This is a now-dated but realistic study of how a young high school student, played by Noreen Corcoran, tries to handle a pregnancy. The issue of pregnancy and furthering a girl's education, not to mention what and how to tell parents, is well-handled here. What happened to the girl in this episode was common if not the rule in high schools all over the United States pre-Title IX. Since the early 1970s, it is completely illegal to deny pregnant students an education, so this episode would not be made today.
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Maverick
(1957–1962)
This was NOT "The James Garner Show"
2 June 2014
Unlike most reviewers, I watched "Maverick" when I was a little girl and enjoyed it. However, many of the reviews distort what this series was about, thinking that because James Garner became a star as a result of it, he was the entire show, and that Jack Kelly wasn't any good, let alone Roger Moore. Garner definitely was NOT the whole show although he was obviously a world-class actor who was superior in his reaction to situations. The strength of the show was not with any particular actor- -it was in the writing. The writing was top-notch and clearly tongue- in-cheek. You don't see this type of writing in modern television programs. "Maverick" was the jewel of the crown of the great Warner Brothers westerns of the late 1950s.
Garner left in a contract dispute after the third season, but I have found the Kelly shows during the first three seasons and thereafter were just as good as any of the Garner episodes. I also enjoyed watching the Roger Moore episodes of the fourth season. When I was younger, I, like most of the reviewers, tended not to watch the episodes with Kelly and Moore and focused only on Garner. That was my loss, for these shows were consistently good no matter who the lead actor was.
I believe if you are going to review a television series that had rotating lead actors as this one had, you should watch the entire series, not pick out episodes because a particular actor is in it.
Garner left in a contract dispute after the third season, but I have found the Kelly shows during the first three seasons and thereafter were just as good as any of the Garner episodes. I also enjoyed watching the Roger Moore episodes of the fourth season. When I was younger, I, like most of the reviewers, tended not to watch the episodes with Kelly and Moore and focused only on Garner. That was my loss, for these shows were consistently good no matter who the lead actor was.
I believe if you are going to review a television series that had rotating lead actors as this one had, you should watch the entire series, not pick out episodes because a particular actor is in it.
Two-parter worst of the series
11 November 2013
Warning: Spoilers
This two-parter that concluded the series' four-year run is the worst by far of the series. It attempts to be a spoof of something, but it falls down flat. Unlike almost all of the other episodes, this one was downright painful to sit through, let alone for two parts.
There are guest stars including Barbara Eden, who Tod marries, and Chill Wills, but nothing can save this train wreck of an episode. I honestly don't know what the writers were thinking here.
This series is a 9- or 10-star show if one discards this awful conclusion. I should note Tod and Linc go their separate ways, Tod to marital happiness, I guess, and Linc to who knows where.
There are guest stars including Barbara Eden, who Tod marries, and Chill Wills, but nothing can save this train wreck of an episode. I honestly don't know what the writers were thinking here.
This series is a 9- or 10-star show if one discards this awful conclusion. I should note Tod and Linc go their separate ways, Tod to marital happiness, I guess, and Linc to who knows where.
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