<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Next → Season 2 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of Degrassi: The Next Generation episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> The first season of Degrassi: The Next Generation commenced airing in Canada on October 14, 2001 and concluded on March 3, 2002, comprising 15 episodes . Degrassi: The Next Generation is a Canadian serial teen drama television series . The series introduces a group of seventh and eighth grade school children, and follows their lives as they deal with some of the challenges and issues teenagers face such as online predators, body image, dysfunctional families, sex, puberty, rumors, peer pressure, stress, and drug use . </P> <P> The first season was broadcast on the Canadian terrestrial television network CTV, on Sundays at 7: 00 p.m. It debuted with a one - hour movie of the week special, "Mother and Child Reunion", which form the first two episodes of season one . In the United States, it was broadcast on The N, a digital cable network aimed at teenagers and young adults . The season was released domestically on DVD as a three disc boxed set on 19 October 2004 by Alliance Atlantis Home Entertainment, although it was released to the US market almost a month earlier, on 28 September 2004 . Registered users of the Canadian and US iTunes Stores are also able purchase and download the season for playback on home computers and certain iPods . </P>

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