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Ugh, Draubrey, the messed up part for me is that he had some nice moments of acting for a kid his age and I'm the type to withdraw a compliment once I hear that you're a dick. That's cool about you all bumping into so many cast members, I have a feeling Pat M. (Joey) is going to write a book one of these days. I'm sure he has some interesting stuff to say about what Degrassi brought to his life, what it perhaps took away. Good to know that Toronto is a smaller, cleaner, more polite NY, I can get with that. Did you ever watch Linda Schuyler's other series she worked with the creative team of Coronation Street on, Riverdale?

Stephanie was a bitch to her little bro, though a lot of girls especially go through an awkward period of proving themselves to no one in paricular but themselves at that age. Don't like it, but can understand it. The really crazy thing when you think about it is that she could have gone on to be the "Caitlin" of the series had she stuck around and had her Rachel Cory-esque redemption and become a sympathetic heroine.

You're from Ontario? Are you close to Toronto? Amello, I don't know what my deal is, but I have this weird fascination with Canada. I've tried to "examine" it, and I think it all boils down to the fact that I am intrigued by this bizarre idea in my head that Canada is Bizarro USA. I know that sounds really ignorant, but it's just so interesting to me that our language and our cultures are pretty much the same save for a national divide. I'm assuming that the southern most parts of Canada are a lot like the northern most parts of the U.S. I have burdened our dear EricMontreal with the same convo. My dad vacationed in Canada a lot in his teens and twenties and I really want to go. My lady (the other half of SFK) and I are forever planning a fall trip up north. I want to go to Toronto and Montreal. And then I have my bougie pal who skis in Whistler, I'll have to work on the West coast all in due time. At any rate, we want to visit the actual Degrassi high and the Degrassi Grocery store while we're up there, though we have since discovered that the store's been converted to a condo. I'd love to do some theatre/TV work up there too though I'd have to investigate the union rules.

Kathleen is HATE but she gets her little redemption s/l. Aww, poor Yick Yu! Yes indeed, we totally made note of the Hazel Muslim thing when we watched. Yick appears in TNG a couple of times. The actor is a crew member on TNG, Silick Sanaysanasay (sp???) or something like that. He has a literal blink and you missed it appearance in a TNG ep where they're having a bbq. I wonder if the full scene was cut because you see him from the back in a long shot and he has no lines.

That's awesome Jack, keep us updated! They're all worth getting eventually. Swans of course had SMG as Sydney (who I would refer to as the "Erica" of the show, having no idea what the future had in store for her) and Shane McDermott (ex-Scott) as Garrett who was supposed to be the hotshot dastardly player. Come to think of it, they were very much in the vein of Valmont and Merteuil, Cruel Intentions before Cruel Intentions, but of course a lot less graphic. It was weird, they lounged around in a red Mercedes SL convertible for a lot of their scenes. Maybe if I say it enough someone will put it up, but Im still holding out for the pilot of 13 Bourbon Street which was supposed to be FOX's late-night 5x/week soap by Gottlieb and Malone. Back to Tribes, when they started talking abortion I was taken aback a bit, I can imagine there were quite a few parents who were none too pleased with that kind of talk before dinner was even on the table. But very Degrassi in that regard, Swans nor Fifteen ever went there to my recollection. The heaviest stuff on Fifteen was alcoholism and divorce. I don't know what it is, maybe it's because they're young, maybe it's because there is something endearing about the low-budget "Let's put on a soap!" quality of these shows, maybe it's the fact that they were short-lived and are relatively rare, but I just love them and I am not only willing to see past the bad acting and cheesiness, but I embrace it.

I see that the late Harriet Hall is in this (she shows up in the second uploaded ep), I noticed her name in the closing credits then spotted her face in the opening. She of course replaced Julia Barr as AMC's Brooke for a short time during the early '80s, had a role on Somerset, et cetera. If you're interested, her brother created a lovely tribute to his sister: page - http://davishall.com/dSite/Harriet.html pics - http://davishall.com/dSite/images/Harriet%20Hall.USE./Harriet%20Hall.USE..mov

Wouldn't you so much rather watch this than that second half hour of that windbag Judge Joe Brown? Man, that scene with the two big hairs, Tina and Jojo and the OTT waitress is gold. Jojo looks like the Amerasian kid from ATWT.

Kate will be playing Cleopatra up in Hartford later this year.

P.S. Why is AMC's Piss Liplock styled like he just walked off the set of this show?

There will be a day when the complete series of Tribes, Swan's Crossing, and Fifteen will ALL be readily available for viewing on Roku/Hulu/YouTube/whatever, I SPEAK it into existence! Ho-diddy-bo-yoko!

We mentioned Tribes in another thread a few months back. It came on after school, late afternoon/early evening when I was in the 6th grade. Some kids in my class watched it, and I caught bits and pieces but no clear memories, there must have been a cartoon on at the time that I was more into. I believe Michelle Stafford was on it but I'd be lying if I said that I remembered her. I do vaguely remember the lead girl, and if that was her, well, wow. I'm gonna check out these clips in a few, thanks!

Moonraker-Shirley Bassey

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Oh, he got off, wow. Yeah, some fans in forums really painted him as a disappointing eff up of a douche. Of course that still may be true, but if it was self-defense, then so be it.

Fifteen was a hoot, a real treat every Sunday afternoon after church. These were the days when over on The Family Channel you'd find shows like Big Brother Jake and Maniac Mansion on Sundays too, and Sunday Night Fox was awesome as well but I'm REALLY starting to digress... Stephanie and Voula both left the show on their own accord, and admittedly to their regret, back in the Jr. High years. I really couldn't believe that Caitlin and Lucy weren't at the reunion, I hope they weren't trying to distance themselves from the show at the time and that they were legitimately busy because everyone and their brother was on that damn panel. Including Maya of wheelchair fame who can actually walk (though in braces) in real life. I'm forgetting his name at the moment, but there's the lightskinned/biracial dude who has the student gov't position that Voula wants but Stephanie Kay gives to Joey. This guy was on TKODS as Billy, really cute little kid, his little brother on there goes on to play Scooter in this series. At any rate, he murdered someone IRL and is in jail now. I know, terrible. I love the episode where Caitlin has a crush on her teacher who everyone thinks is a lesbian. Can we all say, "AHEAD OF ITS TIME"??

Good to know! Duh, why didn't I just look it up!? They should put it online! I would love to watch it again. I was very sad when my Brooke left and they brought on a new lesser bitch and her boy bitch brother. L.D. is an acquired taste, indeed, bless her. She has some serious ups and downs. When you finish you should watch the Degrassi reunion on YouTube (Caitlin and Lucy are noticeably absent), and you can see Stephanie Kay "today" (okay, ten years ago, but...).

Yes, I do know about Fifteen being Canadian but to be honest, I can't put my finger on when I realized that was the case. I really want to say that we were making fun of the "aboots" before we even realized, like we thought they were from the midwest or something. I've talked to EricMontreal about this, but at the end of every episode they would say that "Fifteen is taped at Universal Studios in Orlando, FL" which makes NO sense to me. Maybe they taped their last, or last two seasons down there or something, I really don't see why a Canadian production would go ALL the way down to Orlando when it's already cheap to tape in Canada, plus they were using Canadian talent. I need to Facebook friend Robyn Ross who played my girl bitchy Brooke and ask her. I did meet Ryan Reynolds once, I should have asked him when I had the chance. He was a dork on there, Billy, he and his sister's parents were divorcing, that was their big story. There was an ep where he did a cheesy Jim Carey/Steve Martin standup act, AW-ful. I was totally thinking of 321 Contact when I made that last post, the same look. Now I'm singing the theme in my head.

Wheels makes the biggest turn around, absolutely. He does get mentions/makes an appearance (or two?) in TNG. I won't go into detail, but he and Snake end up having a strained relationship. "Caitlin" and "Wheels" are in the first series, The Kids of Degrassi Street, but I use quotes because they are the same actors but different characters. They have a mini-little-budding romance thing on that series and he's portrayed as somewhat of a little jock-in-training on there too. Even weirder, his older brother on KODS ends up playing his biological dad on DH. Degrassi aired on PBS when I was a kid (in the U.S.) though I never watched. We used to crack on Fifteen (or was it Swan's Crossing in 6th grade?) all the time and I remember someone asking if I ever watched Degrassi, which I didn't though I remember the promos and my second love, Lucy. My tastes have changed, back then something about the *look* of the show kind of... "repelled" is too strong of a word, it just didn't look appealing to me. Compared to bright, taped, soap opera looking Fifteen, Degrassi was filmed and seemed dark and maybe a little too educational/depressing seeing as how it was on PBS and all. And as weird and ignorant as it makes me sound, this was also at a time where I was not at ALL conscious of Canada let alone the idea that they made television up there that was being shown down here, yet I could tell that there was something *different* about these kids. Weird. Hindsight is 20/20.

Snake and Spike will get some interesting stuff to come, watch the whole series Amello! Watching the "School's Out" TV Movie finale, I can only imagine what hardcore Degrassi fans went through all those years before the franchise got picked back up.

I think the twins' names are different in the first episode too so so much for continuity. Yeah, IIRC, Spike is REALLY in the background in the beginning, pretty much a glorified extra. I assumed she kept getting noticed for that hair and that's when they decided to beef up her role. I watched this after I started TNG and my appreciation for TNG and the "grownup" s/ls grew exponentially. Caitlin Ryan... sigh. And no, it is not wrong for a 30 year-old-man to be crushing on Caitlin cuz my brain worked backwards and I was younger than her at the time and I am STILL eight years younger than her.

Oh I know, I was joking too Eric, no worries! Just playing WWPD (What Would Paige Michalchuk Do?)

Yes indeed, those were great moments. And I as a viewer was willing to see beyond any attempt at audience manipulation by making her the victim b/c it was well-played and the jock who raped her was a total douche... wait, and didn't she totally eff up Spinner's Chevy Corsica, ramming it into the dude's Vette/Camaro? That's what led her to working at The Dot iirc.