• Air date: 14 Oct '01 15 episodes
      The first season of Degrassi: The Next Generation commenced airing in Canada on 14 October 2001, concluded on 3 March 2002, and contains fifteen episodes. Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian serial teen drama television series. It introduces a group of seventh and eighth grade school children, and follows their lives as they deal with the typical issues and challenges of teenage life, such as online predators, sibling relationships, peer pressure, sex, rumours, stress, self image and
  • List of Episodes (15)
    • 1. Mother and Child Reunion, Part 1

      14 Oct '01
      Spike's daughter, Emma, is now a teenager and is getting ready to participate at Degrassi, along with her friends, Manny and JT. Spike and the old gang of Degrassi are reuniting for the first time in a while, and people are familiarized with the characters again. When Spike goes off to the reunion, Emma left as well, to meet a guy that she had become online friends with on the Internet. Manny phones Emma and even checks by her house, and realizes that there is no one home. She decides to go to
    • 2. Mother and Child Reunion, Part 2

      14 Oct '01
      Emma is at a hotel waiting for Jordan, an enviornmentalist whom she met on the internet. After waiting in the hotel lobby, his ""teacher"" greets Emma and invites her up to his hotel room, saying that the person Emma is supposed to meet should be coming soon. Emma soon discovers that the teacher is the boy she met on the Internet. She freaks out and attempts to leave, but he stops her so she scurries into the bathroom. The teacher tells Emma that he is leaving, but it is actually a trick. He
    • 3. Family Politics

      04 Nov '01
      Ashley has set her sights on becoming Degrassi's School President. Toby, spurred on by their awkward new situation as step-siblings, is frustrated by her unchallenged status and convinces J.T. to run against her. The conflict follows them home.
    • 4. Eye of the Beholder

      11 Nov '01
      Terri's uneasiness about the school dance and her feelings for Spinner are not aided by Paige as she has her own motives of getting Terri drunk. Toby and J.T. pass on the dance in favour of sneaking a glimpse of some net porn. Emma meets Sean at the dance.
    • 5. Parents' Day

      18 Nov '01
      Why would Toby rather risk expulsion than have his parents there together? Why would Ashley get completely dolled up - just for a bunch of old folks? And that Paige seems to be planning to get in the way again...
    • 6. The Mating Game

      25 Nov '01
      it's time to buckle down on assignments! But don't worry, it's not all work - Dr. Sally (aka ""The Sex Lady""!) is also coming to spice things up with her own brand of education... Jimmy's playing Romeo for the English class assignments - but what if Ashley's not his Juliet? Could it be a problem for Degrassi's longest-running couple? (They've been together 8 whole months!) And why's Toby choosing endangered animals for his Media Immersion project? Could it have anything to do with impressing
    • 7. Basketball Diaries

      02 Dec '01
      Hey, all you Panther fans, ready for some basketball action? This week at Degrassi CS - Our First Big Game! Who will make the cut and Coach Armstrong's ultimate team? Why's Jimmy B losing his cool? Off the court, Liberty's planning to take Ashley on one-on-one too.
    • 8. Secrets and Lies

      09 Dec '01
      Liberty admits she has an ultimate crush on J.T. He, on the other hand, tries to stay away from Liberty saying that he's gay. Later, when J.T. tells the truth to Liberty that he is not, it leads her to be heartbroken. Meanwhile, Ashley's divorced dad comes to town and explains her why he and Ashley's mom divorced in the first place. That is because he himslef is gay. Ashley makes a statement to her dad and Terri that she doesn't want to see his face again.
    • 9. Coming of Age

      16 Dec '01
      One to grow on Jimmy B turns 14 this week! Ashley doesn't seem too excited about the big celebration. Are there doubts growing in her mind? And Emma's dealing with a little private growing of her own.
    • 10. Rumors and Reputations

      06 Jan '02
      Emma believes that there is something going on between Mr. Armstrong and Liberty because they were spending a lot of time with each other and they are passing notes, etc... While Spinner was attacked by an earwig when he received his lunch and he announces that the cafeteria food was infested by bugs, but no one believed him because the bug had vanished, when someone had stepped on it. So, he decides to throw earwigs around in the cafeteria but he was caught in the act and was paunished by
    • 11. Friday Night

      27 Jan '02
      Jimmy and Spinner receive detention with Mrs. Kwan. At the end of the day, the two trouble-makers decide to go and cause trouble to Mrs. Kwan. When she is teaching English-as-a-second-language course to adults, they make a prank phone call that Mrs. Kwan wants to order a number of pizzas. Then when she is ready to leave, she finds that her van was vandalised. This was the work of Jimmy and Spinner. Soon, when Kwan is missing the next day for class, they discover that she was under a lot of
    • 12. Wannabe

      03 Feb '02
      Emma who is against sexism, and believes cheerleading is sexist. She discovers that her best friend, Manny is auditioning to be a cheerleader. Manny soon discovers that being a cheerleader is not that important, and agrees what Emma was talking about. Meanwhile, J.T., Toby, Liberty and Spinner team up together to get the ace of spaids and the ace of clubs so they could win ONE MILLION DOLLARS! Only at the end, they have both of one kind and the contest is now ended.
    • 13. Cabaret

      17 Feb '02
      Center stage at Degrassi this week goes to the talent show! Why's Terri using ESP instead of just talking to Ash? Can their friendship survive their creative differences? And what on earth is Toby doing in TIGHTS?
    • 14. Under Pressure

      24 Feb '02
      Spinner and Sean seem to be stressed to know that the exams are up. So stressed, Sean is ready to take on Jimmy. While the fight occured, Sean ""accidentally"" pushes Emma to the ground which leads to breaking up with him. Meanwhile, Spinner tries to get himself out of school by stealing Terri's flu. It actually ends that both of them get good marks.
    • 15. Jagged Little Pill

      03 Mar '02
      At the end of the year a little girls night at Ashley's turns into the party of the year. Toby invites Sean and JT as his guests and JT has a little ""party favor"", he's brought extacy. When Sean tells them he's going to the kitchen to split the pill into 2 so Toby and JT can take it, he runs into Ashley. He switched the extacy with asprin and gives the extacy to Ashley telling her to throw it out. Meanwhile, Paige is pressuring Ashley to have more fun so Ashley takes the extacy. She then calls