Room 222
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Life at Walt Whitman High School in Los Angeles as seen through
the eyes of Pete Dixon, a black American History instructor whose
classes are held in Room 222.
An idealist, Pete instilled his students with gentle lessons in
tolerance and understanding.
The students loved him for his easygoing manner and willingness
to side with them when he knew they were being short-changed by
the system.
Seymour Kaufman was the cool, slightly sarcastic principal, Liz
McIntyre Pete's girlfriend and school counsellor, and Alice
Johnson an exuberant student teacher.
Many of the plotlines were based on the politics of the day,
while most of the episodes were timeless tales of teenage
angst.
Even though Room 222 was grounded in the era of peace
and love, it wasn't all hippy-dippy jive.
 
A lot of fundraising and authority-questioning went on at the
fictional Southern California campus, but there was always a
lesson learned with little or no preaching attached.
 There
was a cast of regular players in the multi-racial student body;
frizzy-haired Bernie, jive-talking Jason, girl-next-door Helen and
several others that were residents of Pete Dixon's homeroom over Room
222's four and a half seasons.
Guest students and staffers would join on a one-off basis to
add to the drama and keep the storylines fresh.
Some of the faces who passed through the hallowed halls of Walt
Whitman High as students were Cindy Williams, Teri Garr, Jamie
Farr, Rob Reiner, Richard Dreyfus, Chuck Norris, Kurt Russell, and
Mark Hamill.
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