Jo Pitts continues to wreak havoc on the King Family and terrorizes Hetty to the point of hysteria.
67
Score: 3.61 / 228 votes
1
2005 Rank: 68Grade:
C+
Felix enters a steeple race during the harvest fair, which causes much concern for Janet.
Comments: More like the "Mediocre Race." A total cop out by giving both Clive and Felix the victory and letting the race end in a disappointing tie. Felix should have won as the victory does nothing for Clive's character.
68
Score: 3.57 / 231 votes
11
2005 Rank: 57Grade:
C+
Felix becomes interested in the politician's daughter Adeline, but becomes suspicious of her when money starts disappearing from the hotel.
Comments: Crime doesn't pay... Unless your father is a powerful and influential political bully.
69
Score: 3.56 / 227 votes
4
2005 Rank: 73Grade:
C+
Cecily returns from Thornhill Sanitarium and endures the towns fear of her dormant tuburculosis.
