Breaker High

Summary

Breaker High is a teen comedy-drama series that ran from 1997 to 1998, airing on YTV in Canada and on UPN's weekday "Kids" block in the United States.[1] The series was created by Cori Stern, while David Winning directed the pilot and seven episodes of the series.

Breaker High
GenreComedy drama
Created byCori Stern
Directed by
Starring
Composers
Country of origin
  • Canada
  • United States
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes44
Production
Executive producers
ProducerVictoria Woods
CinematographyLarry Lynn
Camera setupSingle-camera
Running time22–24 minutes
Production companies
Original release
Network
  • YTV (Canada)
  • UPN (United States)
ReleaseSeptember 15, 1997 (1997-09-15) –
March 30, 1998 (1998-03-30)

Ownership of the series passed to Disney in 2001 when Disney acquired Fox Kids Worldwide, which also includes Saban Entertainment.[2][3][4]

Synopsis edit

The series is set at a high school located on a cruise ship (equivalent to the real Semester at Sea program), allowing the episodes to be set in different exotic locations, although the series was, in fact, filmed entirely in Burnaby, British Columbia.[5] Like most series of its kind, it featured events such as dating, finances, and friendship, although as a daytime series, it tended to steer away from the "tougher" situations (pregnancy, sexuality, etc.) outlined in other primetime teen dramas at the time.

Cast and characters edit

  • Kyle Alisharan as Alex Pineda
  • Terri Conn as Ashley Dupree
  • Ryan Gosling as Sean Stanley Hanlon
  • Wendi Kenya as Cassidy Cartwright
  • Tyler Labine as Jimmy Mortimor Farrell
  • Scott Vickaryous as Max Ballard
  • Persia White as Denise Williams
  • Rachel Wilson as Tamira Goldstein
  • Anne Openshaw as Ana Mitchell, the kids' teacher
  • Andrew Airlie as Captain Ballard, the captain of the ship, school principal and Max's father
  • Richard Ian Cox as Tony Gifford, the student activities counselor
  • Bernard Cuffling as Nigel Mumford, the cook[6]

Episode list edit

  1. "Sun Also Rises"
  2. "Pranks for the Memories"
  3. "Mayhem on the Orient Distress"
  4. "Don't Get Curried Away"
  5. "Kenya Dig It?"
  6. "Tomb with a View"
  7. "Radio Daze"
  8. "Beware of Geeks Baring Their Gifts"
  9. "Belly of the Beast"
  10. "Rooming Violations"
  11. "Chateau L'Feet J'mae"
  12. "Out with the Old, In with the Shrew"
  13. "Tamira is Another Day"
  14. "For Pizza's Sake"
  15. "Kissin' Cousins"
  16. "The Caber Guy"
  17. "When In Rome..."
  18. "Silence of the Lamborghini"
  19. "All Seeing Bull's Eye"
  20. "Squall's Well that Ends Well"
  21. "That Lip-Synching Feeling"
  22. "Yoo Hoo, Mr. Palace Lifeguard"
  23. "Two Seans Don't Make a Right"
  24. "Tamira Has Two Faces"
  25. "Swiss You Were Here"
  26. "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Post Office"
  27. "Some You Win, Some You Luge"
  28. "Stowing Pains"
  29. "Moon Over Tamira"
  30. "He Shoots, He Scores"
  31. "Jimmy Behaving Badly"
  32. "Regret Me Nots"
  33. "New Kids on the Deck"
  34. "Six Degrees of Humiliation" (Part 1)
  35. "Don't Go Breakin' My Art" (Part 2)
  36. "Worth Their Waste in Gold"
  37. "The Deck's Files"
  38. "Rasta La Vista"
  39. "Max-He-Can Hat Dance"
  40. "Kiss of the Shy-er Woman"
  41. "Lord of the Butterflies"
  42. "Chile Dog"
  43. "Heartbreaker High"
  44. "To Kill a Mocking Nerd"

Syndication edit

The series currently airs on MTV and MTV2, and recently on OutTV (Canadian TV channel) in Canada

References edit

  1. ^ Leszczak, Bob. "Breaker High." Single Season Sitcoms of the 1990s. Jefferson, North Carolina: McFarland, 2018. Page 31.
  2. ^ "U.S. Copyright Public Records System".
  3. ^ "Disney+ and Missing Saban Entertainment & Fox Kids-Jetix Worldwide Library - StreamClues". 14 September 2022. Archived from the original on 26 December 2022. Retrieved 2 October 2022.
  4. ^ "Liste - BVS Entertainment | Séries".
  5. ^ "Drake Loves 'Breaker High.' Here Are More Canadian TV Shows We Miss". 8 May 2019.
  6. ^ "The Breaker High graduates: Where are they now?". The Globe and Mail. 21 April 2007.

External links edit

  • Breaker High at IMDb