Social Studies (television) Half-hour television series, debuting on UPN on March 18, 1997, and ending on August 5, 1997. Manhattan’s once-posh Woodridge girls’ boarding school has its financial problems and tries to weather them by becoming coeducational and taking in students of greater financial, cultural, and ethnic diversity. Stars Bonnie McFarlane (Katherine “Kit” Weaver), Adam Ferrara (Dan Rossini), Julia Duffy (Frances Harmon), Lisa Wilhoit (Madison Lewis), Vanessa Evigan (Sara Valentine), Corbin Allred (Chip Wigley).