The Kids of Degrassi Street 

Follows the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada.

Creator:

Linda Schuyler

Stars:

Stacie Mistysyn, John Ioannou, Sarah Charlesworth

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Cast

Series cast summary:
Stacie Mistysyn	...	Lisa / ... 17 episodes, 1982-1986
John Ioannou	...	Pete / ... 16 episodes, 1983-1986
Sarah Charlesworth	...	Casey / ... 15 episodes, 1982-1986
Tyson Talbot	...	Billy / ... 12 episodes, 1983-1986
Jamie Summerfield	...	Martin 10 episodes, 1983-1986
Neil Hope	...	Griff 10 episodes, 1985-1986
Zoe Newman	...	Ida / ... 9 episodes, 1979-1985
Danah-Jean Brown	...	Connie 9 episodes, 1985-1986
Peter Duckworth-Pilkington II	...	Noel 8 episodes, 1980-1984
Wendy Watson	...	Mrs. Gonzales / ... 8 episodes, 1982-1986
Arlene Lott	...	Rachel 7 episodes, 1985-1986

Storyline

Follows the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada.

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Plot Keywords:

1970s | 1980s | toronto | canada | based on film | 

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Genres:

Family | Drama

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Details

Country:

Canada

Language:

English

Release Date:

12 September 1979 (Canada)

Also Known As:

Vi på vår gata

Filming Locations:

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Company Credits

Production Co:

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC)

Technical Specs

Runtime:

30 min

Color:

Color

Did You Know?

Connections

Spun-off from The Kids of Degrassi Street: Ida Makes a Movie (1979)

User Reviews

Where it all started, and ought to have stopped

In this series one sees Degrassi in its original form: classroom videos for little kids; and this was the form and the audience it should have stuck to. The more popular follow-up show remained the same, except for ever-growing pretensions to a significance in excess of its powers, and an ever-growing tendency toward salaciousness, which culminated at last--in the one chance the show received to sit up late amongst the grown-ups--in the series' house princess (along with her opposite number, a butter-wouldn't-melt little minx) losing her cherry. And who knows but what that had been the writers' covert object all along, even as far back as Degrassi Street? I'm reminded of a comment by one of the women in John Huston's life about another, whom he had raised from a child: something about the appeal to a man of seeing a girl grow to ****able age before his eyes. Such matters aside, the Junior High/High/School's Out episodes never graduated from the Degrassi Street level: they featured the same diagrammatic plots, the same tendentious conversations, the same cardboard performances (and the same cheap-looking production). In this initial series those things were only to be expected, since after all, that's what educational TV is like. But at 18 the cast remained as blank and flat as at 8, and still inhabited the same classroom toy-town universe; as if someone had carried on the Dick and Jane readers and pinned a Big Issue to each character: Dick gets AIDS, Jane gets anorexia, Baby Sally gets pregnant--but they're no more real for it. Degrassi Street was the first expression of what Degrassi had to say, and the last honest one; in those days the enterprise still had its head about it and knew its limits. Afterwards, all was overreach.