Channing

Gifted Channing sports star Jeff Brubaker considers forfeiture of his athletic scholarship in order to concentrate on his newly found interest in Jewish studies.

Dean Baker, his car loaded with a Christmas tree, nearly collides with Walter, a homeless young man who is sitting in the middle of a desolate road in the driving rain.

Poet laureate, Paddy Riordan, has agreed to give a reading at Channing University as a favor to his old friend, Professor Howe. However, the faculty is unprepared for his drunken revels, and the starstruck student assigned to show him around town is unaware of his cavalier attitude toward romance.

When given the choice between finishing his second novel, and drinking, Professor Harrison Keith finds himself leaning heavily toward the latter.

Larry Franklin is a rather sky freshman, and not ready to handle the worldliness of his sophomore roommate, or the wiles of a pretty coed with other motives.

A black professor is charged by another professor in the sabotaging of a black student's efforts to gain a fellowship.

Many are surprised when a professor turns down the appointment to head the newly formed Institute of Foreign Affairs.

Howe tries to figure out if his doomed romance with an Indian girl was real or imagined.

Having reached the age where he's too old to teach a class of his own, Professor Miller takes on the task of being Howe's assistant, only he soon tries to take over Howe's class.

Law student Dante Donati has a problem. He would much rather be studying music, than cracking law books.

The baseball big leagues are scouting Eddie Martin. But older brother Frank already has different plans for Eddie's life, helping out in the family business.

A folk singer wants her father to stop teaching, and to leave his "new" family.

A student from Latin-America attempts to make Professor Delcort leave his job teaching at Channing and go home to lend support to a new dictator and his regime.

Everyone in Channing is excited about German pianist Georg Linzer's American concert debut. Everyone, that is, except Professor Thielman, his former teacher, who accuses him of being sympathetic to Nazis.

Dr. Crown takes an unhealthy interest in the former roommate of his deceased son. In return, the young man takes advantage of the father's kindness..and plentiful money.

A new Channing student threatens Professor Kobitz, whom he holds responsible for the death of his friend, a soldier in Vietnam.

An aging graduate student must depend on his wife's income to support him; and he's just fine with that setup.

Jim Watson has gotten Howe's attention. He falls asleep in class each day. Howe soon uncovers the reason why. Watson is working at night to pay for his schooling.

Professor Howe becomes increasingly suspicious of a divinity student's behavior as it grows more and more erratic.

A school football hero becomes the unnatural focus of a faculty member's wife.

A talented writer forgets about her talent, and her boyfriend, and sets her sights on Professor Howe.

A candidate for state attorney, who is a graduate of Channing, discovers that his campaign manager is running an underhanded campaign.

Sophie's father is a chronic gambler, and unfortunately, it looks like the coed has picked up his bad habit.

An unlikely friendship develops between a withdrawn, paraplegic student and an outspoken, aggressive troublemaker.

Professor Stafford's career is jeopardized when a scheming coed makes accusations against him.

The impassioned writings of death row inmate Lloyd Sullivan are brought to the attention of Professor Howe.

New English professor Joseph Howe seeks out seasoned colleague Dean Fred Baker at Channing University on how to handle everyday life as a college level instructor.

In this "Mr. Novak" meets college students series, the young English professor Joseph Howe soon finds out that he is ill prepared to tackle college kids, and seeks out seasoned colleague Dean Fred Baker at Channing University.