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Head of the Class
1986 · TV series · 22 min episodes · 5 seasons
Created by Rich Eustis
Head of the Class is an American sitcom that ran from 1986 to 1991 on the ABC television network. The series follows a group of gifted students in the Individualized Honors Program at the fictional Monroe High School in Manhattan, and their history teacher Charlie Moore. The program was ostensibly a vehicle for Hesseman, best known for his role as radio DJ Dr. Johnny Fever in the sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Hesseman left Head of the Class in 1990 and was replaced by Billy Connolly as teacher Billy MacGregor for the final season. After the series ended, Connolly appeared in a short-lived spin-off titled Billy. The series was created and executive produced by Rich Eustis and Michael Elias. Rich Eustis had previously worked as a New York City substitute teacher while hoping to become an actor.
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If anything though the speed we are able to adapt is what is interesting.
In my own life I think of the sitcom "Head of the Class" as a kid. Basically, painted "nerds" and computer geeks as highly sexually undesirable. All signaling was that this is what not to do to get laid.
Didn't even take 25 years for that to essentially be reversed to the point of a computer geek being a type of peacock feather to flaunt and strut around.
IMO the point we are maladjusted for the environment we live in is highly overblown.
Does anyone else remember this from the pilot episode of "Head of the Class"?