10. Anne is finally reunited with Andrew at the end of A New Beginning.  He shows up at the same moment that Anne’s son Dominic and his fiancé Brigitte arrive at Green Gables and so having the knowledge that her family is now together is a great feat for Anne.

9. At the end of The Continuing Story, Anne is reunited with Jack Garrison’s son Dominick, as he sits on the same bench at Bright River Station that she herself waited on all those years ago. Anne had promised Jack that she would take care of Dominick should anything happen to him, but had lost track of the child for some time while he was under the care of Jack’s aunt, but the bond she built with the small child during the time she was searching for Gilbert in Europe was unbreakable.

8. Marilla and Matthew see Anne off on her journey to Queen’s Academy and while standing on the train platform, Matthew tells Marilla that it was a lucky mistake that Mrs. Spencer gave them Anne instead of a boy. Marilla responds, “It wasn’t luck, it was providence. He knew we needed her.” I’m placing this at number 8 not only because of Marilla and Matthew’s obvious sadness at seeing Anne leave them for the first time, but because of the way Colleen Dewhurst delivers that last line. It was said with such intense conviction that the viewer can’t help but believe her.

1. Marilla comforts a crying Anne in the middle of the night after Matthew’s funeral. This was a scene originally not in the script and it turns out to be Kevin Sullivan’s favourite part. What makes this scene perhaps even more emotional than Matthew’s death, is that it’s the first time we really see the intimacy that has grown between Marilla and Anne. It is almost as though Marilla needs to be comforted just as much as Anne does when she tells Anne that she musn’t think she doesn’t love her as much as Matthew did and that Anne is like her “own flesh and blood now.” Set in the middle of the night – this scene encompasses a very vulnerable time when both characters are unguarded. “The tears don’t hurt like the ache does,” Anne tells Marilla. And as the viewer watches this scene, they are made fully aware of how important it was that Anne and Marilla found each other in life.

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2. Matthew tells Anne that he love his “little girl” while lying in her arms in the field. It’s hard to even write about this scene because no words can really describe what a sad and beautiful moment this is. I don’t think I’m alone in believing that Matthew Cuthbert is one of the most pure and sweet characters ever written for the page and film and so his loss is immeasurable.

3. Anne hurries to the barn where Matthew is working to thank him for the dress with “puffed sleeves” that he bought for her. Matthew’s shyness mingled with Anne’s pure joy at the fact that someone went to that much trouble for her makes an unforgettable scene.

4. In The Sequel, Anne rushes to Gilbert’s bedside as he lays there, deathly ill. She is able to show him the book about Avonlea that she wrote upon his suggestion. At this point, Anne is not sure whether Gilbert will recover from his illness and it is the first time that she really shows her true feelings for him. When he tells her that he called off the wedding to Christine because there never could be anyone for him but Anne, it’s the most definitive statement either of them have made to each other so far.

7. In The Continuing Story, Anne and Gilbert are finally reunited in France at the end of Anne’s unbelievable journey to find him. Anne had just tracked down Gilbert’s last whereabouts at a German POW camp, but was beginning to lose hope of ever finding him.

6. Standing on the bridge, Anne tells Gilbert that she doesn’t want sunbursts, or marble halls – she just wants him. I don’t need to explain what happiness is conveyed in this scene – the effect is a large happy sigh of relief.

5. In the Sequel, Anne follows Gilbert to the train station after their chance meeting in Kingsport to say thank you to him for his note congratulating her on all her success. Gilbert has just told Anne, as they spoke in the gazebo, that he always thought she should write about the people she knew best. But in the same moment, he tells her that he is going to marry Christine Stuart. I put this scene at number 5 because it comes at the point in the story when Anne has been on her own, teaching in Kingsport, for the better part of a year. She has been distanced from Gilbert and all the comforts of her life in Avonlea and so when she follows him to the train station, we hear the homesickness in her voice and the beginning of her realization that she may have been wrong in dismissing him.