Room 222
They Love Me, They Love Me Not
TV Flash files “They Love Me, They Love Me Not” as hour 65 of 112 in the TV Flash guide — Room 222 (1969–1974) on ABC, season 3, episode 13, aired 1971-12-17, 30 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E13: listed hour 65 of 112 in the Room 222 guide, hour 13 of 23 in season 3. It aired 1971-12-17 (30 min). The listed hour before it is “The Sins of the Father” (S03E12). Next is “The Fading of the Elegant Beast” (S03E14).
Viewer FAQ
Where does They Love Me, They Love Me Not sit in the Room 222 guide?
S03E13 is listed hour 65 of 112 — hour 13 of 23 in season 3, season 3 episode 13.
When did Room 222 S03E13 air?
They Love Me, They Love Me Not aired 1971-12-17 and is listed at 30 minutes.
Where should I start?
Pete Dixon's classroom with the integrated faculty/student mix is the assignment: Haynes, Nicholas, Constantine, Valentine. Comedy-drama, so a topical hour and a warmer character hour both count.
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Why this series still plays
Room 222 put an integrated Los Angeles high school on ABC and let race, the draft, and classroom politics sit inside a warm ensemble. Lloyd Haynes's Pete Dixon, Denise Nicholas, and Michael Constantine made 'relevance' feel like chalk, not a sermon. A comedy-drama hybrid that treated teenagers as citizens, not punchlines, right as the sixties turned.
An integrated Los Angeles high school on ABC, 1969, and the network night suddenly had chalk dust in it. Room 222 — James L. Brooks's comedy-drama through 1974, five seasons — let race, the draft, and classroom politics sit inside a warm ensemble. Lloyd Haynes's Pete Dixon, Denise Nicholas's Liz McIntyre, Michael Constantine's Seymour Kaufman, and Karen Valentine's Alice Johnson treated teenagers as citizens, not punchlines. History class at Walt Whitman High, humor and topical issues sharing the chalk.…
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- Lloyd Haynes as Pete Dixon
Lloyd Haynes taught the hour as Pete Dixon on Room 222 — an integrated Los Angeles high school on ABC, race and the draft inside a warm ensemble, relevance that felt like chalk instead of a sermon. Comedy-drama hybrid with actual…
- Denise Nicholas as Liz McIntyre
Denise Nicholas’s Liz McIntyre made Room 222 feel like chalk, not a sermon — integrated Los Angeles high school on ABC, race and the draft inside a warm ensemble, Lloyd Haynes’s Pete Dixon, Michael Constantine. Comedy-drama hybrid. TV…
- Michael Constantine as Seymour Kaufman
Michael Constantine’s Seymour Kaufman kept Room 222’s integrated Los Angeles high school from becoming a sermon with chalk — 1960s ABC comedy-drama hybrid, Lloyd Haynes’s Pete Dixon, Denise Nicholas, race and the draft sitting inside a…
- Karen Valentine as Alice Johnson
Karen Valentine’s Alice Johnson made Room 222 a classroom with a pulse — an integrated Los Angeles high school on ABC, race, the draft, and classroom politics inside a warm ensemble. Lloyd Haynes’s Pete Dixon, Denise Nicholas, Michael…