The Headmaster

Season

1970

6.4

The relationship between the headmaster of an elite California private school and his students and faculty.

Episode List

S1 • E1

May I Turn On?

A young man finds him ostracized by his school mates and his football team when he refuses to take part in the drug culture.

S1 • E2

Guess Who's Not Coming to Dinner

An attractive teacher's penchant for wearing mini skirts makes her popular with the students. Coach Brownell also finds reasons to be around the instructor. Headmaster Andy must rethink the school's dress code.

Valerie Has an Emotional Gestalt for the Teacher

S1 • E3

Valerie Has an Emotional Gestalt for the Teacher

S1 • E4

Bridge That Gap

S1 • E5

One for the Gipper

Coach Jerry Brownell is down because his teams do not do well against other schools. He blames this in part on lack of school support -- even Headmaster Andy Thompson doesn't attend track meets. After Concord loses to Hubbard, 97-9, and to Linsday Academy, 81-3, Coach submits his resignation. Andy accepts it reluctantly, and at the suggestion of some team members, organizes a going-away dinner. At the dinner, members of the current track, football, and basketball teams, and football alumnus Art Schultz, all speak of how Coach may not have won many games, but provided valuable life lessons which were more important than winning. This, plus some earlier mild prodding to the same effect by Andy, convinces Coach to stay on.

Will the Real Mother of Tony Landis Please Stand Up?

S1 • E6

Will the Real Mother of Tony Landis Please Stand Up?

Andy becomes involved in trying to straighten out the home life of a student who has suddenly become in-corrigible.

S1 • E7

The Experiment

Andy sends a group of students off camping in the woods for an experiment : to create a new society wirh their own rules. The task is more difficult than the kids imagined.

S1 • E8

Romeo & Juliet and Gary & Hillary

Margaret, while teaching Shakespeare, dicusses young love and sex. She finds her words twisted and a mother accuses the teacher of advocating premarital sex. Andy must settle the dispute.

S1 • E9

Bach Rock

The glee club is preparing for the Spring Fling under a different music director. Andy Thompson leads them in a new interpretation of composers like Bach.

S1 • E10

Let's Try It Mr. Hiller's Way

An authoritarian math teacher Mr. Hiller has the students against him and they've dubbed him Mr. Hitler. When the instructor goes to far the kids conduct a walkout.

S1 • E11

Nobody's Perfect

Billy strives to be an excellent student as he seeks to emulate his older brother. But Andy sees worrisome signs as the young man starts to struggle and his mental state is questioned.

S1 • E12

Count the Ways I Love You

A student challenges Margaret's advice on families because she and Andy don't have children of their own.

S1 • E13

Harvard or Bust

Mark Stillwell is just an average student but his hard driving father is intent on him going to a top rated university. Andy Thompson feels he must intervene to keep the young man from dropping out of school but also life.