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Teacher Pete Dixon's best student is from another district.
A shy student proposes a nude finale for the school follies.
Pete tries to help a fat boy put his sense of humor to good use.
Jason enters an art program and steals a coat so he can get his teacher to like him.
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.
Pete is chosen to lead a teacher's strike.
Pete is offered a job with a corporation helping high school dropouts.
The students try to get an elderly teacher to resign because they think she is too old.
Jason becomes upset when the snobby parents of his latest girlfriend think he isn't right for their daughter.
The father of a student blames Pete for the problems he has been having with his son.
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.
A conniving student tries to take Pete away from Liz and keep him for herself.
A teacher from England proves too progressive for Walt Whitman High.
A football player tries to choose a college after completing high school.
A teacher's efforts to be hip don't earn the students' respect.
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.
A girl's father pushes her into going to college, despite her not being smart enough.
Liz gets upset when one of Pete's students constantly tags along with him even on their dates.
Two students plan to elope to Mexico and invite Pete and Liz along as the best man and maid of honor.
Pete tries to find a way to help students who have difficulty reading.
The school ""class clown"" decides to run for student council president.
Acrimonious student debates ruin Pete's chances for a teaching award.
Women's lib comes into the school when a girl tries out for the varsity basketball team.
Kaufman chooses Pete for the administration training program.
A Jewish woman with no college background arrives at Whitman High to teach.
The friendly cop on the beat is replaced by a tough no nonsense one who causes nothing but tension at the school.
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.
Pete tries to get a shy boy interested in karate in order to impress the girl he loves.
A nonconformist challenges the graduation traditions.
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.
Everyone takes advantage of a blonde girl, and she becomes the best-looking girl at the school dance.
Pete tries to help a student who was mistakenly accused of cheating by a tough teacher.
A black student is accused of forging a teacher's signature on a scholarship application form.
An overly demanding and severe teacher upsets the students at the school.
A man-chasing woman leaves her son on his own.
Pete tries to avert a riot between his school and a rival school over the upcoming football game.
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.""
Alice allows the students to read Catch 22 instead of the book assigned by the Head of the English department, Silas Marner.
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.
Others tease a new girl about her good looks.
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.
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.
A student video contains footage of a stuttering youth.
A very smart student does nothing but slide through life while getting bad grades.
Pete tries to help a teacher who, while going through a divorce, is taking out her anger on the boys in her class.
A fast-talking student is using the school and the students to further his own profit-making schemes and gets caught making shady deals.
Someone in the school is spying for Principal Kaufman.
While investigating the allocation of school funds for Pete's class project, a student uncovers a scandal in the cafeteria.
A male student is suspected of being homosexual, especially after he gets involved in the school dramatics club.
Pete and Alice visit the slums and teach the kids how to read.
The students try to help a boy who resents his Indian heritage.
A student who wants to go to Harvard fails his entrance exams.
Pete tries to discourage a student who wants to quit school to become a professional boxer.
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.
Pete accidentally injures a boy after breaking up a fight, which causes the boy's parents to sue him.
A new student pretends to be a witch to get attention.
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.)
Pete tries to help a teacher and a student to quit smoking.
Pete and his class enter the stock market in order to earn money for a new school intercom.
A bigoted father has to rethink his beliefs when his son is assigned to work on a school project with Jason.
Jason finds himself resenting a polished and well-mannered black student from England.
Pete tries to help a teacher who has been teaching without a degree or a license.
Pete tries to interest some bored students in learning how to fly a plane.
Pete learns that one of his students is dying of leukemia.
A student holds a banana-eating contest in order to attract summer job offers for the other students.
The students become upset when a school faculty advisor begins to censor their stories for the school newspaper.
Beloved, but elderly, teacher Miss Brown is showing signs of senility. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.
The new teacher who came to the school to teach a course in poise and personality develops a crush on Alice.
The mother of a student becomes upset when her son falls for a girl who doesn't wear a bra.
Pete tries to advise a student who doesn't believe in any form of competition.
When a student comes into a lot of money, the other students find themselves thinking of ways to spend it.
One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.
Mr. Kaufman falls for a teacher who was once a nun.
Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.
Herbie likes to enter contests.
Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.
A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.
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.
A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.
Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.
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.
Problems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.
