Season 5 (1973)

1. I've Got the Hammer, If You've Got the Thumb

2. Of Smoke-Filled Rooms

One of the students decides to run for a seat on the Board of Education.

3. Can Nun Be One Too Many?

Mr. Kaufman falls for a teacher who was once a nun.

4. No Island is an Island

Liz and Pete try to help a Mexican boy who is too proud to ask for some needed help.

5. Twenty-Five Words or Less

Herbie likes to enter contests.

6. Pete's Protege

7. Love is a Many Splintered Thing

Alice falls for the widowed father of one of her students.

8. Pi in the Sky

A math genius reprograms the school's computer in order to get needed school supplies.

9. Mismatch Maker

Alice finds herself in the middle when she encourages a student to become a poet despite his father's wish that he enter his real estate business.

10. Here's to the Boy Most Likely

A student turns to alcohol in order to escape from the building pressures at home and at school.

11. El Greco to Jason

Jason falls in love and decides to quit school in order to get married.

12. MPG

The Walt Whitman auto shop enters a car in a contest to see which vehicle gets the most miles per gallon. The actual race is unbearably slow, with each car conserving energy, and the scenes of Mr. Kaufman, Mr. Dixon, et al, trying to stay awake in the bleachers are hilarious. Thanks to Oriole Adams for suppyling this synopsis.

13. I Didn't Raise My Girl to Be a Soldier

Problems arise when a girl decides to join the Army ROTC in order to become a doctor against the wishes of her father.

14. Cry, Uncle

15. Jason and Big Mo