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Season 1

1. Richie's Story  

Community Score

8.3 Great
First aired: 9/17/1969    Production Code: 4901

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

2. Naked Came We Into the World  

Community Score

8.9 Great
First aired: 9/24/1969    Production Code: 4906

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

3. Funny Boy  

Community Score

8.4 Great 1
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First aired: 10/1/1969    Production Code: 4907

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

4. The Coat  

Community Score

8.5 Great
First aired: 10/8/1969    Production Code: 4908

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

5. The Flu  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/15/1969    Production Code: 4902

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.

6. First We'll Eat, Then We'll Strike  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/22/1969    Production Code: 4904

Pete is chosen to lead a teacher's strike.

7. Teacher's Dropping Out  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 10/29/1969    Production Code: 4905

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

8. Our Teacher is Obsolete  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 11/5/1969    Production Code: 4910

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

9. Triple Date  

Community Score

8.6 Great
First aired: 11/12/1969    Production Code: 4911

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

10. Fathers and Sons  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 11/19/1969    Production Code: 4912

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

11. Alice in Blunderland  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 11/26/1969    Production Code: 4914

When she learns that a supervisor will be coming to review her work as a student teacher, Alice suddenly finds herself unable to do anything right.

12. Clothes Make the Boy  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/3/1969    Production Code: 4913

Walt Whitman students challenge the school's dress code, and a student's father is forced to confront his indecisiveness.

13. Seventeen Going On Twenty-Eight  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/10/1969    Production Code: 4915

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

14. The Exchange Teacher  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/17/1969    Production Code: 4916

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

15. El Genio  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/24/1969    Production Code: 4909

When Alice learns that a very bright student of Mexican heritage is going to get married and get a job, she tries to convince him to continue his education through college.

16. Arizona State Loves You  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 12/31/1969    Production Code: 4903

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

17. Operation Sandpile  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/7/1970    Production Code: 4918

Mr. Kaufman tries to help a couple of female students, one who feels that the school is not properly educating her for her future role as a housewife, and the other who brings her baby sister to school because there is no one else to babysit on the day of a big test.

18. Play it Loose  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/14/1970    Production Code: 4919

Liz is not pleased when a former student who is now a pop singing star returns to Walt Whitman High and comes on to Pete.

19. Goodbye, Mr. Hip  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/21/1970    Production Code: 4920

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

20. Once Upon a Time There Was Air You Couldn't See  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 1/28/1970    Production Code: 4921

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.

21. The Whole World Can Hear You  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 2/11/1970    Production Code: 4923

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

22. Ralph  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 2/18/1970    Production Code: 4917

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

23. I Love You Charlie, I Love You Abbie  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 2/25/1970    Production Code: 4925

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

24. The New Boy  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 3/4/1970    Production Code: 4926

Pete tries to help a problem student who is continually playing hookey from school and has just been transferred to Walt Whitman High.

25. Funny Money  

Community Score

8.4 Great
First aired: 3/11/1970    Production Code: 4924

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

Writer: Steve Pritzker
Director: Terry Becker
Guest star: Rob Reiner (Tony)

26. Just Between Friends  

Community Score

10.0 Perfect
First aired: 3/18/1970    Production Code: 4922

Pete and Mr. Kaufman end up on opposite sides of a school overcrowding controversy caused by re-zoning.

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