The Education of Max Bickford

An abrasive yet impassioned college professior goes through a midlife crisis.

As Max juggles various duties associated with being department chair,the Dean attempts to lighten Max's heavy course load by ordering him to teach a class with Andrea. In other de...

A well-meaning student committee has voted to honor an elderly alumnus who was a former policy aide to Senator Breckenridge Long. Senator Breckenridge Long conspired long ago to pr...

Theo, Max's dream student, prepares to do his thesis on the Vietnam War. When Theo approaches Andrea Haskell to be his thesis advisor instead, Max feels rejected. Angry at Nell's...

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 wagon after 22 years. While struggling to have faith...

Max is jealous when his son, Lester, seems to prefer spending time with his new friend's fun, active fireman father, and Andrea is surprised and angry to learn that some of her stu...

Max and Judith are shocked to learn that their college friend from Berkeley has long publicly misrepresented her role in the Civil Rights movement. Jay Thomas (Emmy Award winner,...

A student with extremely conservative political beliefs brings up charges against Andrea for the liberal bias she believes Andrea has against her in class, and Chadwick's mother/da...

One of Andrea's students turns out to be emotionally disturbed, although Andrea doesn't realize it at first. Andrea feels blindsided -- and partially responsible -- when she misse...

A wealthy student (whose character and grade dispute was featured in the series pilot) hires a top law firm in order to sue Max over her lowered grade. Having put Chadwick at fina...

Max is conflicted when his lecture on activism inspires a gifted student who was planning to get her doctorate choose instead to go to Pakistan to teach refugee camp children. Alth...

Nell dates a college Professor. Josh may lose his job because he sees one of his students

Max needs to get a healthy lifestyle after learning that his dad is dying

Max gives a wealthy woman Kathryn Cahill the wrong Idea when she gives a donation to Chadwick.

Jay Bickford feels his time has come and later sneaks out of the hospital. Andrea's Mom comes back into her life.

Max finishes his novel but a protest breaks out when some people find themselves in characters from the book.

Max joins a city planning committee that considers wether to build a mall on a histortic site. His vote decides it.

Max finds out Nell can be as forceful as he can be whey they fight over wether Doyle Dumont can speak at Chdwick.

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.

A literary agent, impressed with the manuscript of Max's novel, wants to remake him into her image of a best-selling author.

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 father decides to re-marry, to a younger non-Jewish...

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't forgive him. Nell decides to pawn her guitar so...