1999 VHS • Disney Internet Safety with Smart Guy 60 FPS

About

A Disney Channel educational production combining an episode of the sitcom Smart Guy with interstitial internet safety messaging, produced in 1999. The Smart Guy episode features regular cast members including T.J., Marcus, Mo, and Yvette, and centers on T.J. encountering a user named Mark in a kids' online chat room who offers to sell video games at bargain prices and eventually pressures the group to meet in person, asking them not to tell their parents.

The episode's narrative establishes that Mark is an adult posing as a child online, and T.J. ultimately tells his father what is happening, resulting in Mark's arrest. The safety messaging interspersed through the episode and delivered at the resolution includes the warnings that online strangers may not be who they claim, that requests for secrecy from online contacts are a danger signal, that personal information should never be shared in chat rooms, and that a trusted adult should always be told if something online feels wrong.

The tape is identified as a Disney production and is formatted for classroom or home educational use, running approximately 22 minutes.

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Archive

Internet Archive, in The VHS Vault

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Credit

The Vista Group®

Language

English

Subtitles

English

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