Emily of New Moon was a Canadian

Canada

Canada is a North American country consisting of ten provinces and three territories. Located in the northern part of the continent, it extends from the Atlantic Ocean in the east to the Pacific Ocean in the west, and northward into the Arctic Ocean...

 television series, which aired on CBC Television

CBC Television

CBC Television is a Canadian television network owned by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the national public broadcaster.Although the CBC is supported by public funding, the television network supplements this funding with commercial advertising revenue, in contrast to CBC Radio which are...

 from 1998 to 2000. The series originally aired in the United States on the Cookie Jar Toons

Cookie Jar Toons

Cookie Jar Toons is a daily children's programming block on the This TV digital broadcast network. The block is programmed by Toronto based Cookie Jar Entertainment...

 block on This TV

This TV

This TV is a United States general entertainment television network, with a large emphasis in its programming on movies....

 and it's currently seen in Canada on the Viva, Bravo! and Vision TV cable channels. The series, produced by Salter Street Films

Salter Street Films

Salter Street Films was a Canadian television and film production company based in Halifax, Nova Scotia.- History :The company was founded by brothers Paul and Michael Donovan in 1983. Paul Donovan was trained as a director at the London Film School; Michael graduated from Dalhousie University’s...

, was based on the Emily of New Moon

Emily of New Moon

Emily of New Moon is the first in a series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery about the development of a writer. It was first published in 1923.-Plot summary:...

series of novels by Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery

Lucy Maud Montgomery OBE , called "Maud" by family and friends and publicly known as L.M. Montgomery, was a Canadian author best known for a series of novels beginning with Anne of Green Gables, published in 1908. Anne of Green Gables was an immediate success...

. The series consisted of three seasons of thirteen episodes and one season of seven episodes, for a total of forty-six. The executive producers were Micheline Charest

Micheline Charest

Micheline Charest was a television producer and founder of the Cinar television company.-Biography:...

, Michael Donovan

Michael Donovan

Michael David Donovan is a voice actor for many TV shows and anime. He is most known for his voice on the series ReBoot for his voices of Phong, Mike the TV, Cecil, and Al. He has also provided the voice of Sabretooth for X-Men: Evolution and Carnage for Spider-Man Unlimited. He played the lead...

, and Ronald Weinberg.

The series starred Martha MacIsaac

Martha MacIsaac

Martha MacIsaac is a Canadian television and film actress and former child actress....

 as the titular orphan

Orphan

An orphan is a child permanently bereaved of or abandoned by his or her parents. In common usage, only a child who has lost both parents is called an orphan...

 Emily Starr. Susan Clark

Susan Clark

Susan Clark is a Canadian actress, possibly best-known for her role as Katherine on the American television sitcom Webster, on which she appeared with her husband, Alex Karras.-Personal life:...

 and Sheila McCarthy

Sheila McCarthy

Sheila McCarthy is a Canadian film, stage, television actress, and singer. She is one of the most honoured actors in Canada, having won two Genie Awards , two Gemini Awards , and two Dora Awards among multiple nominations. As of 2007, she can be seen on the Canadian television series Little...

 played Emily's aunts Elizabeth and Laura, who had taken on the responsibility of raising Emily following her father's death, and Stephen McHattie

Stephen McHattie

Stephen McHattie is a Canadian actor.-Life and career:McHattie was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia....

 played her cousin Jimmy.

Recurring cast included Chip Ciupka as Mr. Carpenter, Peter Donaldson

Peter Donaldson

Peter Ian Donaldson is a main newsreader on BBC Radio 4.He was born in Cairo, Egypt and moved to Cyprus in 1952 at the time of the overthrow of King Farouk. He was a frequent listener to the BBC World Service and the BFBS....

 as Ian Bowles, Richard Donat

Richard Donat

Richard Donat is a Canadian actor known for his roles in Canadian and American television. He is currently into his second season as a cast member of the Canadian-American TV series, Haven...

 as Dr. Burnley, Kris Lemche

Kris Lemche

-Early life:Lemche was born in Brampton, Ontario to a schoolteacher mother and a father who was the proprietor of a heating business. Lemche attended the Mayfield School of Arts...

 as Perry Miller, John Neville as Uncle Malcolm, Jessica Pellerin as Ilse Burnley, Shawn Roberts

Shawn Roberts

-Life and career:Roberts was born in Stratford, Ontario on April 2, 1984. He started with playing the wolf in a school play of "Little Red Riding Hood" award-winning screenwriter Robert Forsythe and his friend's father helped him get a role in Emily of New Moon...

 as Teddy Kent, and Linda Thorson

Linda Thorson

Linda Thorson is a Canadian actress, most famous for her work as Tara King in The Avengers.-Personal life:...

 as Cousin Isabel.

Guest stars included Janet Wright

Janet Wright

Janet Wright is a Canadian actress and theatre director. She is best known for her role as Emma Leroy on the hit Canadian sitcom Corner Gas. She won a 2003 Gemini Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Supporting Role in a Dramatic Program or Mini-Series for her role in Betrayed...

, Martha Burns

Martha Burns

Martha Burns is an award-winning Canadian actress known for her stage work and youth outreach in Ontario and her leading role as Ellen Fanshaw in the TV dramedy series Slings and Arrows.Burns was born 1958 in Winnipeg, Manitoba...

, Maury Chaykin

Maury Chaykin

Maury Alan Chaykin was an American-born Canadian actor. Best known for his portrayal of detective Nero Wolfe, he was also known for his work as a character actor in many films and on television programs.-Personal life:...

, Martha Henry

Martha Henry

Martha Henry, is a Canadian stage, film, and television actress, who is best known for her appearances at the Stratford Festival.-Background:...

, Lisa Houle, William Hutt, Michael Moriarty

Michael Moriarty

Michael Moriarty is an American-Canadian actor of stage and screen, and a jazz musician. He played Benjamin Stone for four seasons on the TV series Law & Order.-Early life:...

, Barbara Feldon, and Claire Rankin

Claire Rankin

Claire Rankin is a Canadian actress. She was raised in Prince Edward Island and is a trained singer and dancer.She has over 40 films and television credits appearing in such shows as "House", "Monk",Without a Trace, The District, Chicago Hope, Ally McBeal and The Drew Carey Show...

The series was developed by Marlene Matthews

Marlene Matthews

Marlene Judith Mathews AO is a former Australian Olympic sprinter. She has been described as 'one of Australia's greatest and unluckiest' champions.-Early career:...

, who also wrote or co-wrote nineteen episodes of the series and served as one of the producers for the first three years. Additional writers include Nobu Adilman, Leila Basen, Chris Bould, Heather Conkie

Heather Conkie

Heather Conkie is an actress who was featured in multiple children's shows in the 1980s on TVOntario. She was the host of Report Canada. She also played two characters in a music-education show called It's Mainly Music...

, Edwina Follows, Dennis Foon

Dennis Foon

Dennis Foon is an award-winning playwright, producer, screenwriter and novelist. He was artistic director of the Green Thumb Theatre for twelve years, before turning to films and television in 1986. He has written screenplays for many types of drama...

, Rob Forsyth, Jeremy Hole, Janet MacLean, Peter Meech

Peter Meech

Peter Meech was born in Toronto, is a citizen of the United States and Canada, and received a Master's degree in Communications from Stanford University, where he won a Stanford Nicol award for writing. He currently is a writer, director and producer. Peter has served as a script doctor on several...

, David Preston, Lynn Turner

Lynn Turner

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, and Joe Wiesenfeld. Episodes were directed by George Bloomfield, Randy Bradshaw, Richard Ciupka, Phil Comeau

Phil Comeau

Phil Comeau, CM is a Canadian film and television director, born in Digby, Nova Scotia and living in Montreal, Quebec.- Biography :Phil Comeau, based in Montreal since 1983, is a film and television director and scriptwriter...

, Steve Danyluk, Douglas Jackson

Douglas Jackson

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, Jimmy Kaufman, Michael Kennedy

Michael Kennedy (director)

Michael Kennedy is a Canadian film and television director, writer and composer born in Summerside, Prince Edward Island, Canada.-Career:...

, Gordon Langevin, Lorette Leblanc, Eleanore Lindo, Don McBrearty

Don McBrearty

-Filmography:*American Nightmare, 1983*Coming Out Alive, 1984*Strange Tales/Ray Bradbury Theatre, 1986 *A Child's Christmas in Wales, 1987...

, Stephen McHattie

Stephen McHattie

Stephen McHattie is a Canadian actor.-Life and career:McHattie was born in Antigonish, Nova Scotia....

, Matthew Nodella, Gabriel Pelletier, Jean-François Pouliot

Jean-François Pouliot

Jean-François Pouliot is a Quebec film director.He was born in Montreal and studied at Concordia University. He worked as an assistant cameraman, while also writing and directing short animated films for the National Film Board...

, Stefan Scaini, Mark Sobel, and Giles Walker

Giles Walker

-Brief biography:Giles Walker was born in 1946 in Dundee, Scotland. He has since moved to Canada, where he has been involved in film and television writing, producing and directing since 1974.-Partial filmography:...

.

United States

Echo Bridge Home Entertainment has released all four seasons on DVD in the United States, as well as a complete series DVD set.

Canada

Alliance Home Entertainment

Alliance Films

Alliance Films is a major Canadian motion picture distribution/production company, which serves Canada, the United Kingdom, and Spain.-History:It was formed in 1984 by Stephen Roth, Denis Heroux, John Kemeny, Robert Lantos and Jay...

has released all four seasons on DVD in Canada for the very first time.

DVD Name	Ep#	Region 1 (US)	Region 1 (CAN)
Season 1	13	September 30, 2008	April 20, 2010
Season 2	13	December 29, 2009	May 18, 2010
Season 3	13	June 1, 2010	June 22, 2010
Season 4	7	June 1, 2010	July 20, 2010

External links

• Emily of New Moon section of The L.M. Montgomery Research Group
• The Official Emily of New Moon Fan Site Includes a synopsis of the series and information on the cast and crew behind the Emily of New Moon television series.