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Mr. Novak Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
30 Episodes 1963 - 1964
Episode 1
First Year, First Day
Tue, Sep 24, 196360 mins
A brilliant student with a good business - an auto body shop - wants to quit school. He challenges Novak to give him a good reason for continuing his education.
Episode 2
To Lodge and Dislodge
Tue, Oct 1, 196360 mins
Julie Dean, a blind student at Jefferson High, develops a crush on Mr. Novak.
Episode 3
I Don't Even Live Here
Tue, Oct 8, 196360 mins
Novak notices that the students coming to him from Mr. Otis' class are woefully unprepared, and to find out why he sits in on Otis' class. He discovers that Otis isn't really teaching the students--he's trying to win them over by keeping them entertained with a steady stream of jokes and wisecracks and not really teaching them anything. Even worse, Novak discovers that the students are passing the class because Otis is feeding them the answers to their tests. He sets out to bring Otis down.
Episode 4
X Is the Unknown Factor
Tue, Oct 15, 196360 mins
Mike Daniels is being considered for an important science scholarship, but he's having problems in Novak's literature class. Dr. Frank Baxter, TV educator, appears as Dr. Gagan.
Episode 5
A Single Isolated Incident
Tue, Oct 22, 196360 mins
A black student, Marcy Desmond, is violently accosted by a gang of youths who let her know that she's not welcome at Jefferson High.
Episode 6
The Risk
Tue, Oct 29, 196360 mins
Novak helps a former teacher and mentor obtain a position at the school. The instructor is a recovering alcoholic, while his much-younger wife is still afflicted with the disease.
Episode 7
Hello, Miss Phipps
Tue, Nov 5, 196360 mins
Maude Phipps, a teacher for some 40 years, is sharply outspoken and is the object of various complaints -- including those of irate parents who don't like the idea of her teaching social hygiene to their children.
Episode 8
To Break a Camel's Back
Tue, Nov 12, 196360 mins
Novak clashes with Holly Metcalfe, a rebellious senior who doesn't like to follow rules.
Episode 9
A Feeling for Friday
Tue, Nov 19, 196360 mins
It's a hectic Friday and Novak is very pleased to get an invitation to spend the weekend at his former sweetheart's family estate.
Episode 10
Pay the Two Dollars
Tue, Nov 26, 196360 mins
A student's arm is accidentally broken after Novak tries to stop a fight between him and two others. When the boy's father decides to sue Novak and the school, Novak decides to go to court rather than accept a settlement which he feels will be like an admission of guilt.
Episode 11
Love in the Wrong Season
Tue, Dec 3, 196360 mins
A sensitive, poetry-loving teenage boy has a crush on his pretty young remedial-reading teacher, with whom he shares a love of romantic stories and poems. Soon the teacher, who finds the company of men her own age to be unsatisfying, begins to develop the same kind of feelings for her student that he has for her.
Episode 12
The Boy Without a Country
Tue, Dec 10, 196360 mins
Novak and Vane prepare a hero's welcome for a new student, a Russian defector, who's quick to show that he's not easy to get along with.
Episode 13
A Thousand Voices
Tue, Dec 17, 196360 mins
Novak defends the members of an off-campus car club, who have run into trouble.
Episode 14
My Name Is Not Legion
Tue, Dec 24, 196360 mins
Novak is interested in Arnold Frazer, a new student who shows signs of brilliance and trouble adjusting to school life.
Episode 15
He Who Can, Does
Tue, Dec 31, 196360 mins
Novak invites a famous novelist to address the school's Literary Club - despite protests of Miss Pagano who feels that the writer's unorthodox views will be a bad influence.
Episode 16
The Song of Songs
Tue, Jan 7, 196460 mins
An overly strict father takes the school, and Mr. Novak to task, when he finds the subject matter read aloud in class by his daughter to be highly erotic.
Episode 17
The Exile
Tue, Jan 14, 196460 mins
Charlie Payne, who dropped out three years ago, now has nothing better to do than spend his time hanging around the school grounds.
Episode 18
Sparrow on the Wire
Tue, Jan 21, 196460 mins
A member of Novak's debating club makes some anti-Semitic remarks during an intra-squad debate.
Episode 19
The Private Life of Douglas Morgan Jr.
Tue, Jan 28, 196460 mins
Campus clown Doug Morgan decides he can attract attention - and get excused from compulsory ROTC classes - by claiming to be a conscientious objector.
Episode 20
The Death of a Teacher
Tue, Feb 4, 196460 mins
The death of a teacher brings forth a variety of reactions and emotions from the students and faculty at Jefferson High.
Episode 21
I'm on the Outside
Tue, Feb 11, 196460 mins
A student named Steve Acero tells Principal Vane that Mr. Novak is prejudiced against him because he is of Mexican extraction.
Episode 22
Chin Up, Mr. Novak
Tue, Feb 18, 196460 mins
Novak's having problems with a literature class - until it's taken over by Margaret Mumsley, a 75-year old exchange teacher from England.
Episode 23
Fear Is a Handful of Dust
Tue, Feb 25, 196460 mins
Novak tries to help shy, introverted Sue Johnson by encouraging her to develop her talent for caricature.
Episode 24
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Tue, Mar 3, 196460 mins
An inexperienced and frightened substitute teacher has trouble with her first class at Jefferson High.
Episode 25
The Tower
Tue, Mar 10, 196460 mins
After numerous complaints that an elderly geometry instructor is no longer an effective teacher, Vane is forced to retire her.
Episode 26
One Way to Say Goodbye
Tue, Mar 17, 196460 mins
Novak finds himself attracted to Jenny Peterson, a former Jefferson High student.
Episode 27
Day in the Year
Tue, Mar 24, 196460 mins
A girl in Novak's homeroom collapses from an overdose of narcotics.
Episode 28
Moment Without Armor
Tue, Mar 31, 196460 mins
School grounds are quiet in the evening, and darkness was the accomplice of the unknown assailant who attacked assistant principal Jeanne Pagano.
Episode 29
Fare Thee Well
Tue, Apr 7, 196460 mins
Miss Cathy Williams is going to become a mother, but she wants to graduate with her senior class and she doesn't want to tell her parents about her condition.
Episode 30
The Senior Prom
Tue, Apr 14, 196460 mins
The senior prom at Jefferson High is going to be a flop this year - unless student chairman Gail Andrews starts taking interest in the preparations.
