Video: Girl Or Boy (Discovery Kids)?

[Robyn Jodie]

Does anyone know anything about the video "Girl Or Boy" that aired on Discovery Kids some time before Nov. 2005? I Have:
 Story by Sarah Lai, Teleplay by Stephen Hall, Director: Gerald Lenton-Young.
Trevor Holloway plays Brian, a high school freshman(?), who on his first day bumps into a big older boy who takes out after him, presumably to beat him up.  Brian hides in the Theater Dept's costume room and comes out pretending to be a girl...and kind of gets stuck....

I found an old video (in ".rm" format) that I didn't know I had, and am trying to find out more about it.  All Google brought up was something in Japanese, with the above information in English, and no links.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

I'm pretty sure it's an episode from the Incredible Story Studio series. I know I have snappy's from the episode but they're not identified in a way that I can find them quickly. One is of Brian dressed as Cleopatra as I remember. This was discussed on the board a long time ago.

Andy G.

[Robyn Jodie]

I might have gotten the original file from Betty's somehow.  Google search results were disappointing:
title (nothing relevant), actors' names (nothing relevant), Story writer (nothing), Teleplay by (nothing), Director's name (see image).
 

[Betty]

Yeah. That's all I got too. I think we had a clip of it here. Don't know where it is now, or if I still have it somewhere. Blurry old short clips tend to get deleted more than full or good quality videos.

"The Incredible Story Studio"
Incredible Story Pro. Minds Eye Pictures
Executive Producer .......... Kevin DeWalt
Producer .................... Virginia Thompson
 ............................ Kevin DeWalt
Co-Producer ................. Robert de Lint[2nd Series]
Associate Producer .......... Lisa Donahue
Executive Story Editor ...... Edgar Lyall
Executive Story Consultant .. Joshua Miller
Director of Photography ..... Ken Krawczyk c.s.c
Casting by .................. Virginia Thompson
 ............................ Robert de Lint
Editor ...................... Jackie Dzuba

Episode 9: 00/09/07 #009 'Dangerous Liaisons' "Girl or Boy" / "The Love Potion Catastrophe"

#009'Dangerous Liaisons'
 9-01. "Girl or Boy"-------------------------------00/09/07
 Story by: Sarah Lai
 Teleplay: Stephen Hall
Director: Gerald Lenton-Young
Guest Starring: Trevor Holloway as Brian, Josef Rogoscheusky as John

[Betty]

Incredible Story Studio was released for Discovery Kids cable, renamed Incredible Story Studios for the cable TV airings after the turn of the century. The original episode (S01E09) & show as it aired as a Canadian TV show, aired in October 1997. Note that the episode could have been renamed & given a different episode number as they may have switched the order of the episodes.

It also aired in Latin America as Mi guiĆ³n en Discovery Kids (My Script on Discovery Kids). DVDs were published and distributed by Digiview Productions.

[Robyn Jodie]

Wow!  Great information.  A thousand thanks to both of you, andyg0404 and Betty!

[Robyn Jodie]

I found in the same directory a short clip from "Judging Amy" (Season 2, Episode 9; May 2001) about a transgendered 8 year old boy. I looked up the full episode on Youtube. What I found fascinating was how attitudes have changed in the 16/17 years since this video was created.  The dilemma (Social Services claiming abuse by parents raising as a girl a child born a boy who strongly self-identifies as a girl) might not even come up in today's world. Also, Judge Amy's solution -- for the child to "pretend to be a boy at school" -- would probably be unacceptable today.  Youtube video at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EY2-WxkcnJk

[Betty]

I found a video over 2 hours long of many Incredible Story studio episodes, in poor VHS quality (probably originally recorded at the slowest possible speed). The Girl or Boy episode was not included in the mix, but I did see a couple other episodes where boys were crossdressed... mostly the chubby kid who is featured on a lot of the episodes. Unfortunately, Girl or Boy does not seem to be freely available anywhere, even underground... or it could have been renamed, & given a different episode number by the time it aired on Discovery.

[andyg0404]

Hi,

I located the images on my computer so here are a few Snappy's from the show.

Andy G.

[Betty]

Ah. Now I remember it! I knew I had seen at least a clip of the story somewhere long ago, but couldn't recall any image of it.