Degrassi Junior High aired on the CBC on from 18 January 1987 to 27 February 1989, and centres around an ethnically and economically diverse group of adolescents attending the fictional Degrassi Junior High School in east end Toronto, as they deal with various issues including teenage pregnancy, abuse, and sexuality.
For example, Christine "Spike" Nelson, a major character in the series whose child, Emma, influenced the development of Degrassi: The Next Generation, began as an extra with no speaking lines.
Wheels attempts the first of two ill-fated dates with class president Stephanie Kaye, which ends early when she gets sick from having consumed too much alcohol.
Stephanie asks him out again, Facing peer pressure to "go all the way", Wheels purchases a box of condoms from a drug store.
Shortly after his fourteenth birthday, Wheels meets his biological father Mike Nelson, a struggling musician.
Wheels heads into final exams still concerned about his grades; he gets promoted while Joey learns he's being left back.
At the start of season three, John and Ellen Wheeler are killed in a car accident caused by a drunk driver.
Wheels was to have been with them that evening; instead he lied about having to study before sneaking off to Joey's house where the band recorded a demo of "Everybody Wants Something."
After receiving a postcard from his biological father, Wheels hitchhikes to see him in Port Hope, Ontario; along the way, he is nearly molested by a traveling salesman who gives him a ride.
Later in the season, Wheels cites his parents' death as the reason he turns down an offer to drink beer with Snake and Joey.
They each survive a hazing by bully Dwayne, shoot a music video for "Everybody Wants Something", try to get into a strip joint together, and perform in a "feminist" horror movie directed by Lucy.
However, Wheels' inability to accept culpability shocks Joey, but angers and disgusts Snake, who refuses to forgive him.
Two years later, Joey finally manages to reunite the old friends when taking Snake out bowling to get the latter's mind off of his leukaemia and chemotherapy.
The three friends, now balder and hopefully wiser, loudly sing "Everybody Wants Something" on the ride home in Joey's convertible.
In high school, she found marijuana joints hidden in the tampon dispenser in the girls' washroom.
In Degrassi: The Next Generation deleted scenes, Kathleen is shown being jealous of Caitlin's success after high school.
By Season 2, she befriends new student Liz O'Rourke, but hits a major setback when various parents begin to object to her presence in the school being pregnant.
Caitlin becomes angry and decides to use her position in the school's newspaper to publish a piece condemning her removal.
Other students are seen talking about Spike's presence in the school; Kathleen agrees with the decision to remove her, while her friend Melanie, as well as Joey (who brings up the hypocrisy of not kicking out Shane) object.
After the PTA decides to remove Spike, Mr. Raditch tells the class that it is just the way it is, but vows that she will pass regardless, and tasks Erica and Heather Farrell to give her assignments.
Season 3 of Junior High sees the debut of Spike's baby, Emma, who becomes a protagonist of The Next Generation.
At the concert, Shane takes acid and jumps off of a bridge, leaving him in a coma and developmentally disabled when he wakes up.
By Degrassi High, she restarts her love life when she meets an Irish emigrant named Patrick, who is wearing the same Pogues shirt as her.