Lloyd Haynes, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine, Denise Nicholas, Howard Rice, David Jolliffe, Judy Strangis, Heshimu, Ivor Francis, Ta-Tanisha. Originally broadcast as episodes from the television series between 9/171969 and 3/18/1970. Bonus features: "Forty years on" : new interviews with creator James L. Brooks and cast members Denise Nicholas and Michael Constantine and more.
Contents:
Disc 1. Richie's Story ; Naked Came We Into the World ; Funny Boy ; The Coat ; The Flu ; First We'll Eat, Then We'll Strike ; Teacher's Dropping Out -- Disc 2. Our teacher is obsolete ; Triple date ; Fathers and sons ; Alice in blunderland ; Clothes make the boy ; Seventeen going on twenty-eight ; The exchange teacher -- Disc 3. El genio ; Arizona State loves you ; Operation sandpile ; Play it loose ; Goodbye, Mr. Hip ; Once upon a time there was air you couldn't see -- Disc 4. The whole world can hear you ; Ralph ; I love you Charlie, I love you Abbie ; The new boy ; Funny money ; Just between friends.
Summary:
A black teacher, "Mr. Pete Dixon," at a multiracial Los Angeles high school, "Walt Whitman High," explores with his students socially relevant issues such as prejudice and drugs.
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