Yes! This confirms what I’ve suspected since the early 90s: that Road to Avonlea ended up with some of the Edwardian costumes from the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Secret Garden. I was obsessed with both as a child, and remember seeing Sarah Stanley in Road to Avonlea wearing a blue dress with white collar that I swore Mary Lennox wore in The Secret Garden. If I can find good screen caps I’ll submit them. Also, the pink coat that Mary Lennox wears in this same production turns up again 20 years later in Doctor Who Season 3, episodes 8 and 9, on a little girl possessed by aliens. Behold the power of the internet.
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Yes! This confirms what I’ve suspected since the early 90s: that Road to Avonlea ended up with some of the Edwardian costumes from the Hallmark Hall of Fame production of The Secret Garden. I was obsessed with both as a child, and remember seeing Sarah Stanley in Road to Avonlea wearing a blue dress with white collar that I swore Mary Lennox wore in The Secret Garden. If I can find good screen caps I’ll submit them. Also, the pink coat that Mary Lennox wears in this same production turns up again 20 years later in Doctor Who Season 3, episodes 8 and 9, on a little girl possessed by aliens. Behold the power of the internet.
Wow, thank you!!!! I can get screencaps of the Doctor Who episodes, but if you happen to have caps of the other items, I would be thrilled if you’d contribute!
Sullivan’s costume designer for the first few years of RTA hired costumes from Cosprop in England. Sarah Stanley’s pink dressing gown is also seen on the little girl in The Flame Trees of Thika.
I just searched – I somehow completely missed when you posted that costume a couple of years ago.Thanks for bringing it to my attention! It really is a lovely dressing gown.
Not difficult to do; there are literally hundreds of images posted in that thread. 🙂