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11 unusual facts about Degrassi: The Next Generation


CFFF-FM

The station was founded in 1968 by Stephen Stohn (who is now a television producer of such series as Degrassi: The Next Generation), Christopher Ward (now a songwriter; work includes Alannah Myles' hit Black Velvet), and Peter Northrop.

Chris Woodward

In 2004, Woodward was featured in an episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation.

If This Is It

The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after a 1980s hit song, named an episode after this song.

Mother and Child Reunion

"Mother and Child Reunion" was the title of the first episode of Degrassi: The Next Generation.

No You Girls

The song was used to promote the 9th season of the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation.

Shark in the Water

In the summer of 2010, a Degrassi promo aired in both Canada and the United States, for season 10, and was featured in the mid-season finale, All Falls Down (Part Two).

The video also features the cast of the hit Canadian series Degrassi.

So Wrong, It's Right

The song "Come One, Come All" was used in an episode of the teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation as well as an episode of the hit ABC family series Greek.

The Latency

In November 2010 their song "Tonight, I Love You" was featured on CTV's hit show, Degrassi.

Voices Carry

The popular Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation, which is known for naming each episode after an 80s hit song or album, named a two-part episode after this album.

Your Ex-Lover Is Dead

The song was featured on the Season 5 finale of the popular Canadian teen drama series Degrassi: The Next Generation.


Adam Nimoy

His credits include episodes of NYPD Blue, The Practice, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Babylon 5, Sliders, Gilmore Girls, and The Outer Limits where he directed his father in the episode "I Robot".

Alpha Waves

Computer Gaming World stated that the game "plays like one would expect a Star Trek: The Next Generation "holodeck" game to play".

Batang X: The Next Generation

Batang X: The Next Generation is the TV spin-off of the movie, Batang X, about kids with super human abilities.

Bonanza: The Next Generation

Bonanza: The Next Generation was the pilot for a television series that was never produced but was followed by Bonanza: The Return (1993) and Bonanza: Under Attack (1995).

Bonanza: Under Attack

Bonanza: Under Attack is a 1995 TV-movie sequel to the 1959-1973 television series Bonanza and television films Bonanza: The Next Generation (1988) and Bonanza: The Return (1993).

Breaking character

In the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Symbiosis," as the cargo bay doors close on her last appearance in the episode, Denise Crosby breaks character and waves at the camera.

Carolyne Barry

Carolyne has performed in over 400 national television commercials, thirty-two theatrical productions and approximately one hundred television shows and movies, including appearances in the classic Star Trek episode "Arena" and the Next Generation episode "Home Soil".

CBS Summer Playhouse

Notable pilots featured included The Saint in Manhattan (a revival of The Saint television series starring Andrew Clarke as Simon Templar), Kung Fu: The Next Generation (a new version of Kung Fu starring Brandon Lee), Puppetman (a new Muppet sitcom from Jim Henson), and a sitcom version of Coming to America.

Dracula: The Series

Other notables included Stratford and Shaw festival veteran Jonathan Welsh, well known television and film actors Kim Coates (from Prison Break) and Barry Morse (from The Fugitive and Space: 1999), Chas Lawther, Kirsten Kieferle (from Degrassi: The Next Generation), and Marina Anderson-Carradine, best known for managing (and then marrying) actor David Carradine.

Édouard Lalo

The American science fiction television series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, makes reference to a "U.S.S. Lalo" in two different episodes, "We'll Always Have Paris" and "The Best of Both Worlds".

Ellen Geer

The remainder of her television credits include guest appearances on Star Trek: The Next Generation, The Waltons, Quincy, M.E., Dallas, The Practice, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, ER, NYPD Blue and Cold Case.

G. Harry Stine

Stine would also occasionally advise Rick Sternbach and Mike Okuda in their work for Star Trek: the Next Generation as technical artists and advisors, and was credited in Star Trek: The Next Generation Technical Manual for that assistance.

Grambling's White Tiger

Harry Belafonte stars as Coach Eddie Robinson and LeVar Burton (already famous from Roots and later to be known for Reading Rainbow and Star Trek TNG) appears as Charles 'Tank' Smith, the first friend Jim Gregory makes on the team.

Jack B. Sowards

Jack B. Sowards (March 18, 1929 – July 8, 2007) was an American screenwriter who wrote the story and screenplay for the 1982 movie Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan and the 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Where Silence Has Lease".

Jaime Hubbard

She is best known for her role of Salia in the episode "The Dauphin" of the television series Star Trek: The Next Generation.

James Kahn

Among the series he worked on were Family Medical Center, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Beyond Reality, TekWar (created by William Shatner), Medicine Ball, Xena: Warrior Princess, Melrose Place (which he also co-executive produced in its last years), Star Trek: Voyager (also Supervising Producer) and All My Children (for which he and the writing staff were Emmy-nominated).

Jason Mewes

Mewes, Smith, and Degrassi star Stacie Mistysyn made the cover of the January 29, 2005 issue of Canadian TV Guide.

Jim Mees

He was nominated on four other occasions, in 1989 for "Elementary, Dear Data", in 1991 for "The Best of Both Worlds", in 1992 for "Unification" and in 1994 for "Thine Own Self".

Kerrie Keane

Keane's more notable roles include being co-host of the educational future science series What Will They Think of Next?, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Beverly Hills, 90210.

Kevin Carvell

However, Carvell would have some satisfaction at last when numerous elements of this script would make their way to not only to ST: TNG and DS9, but to Star Trek: Voyager as well.

Klingon culture

With the advent of Star Trek: The Next Generation and subsequent series the Klingons became allies, and the portrayal of their culture changed to resemble a warrior code similar to the Samurai (or, rather, Western imaginations of them) and Vikings.

Lisa Wilcox

She has made guest appearances on several television shows, including Pacific Blue, Chicago Hope, Walker, Texas Ranger, Hardcastle and McCormick, and Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season three episode "The Vengeance Factor" as Yuta.

Mark Lenard

Lenard also guest-starred as Sarek in TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation, in the third season episode "Sarek" (1990) and the fifth season episode "Unification: Part 1" (1991).

Mark Twain in popular culture

The Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Time's Arrow" (1992) featured a fictionalized version of Mark Twain, played by Jerry Hardin.

Ned Romero

His credits include appearances in Walker: Texas Ranger, Star Trek: Voyager, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Custer, Police Woman, Land of the Lost, Kung Fu, The Six Million Dollar Man, Ironside, Death Valley Days, and Emergency!.

Norman Snow

A highlight of Snow's television career is the role of Torin in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation called "Rightful Heir" during the series' sixth season.

Orangeville District Secondary School

Famous graduates include Degrassi: The Next Generation actor Ryan Cooley; WWE stars Adam Copeland and Jason Reso, better known as Edge and Christian; and current mayor Rob Adams.

Pamela Kosh

She has also made many minor and less notable appearances in television series such as Northern Exposure, Gilmore Girls, Friends, Murder, She Wrote, The Golden Girls, USA High, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Frasier, Charmed, Matlock, Alias, Monk, ER and So Little Time.

Patricia McPherson

Patricia has made guest appearances in a variety of television shows including Starman, Murder She Wrote, MacGyver, Matlock, and Star Trek: The Next Generation in the season 1 episode entitled Angel One as Ariel.

Redemption song

"Redemption Song", an episode of the Canadian teen drama Degrassi: The Next Generation

Reef triggerfish

A reef triggerfish appeared (in animated form) in the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Rascals".

Robert H. Justman

Bob Justman was one of the pioneers behind Star Trek, working both as an associate and supervising producer on Star Trek: The Original Series and Star Trek: The Next Generation.

Ryan Cooley

He has also appeared in the features Sachsenhausen 1944, Toy Men, Disney Channel movie The Color of Friendship, the Animal Planet movie Cybermutt and CBC TV movie Happy Christmas Miss King alongside his Degrassi co-star Lauren Collins.

Sister Spit: The Next Generation

In April 2007, Michelle Tea decided to revive Sister Spit as Sister Spit: The Next Generation pulling together old favourites such as Lynne Breedlove, Eileen Myles and Ali Liebegott and also introducing a whole new selection of queer/feminist/alternative literary folks such as Cristy Road, Rhiannon Argo and Nicole J Georges and hauling them across the USA.

Star Trek: Conquest

The game is set in the Star Trek: The Next Generation era, with players able to choose six groups and races: Federation, Klingon, Romulan, Breen, Cardassian and Dominion.

Surgically implanted explosive device

The 1990 science fiction television episode ‘Reunion’—the 81st in the series Star Trek: The Next Generation (original air date of 5 November 1990)—features a BCB, used in an attempted assassination.

Susan Diol

Susan Vanita Diol (born May 25, 1962) is an American television actress who has played supporting roles in over forty series, including Star Trek: The Next Generation, NCIS, and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation.

The Details

The Details have had many television and film appearances including Degrassi, My Awkward Sexual Adventure, Lipstick Jungle, Being Human, and Zooey & Adam.

The Kids of Degrassi Street

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 and others.

Tracy Tormé

"The Royale" and "Manhunt" went through such significant rewrites and treatments before being filmed that Tormé insisted he not be credited directly; using the pen names Keith Mills and Terry Devereaux respectively.

Tricia O'Neil

She portrayed the first female captain of an Enterprise-series starship (NCC-1701-C) in Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987, syndicated), in the episode "Yesterday's Enterprise" and the Klingon Kurak, in the episode "Suspicions" (1993).

Tyce Bune

Bune appeared numerous several mainstream film and television productions, including the film Mr. Saturday Night with Billy Crystal, and the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode Schisms.

William Douglas Lansford

Lansford wrote many teleplays for American television series such as Four Star Playhouse, Wagon Train,Bonanza, The Rookies, Starsky and Hutch, CHiPs, and Star Trek: The Next Generation.