Season 5
Episodes • 1973
2. Of Smoke-Filled Rooms
30 minOne of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.
▶ Watch Episode4. No Island is an Island
30 minLiz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.
▶ Watch Episode7. Love is a Many Splintered Thing
30 minAlice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.
▶ Watch Episode8. Pi in the Sky
30 minA math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.
▶ Watch Episode9. Mismatch Maker
30 minAlice 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.
▶ Watch Episode10. Here's to the Boy Most Likely
30 minA student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.
▶ Watch Episode11. El Greco to Jason
30 minJason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.
▶ Watch Episode12. MPG
30 minThe 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.
▶ Watch Episode13. I Didn't Raise My Girl to Be a Soldier
30 minProblems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.
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