a Fairlight CMI. Cast 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, in different unrelated roles. Episodes Broadcast Ida Makes A Movie premiered on CBC on December 8, 1979. By 1982, the CBC, enamored with the short films that Hood and Schuyler were producing, ordered five more, effectively turning the annual movies into a television series. In the lead-up to Degrassi Junior High, the series was re-run on Sundays at 5:00pm, until it was replaced by its successor in the same timeslot. In the United Kingdom, the series debuted on BBC One on July 9, 1984, with the final episode airing on June 16, 1986. In Australia, the series debuted at 6:00pm on February 2, 1987 on ABC TV. Print media In late 1986, James Lorimer & Company published a series of illustrated paperback books based on the television series, written by Schuyler and Hood with the assistance of author Eve Jennings. 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. See also Degrassi Junior High - The immediate successor of The Kids Of Degrassi Street, featuring several cast members from this series Notes References Sources External links Episode guide for The Kids of Degrassi Street Kids of Degrassi cast and character page 1979 Canadian television series debuts 1986 Canadian television series endings 1970s Canadian children's television series 1970s Canadian drama television series Canadian television soap operas 1980s Canadian children's television series 1980s Canadian drama television series Television shows set in Toronto Television shows filmed in Toronto Degrassi (franchise) CBC Television original programming Television series by DHX Media Television series about children