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“If your life was a TV show, this would be it.”
The life of a group of adolescents going through the trials and tribulations of teendom at Degrassi Community School.
Creator
Creator
Status
Ended
Type
Scripted
Seasons
14
Episodes
373
15 episodes
22 episodes
22 episodes
22 episodes
19 episodes
19 episodes
24 episodes
18 episodes
19 episodes
44 episodes
45 episodes
40 episodes
40 episodes
24 episodes
Drew Torres
Degrassi Junior High is a Canadian CBC Television teen drama series that was produced from 1987-1989 as part of the Degrassi series. The show followed the lives of a group of students attending the titular fictional school. Many episodes tackled difficult topics such as drug use, child abuse, teenage pregnancy, homosexuality, homophobia, racism, and divorce, and the series was acclaimed for its sensitive and realistic portrayal of the challenges of teenage life. The cast comprised mainly non-professional actors, which added to the show's sense of realism. The series featured many of the same actors who had starred on The Kids of Degrassi Street a few years earlier, including Stacie Mistysyn, Neil Hope, Anais Granofsky, Sarah Charlesworth and others. However, their character names and family situations had been changed, so Degrassi Junior High cannot, therefore, be considered a direct spinoff. The legal counsel for all the episodes was Stephen Stohn who later became the executive producer of Degrassi: The Next Generation. The series was filmed at the unused Vincent Massey Public School in Etobicoke, Ontario.
