List of episodes of the series «Mr. Novak»

First year,First Day

• Episode number: 1
• Episode description:
  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.

To Lodge and Dislodge

• Episode number: 2
• Episode description:
  Julie Dean, a blind student at Jefferson High, develops a crush on Mr. Novak.

I Don`t Even Live Here

• Episode number: 3
• Episode description:
  When Mr. Otis was conducting the English class, all the students were raking in As - but Novak can't seem to get the same caliber of work out of them.

X is the Unknown Factor

• Episode number: 4
• Episode description:
  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.

A Single Isolated Incident

• Episode number: 5
• Episode description:
  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.

The Risk

• Episode number: 6
• Episode description:
  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.

Hello Miss Phipps

• Episode number: 7
• Episode description:
  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.

To Break a Camel's Back

• Episode number: 8
• Episode description:
  Novak clashes with Holly Metcalfe, a rebellious senior who doesn't like to follow rules.

A Feeling for Friday

• Episode number: 9
• Episode description:
  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.

Pay the Two Dollars

• Episode number: 10
• Episode description:
  A father holds Novak responsible for roughing up his son. It all happened when Novak broke up some student horseplay.

Love in the Wrong Season

• Episode number: 11
• Episode description:
  Novak, who's dating a teacher, has some competition from one of her students.

The Boy Without A Country

• Episode number: 12
• Episode description:
  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.

A Thousand Voices

• Episode number: 13
• Episode description:
  Novak defends the members of an off-campus car club, who have run into trouble.

My Name is not Legion

• Episode number: 14
• Episode description:
  Novak is interested in Arnold Frazer, a new student who shows signs of brilliance and trouble adjusting to school life.

He who can Does

• Episode number: 15
• Episode description:
  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.

Song of Songs

• Episode number: 16
• Episode description:
  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.

The Exile

• Episode number: 17
• Episode description:
  Charlie Payne, who dropped out three years ago, now has nothing better to do than spend his time hanging around the school grounds.

Sparrow on the Wire

• Episode number: 18
• Episode description:
  A member of Novak's debating club makes some anti-Semitic remarks during an intra-squad debate.

The Private Life of Douglas Morgan Jr.

• Episode number: 19
• Episode description:
  Campus clown Doug Morgan decides he can attract attention - and get excused from compulsory ROTC classes - by claiming to be a conscientious objector.

Death of a Teacher

• Episode number: 20
• Episode description:
  The death of a teacher brings forth a variety of reactions and emotions from the students and faculty at Jefferson High.

I`m on the Outside

• Episode number: 21
• Episode description:
  A student named Steve Acero tells Principal Vane that Mr. Novak is prejudiced against him because he is of Mexican extraction.

Chin Up, Mr. Novak

• Episode number: 22
• Episode description:
  Novak's having problems with a literature class - until it's taken over by Margaret Mumsley, a 75-year old exchange teacher from England.

Fear is a Handful of Dust

• Episode number: 23
• Episode description:
  Novak tries to help shy, introverted Sue Johnson by encouraging her to develop her talent for caricature.

How Does Your Garden Grow?

• Episode number: 24
• Episode description:
  An inexperienced and frightened substitute teacher has trouble with her first class at Jefferson High.

The Tower

• Episode number: 25
• Episode description:
  After numerous complaints that an elderly geometry instructor is no longer an effective teacher, Vane is forced to retire her.

One Way to Say Goodbye

• Episode number: 26
• Episode description:
  Novak finds himself attracted to Jenny Peterson, a former Jefferson High student.

Day in the Year

• Episode number: 27
• Episode description:
  A girl in Novak's homeroom collapses from an overdose of narcotics.

Moment Without Armor

• Episode number: 28
• Episode description:
  School grounds are quiet in the evening, and darkness was the accomplice of the unknown assailant who attacked assistant principal Jeanne Pagano.

Fare Thee Well

• Episode number: 29
• Episode description:
  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.

Senior Prom

• Episode number: 30
• Episode description:
  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.