The Kids of Degrassi Street

"The Kids of Degrassi Street" is a Canadian children's TV show which aired from 1979 to 1985, and is the first in the "Degrassi" series, aboutthe lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada. It and grew out of four short films: "Ida Makes a Movie", "Cookie Goes to the Hospital", "Irene Moves In" and "Noel Buys a Suit", which originally aired as after-school specials on the CBC in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively. The show was acclaimed for its realistic depiction of every day children's lives and tribulations, and remains memorable to many Canadians because of this.

"Kids of Degrassi Street" featured many of the same actors who would later appear on "Degrassi Junior High" and "Degrassi High", including Stacie Mistysyn, Neil Hope, Anais Granofsky, Sarah Charlesworth and others. However, their character names and families were different, so this series cannot technically be seen as an immediate precursor to the later shows.

List of episodes

Trivia

*Rachel Blanchard of "Clueless" and "Road Trip" fame got her start on this series as an eight-year-old.
*Singer Alannah Myles appears in the episode "Catherine Finds Her Balance" along with songwriting partner Christopher Ward.

DVD Release

On July 31, 2007, WGBH Boston Home Video released The Kids of Degrassi Street: The Complete series on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.Fabulous Films will be releasing the complete series in Region 2 PAL DVD early in 2008

ee also

*Zoe Newman
*Stacie Mistysyn
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External links

* [http://www.degrassi.tv/fan/kidsOfDegrassi.jsp Episode guide for "The Kids of Degrassi Street"]
* [http://kidsofdegrassistreet.degrassi.ca/ Kids of Degrassi cast and character page]