Breaker High was a Canadian teen comedy-drama

Comedy-drama

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 series that ran from 1997 to 1998, airing on YTV in Canada and on UPN

UPN

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 in the United States.

Synopsis

The series was set at a high school located on a cruise ship

Cruise ship

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, allowing the episodes to be set in a variety of exotic locations, although the series was, in fact, filmed entirely in Burnaby, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

. The show dealt with teen issues such as dating, finances, and friendship, although the series tended to steer away from the "tougher" situations outlined in other teen dramas at the time.

Cast and characters

The cast consisted primarily of eight teens, with a few additional actors portraying adult characters.

• Alex Pineda - The athlete. Played by Kyle Alisharan
• Ashley Dupree - The Southern belle. Played by Terri Conn
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• Sean Stanley Hanlon - The wannabe ladies' man. Played by Ryan Gosling
  Ryan Gosling
  Ryan Thomas Gosling is a Canadian actor and musician. He first came to public attention as a child star on the Disney Channel's Mickey Mouse Club and went on to appear in other family entertainment programmes including Are You Afraid of the Dark? , Goosebumps , Breaker High and Young Hercules...
  
  
• Tom Ace - Party animal in "Swiss you were here episode". Played by Matthew Baird
• Cassidy Cartwright - The preppy tomboy. Played by Wendi Kenya
• Jimmy Mortimor Farrell - The practical joker. Played by Tyler Labine
  Tyler Labine
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• Max Ballard - The rebel and son of the ship's captain. Played by Scott Vickaryous
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• Denise Williams - The academic overachiever. Played by Persia White
  Persia White
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• Tamira Goldstein - The oddball. Played by Rachel Wilson
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• Ana Mitchell - The teacher. Played by Anne Openshaw
• Captain Ballard - The captain of the ship and father to Max. Played by Andrew Airlie
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• Tony Gifford - The student activities counselor. Played by Richard Ian Cox
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• Nigel Mumford - The cook. Played by Bernard Cuffling

Production notes

The series was created by Cori Stern. SciFi veteran David Winning

David Winning

David Winning is a Canadian and American dual Citizen film and television director, screenwriter, producer, editor, and occasional actor. Although Winning has worked in numerous film and TV genres, his name is most commonly associated with science fiction, thrillers and drama.-Biography:Winning...

directed the pilot and seven episodes of the series in 21 days in 1996.

Episode list

1. "Sun Also Rises"
2. "Pranks for the Memories"
3. "Mayhem on the Orient Distress"
4. "Don't Get Curried Away"
5. "Kenya Dig It?"
6. "Tomb with a View"
7. "Radio Daze"
8. "Beware of Geeks Baring Their Gifts"
9. "Belly of the Beast"
10. "Rooming Violations"
11. "Chateau L'Feet J'mae"
12. "Out with the Old, In with the Shrew"
13. "Tamira is Another Day"
14. "For Pizza's Sake"
15. "Kissin' Cousins"
16. "The Caber Guy"
17. "When In Rome..."
18. "Silence of the Lamborghini"
19. "All Seeing Bull's Eye"
20. "Squall's Well that Ends Well"
21. "That Lip-Synching Feeling"
22. "Yoo Hoo, Mr. Palace Lifeguard"
23. "Two Seans Don't Make a Right"
24. "Tamira Has Two Faces"
25. "Swiss You Were Here"
26. "A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Post Office"
27. "Some You Win, Some You Luge"
28. "Stowing Pains"
29. "Moon Over Tamira"
30. "He Shoots, He Scores"
31. "Jimmy Behaving Badly"
32. "Regret Me Nots"
33. "New Kids on the Block"
34. "Six Degrees of Humiliation" (Part 1)
35. "Don't Go Breakin' My Art" (Part 2)
36. "Worth Their Waste in Gold"
37. "The Deck's Files"
38. "Rasta La Vista"
39. "Max-He-Can Hat Dance"
40. "Kiss of the Shy-er Woman"
41. "Lord of the Butterflies"
42. "Chile Dog"
43. "Heartbreaker High"
44. "To Kill a Mocking Nerd"