Head of the Class
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Oct 7, 2026
JamieHOST
Speaking of head-to-head competition, Wednesday nights in 1988 were a huge night for primetime TV.
JamieHOST
On ABC, you had the previously mentioned Growing Pains and also Head of the Class and The Wonder Years.
JamieHOST
CBS had shows like The Equalizer and Jake and the Fat Man.
JamieHOST
And NBC had Night Court, which was led into by Unsolved Mysteries.
Malik YobaGUEST
Um, y- our lives changed immediately from day one.
Malik YobaGUEST
People see us, they recognized him from, you know, Beat, uh, Beat, uh, Beat the Video and, uh, Head of the Class.
Malik YobaGUEST
Maybe a couple of people knew me from Cool Runnings, but not many people knew me.
Malik YobaGUEST
And we show up to work the next day after the show aired.
SeanHOST
[laughs] Fucking weird, and I'm gonna tell you this right-
AlilHOST
Well, I, I, you, you guys have to d- you know, make sure I'm not crazy, but, like, the, the dude from Head of the Class, like, his artwork was terrible.
AlilHOST
Like-
SeanHOST
Awful.
AlilHOST
Yeah, I know.
SeanHOST
Yeah.
AlilHOST
Well, it was, they were buddies on Head of the Class.
SeanHOST
Yes, they were.
JakeHOST
Was there ever a TV show with a teacher that you...
JakeHOST
We had Head of the Class.
JakeHOST
We had Saved by the Bell.
JakeHOST
We had a lot of class.
JakeHOST
But we had, I feel like, an overload.
JakeHOST
We had Howard Hessman.
JakeHOST
He was on Save by the, I'm sorry, Head of the Class.
JakeHOST
I'm trying to think of him.
BubbawheatHOST
But he actually has a ton of like small TV roles.
BubbawheatHOST
You know, he's he was in an episode of 21 Jump Street, four episodes of Dallas, you know, Head of the Class, Freddy's Nightmares, Growing Pains.
BubbawheatHOST
30 something um and yeah kind of his six episodes of glory days which i've never heard of uh and then yeah right
Robert SmithGUEST
you had me to glory days i have no idea what that one is uh
Jason HarrisHOST
TV shows over there.
Jason HarrisHOST
And he was Dennis on Head of the Class.
Jason HarrisHOST
He created The Amanda Show, Drake and Josh, iCarly, and Zoey 101.
Jason HarrisHOST
That's really what you wanted me to say, right?
Kliph NesteroffGUEST
When you'd watch the Flintstones and the Jetsons talk, they would have a laugh track, which made no sense, you know, when I was growing up.
Kliph NesteroffGUEST
And sitcoms that, like Head of the Class, they'd open up with Howard Hessman saying, Head of the Class is taped in front of a live studio audience.
Kliph NesteroffGUEST
Or the Mary Tyler Moore shows taped in front of a live studio audience.
Kliph NesteroffGUEST
So I just assumed, okay, the Flintstones has a laugh track.
DeeptiHOST
If you don't know what we're talking about, there was a documentary on HBO about Nickelodeon.
DeeptiHOST
And the guy from Head of the Class, he ran all these shows.
DeeptiHOST
Was he the showrunner? He was a
SeanHOST
creator.
Ismael LlanoHOST
Okay.
Darian BorgesHOST
In my mind, the classroom of Mr. Cotto, which was in the 70s, was the same classroom of head of the class.
Ismael LlanoHOST
Yeah.
Ismael LlanoHOST
It's the same school.
JoshHOST
Oh, another one, a show I loved.
JoshHOST
Head of the Class debuted, centered on a group of gifted high school students and their teacher.
JoshHOST
Another one, Perfect Strangers debuted in 1986-
DaveHOST
Oh, yeah
JoshHOST
You never heard of Perfect Strangers?
Baba LouieHOST
No.
Baba LouieHOST
Or Designing Women or Head of the Class.
JoshHOST
[laughs] Were you allowed to watch TV or were you, like, chained to your bed or something like that?
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