Headmaster - Season 1 (1970)

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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 ...

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Andy trys something different when he sends a group of students off camping in the woods. They are charged with creating a new society wirh their own rules. The teens find it more difficult than imagined.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.