The Kids of Degrassi Street
The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV series that aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first series in the Degrassi franchise. It follows the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. The series 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 CBC Television in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively. The show was acclaimed for its realistic depiction of everyday children's lives and tribulations, and it remains memorable to many Canadians because of this.
The 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, John Ioannou 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.
The show has also aired on BBC in the United Kingdom, on ABC TV, ABC Kids and Nickelodeon in Australia, on TVB in Hong Kong, on RTÉ One and RTÉ Two in Ireland, on M-Net in South Africa, on ZNBC in Zambia, KTV2 in Kuwait, on NBC in Namibia, on RTM 1 in Malaysia, on ZTV in Zimbabwe, on GBC TV in Gibraltar, on StarPlus in India and also started airing on Showtime on March 3, 1982 as well as subsequently on the Disney Channel in the United States.
Episode list
| # | Title | Airdate | Code |
Home media
On July 31, 2007, WGBH Boston Home Video released The Kids of Degrassi Street: The Complete Series on DVD in Region 1.In Region 4, Beyond Home Entertainment released the entire series on DVD in Australia on March 12, 2008.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Region 1 | Region 2 | Region 4 |
| The Kids of Degrassi Street: The Complete Series | 26 | July 31, 2007 | February 11, 2008 | March 12, 2008 |