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Overview

Headmaster is an American half-hour television comedy-drama starring Andy Griffith and broadcast by CBS in the United States during the 1970-71 season.

Headmaster marked the return to series television of Griffith, whose previous eponymous show had been one of CBS's major hits of the 1960s prior to his voluntary departure and a program which was still in production, when Headmaster was launched. With Headmaster, Griffith fulfilled his desire to be cast in a television series as something other than a rural bumpkin dispensing folksy wisdom; here his character, Andy Thompson, was the headmaster of a prestigious Californian private school, the Concord School. His wife, Margaret, was an English teacher; his best friend was the school's main athletic coach, Jerry Brownell. Mr. Purdy was the school's caretaker.

Despite being aired in the Friday night 8:30 Eastern time slot vacated by the popular Hogan's Heroes, a theme song sung by Linda Ronstadt, and featuring arguably the biggest CBS star of the 1960s, Headmaster did not prove to be popular and was routinely beaten in the Nielsen ratings by both The Partridge Family on ABC and The Name of the Game on NBC. When this pattern became apparent, production of Headmaster was terminated, with the last first-run episode being broadcast January 1, 1971, and the program replaced by a new situation comedy starring Griffith, The New Andy Griffith Show. This replacement program met with little more success than Headmaster, and was last broadcast on May 21, 1971. In June 1971, Headmaster returned to the time slot in reruns, with the last repeat episode being aired on September 10, 1971.

  1. Aaron Ruben

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Andy Griffith as Andy Thompson

    Andy Griffith

    Andy Thompson

    13 Episodes

  2. Parker Fennelly as

    Parker Fennelly

    13 Episodes

  3. Jerry Van Dyke as

    Jerry Van Dyke

    13 Episodes

  4. Maureen Arthur as

    Maureen Arthur

    2 Episodes

  5. James Gregory as

    James Gregory

    1 Episode

  6. Jeff Corey as

    Jeff Corey

    1 Episode

  7. Ron Howard as

    Ron Howard

    1 Episode

  8. Mitch Vogel as

    Mitch Vogel

    1 Episode

  9. Herbie Faye as

    Herbie Faye

    1 Episode

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Last Season

Season 1

1970 • 13 Episodes

Season 1 of The Headmaster premiered on September 18, 1970.

Harvard or Bust

(1x13, December 18, 1970) Season Finale

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The Headmaster
The Headmaster

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Status Ended

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Type Scripted

Original Language English

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