The Education of Max Bickford
(2001)
Originaltitel: The Education of Max Bickford
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Release: 2001-09-01
TV-bolag: CBS
Längd per avsnitt: 60 min min
Status: AVSLUTAD
Academy Award winner Richard Dreyfuss stars along side Academy Award winning actress Marcia Gay Harden, Golden Globe winner Regina Taylor, veteran actress Helen Shaver and actress Katee Sackhoff in this CBS series. Dreyfuss stars as Max Bickford, a college professor facing a turning point in his life after being passed over for what he feels is a long-overdue promotion. Taking a much-needed inventory of his life, Max looks around and sees that he has been working forever, and for... (TheTVDB)
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Pilot
2001-09-23
Pilot
2001-09-23
An abrasive yet impassioned college professior goes through a midlife crisis.
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Herding Cats
2001-09-30
Herding Cats
2001-09-30
As Max juggles various duties associated with being department chair,the Dean attempts to lighten Maxs heavy course load by ordering him to teach a class with Andrea. In other developments, Max ajusts to a pushy new assistant; Nell has trouble relating to her roommate; and the board considers...
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Who Is Breckenridge Long?
2001-10-14
Who Is Breckenridge...
2001-10-14
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 prevent Jewish refugees from landing safely in the United States as they fled from Nazi Germany. This issue is very...
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Hearts and Minds
2001-10-21
Hearts and Minds
2001-10-21
Theo, Maxs 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 Nells behavior, Max accuses Nell of spending too much time at band practice, which is why her grades have suffered. When Nells...
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In The Details
2001-10-28
In The Details
2001-10-28
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 in himself, Max, who has long questioned the existence of God, is surprised by and ambivalent about Lesters sudden...
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Do It Yourself
2001-11-11
Do It Yourself
2001-11-11
Max is jealous when his son, Lester, seems to prefer spending time with his new friends fun, active fireman father, and Andrea is surprised and angry to learn that some of her students plagiarized on an assignment.
Less-than-handy Max is further disappointed when Lester isnt excited about helping...
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Revisionism
2001-11-18
Revisionism
2001-11-18
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, Murphy Brown) and Boyd Gaines (Tony Award winner, Contact, The Heidi Chronicles and She Loves Me) guest star.
Max must...
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A Very Great Man
2001-12-02
A Very Great Man
2001-12-02
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 Chadwicks mother/daughter weekend heightens Nells feelings of loss regarding her late mother.
Historical figure Daniel Ellsberg makes a...
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Its Not The Wrapping, Its The Candy
2001-12-09
Its Not The...
2001-12-09
One of Andreas students turns out to be emotionally disturbed, although Andrea doesnt realize it at first.
Andrea feels blindsided -- and partially responsible -- when she misses the tell-tale signs that her student is on the verge of a self-destructive episode.
Meanwhile, Erica is forced to reveal...
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The Good, The Bad And The Lawyers
2002-01-06
The Good, The Bad...
2002-01-06
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 financial risk for lowering Jennifer Redgates grade after she demanded that he change her B+ to an A, an angry Judith...
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Save The Country
2002-01-13
Save The Country
2002-01-13
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. Although he wants to applaud Anitas convictions, Maxs fatherly instincts make him hope that shell change her mind -...
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The Cost Of Living
2002-01-20
The Cost Of Living
2002-01-20
Nell dates a college Professor. Josh may lose his job because he sees one of his students
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I Never Schlunged My Father
2002-01-27
I Never Schlunged...
2002-01-27
Max needs to get a healthy lifestyle after learning that his dad is dying
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Money Changes Everthing
2002-02-24
Money Changes...
2002-02-24
Max gives a wealthy woman Kathryn Cahill the wrong Idea when she gives a donation to Chadwick.
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Genesis
2002-03-03
Genesis
2002-03-03
Jay Bickford feels his time has come and later sneaks out of the hospital. Andreas Mom comes back into her life.
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An Open Book
2002-03-10
An Open Book
2002-03-10
Max finishes his novel but a protest breaks out when some people find themselves in characters from the book.
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Past, Present, Future
2002-03-17
Past, Present,...
2002-03-17
Max joins a city planning committee that considers wether to build a mall on a histortic site. His vote decides it.
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Murder of the First
2002-03-31
Murder of the First
2002-03-31
Max finds out Nell can be as forceful as he can be whey they fight over wether Doyle Dumont can speak at Chdwick.
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The Bad Girl
2002-04-14
The Bad Girl
2002-04-14
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.
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The Egg And I
2002-04-21
The Egg And I
2002-04-21
A literary agent, impressed with the manuscript of Maxs novel, wants to remake him into her image of a best-selling author.
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One More Time
2002-05-12
One More Time
2002-05-12
An old friend who is a famous dean at Harvard comes to visit Max to ask him to join the faculty there. Meanwhile, Maxs ailing father decides to re-marry, to a younger non-Jewish woman, which upsets Maxs sister.
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The Pursuit of Happiness
2002-06-02
The Pursuit of...
2002-06-02
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 cant forgive him. Nell decides to pawn her guitar so that she can join an expensive music education program.