TITLE: The Triangle ORIGINAL AIRDATE: December 20, 1972 WRITER: Lionel E. Siegel DIRECTOR: Lee Philips
PROLOGUE: "When I was growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the Depression, many of the things we take for granted today, back then were luxuries - like going to school. Many boys my age had to quit school and find jobs to help support their families, but my father and mother were determined that each of their offspring would graduate from high school."
SYNOPSIS: John-Boy is writing an essay with the help of his teacher Miss Hunter to submit to a contest. Reverend Fordwich stops by the school and asks Rosemary if he could call on her that evening. Although he asks her to help with the upcoming church picnic, his real motive is to ask permission to court her. Never having made a fuss about her appearance or for dating her gets swept up in the excitement of having a new suitor. John-Boy on the other hand is disturbed by her new focus on Matthew Fordwich. Meanwhile Ben is fond of Naomi but he is feeling inferior to the bigger boys in school. He sends away to Chicago for a $0.62 body building manual to change from "a 97 pound weakling" to someone Naomi will notice. He practices he's strength exercises in the privacy of John-Boy's bedroom but Erin tries every method possible to learn what he has been hiding from the family. At the picnic, he enters the nail driving contest against Willy Dempster who he is competing for Naomi's attention. Ben loses the contest but wins the girl when she decides that she likes his red hair best.
QUESTIONS: Who was the person in the essay? Why didn't John Boy want to go to the church picnic?
EPILOGUE: "I was to know many teachers, but none so dedicated and gifted as Miss Rosemary Hunter. Even today I can feel her influence, for like any good teacher she left an indelible mark on my work, and on my life." –
MY THOUGHTS: Once again an episode that reminded me when I was growing up. I had a high school teacher who was very pretty and her name was Marjorie Carver. She ran the library when I was school. She was the one teacher who I could talk to about anything. I give this episode 8 weasel stars.
PROLOGUE: "When I was growing up in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in the Depression, many of the things we take for granted today, back then were luxuries - like going to school. Many boys my age had to quit school and find jobs to help support their families, but my father and mother were determined that each of their offspring would graduate from high school."
SYNOPSIS: John-Boy is writing an essay with the help of his teacher Miss Hunter to submit to a contest. Reverend Fordwich stops by the school and asks Rosemary if he could call on her that evening. Although he asks her to help with the upcoming church picnic, his real motive is to ask permission to court her. Never having made a fuss about her appearance or for dating her gets swept up in the excitement of having a new suitor. John-Boy on the other hand is disturbed by her new focus on Matthew Fordwich. Meanwhile Ben is fond of Naomi but he is feeling inferior to the bigger boys in school. He sends away to Chicago for a $0.62 body building manual to change from "a 97 pound weakling" to someone Naomi will notice. He practices he's strength exercises in the privacy of John-Boy's bedroom but Erin tries every method possible to learn what he has been hiding from the family. At the picnic, he enters the nail driving contest against Willy Dempster who he is competing for Naomi's attention. Ben loses the contest but wins the girl when she decides that she likes his red hair best.
QUESTIONS: Who was the person in the essay? Why didn't John Boy want to go to the church picnic?
EPILOGUE: "I was to know many teachers, but none so dedicated and gifted as Miss Rosemary Hunter. Even today I can feel her influence, for like any good teacher she left an indelible mark on my work, and on my life." –
MY THOUGHTS: Once again an episode that reminded me when I was growing up. I had a high school teacher who was very pretty and her name was Marjorie Carver. She ran the library when I was school. She was the one teacher who I could talk to about anything. I give this episode 8 weasel stars.
