September 23, 2001
An abrasive yet impassioned college professior goes through a midlife crisis.
September 30, 2001
As Max juggles various duties associated with being department chair,the Dean attempts to lighten Max's heavy course load by order...Read more
October 14, 2001
A well-meaning student committee has voted to honor an elderly alumnus who was a former policy aide to Senator Breckenridge Long. ...Read more
October 21, 2001
Theo, Max's dream student, prepares to do his thesis on the Vietnam War. When Theo approaches Andrea Haskell to be his thesis advi...Read more
October 28, 2001
Max is worried about his own resolve when his sponsor, who had seemed to be the model of self-control, ends up falling off the wag...Read more
November 11, 2001
Max is jealous when his son, Lester, seems to prefer spending time with his new friend's fun, active fireman father, and Andrea is...Read more
November 18, 2001
Max and Judith are shocked to learn that their college friend from Berkeley has long publicly misrepresented her role in the Civil...Read more
December 2, 2001
A student with extremely conservative political beliefs brings up charges against Andrea for the liberal bias she believes Andrea ...Read more
December 9, 2001
One of Andrea's students turns out to be emotionally disturbed, although Andrea doesn't realize it at first. Andrea feels blindsi...Read more
January 6, 2002
A wealthy student (whose character and grade dispute was featured in the series pilot) hires a top law firm in order to sue Max ov...Read more
January 13, 2002
Max is conflicted when his lecture on activism inspires a gifted student who was planning to get her doctorate choose instead to g...Read more
January 20, 2002
Nell dates a college Professor. Josh may lose his job because he sees one of his students
January 27, 2002
Max needs to get a healthy lifestyle after learning that his dad is dying
February 24, 2002
Max gives a wealthy woman Kathryn Cahill the wrong Idea when she gives a donation to Chadwick.
March 3, 2002
Jay Bickford feels his time has come and later sneaks out of the hospital. Andrea's Mom comes back into her life.
March 10, 2002
Max finishes his novel but a protest breaks out when some people find themselves in characters from the book.
March 17, 2002
Max joins a city planning committee that considers wether to build a mall on a histortic site. His vote decides it.
March 31, 2002
Max finds out Nell can be as forceful as he can be whey they fight over wether Doyle Dumont can speak at Chdwick.
April 14, 2002
Love is in the air Lester fall in love with a Girl who tries to get him to smoke Andrea falls in love with a tv prodecer.
April 21, 2002
A literary agent, impressed with the manuscript of Max's novel, wants to remake him into her image of a best-selling author.
May 12, 2002
An old friend who is a famous dean at Harvard comes to visit Max to ask him to join the faculty there. Meanwhile, Max's ailing fa...Read more
June 2, 2002
On rejoining a weekly poker game, Max learns of something he did to one of the guys while still a drunk, for which the friend can'...Read more