Sunday, November 5, 2023

Getting schooled: Sometimes, father doesn't know best (Room 222, 1974)

 From season 5 of Room 222:

A student (Tannis G. Montgomery) wants to go to medical school, and sees ROTC as a means of getting a scholarship, over the objections of her father (special guest star Ralph Meeker). Richard Bull, a few months before Little House on The Prairie, plays a ROTC officer.


You will notice that William P. D'Angelo was added as a showrunner beginning in season 4. Jerry Goldsmith's jazzy score was needlessly altered in the final 2 seasons. Only one more episode aired, though another was ready to go, before ABC pulled the plug at the end of January 1974.

Later that same year, Happy Days also did an episode about the ROTC, but more for laughs.

Rating: A.

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