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'Degrassi' Can Never Die
- I don't think anybody in 1987 could have predicted the success of the new show, 'Degrassi Junior High', premiering on CBC. Always gritty, sometimes ugly, and downright C...
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Degrassi: The Next Generation in comic book form
- One of Canada's greatest TV exports, next to The Kids in the Hall, was Degrassi Junior High. If I've got my lineage straight, The Kids of Degrassi Street begat Degrassi J...
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SHOW
DESCRIPTION
``Degrassi Junior High'' follows the exploits of Canadian youngsters in the late 1980s. The first soap opera for kids, ``Degrassi Junior High'' doesn't sugarcoat the problems facing Canadian (or American) youth. It focuses on such formerly taboo topics as alcoholism, interracial relationships, HIV/AIDS, drug abuse and homosexuality. Most of the action takes place outside the classroom, as the students interact in school hallways or lunchrooms, or after school.