The BEST episodes of Degrassi season 1
Every episode of Degrassi season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Degrassi season 1!
Degrassi is a Canadian teen drama television series, set in the Degrassi fictional universe created by Linda Schuyler and Kit Hood in 1980. Degrassi is the fourth fictional series in the Degrassi franchise, following The Kids of Degrassi Street, Degrassi Junior High, and Degrassi High. Like its predecessors, Degrassi follows a group of students attending Degrassi Community School who face challenges common to teen life, such as self image, peer pressure, child abuse, sexual identity, gang violence, self-injury, school shootings, teenage pregnancy and drug abuse.
#1 - Mother and Child Reunion (2)
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/14/2001
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 has a video camera, and plans on taping himself raping Emma. Toby, J.T., and Manny dash to the reunion and tell Spike and Mr. Simpson about the whole situation and how Emma is in danger. They hurry to the hotel room and rescue Emma before anything extremely dangerous happens. In the end, though somewhat disturbed, Emma learns her lesson and the bond between her and Spike grows even closer.
#2 - Jagged Little Pill
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 3/3/2002
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 Jimmy and his friends and Jimmy quickly discovers Ashley is high. JT and Toby also invited Emma and her friends over so Emma and Sean fight. Sean is heartbroken. Ashley then cheats on Jimmy and makes out with Sean. Then Jimmy finds out and Ashley publically dumps him and then she even makes fun of Paige. The next day while trying to clean the house up Spinner comes by to inform her that Jimmy wants to break up and gives her some things Jimmy had of her. Ashley is now no longer popular and her onl
#3 - Basketball Diaries
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 12/2/2001
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.
#4 - Friday Night
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 1/27/2002
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 pressure, especially when her husband was ill. Meanwhile, Emma and Sean finally accept each other's offer on going on their first date. When Sean arrives, things start going horribly wrong. When they arrive at their place for dinner, they are both extremely nervous, and they accidentally do some silly things. Near the end of their date, Emma reveals that her purse is lost, and the two go scrummaging through garbage cans, etc... to find the missing bag. When they finally find it in the stupidest pla
#5 - Cabaret
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 2/17/2002
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?
#6 - Under Pressure
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/24/2002
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.
#7 - Rumours and Reputations
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 1/6/2002
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 working with the lunch lady with the food preparation and serving. Emma secretly started a rumour with her friend about Mr. Armstrong and Liberty, but another student had overheard what she said, and passed it on. Then the word was spread all over the school, changed dramatically to become more interesting until the point where everyone thought the teacher and the student were ""doing it"". The teachers had known about this, and they talked about this problem with Mr. Armstrong, and there has to be
#8 - Wannabe
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 2/3/2002
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.
#9 - Secrets and Lies
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 12/9/2001
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.
#10 - Eye of the Beholder
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 11/11/2001
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.
#11 - Mother and Child Reunion (1)
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/14/2001
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 J.T. and his friend from summer camp, Toby (a whiz with computers). They hack into Emma's e-mail and discover that the guy Emma is going to meet may be dangerous.
#12 - Coming of Age
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/16/2001
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.
#13 - The Mating Game
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 11/25/2001
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 Emma?
#14 - Parents' Day
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 11/18/2001
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...
#15 - Family Politics
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 11/4/2001
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.