Recess (1997)
Six brave fourth-graders at Third Street School make it their mission to protect the other kids on the playground. Despite the rule of King Bob and his minions, who enforce his unwritten laws, T.J, Ashley, Vince, Gus, Gretchen and Mikey seek a rational balance between conformity and individuality.
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Episode 1 - One Stayed Clean
Release Date: 1999-09-11On class picture day, the kids vow to keep Gus clean as he's never had a class picture of him taken.
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Episode 2 - A Genius Among Us
Release Date: 1999-09-11Someone else besides Gretchen is a math genius, and through math, Gretchen starts a close relationship with this person.
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Episode 3 - Dodgeball City
Release Date: 1999-09-18The main kids discover that Gus was once a notorious dodgeball player who went by the name of El Diablo.
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Episode 4 - A Career to Remember
Release Date: 1999-09-18A career day assembly gets all the kids to decide their future careers. That is all except Spinelli.
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Episode 5 - Kindergarten Derby
Release Date: 1999-09-25Every year the older kids pick kindergarteners to race in the Kindergarten Derby. This year an eager Tubby gets an unwilling Mikey to sponsor him in the race.
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Episode 6 - The Bet
Release Date: 1999-09-25Fed up with Vince's ego, the kids bet Vince that he can't go one whole day without beating someone in a sport.
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Episode 7 - Space Cadet
Release Date: 1999-10-02T.J. takes charge when Gretchen seems to achieve a dream that T.J.'s always had, to be an astronaut on the space shuttle.
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Episode 8 - Stand Up Randall
Release Date: 1999-10-02Randall becomes popular when he uses a joke book to make himself a standup comedian.
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Episode 9 - The Shiner
Release Date: 1999-11-06T.J. shows up in school with a black eye. Everyone makes up wild stories about the heroic acts T.J. must have done to get the shiner.
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Episode 10 - Lord of the Nerds
Release Date: 1999-11-06T.J. breaks his clavicle and now has to spend recess with the ""pale kids"" in Room 51.
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Episode 11 - That Stinking Feeling
Release Date: 1999-11-13Spinelli gets a crush on a fifth grader and has to get over it to save her reputation.
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Episode 12 - My Funny Valentines
Release Date: 1999-11-13In his hatred of Valentine's Day, T.J. sends a ""funny"" valentine to every single girl on the playground to show them how stupid Valentine's Day is, but his plan soon backfires when the girls mistake them for ""real"" valentine cards.
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Episode 13 - The Barnaby Boys
Release Date: 2000-01-15T.J. and Vince are so into the "Barnaby Boys" books that they dress up like the Barnaby Boys and try to solve the mystery of the suspicious substitute janitor, Earl Raymond.
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Episode 14 - Buried Treasure
Release Date: 2000-01-15TJ receives an old history textbook with a treasure map that leads the gang, Randall, and the Ashleys out to get the treasure. But as they get closer, greed arises and the 4th graders fight for the treasure.
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Episode 15 - The Library Kid
Release Date: 2000-01-22When the gang catches the mysterious ""Libray Kid"", they take her out to recess where she becomes obssessed with the playground.
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Episode 16 - The Ratings Game
Release Date: 2000-01-22Everyone is segregrated once the Ashley's start giving ratings to everyone on the playground.