9B was a Canadian television drama series, which aired on CBC Television as a television movie in 1986 before being adapted into a short-run dramatic series in 1989. Based on the memoirs of real-life high school teacher Don Hunter, the original film starred Robert Wisden as Bob Dawson, a teacher in a small town in northern British Columbia who is assigned the class of "problem" students, and enrolls them in a drama competition to encourage them to take their education more seriously. As a full television series, storylines covered a variety of teen drama scenarios, similar to the Degrassi franchise apart from the more rural setting.