The Bash Street Kids were taken over by Tom Paterson before being mothballed and they were later collected into two annuals. As Dennis the Menace was revamped, he appeared less with other "Beano" characters and more by himself due to the popularity of his new TV series. "The Bash Street Kids" now has three spin-offs: "Simply Smiffy", "Winston" and "The Bash Street Burp". In the July 2013 75th-birthday edition of "The Beano", a lane near Dundee's West Marketgait was named Bash Street; whereas an anniversary strip showed Bash Street School being destroyed; the characters relocated to Beano High. The strip stars Class 2B, which
The Kids of Degrassi Street lives and tribulations, and it remains memorable to many Canadians because of this. "The 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. The show has also aired on BBC in the United Kingdom, on ABC TV in Australia, and also started airing on Showtime March 3, 1982 as well as subsequently on the