Room 222

Sep 17, 1969

Teacher Pete Dixon's best student is from another district.

Sep 24, 1969

A shy student proposes a nude finale for the school follies.

Oct 1, 1969

Pete tries to help a fat boy put his sense of humor to good use.

Oct 8, 1969

Jason enters an art program and steals a coat so he can get his teacher to like him.

Oct 15, 1969

Walt Whitman teachers are levelled by the flu bug, and classes are combined and consolidated in order to prevent a school closing. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

Oct 22, 1969

Pete is chosen to lead a teacher's strike.

Oct 29, 1969

Pete is offered a job with a corporation helping high school dropouts.

Nov 5, 1969

The students try to get an elderly teacher to resign because they think she is too old.

Nov 12, 1969

Jason becomes upset when the snobby parents of his latest girlfriend think he isn't right for their daughter.

Nov 19, 1969

The father of a student blames Pete for the problems he has been having with his son.

Nov 26, 1969

Dec 3, 1969

Walt Whitman students challenge the school's dress code, and a student's father is forced to confront his indecisiveness. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

Dec 10, 1969

A conniving student tries to take Pete away from Liz and keep him for herself.

Dec 17, 1969

A teacher from England proves too progressive for Walt Whitman High.

Dec 24, 1969

Dec 31, 1969

A football player tries to choose a college after completing high school.

Jan 7, 1970

Jan 14, 1970

Jan 21, 1970

A teacher's efforts to be hip don't earn the students' respect.

Jan 28, 1970

Whitman students Richie and Jason do their bit for clean air. As a history class project, the boys devise an anti-smog campaign: getting money for TV time, then writing and producing an anti-pollution spot.

Feb 11, 1970

A girl's father pushes her into going to college, despite her not being smart enough.

Feb 18, 1970

Liz gets upset when one of Pete's students constantly tags along with him even on their dates.

Feb 25, 1970

Two students plan to elope to Mexico and invite Pete and Liz along as the best man and maid of honor.

Mar 4, 1970

Mar 11, 1970

Pete tries to find a way to help students who have difficulty reading.

Mar 18, 1970

Sep 23, 1970

Sep 30, 1970

The school ""class clown"" decides to run for student council president.

Oct 7, 1970

Acrimonious student debates ruin Pete's chances for a teaching award.

Oct 14, 1970

Women's lib comes into the school when a girl tries out for the varsity basketball team.

Oct 21, 1970

Kaufman chooses Pete for the administration training program.

Oct 28, 1970

Nov 4, 1970

A Jewish woman with no college background arrives at Whitman High to teach.

Nov 11, 1970

The friendly cop on the beat is replaced by a tough no nonsense one who causes nothing but tension at the school.

Nov 18, 1970

A prejudiced father tries to transfer his daughter to a private school in order to keep her away from the black students at the school.

Nov 25, 1970

Pete tries to get a shy boy interested in karate in order to impress the girl he loves.

Dec 2, 1970

A nonconformist challenges the graduation traditions.

Dec 16, 1970

Walt Whitman student Mel must decide between finishing high school and his rock group when the Nickel Plated Toothpick is offered a recording contract. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

Dec 23, 1970

Everyone takes advantage of a blonde girl, and she becomes the best-looking girl at the school dance.

Jan 6, 1971

Pete tries to help a student who was mistakenly accused of cheating by a tough teacher.

Jan 13, 1971

A black student is accused of forging a teacher's signature on a scholarship application form.

Jan 20, 1971

An overly demanding and severe teacher upsets the students at the school.

Jan 27, 1971

A man-chasing woman leaves her son on his own.

Feb 3, 1971

Feb 10, 1971

Feb 17, 1971

Pete tries to avert a riot between his school and a rival school over the upcoming football game.

Mar 3, 1971

A mysterious masked vigilante starts appearing on the rooftops of the school, showering people with (dry) garbage and leaving anti-litter messages signed ""Paul Revere"". The teachers, or a teacher, figures out the vigilante's identity -- he's the only kid with an anti-litter bug and a Paul Revere fetish, and subtly encourages the kid to pursue his cause along more conventional lines. ""Revere"" makes one final appearance on the rooftops, sending down a paper airplane with a poem written on it. The poem ends: ""So don't litter my children, or you will hear of the return of Paul Revere.""

Mar 10, 1971

Alice allows the students to read Catch 22 instead of the book assigned by the Head of the English department, Silas Marner.

Mar 17, 1971

A rural-born transfer student finds an unlikely ally in Jason when the students poke fun at and take advantage of him. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

Mar 24, 1971

Mar 31, 1971

Others tease a new girl about her good looks.

Apr 7, 1971

With drugs becoming a big problem, the teachers set up a confidential ""talk session"" with the kids to help them with their problems. The sessions prove to be a success when one particularly troubled boy is reached.

Sep 17, 1971

A city councilman arranges for a radio station to be built in the school, but regrets it when the students air programs which he believes are meant to make him look bad.

Sep 24, 1971

A student video contains footage of a stuttering youth.

Oct 1, 1971

A very smart student does nothing but slide through life while getting bad grades.

Oct 8, 1971

Pete tries to help a teacher who, while going through a divorce, is taking out her anger on the boys in her class.

Oct 15, 1971

Oct 22, 1971

A fast-talking student is using the school and the students to further his own profit-making schemes and gets caught making shady deals.

Oct 29, 1971

Nov 5, 1971

Someone in the school is spying for Principal Kaufman.

Nov 12, 1971

Nov 19, 1971

While investigating the allocation of school funds for Pete's class project, a student uncovers a scandal in the cafeteria.

Dec 3, 1971

A male student is suspected of being homosexual, especially after he gets involved in the school dramatics club.

Dec 10, 1971

Dec 17, 1971

Pete and Alice visit the slums and teach the kids how to read.

Dec 31, 1971

Jan 7, 1972

The students try to help a boy who resents his Indian heritage.

Jan 14, 1972

A student who wants to go to Harvard fails his entrance exams.

Jan 21, 1972

Pete tries to discourage a student who wants to quit school to become a professional boxer.

Jan 28, 1972

A man attending night school citizenship classes destroys the political artwork of one of Alice's students because he felt it degraded the U.S.

Feb 4, 1972

Pete accidentally injures a boy after breaking up a fight, which causes the boy's parents to sue him.

Feb 11, 1972

Feb 18, 1972

A new student pretends to be a witch to get attention.

Feb 25, 1972

Fed up with all the hassles of being a public high school principal, Mr. Kaufman decides to quit. (According to one poster at Sitcoms Online, it is believed that this may be the synopsis for this episode.)

Mar 3, 1972

Pete tries to help a teacher and a student to quit smoking.

Sep 15, 1972

Pete and his class enter the stock market in order to earn money for a new school intercom.

Sep 22, 1972

Sep 29, 1972

Oct 6, 1972

A bigoted father has to rethink his beliefs when his son is assigned to work on a school project with Jason.

Oct 13, 1972

Jason finds himself resenting a polished and well-mannered black student from England.

Oct 20, 1972

Pete tries to help a teacher who has been teaching without a degree or a license.

Oct 27, 1972

Pete tries to interest some bored students in learning how to fly a plane.

Nov 3, 1972

Pete learns that one of his students is dying of leukemia.

Nov 10, 1972

A student holds a banana-eating contest in order to attract summer job offers for the other students.

Nov 17, 1972

The students become upset when a school faculty advisor begins to censor their stories for the school newspaper.

Nov 24, 1972

Dec 1, 1972

Beloved, but elderly, teacher Miss Brown is showing signs of senility. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

Dec 8, 1972

The new teacher who came to the school to teach a course in poise and personality develops a crush on Alice.

Dec 22, 1972

The mother of a student becomes upset when her son falls for a girl who doesn't wear a bra.

Jan 5, 1973

Jan 12, 1973

Jan 19, 1973

Feb 2, 1973

Pete tries to advise a student who doesn't believe in any form of competition.

Feb 9, 1973

Feb 16, 1973

Feb 23, 1973

When a student comes into a lot of money, the other students find themselves thinking of ways to spend it.

Mar 2, 1973

Mar 9, 1973

Sep 14, 1973

Sep 21, 1973

One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.

Sep 28, 1973

Mr. Kaufman falls for a teacher who was once a nun.

Oct 5, 1973

Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.

Oct 26, 1973

Herbie likes to enter contests.

Nov 2, 1973

Nov 9, 1973

Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.

Nov 16, 1973

A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.

Nov 30, 1973

Alice finds herself in the middle when she encourages a student to become a poet despite his father's wish that he enter his real estate business.

Dec 7, 1973

A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.

Dec 21, 1973

Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.

Dec 28, 1973

The Walt Whitman auto shop enters a car in a contest to see which vehicle gets the most miles per gallon. The actual race is unbearably slow, with each car conserving energy, and the scenes of Mr. Kaufman, Mr. Dixon, et al, trying to stay awake in the bleachers are hilarious. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

Jan 4, 1974

Problems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.

Jan 11, 1974