Write On, Brother

The school ""class clown"" decides to run for student council president.

The Laughing Majority

Acrimonious student debates ruin Pete's chances for a teaching award.

The Lincoln Story

Women's lib comes into the school when a girl tries out for the varsity basketball team.

Adam's Lib

Kaufman chooses Pete for the administration training program.

Choose One: And They Lived (Happily/Unhappily) Ever After

Captain of the Team

A Jewish woman with no college background arrives at Whitman High to teach.

Only a Rose

The friendly cop on the beat is replaced by a tough no nonsense one who causes nothing but tension at the school.

The Fuzz That Grooved

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.

Half Way

Pete tries to get a shy boy interested in karate in order to impress the girl he loves.

Dreams of Glory

A nonconformist challenges the graduation traditions.

The Valedictorion

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.

Mel Wertz and the Nickel-Plated Toothpick

Everyone takes advantage of a blonde girl, and she becomes the best-looking girl at the school dance.

What Would We Do Without Bobbie?

Pete tries to help a student who was mistakenly accused of cheating by a tough teacher.

Cheating

A black student is accused of forging a teacher's signature on a scholarship application form.

How About That Cherry Tree

An overly demanding and severe teacher upsets the students at the school.

Mr. Bomberg

A man-chasing woman leaves her son on his own.

The Long Honeymoon

Opportunity Room

The Last Full Moon

Pete tries to avert a riot between his school and a rival school over the upcoming football game.

Hip Hip Hooray

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.""

Paul Revere Rides Again

Alice allows the students to read Catch 22 instead of the book assigned by the Head of the English department, Silas Marner.

I Hate You, 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.

You Can Take a Big Boy Out of the Country but...

If It's Not Here, Where is It?

Others tease a new girl about her good looks.

Laura Fay, You're Okay!

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 Sort of Loving

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.

KWWH

A student video contains footage of a stuttering youth.

The Stutterer

A very smart student does nothing but slide through life while getting bad grades.

America's Guest

Pete tries to help a teacher who, while going through a divorce, is taking out her anger on the boys in her class.

Welcome Back, Miss Brown

Hi, Dad

A fast-talking student is using the school and the students to further his own profit-making schemes and gets caught making shady deals.

Suitable for Framing

Hail and Farewell

Someone in the school is spying for Principal Kaufman.

Who's Benedict Arnold?

Stay Awhile, Mr. Dream-Chaser

While investigating the allocation of school funds for Pete's class project, a student uncovers a scandal in the cafeteria.

Dixon's Raiders

A male student is suspected of being homosexual, especially after he gets involved in the school dramatics club.

What is a Man?

The Sins of the Father

Pete and Alice visit the slums and teach the kids how to read.

They Love Me, They Love Me Not

The Fading of the Elegant Beast

The students try to help a boy who resents his Indian heritage.

House Made of Dark Mist

A student who wants to go to Harvard fails his entrance exams.

Where is it Written?

Pete tries to discourage a student who wants to quit school to become a professional boxer.

And in This Corner...

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.

We Hold These Truths...

Pete accidentally injures a boy after breaking up a fight, which causes the boy's parents to sue him.

Suing Means Saying You're Sorry

I Gave My Love...

A new student pretends to be a witch to get attention.

The Witch of Whitman High

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.)

The Quitter

Pete tries to help a teacher and a student to quit smoking.

There's No Fool Like...

I've Got the Hammer, If You've Got the Thumb

One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.

Of Smoke-Filled Rooms

Mr. Kaufman falls for a teacher who was once a nun.

Can Nun Be One Too Many?

Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.

No Island is an Island

Twenty-Five Words or Less

Pete's Protege

Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.

Love is a Many Splintered Thing

A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.

Pi in the Sky

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.

Mismatch Maker

A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.

Here's to the Boy Most Likely

Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.

El Greco to Jason

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.

All Episodes of Room 222

Season 1