The Kids from Room 402 is an 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 are 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 (authors of Junior Kroll series and creators of Maggie and the Ferocious Beast), published in 1995. This was retitled in 2000 as simply "The Kids from Room 402" to match the series.
The animated series was story edited and developed for television by Lesa Kite and Cindy Begel, who wrote all 52 episodes.
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