Channing

📊 Series Specifications

Network ABC
Episode Runtime ~60 min
Total Seasons 1
Total Episodes 26
Original Language EN

Channing (1963)

⭐ 3.8 / 5 (2 votes) 🎬 1 Seasons 📼 26 Episodes 🏷️ Drama 📡 Ended
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Synopsis

Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives. Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak.

Seasons & Episodes

E1 Message From the Tin Room
E2 Exercise in a Shark Tank Sept
E3 An Obelisk for Benny

A freshman who is better at partying and flirting with trouble takes a job to help a wheelchair bound paraplegic. It's a definite mismatch as he is sullen and diffident. The two over time learn from each other.

E4 No Wild Games for Sophie
E5 Dragon in the Den

A Channing alumnus, running for State's Attorney on a "throw the rascals out" platform, discover his campaign manager is using dirty tricks to get him elected.

E6 Potato Bash World
E7 Collision Course
E8 A Patron Saint for the Cargo Cult
E9 A Window on the War
E10 A Doll's House with Pompoms and Trophies

One of Channing's oldest students is Don Burroughs, who's nearly thirty and never graduates. He and his wife and child live on her salary as the Dean's secretary, but he can't keep a job either. He seems like a charming eternal boy, always forgiven, but deep inside, he resents it.

E11 Beyond His Reach
E12 The Last Testament of Buddy Crown
E13 A Hall Full of Strangers
E14 Memory of a Firing Squad
E15 A Rich, Famous, Glamorous Folk Singer Like Me
E16 Swing for the Moon
E17 Another Kind of Music
E18 Ou Sont Les Neiges...?
E19 The Face in the Sun
E20 A Claim to Immortality
E21 Freedom Is a Lovesome Thing God Wot
E22 The Trouble with Girls
E23 Wave Goodbye to Our Fair-haired Boy
E24 A Bang and a Whimper
E25 Christmas Day Is Breaking Wan
E26 My Son The All-American