The Education of Max Bickford
TV-PG
7.1
2001
Drama
The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a college professor of American Studies at Chadwick College, an all-women's school in New Jersey. Also starring was child actor Eric Ian Goldberg, who portrayed the young Lester Bickford, Max's son. Max's colleagues included Marcia Gay Harden as Andrea Haskell, his former student who had recently joined the faculty, and Helen Shaver as his best friend Erica, previously known as Steve before her transition. Max's daughter Nell, played by Katee Sackhoff, attended the college.
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- Richard Dreyfuss , Marcia Gay Harden , Regina Taylor , Katee Sackhoff , Eric Ian Goldberg , Stephen Spinella , Bonnie Dennison
Episode 22 : The Pursuit of Happiness
June. 02,2002
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 that she can join an expensive music education program.
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Episode 21 : One More Time
May. 12,2002
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 woman, which upsets Max's sister.
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Episode 20 : The Egg And I
April. 21,2002
A literary agent, impressed with the manuscript of Max's novel, wants to remake him into her image of a best-selling author.
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Episode 19 : The Bad Girl
April. 14,2002
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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Episode 18 : Murder of the First
March. 31,2002
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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Episode 17 : Past, Present, Future
March. 17,2002
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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Episode 16 : An Open Book
March. 10,2002
Max finishes his novel but a protest breaks out when some people find themselves in characters from the book.
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Episode 15 : Genesis
March. 03,2002
Jay Bickford feels his time has come and later sneaks out of the hospital. Andrea's Mom comes back into her life.
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Episode 14 : Money Changes Everthing
February. 24,2002
Max gives a wealthy woman Kathryn Cahill the wrong Idea when she gives a donation to Chadwick.
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Episode 13 : I Never Schlunged My Father
January. 27,2002
Max needs to get a healthy lifestyle after learning that his dad is dying
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Episode 12 : The Cost Of Living
January. 20,2002
Nell dates a college Professor. Josh may lose his job because he sees one of his students
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Episode 9 : It's Not The Wrapping, It's The Candy
December. 09,2001
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 misses the tell-tale signs that her student is on the verge of a self-destructive episode.
Meanwhile, Erica is forced to reveal her new gender to an important person from her past, her ex-wife, and Max finds a way to make his daughter's academic dream come true.
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Episode 4 : Hearts and Minds
October. 21,2001
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 behavior, Max accuses Nell of spending too much time at band practice, which is why her grades have suffered. When Nell's band performs for the first time Max secretly shows up at the club to watch.
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Episode 2 : Herding Cats
September. 30,2001
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 developments, Max ajusts to a pushy new assistant; Nell has trouble relating to her roommate; and the board considers making the school coed.
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Episode 1 : Pilot
September. 23,2001
An abrasive yet impassioned college professior goes through a midlife crisis.
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