The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's television series. It follows the lives of a group of children living on De Grassi Street in Toronto. It was produced by Kit Hood and Linda Schuyler's independent company Playing With Time. The series originated as a collection of annual standalone short films that started with Ida Makes a Movie, a live-action adaptation of the Kay Chorao book which premiered on the CBC on December 8, 1979.