I caught a handful of old Room 222 episodes. I don't really remember the show from my childhood, other than its existence and the theme song. It really was ahead of its time, for series television, breaking ground that subsequent shows would be more famous for developing.
It's a very different thing from To Sir, With Love, but the influence is obvious.
You still have to deal with a bit of a cheese factor, dated references, and 20-to-30-year-old teenagers, but it remains watchable.
I enjoyed the episodes that I saw of Room 222 in its original run. The timing was bad. It started while I was in Vietnam and continued into the early part of my career in County elections (many days working late). Wikipedia tells me that VHS recording wasn’t even invented until after the show was over, so I wasn’t able to record any of it.
The 20–30-year-old actors are a fact for 99% of shows. Not only are they more experienced actors but, not being legally underage, they can work more flexibly.
P.S.:To Sir, With Love is one of my favorite movies.
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisApril 2, 2025 at 7:21pm
I wrote a review of the novel, movie, and song back in 2007. Sorry about the ads interrupting it.
One of the things that changes between the novel/memoir is the historical context. The written Sir teaches in the post-war world. The neighbourhood retains damage from the Blitz and many of the kids have fathers or other family members who died in the war. The movie version embraces its 1967 setting.
To Sir, With Love (review) by JD - Everything2.com
The crowded red double-decker bus inched its way through the snarl of traffic in Aldgate. It was almost as if it was reluctant to get rid of the over…
JD DeLuzio > Richard WillisApril 2, 2025 at 7:19pm
I know why they do it, but I spent a significant part of my life working with young people and it looks stupid!
Also, Degrassi always used real teens. I was amused when one of the later-generation Degrassi girls, Shanae Grimes, went through high school on the show, graduated, I think reappeared as a recent graduate-- and then got a job on an American TV show playing a young high school student.
After spent two days writing (with some breaks to post) and completing a draft, I decided to finally start watching the new Daredevil series. I like the way it maintains the darker and more mature (these things being both present, not synonymous) tone of the original Netflix series, while incorporating a few more references to the greater MCU than the original series. The Netflix shows (now in the hands of Disney and official MCU-dom) only ever hinted at the MCU, though events in the first Avengers movies shaped the New York of Daredevil, the Jessica Jones series expressly references the widespread existence of superhumans, and various series contained brief Easter Eggs referencing Stark Industries and, oddly, the events of The Incredible Hulk.
To my knowledge, only the Daredevil characters have appeared in other MCU productions, once Disney regained the rights (specifically, She-Hulk, Echo,Spider-man, Hawkeye. Any others that anyone knows of?).
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I caught a handful of old Room 222 episodes. I don't really remember the show from my childhood, other than its existence and the theme song. It really was ahead of its time, for series television, breaking ground that subsequent shows would be more famous for developing.
It's a very different thing from To Sir, With Love, but the influence is obvious.
You still have to deal with a bit of a cheese factor, dated references, and 20-to-30-year-old teenagers, but it remains watchable.
I enjoyed the episodes that I saw of Room 222 in its original run. The timing was bad. It started while I was in Vietnam and continued into the early part of my career in County elections (many days working late). Wikipedia tells me that VHS recording wasn’t even invented until after the show was over, so I wasn’t able to record any of it.
The 20–30-year-old actors are a fact for 99% of shows. Not only are they more experienced actors but, not being legally underage, they can work more flexibly.
P.S.:To Sir, With Love is one of my favorite movies.
I wrote a review of the novel, movie, and song back in 2007. Sorry about the ads interrupting it.
One of the things that changes between the novel/memoir is the historical context. The written Sir teaches in the post-war world. The neighbourhood retains damage from the Blitz and many of the kids have fathers or other family members who died in the war. The movie version embraces its 1967 setting.
I know why they do it, but I spent a significant part of my life working with young people and it looks stupid!
Also, Degrassi always used real teens. I was amused when one of the later-generation Degrassi girls, Shanae Grimes, went through high school on the show, graduated, I think reappeared as a recent graduate-- and then got a job on an American TV show playing a young high school student.
Many of the Sir teens were played by... teens.
Wall to wall coverage of the stormy weather
Ella.
After spent two days writing (with some breaks to post) and completing a draft, I decided to finally start watching the new Daredevil series. I like the way it maintains the darker and more mature (these things being both present, not synonymous) tone of the original Netflix series, while incorporating a few more references to the greater MCU than the original series. The Netflix shows (now in the hands of Disney and official MCU-dom) only ever hinted at the MCU, though events in the first Avengers movies shaped the New York of Daredevil, the Jessica Jones series expressly references the widespread existence of superhumans, and various series contained brief Easter Eggs referencing Stark Industries and, oddly, the events of The Incredible Hulk.
To my knowledge, only the Daredevil characters have appeared in other MCU productions, once Disney regained the rights (specifically, She-Hulk, Echo,Spider-man, Hawkeye. Any others that anyone knows of?).
"THE ROBOT REVOLUTION": The first episode of the new season series of Doctor Who.
How is it? We never finished the previous season.
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