Before breaking into movies, writer-producer-director James L. Brooks earned a reputation as a television wunderkind—a sort of small-screen version of the film-school brats taking over Hollywood on ...

Until last month, I had never seen an episode of “Room 222.” That may not seem like a major omission. There’s a good chance you’ve never even heard of the urban school series that ran on ABC from 1969 ...

Believability — that's one reason the high-school dramedy "Room 222" became an Emmy magnet and stayed on the air for five seasons. It's something Karen Valentine brought to the role of naive, perky ...

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Reading native Michael Constantine, an actor best known for his Emmy-winning role as high school principal Seymour Kaufman in the TV series “Room 222” from 1969 to 1974 and his portrayal of Kostas ...

The campus setting for “Room 222” was in a “Glee”-free zone, far from the “90210” ZIP Code. The classic comedy-drama, which revolved around fictional Walt Whitman High School, premiered in 1969 ...

Focusing on a Southern California American history class at racially diverse fictional Walt Whitman High School. African-American 11th grade history teacher Pete Dixon (Lloyd Haynes) promotes ...

Until last month, I had never seen an episode of "Room 222." That may not seem like a major omission. There's a good chance you've never even heard of the urban school series that ran on ABC from 1969 ...