Starring:
Jon Pollard.... Allen Bolton
Tara Jakszewicz.... Stassy Sumich
Rupert Reid.... Declan
Ada Nicodemou.... Katerina Ioannou
Callan Francis Mulvey.... Bogdon Drazic
Rel Hunt.... Ryan Scheppers
Fleur Beaupert.... Nikki Ruark Jeremmy
Lindsay Taylor.... Kurt Peterson
Nathalie Roy.... Sarah Livingstone

Plot Summary for "Heartbreak High":
The series based on the lives of a group of students who attend the fictional Hartley High School in Sydney. Praised for its willingness to tackle gritty issues, from drugs to romance to religion to shop lifting and homelessness, it has starred some names well-known to Australian television, especially Peter Sumner and Rebecca Smart, and it has bred new talent like Callan Mulvey.

Heartbreak High Soundtracks I-IV:
HBH produced four soundtracks consisting of music compilations by well known pop stars and alternative artists. Highlights included Hanson (how did that one sneak in?), Midnight Oil, Natalie Imbruglia, and Neneh Cherry.

Heart Break High ran for six seasons (circa 1992-1998) and originally aired on Australian Broadcasting Corporation . It is now running in syndication on Encore's WAM.  Oddly, HBH was revered as the most powerful teen drama in the world. Yet it never received first-run exposure on American broadcast networks. Why? Possibly the Australian style of humor and drama, and pronounced accents seemed too "foreign". Plus it was competing with similar American shows like Party of Five and My So-Called Life.

Descriptively, HBH is a cross breed between Degrassi and 90210.  Like Degrassi, the kids came from working class, often disfunctional families. Every character faces a series of hardships and indignities (i.e. compulsive gambling, drug addiction, dead beat parents). Their problems are consistent throughout the series, there are no quick fixes or one episode resolutions. Like 90210, the kids are image-minded, street savy, and sexualized. However, unlike 90210, the show is moralistic and intelligent.   
     
The show reveals the vicious *boundaries* between teen cliques. Stassy's first day of school is classic. She is pretty and exotic posing a threat to established popular girls, especially Katerina. To defend their throne, they go out of their way to treat Stassy like a freak. By accident Stassy spills a jar of pickle juice on her clothes, Katerina makes a sport of sniffing loudly and saying immature comments. 

HBH presents high school as a microcosm to the outside world. Although they are living under the "protection" of their parents, their experiences are equivalent to the adult society.