The Headmaster
Headmaster is an American half-hour television comedy-drama starring Andy Griffith and broadcast by CBS in the United States during the 1970-71 season.
Headmaster marked the return to series television of Griffith, whose previous eponymous show had been one of CBS's major hits of the 1960s prior to his voluntary departure and a program which was still in production, when Headmaster was launched. With Headmaster, Griffith fulfilled his desire to be cast in a television series as something other than a rural bumpkin dispensing folksy wisdom; here his character, Andy Thompson, was the headmaster of a prestigious Californian private school, the Concord School. His wife, Margaret, was an English teacher; his best friend was the school's main athletic coach, Jerry Brownell. Mr. Purdy was the school's caretaker.
Despite being aired in the Friday night 8:30 Eastern time slot vacated by the popular Hogan's Heroes, a theme song sung by Linda Ronstadt, and featuring arguably the biggest CBS star of the 1960s, Headmaster did not prove to be popular and was routinely beaten in the Nielsen ratings by both The Partridge Family on ABC and The Name of the Game on NBC. When this pattern became apparent, production of Headmaster was terminated, with the last first-run episode being broadcast January 1, 1971, and the program replaced by a new situation comedy starring Griffith, The New Andy Griffith Show. This replacement program met with little more success than Headmaster, and was last broadcast on May 21, 1971. In June 1971, Headmaster returned to the time slot in reruns, with the last repeat episode being aired on September 10, 1971.
Year: 1970
Country:
Studio: CBS
Director: Aaron Ruben
Cast: Andy Griffith, Parker Fennelly, Jerry Van Dyke
Crew:
First Air Date: Sep 18, 1970
Last Air date: Dec 18, 1970
Season: 1 Season
Episode: 13 Episode
Runtime: 30 minutes
IMDb: 0.00/10 by 0.00 users
Popularity: 4.373
Language: English
Season
Season 1
Episode
May I Turn On?
Battle of the Mini
Valerie Has an Emotional Gestalt for the Teacher
Bridge That Gap
One for the Gipper
Will the Real Mother of Tony Landis Please Stand Up?
The Experiment
Romeo & Juliet and Gary & Hillary
Bach Rock
Let's Try It Mr. Hiller's Way
Nobody's Perfect
Count the Ways I Love You
Harvard or Bust