About this season
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)
1. Message From the Tin Room
Aired 18 September 1963 • 60 min
2. Exercise in a Shark Tank Sept
Aired 25 September 1963 • 60 min
3. An Obelisk for Benny
Aired 2 October 1963 • 60 min
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.
4. No Wild Games for Sophie
Aired 9 October 1963 • 60 min
5. Dragon in the Den
Aired 23 October 1963 • 60 min
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.
6. Potato Bash World
Aired 30 October 1963 • 60 min
7. Collision Course
Aired 6 November 1963 • 60 min
8. A Patron Saint for the Cargo Cult
Aired 13 November 1963 • 60 min
9. A Window on the War
Aired 27 November 1963 • 60 min
10. A Doll's House with Pompoms and Trophies
Aired 4 December 1963 • 60 min
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.
11. Beyond His Reach
Aired 11 December 1963 • 60 min
12. The Last Testament of Buddy Crown
Aired 18 December 1963 • 60 min
13. A Hall Full of Strangers
Aired 25 December 1963 • 60 min
14. Memory of a Firing Squad
Aired 1 January 1964 • 60 min
15. A Rich, Famous, Glamorous Folk Singer Like Me
Aired 8 January 1964 • 60 min
16. Swing for the Moon
Aired 15 January 1964 • 60 min
17. Another Kind of Music
Aired 22 January 1964 • 60 min
18. Ou Sont Les Neiges...?
Aired 12 February 1964 • 60 min
19. The Face in the Sun
Aired 19 February 1964 • 60 min
20. A Claim to Immortality
Aired 26 February 1964 • 60 min
21. Freedom Is a Lovesome Thing God Wot
Aired 4 March 1964 • 60 min
22. The Trouble with Girls
Aired 11 March 1964 • 60 min
23. Wave Goodbye to Our Fair-haired Boy
Aired 18 March 1964 • 60 min
24. A Bang and a Whimper
Aired 25 March 1964 • 60 min
25. Christmas Day Is Breaking Wan
Aired 1 April 1964 • 60 min
26. My Son The All-American
Aired 8 April 1964 • 60 min