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Remembering Jimmy || Special Features || Mr. Novak || Season 2 SEASON TWO Moonlighting (09-22-64) His father's sudden serious illness forces Novak to take a second job to help pay the hospital bills, Moonlighting as a parking lot attendant at a supper club, he finds his efficiency as a teacher suffering, as well as his stature in the eyes of his students. With A Hammer In His Hand, Lord, Lord! (09-29-64) Novak walks in on an act of violence, when a woodshop teacher strikes back in self-defense after three students attack him. One boy is injured, and a well planned strategy of lies causes suspicion to fall on the teacher, who has a reputation for running his classes like a shop foreman. Visions Of Sugar Plums (10-06-64) Students and teachers arrive on campus one morning to find a camper truck and its owner plucking a guitar. Within minutes he's leading an impromptu hootenanny. He's a substitute teacher, returning to work after 15 years as a vagabond, and his easy rapport with even the problem students is obvious. But his unorthodox methods methods baffle Vane and Novak, who worry whether he's capable of the self-discipline required to follow the curriculum and the rules. Little Girl Lost (10-20-64) A near delinquent girl is transferred to Jefferson in hopes that she'll straighten out. She makes her presence felt by a complete disregard for authority, but Novak, sensing her need for understanding, discovers her talent for drama. When he entrusts her with the leading role in the class play, her life turns around, until a jealous ex-boyfriend involves her in a car theft. One Monday Afternoon (10-27-64) Everyone at Jefferson is stunned when a top student, the star quarterback, is accidentally killed in a scrimmage during football practice. Blaming the coach's "win at any cost" philosophy, the boy's father lodges charges and the school's athletic integrity and the school's athletic program. Novak, who witnessed the accident, finds himself embroiled in a situation that could ruin the coach's life Let's Dig A Little Grammar (11-10-64) Ray is an extrovert dominates the school's jam sessions, overshadowing his best pal, an introvert who is equally outstanding with his trumpet. As his counselor, Novak tries to persuade Ray not to forgo college for a musical career as he plans, and to give the other boy the confidence to assert himself. To prove his point, Novak forces a showdown trumpet duel between the two. The People Doll: You Wind It Up And It Makes Mistakes (11-17-64) Novak wages a losing battle against romance when a promising student insists on dropping out to get married. Boy Under Glass (11-24-64) Mr. Novak is Mr. Unpopularity when he refuses to compromise his standards for a failing student, a baseball pitcher of major league potential. The boy is black, and is father believes that prejudice would prevent him from making better money in any other field. With a crucial game pending, Novak is pressured to give him a makeup exam, on which the boy gets an 'A'- after leaving the classroom in tears. Born Of Kings And Angels (12-01-64) Novak takes the debating team for a competition in a distant city, during the bus ride the team captain becomes strangely withdrawn and uneasy. When he disappears from the hotel in the middle of the night, Novak sets out to find him and help him with his demons. But the boy, trailing ghosts from his past, finds answers that were best left a mystery. "A" As In Anxiety (12-8-64) Novak finds himself deeply involved in a family situation when a student attempts suicide. The girl, who's been trying to live up to her ambitious parents' idealized vision of her, finally breaks during a college scholarship exam at Jefferson, which pushes her far beyond her mental capacities, and it is Novak who must fact her parents in a moment of truth. Johnny Ride The Pony - 1, 2, 3 (12-15-64) Novak agrees to act as temporary sponsor for an off-camps club, whose members been known for troublesome behavior. A beach party goes smoothly while he's around, but after he's in for the night the students carry out an initiation hazing, with nearly tragic consequences that result in far-reaching repercussions. Beyond A reasonable Doubt (12-22-64) A girl enrolls at Jefferson under a cloud of fear and uncertainly, she's just been tried and acquitted of the violent murders of her well-to-do parents, and a shadow of suspicion follows her every move. Love Among The Grown-Ups (12-29-64) Novak and an attractive, married, French teacher are suddenly the victims of a poison pen letter campaign accusing them of a clandestine romance. Although there is not truth to the accusations or evidence to back it up, things just get worse - until the write makes a mistake that allows the postal authorities to legally enter the crime. From The Brow of Zeus (01-05-65) Despite his mother's misgivings, a ten-year-old genius enrolls at Jefferson to be in the student mainstream after the loneliness of private tutors stunts his social growth. Although he is near-sighted, stammers and has asthma, he is determined to be one of the group. His older classmates welcomes him by running his shorts up the flagpole. His fate lies in Novak hands as he tried to persuade the boy's mother to let him stay at school and give it time. Soon the tide turns and the student stand up for the boy after a basketball accident. An Elephant Is Like A Tree (01-12-65) Returning to school a year after being blinded in an off-campus rocket experiment, a boy finds the challenge too great and wallows in despair and self-pity, aided by the coddling of all around him. Novak finally tries the hard approach, daring him to face life again, and helps him start by taking him to school one night to establish guideposts in the halls and stairways. But neither of them figures on encountering a dangerous vandal in hiding. Enter A Strange Animal (01-19-65) A controversy arrives at Jefferson with the trial run of mechanical teaching machines. Novak seeks to honestly evaluate the practical potential of the devices against the proven influence of dedicated teachers, and his refusal to blindly turn his back on progress puts him at odds with one of his most admired colleagues. Beat The Plowshare: Edge The Sword (01-26-65) When Novak get four field trip permits signed in identical ink and handwriting, he investigated and learns the four students are living under strange and illegal conditions - completely without adult supervision except for weekly visits by a self-appointed guardian, an ex-convict. Faculty Follies - Part One (02-02-65) Novak is directing Jefferson High's Faculty Follies, a variety show spoofing the students, to raise money for the foreign exchange student program. He's beset by problems when he drives his cast so hard that one teacher becomes hysterical: Martin Woodridge, an English teacher, is determined that the show never takes place on the conviction that a teacher's dignity depends upon him remaining only in a pedagogal light. Faculty Follies - Part Two (02-09-65) Even with the performers loosing enthusiasm, Novak is faced with telling the students that the show is going to be cancelled. He makes a final effort to get Woodridge to withdraw his objections, but he remains adamant, until a strange quirk of fate turns the tide in Novak's favor and the show opens to a packed crowd, highlighted by song and dance numbers by the teachers, including a Beatle-wigged Mr. Novak. The triumph is complete when the reluctant Woodridge performs a solo. The Silent Dissuades (02-16-65) An exchange science teacher form Iran, who is thrilled by the newfound freedom as a woman to pursue her career, can't understand American girls' rush to marry. She embroils Novak in a controversy when an especially gifted student plans to marry right after graduation, robbing the world of her brain power and herself the glory of success. Mountains to Climb (02-23-65) Responding to civic pressure, Vane is talked into running for State Superintendent of Schools, against an ambitious man with unscrupulous manager whose tricks in the hotly waged campaign lead Novak, despite Vane's protests, to head a fight by teachers on Vane's behalf. A surprising outcome. May Day, May Day (03-02-65) It is teacher evaluation time, with tenure at stake. One ordinarily dynamic English teacher isn't worried though - he's convinced he'll be let go, and he all but challenges Woodridge to fire him. Concerned with his friend's defiant attitude, Novak discovers that the man, who is married and has a small child, has become romantically involved with one of his students. Where Is There To Go, Billie, But Up? (03-09-65) A free spirited championship sky diver takes a temporary job as a math substitute at Jefferson and Novak finds himself falling in love with her and her hobby, despite her warnings not to expect anything permanent of their romance. When she's offered a permanent position, Novak plays his trump card - proposing marriage - he finds that nothing can keep this woman earthbound. The Tender Twigs (03-16-65) Novak and a Social Studies teacher become the center of a raging citywide controversy after they stage a mock U.N. Assembly and are accused of using the public schools to spread subversion and Communist propaganda. Honor And All That (03-23-65) An explosive situation develops after Novak and Butler break up a potential incident after a basketball game between Jefferson and McGrath HS. The friendly rivalry between the schools is developing overtones of violence, with hotheaded students protecting their school honor. There's A Penguin In My Garden (04-06-65) In a last ditch effort to instill a sense of responsibility into her fun-loving, orphaned nephew before he comes into his father's millions, a nun leaves the convent to take over as the boy's guardian. Signing on as a chemistry teacher at Jefferson, she makes things worse as her very presence ties the boy up in knots, and Novak faces her disapproval, as she blames him for not living up to his job as a counselor. The Firebrand (04-13-65) The Debating Team Captain stirs the students into demonstrating on behalf of a school bond issue. An explosive situation erupts when the students stage a strike and ultimately a sit-in on the main stairway. But when the student are victorious, the boy just can't let go of the power he tasted, and continues fighting a fight that no longer exists. And Then I Wrote (04-20-65) A brilliant science student turns down a four years college scholarship rather than leave the family music store in the hands of his father, a would-be songwriter with no business sense at all. Trying to help, Novak risks a punch in the nose and is admonished to mind his own business when he uncovers the truth that could alter the lives and decisions of both father and son. Once A Clown (04-27-65) A student, whose mother is a lawyer, can't live up to her opinions of his mental abilities, and covers up by being the class clown. Novak has to tell the boy, who is failing his college prep courses, that he won't be able to graduate with his class, and his mother blames the boy's teachers for his failures. It isn't until Novak pulls away the mask that the boy is forced to look reality straight in the eye. |