Series synopsis
Strange Days at Blake Holsey High is a Canadian mystery sci-fi & fantasy comedy television series that premiered on NBC on October 5, 2002. It ended on January 28, 2006. It stars Shadia Simmons, Robert Clark, Michael Seater and Noah Reid.
Black Hole High is a Canadian science fiction television program which first aired in North America in October 2002 on NBC and Discovery Kids. It is set at the fictional boarding school of the title, where a Science Club investigates mysterious phenomena, most of which is centered around a wormhole located on the school grounds. Spanning four seasons, the series developed into a success, and has been sold to networks around the globe.
Created by Jim Rapsas, the series intertwines elements of my ...
Premise
Black Hole High is a Canadian science fiction television program which first aired in North America in October 2002 on NBC and Discovery Kids. It is set at the fictional boarding school of the title, where a Science Club investigates mysterious phenomena, most of which is centered around a wormhole located on the school grounds. Spanning four seasons, the series developed into a success, and has been sold to networks around the globe.
Created by Jim Rapsas, the series intertwines elements of mystery, drama, romance, and comedy. The writing of the show is structured around various scientific principles, with emotional and academic struggles combined with unfolding mysteries of a preternatural nature. In addition to its consistent popularity among children, it has been recognised by adults as strong family entertainment. Forty-two episodes of the series, each roughly twenty-five minutes in length, have been produced, the last three of which premiered in January 2006. Those three final episodes that aired were combined into a film, Strange Days: Conclusions. The show was filmed at the Auchmar Estate on the Hamilton Escarpment in Hamilton, Ontario.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
Guest cast
- Emma Taylor-Isherwood
- Dru Viergever
- John Ralston
- Liam Titcomb
- Kate Todd
- Brooke Nevin
- Tony Munch
- Lindy Booth as Amanda Durst - 1977
Episodes
This series spans 4 seasons with 42 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 13 | October 5, 2002 | March 1, 2003 |
| Season 2 | 13 | September 13, 2003 | January 31, 2004 |
| Season 3 | 13 | September 4, 2004 | March 26, 2005 |
| Season 4 | 3 | January 28, 2006 | January 28, 2006 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wormhole A wormhole opens in an office floor and the science professor disappears into the wormhole, never to be seen again. Josie Trent experiences an extremely interesting first day at Blake Holsey High when she and her new roommate, Corrine, travel through the same wormhole. Could this give an indication of exactly what occurred to cause the mysterious incidents at "Black Hole High?" |
October 5, 2002 |
| 2 |
Invisible Marshall doesn't want to be the most popular guy at Blake Holsey; he just wants his friends to notice him. But when he begins to feel completely ignored, Marshall finds himself disappearing until he becomes invisible. Although enjoying his newfound ability at first, Marshall starts to realize that he is slowly fading away into nothing. Can he and his friends restore his visibility before he ceases to exist? |
October 12, 2002 |
| 3 |
Magnet Josie literally develops a magnetic personality after a botched experiment. She uses her new gift for her amusement at first, but later discovers that it it is gradually slipping out of her control. Will her friends be able to save her before she becomes only a memory? |
October 19, 2002 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Wormhole2 (2) Welcome to Blake Holsey's first annual pizza party! Attendance by all is required, but Josie, Corrine, Marshall, Lucas, Vaughn, and Professor Z suspect Durst wants to keep them occupied while Victor Pearson initiates a devious plan. Their suspicions are confirmed when they discover a team of scientists outside the school. Josie is amazed when she sees that one of them is her Mom, Kelly Trent. Then, Kelly conducts tests which send Josie into the Wormhole, taking her back in time to three hours earlier! She must inform her Mom about the potential dangers of a fatal discharge of electricity! And she must race against time... |
September 13, 2003 |
| 2 |
Pheromones For today's lesson, Professor Z uses a beehive to explain the function of pheromones in the hierarchical structure of a beehive. Meanwhile, cheerleader and super-diva Madison, the most popular girl at Blake Holsey, runs for election without any opposition. After last year's humiliation, Corrine fears entering this year's election competition. Frustrated, Josie decides to run against Madison. In desperation, she makes empty promises. Will she win? Then, Josie and Professor Z discover that Madison is using pheromones to control the students and win their votes... |
September 20, 2003 |
| 3 |
Cold Marshall is sick, feverish, and to make matters worse he uses all of his spare time working on a new money making scheme. While he feels awful, his new venture, which was doing extremely well and making profits, bottoms out. Bizzarly, even the school develops symptoms of Marshall's infection. Some parts are too cold, others overheat, sneezes and coughs begin occurring from deep inside the school and a greenish slime extrudes from the interior, exactly like Marshall's symptoms. But why does it occur? And when will it stop? |
September 27, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Transference Just as Vaughn's intelligence seems to be increasing, Josie's intelligence seems to be dropping. Coincidence? Not at Black Hole High... |
September 4, 2004 |
| 2 |
Nocturnal Josie is having a hard time sleeping at night, but not in class. She has gone cathemaral - she has lost her sleep routine. More worrying, however, are the hallucinations she encounters whilst sleeping... |
September 11, 2004 |
| 3 |
Allure When Corrine's venus fly trap is left uncovered and alone in the science lab, it becomes a girl. Under the name Diana, she attends several classes at Blake Holsey, and immediately has all the boys competing for her attention. However it is Marshall that she takes a special interest in, which upsets Corrine. The other girls also don't seem too impressed with this new stranger... |
September 25, 2004 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Conclusions (1) Josie finds herself seemingly trapped within an alternate dimension which she inadvertently created by taking Victor's power source, the floating chi ball, to prevent a future she believed to be her fault and not the destined timeline. |
January 28, 2006 |
| 2 |
Conclusions (2) Josie2 rescues Josie from the alternate dimension to repair the timeline to its proper order. Meanwhile, Avenir may finally see his plans to obtain total control of Victor's time jumping technology come to fruition. |
January 28, 2006 |
| 3 |
Conclusions (3) Josie returns to her rightful timeline and prepares to fulfill her destiny by preventing Avenir from securing his ultimate victory, and in the process, makes a shocking discovery as she unearths the truth about the identity of her father. |
January 28, 2006 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | NBC |
|---|---|
| First aired | October 5, 2002 |
| Last aired | January 28, 2006 |
| Runtime | 25 minutes |
| Status | Ended |
| Schedule | Saturday at 12:00:00 |