This show was actually in syndication for quite a while throughout the seventies. However they never seemed to surface after the eighties kicked in. It's a great time piece, making the ever popular "That Super70s show" look more like "Just another 90's show." Perhaps if I saw it now, I'd be bored senseless. The show was very mello dramatic, with a haunting opening theme that stays in your head for decades on end. Who can forget Karen Valentine (as one of the teachers) dropping her books in the hallway, then shaking her head in the opening credits. One episode I remeber in particular is when a teacher comes in who is a notorious drug addict, some knowing students twist up some pencil shavings into a fake joint. The teacher unable to resist temptation, takes it and is caught trying to light and smoke it on school grounds. The show was obviously a bad influence as I (only 8 or 9 years old)immeadiately twisted up my own hand made joint with pencil shavings and tried to smoke it with my friends only to find that it couldn't stay lit. Priceless.

--Bowls

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Room 222 was an excellent weekly drama. The authority figures on the show (Mr. Dixon, Ms. NcIntyre, etc.) were caring and dedicated educators. The show was always very relevant, and was never afraid to explore topics every week that spoke to the young generation that was in high school in the 60s and early Super70s.

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I was barely 5 years old when Room 222 first aired but I remember it like yesterday. I can't put my finger on it but it was one of those shows that me and 4 older siblings watched religiously. In hindsight, it was somewhat ahead of its time. It was a quality show, which is not surprising when you consider that 2 key creative minds behind the show, James L. Brooks and Gene Reynolds went on to work on highly successful sitcoms, Mary Tyler Moore Show and MASH respectively. I remember I had the biggest crush on Denise Nicholas. Everybody on the show was likeable; Michael Constantine, Lloyd Haynes, Karen Valentine and the numerous actors who played the students. The Room 222 theme is one of my all time favorite TV theme songs. In late Awesome80s or early 90's one of the local channels reran episode late at night and I often got up in the middle of the night to watch them. Very fond memories of the show. Even today, I think the show stands up well.

--Wychwood

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ROOM 222 wasn't a drama, nor was it a comedy. This show was more satirical which relived every serious issue known to most or all high schools nationwide ESPECIALLY during the Vietnam War era.

I used to watch this show on ABC Friday nights after THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY; that's when that night REALLY attracted a YOUNG audience. That's ABC for you when ROOM 222 was on the same night THE BRADY BUNCH was on. It was NOT only MARCIA! MARCIA! MARCIA! A lot of people were very fond and/or attracted to Alice Johnson (Karen Valentine), but I liked Liz McIntyre (Denise Nicholas) a tad better.

Denise Nicholas went on to have another hit show called IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT in the 90's. Unfortunately, Karen Valentine had her own show the following year after ROOM 222 was cancelled called KAREN only for that to be cancelled after 17 weeks in 1975.

Putting Karen Valentine on HOLLYWOOD SQUARES with Suzanne Pleshette sounds like a very vicarious situation with dangerous results. HMMM.

Today, Karen Valentine is working with a small theate group headed by Ruta Lee, and they recently did a play based on the Julia Roberts 1989 film STEEL MAGNOLIAS. Later this year will mark the 35th Anniversary of the highly forgotten ROOM 222, for this show became a precedence for other high school shows including the most recent BOSTON PUBLIC.

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