The Kids from Room 402 is a Canadian-American animated series produced
by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment that premiered on October 9,
1999 on the Fox Family Channel in the United States, and on August 29,
2000 on Teletoon in Canada. It consists of 52 half-hour episodes, the
last of which aired in 2000, with reruns airing until 2005. The series
was also seen in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids, with the latter
region still airing the series after the Fox Kids channels were
purchased by Disney and changed their name to Jetix; remaining on
their schedule until the Jetix channels were once again rebranded as
Disney XD.The series is focused primarily on a group of elementary
school students. Miss Graves, their teacher, is usually shown as an
interlocutor in the issues and injustices that are inflicted upon the
students, whether the dilemmas be internal or external. Each episode
usually ends with a substantiated moral or lesson resulting from such
aforementioned situations.The series is based on the 40-page
children's book Gracie Graves and The Kids from Room 402 by Betty
Paraskevas and Michael Paraskevas, published in 1995. This was
retitled in 2000 as simply "The Kids from Room 402" to match the
series.The animated series was developed for television by Lesa Kite
and Cindy Begel, who wrote all 52 episodes.
by CinéGroupe and Saban Entertainment that premiered on October 9,
1999 on the Fox Family Channel in the United States, and on August 29,
2000 on Teletoon in Canada. It consists of 52 half-hour episodes, the
last of which aired in 2000, with reruns airing until 2005. The series
was also seen in Latin America and Europe on Fox Kids, with the latter
region still airing the series after the Fox Kids channels were
purchased by Disney and changed their name to Jetix; remaining on
their schedule until the Jetix channels were once again rebranded as
Disney XD.The series is focused primarily on a group of elementary
school students. Miss Graves, their teacher, is usually shown as an
interlocutor in the issues and injustices that are inflicted upon the
students, whether the dilemmas be internal or external. Each episode
usually ends with a substantiated moral or lesson resulting from such
aforementioned situations.The series is based on the 40-page
children's book Gracie Graves and The Kids from Room 402 by Betty
Paraskevas and Michael Paraskevas, published in 1995. This was
retitled in 2000 as simply "The Kids from Room 402" to match the
series.The animated series was developed for television by Lesa Kite
and Cindy Begel, who wrote all 52 episodes.
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