Room 222 (1969)

Genre

comedy drama

Country

United States

Length

5 seasons, 113 episodes

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 19 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

The show follows a high school history teacher and his students in an integrated Los Angeles school. It mixes comedy with serious social topics from the late 1960s and early 1970s.

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What happens

Room 222 is an American comedy-drama television series created by James L. Brooks and produced by 20th Century Fox Television that originally aired on ABC from September 17, 1969, to January 11, 1974, for 112 episodes (plus one that never aired). The show's ensemble cast, starring Lloyd Haynes, Denise Nicholas, Michael Constantine, and Karen Valentine, is centered around the American history class in Room 222 at a fictional racially-integrated high school in Los Angeles. It was one of the first half-hour American TV shows that dealt with serious contemporary social issues. In 1970, Room 222 earned the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Series, while Constantine and Valentine won for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series and Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series, respectively. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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