The Kids of Degrassi Street is a Canadian children's TV show which aired from 1979 to 1986, and is the first in the Degrassi series, about the lives of a group of children living on Degrassi Street in Toronto, Canada. It grew out of four short films: Ida Makes a Movie, Cookie Goes to the Hospital, Irene Moves In and Noel Buys a Suit, which originally aired as after-school specials on the CBC in 1979, 1980, 1981 and 1982, respectively. The show was acclaimed for its realistic depiction of every day children's lives and tribulations, and remains memorable to many Canadians because of this.

Kids of Degrassi Street featured many of the same actors who would later appear on Degrassi Junior High and Degrassi High, including Stacie Mistysyn, Neil Hope, Anais Granofsky, Sarah Charlesworth and others. However, their character names and families were different, so this series cannot technically be seen as an immediate precursor to the later shows.

On July 31, 2007, WGBH Boston Home Video released The Kids of Degrassi Street: The Complete series on DVD in Region 1.

Fabulous Films released the complete series in Region 2 PAL DVD^[where?] early in 2008. Force Entertainment has released the series on DVD in Australia (Region 4), however it is in the NTSC format.

• Zoe Newman
• Stacie Mistysyn
• Degrassi: The Next Generation

• Episode guide for The Kids of Degrassi Street
• Kids of Degrassi cast and character page