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29 November 1988 (USA)
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Kevin Keegan is a recently divorced TV news photographer who quits his job and returns to Roosevelt...
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Imaginative late 80's teen drama.
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(Series Cast Summary - 13 of 35) | Sam Robards | ... | Kevin Keegan (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
 | Brynn Thayer | ... | Emilie Walker (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
 | Leon Russom | ... | Principal Edward Steadman (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Andrew Cassese | ... | Sherman Fischer (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
 | Stacey Dash | ... | Monique (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
 | Alex Désert | ... | Holden Hines (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Stewart Goddard | ... | Marty Voight (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
 | Matt LeBlanc | ... | Chuck Bender (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
 | Teri Polo | ... | Amanda Hampton (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Monique Salcido | ... | Angela Hernandez (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Mary B. Ward | ... | Penny Lipton (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
| Andrew White | ... | Vance Checker (13 episodes, 1988-1989) |
 | Matt Dearborn | ... | Skip the Janitor (6 episodes, 1988-1989) |
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Lasted less than one season.
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TV 101 stood out from many of its contemporaries as an intelligent, culturally aware, and hip document of teenage life in the 80's. Sam Robards played Kevin Keegan, a journalist who returns to his Californian alma mater to teach an unusual journalism class: a class based around a weekly student-produced TV show. The students are what made the show: instead of the usual "cookie-cutter" thirty-year-olds playing Middle American high-school types of say "Saved By The Bell" or "90210", this show's characters were smart, stylish, ethnically diverse, and intellectually, technologically, and morally aware; not afraid to "face the issues" in their reporting, sort of a teenaged "Lou Grant", with cutting edge home video equipment. Especially interesting to me was "Holden Heinz" (Alex Désert, lately of the show "Becker"), the scooter-riding 'mod' African American student: he was an archetype of myself and my friends at the time: we liked him even though he wasn't quite as cutting-edge as we were. Also notable was Matt LeBlanc of "Friends" as "Bender". The only other kid from the series I've seen lately was Stacey Dash doing the old Thirty-Year-Old-Playing-A-Teenager thing in "Clueless".To top it all of the show's theme was written by composer Stewart Copeland, best known as the drummer for 80's #1 hitmakers "The Police. Alas, the show lasted only one season: I guess the masses couldn't relate to a cast that ethnically varied and cool. Hell, they still can't.