Salute to TV’s HS Teachers

In this back-to-school episode of Advanced TV Herstory, host Cynthia Bemis Abrams scans the decades of TV sitcoms and dramas that prominently featured a classroom setting. She discovered and relates extraordinary performances, positive messaging & quirky style from such unforgettable characters and series like Viola Davis’ Annalise Keating in How to Get Away With Murder and actor Hayley Mills as Miss Bliss in the forgotten Good Morning, Miss Bliss. Room 222.

For most of the 20th century, teaching was considered a respectable career for a woman, at least until she married or became pregnant. Television network attempts to appeal to school-aged viewers only occasionally presented quality dramas and comedies set in high schools. Room 222, which aired 1969-1974 remains a time capsule classic.

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