The Yard

Season

2011

Canada

8.2

The six-part half-hour miniseries starring kids takes a new approach to the mafia mentality by bringing the mean streets to the schoolyard with the kids running the show. Mourners of the late, great Sopranos will meet a new kind of mob as two rival schoolyard gangs struggle for supremacy. Their world is also being captured by an unseen Documentarian, voiced by Paul Gross (one of the miniseries' executive producers), providing both "behind-the-scenes" footage and interviews with the kids intercut with the main drama.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Economy

When Frankie's (Daniel Lupetina) crew introduces a new brand of trading card disrupting the economic balance of the Yard, Nick (Quintin Colantoni) struggles to reset the scale.

S1 • E2

Girls vs. Boys

There's a standoff between the girls and the boys of the Yard when one of Nick's (Quintin Colantoni) boys is the victim of a seemingly unprovoked attack by the girls.

S1 • E3

The Territories

When Frankie's (Daniel Lupetina) crew refuses to let a group of kids onto the soccer field, the banned group resorts to terrorist attacks with water balloons.

S1 • E4

The Catcher

Johnny (Shemar Charles) finds himself indebted to Frankie (Daniel Lupetina) and is pulled into the peanut butter and jelly sandwich smuggling ring to pay off his debt.

S1 • E5

The Great Compromise

When Nick (Quintin Colantoni) is suspended for smuggling PB&J sandwiches into the Yard, he's forced to take a vacation and let his crew run things on their own.

S1 • E6

Big Business

When the smelly chaos of stink bombs threatens to ruin picture day, Nick (Quintin Colantoni) gives Frankie (Daniel Lupetina) the sole contract to manufacture and distribute them, making the situation even worse.