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Yes it is a real shame that the BBC junked the 1972 series. A few stills survive though, so we have an idea how it looked. It used much of the same cast and the sets and props are also much the same. Also, Kim Braden, who played Anne recorded an audiobook of anne of green gables in 1982 for Listening For Pleasure. the cassette (bbridged) is available online.

The 1979 Akage No An Japanese anime series is a good companion to the 1975 BBC Anne of Avonlea Series if you are going for a faithful adap. It is much higher quality though and sticks very close to the books. The music and watercolour background scenery is beautiful! I thought the 1980s series were the best until i saw Akage No An which  makes the canadian series seem sacharine and hokey by comparison.

As a follow on from the BBC Anne of Avonlea, the 1940 film is also a fairly good adap of Windy Poplars/Willows although it makes some of the same mistakes as Sullivan's Avonlea (Tony Pringle is a for-runner of Morgan Harris! Summerside is not Summerside but Pringleton. Anne adopts little elizabeth  ect..)