Degrassi Talks (1992)

Genre

documentary

Country

Canada

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

5.7 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Actors from the Degrassi shows interview real Canadian teens and young adults about topics like abuse, addiction, homophobia, and pregnancy. Each episode focuses on one subject and includes street interviews, footage from the TV series, and on-screen statistics.

educationalearnestcandidsoberinginformativeintimatestraightforward

What happens

Degrassi Talks is a Canadian non-fiction documentary television miniseries and part of the Degrassi franchise created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood. Running six episodes from February 24 to March 30, 1992, it featured actors from Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High taking the role of journalists and conducting interviews with other teenagers and young adults across Canada on various topics addressed by the series such as abuse, substance addiction, homophobia, and teenage pregnancy. It combined candid and man-on-the-street interviews as well as relevant archive footage from the television series and on-screen statistics. Each episode was hosted by an actor whose character had some relation to the focused subject. The theme song was composed by actors Stacie Mistysyn and Keith White. Companion books based on each episode were also published by Boardwalk Books, prefaced with biographical interviews of the actor who presented the original episode. The show received critical acclaim, but proved less popular with teenage viewers, who felt the information provided to be redundant and at times perpetuating certain stereotypes. Broadcast after the television movie School's Out but filmed before, it was the last Degrassi series until the franchise was revived in 2001 with Degrassi: The Next Generation. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

• Degrassi: The Next Generation (2001)
• Degrassi: Next Class (2016)
• Degrassi
• Ready or Not (1993)
• Watatatow (1991)
• The Assembly (2025)
• Degrassi High (1989)
• Degrassi Between Takes