Channing
Season 1
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Network: ABC
Season aired: 1963-09-18
Overview
Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives. Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak.
Episodes · 26
Message From the Tin Room
Exercise in a Shark Tank Sept
An Obelisk for Benny
A freshman who is better at partying and flirting with trouble takes a job to help a wheelchair bound paraplegic. It's a definite mismatch as he is sullen and diffident. The two over time learn from each other.
No Wild Games for Sophie
Dragon in the Den
A Channing alumnus, running for State's Attorney on a "throw the rascals out" platform, discover his campaign manager is using dirty tricks to get him elected.
Potato Bash World
Collision Course
A Patron Saint for the Cargo Cult
A Window on the War
A Doll's House with Pompoms and Trophies
One of Channing's oldest students is Don Burroughs, who's nearly thirty and never graduates. He and his wife and child live on her salary as the Dean's secretary, but he can't keep a job either. He seems like a charming eternal boy, always forgiven, but deep inside, he resents it.
Beyond His Reach
The Last Testament of Buddy Crown
A Hall Full of Strangers
Memory of a Firing Squad
A Rich, Famous, Glamorous Folk Singer Like Me
Swing for the Moon
Another Kind of Music
Ou Sont Les Neiges...?
The Face in the Sun
A Claim to Immortality
Freedom Is a Lovesome Thing God Wot
The Trouble with Girls
Wave Goodbye to Our Fair-haired Boy
A Bang and a Whimper
