Head of the Class: The Hot Seat


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The Hot Seat

Season 3, Episode 15

The girls aren't keen on their new gym teacher (Valri Bromfield, who wrote this episode), an Air Force brat who doesn't like Charlie's intrusion during her class, but wouldn't mind his company at a hockey game. Bernadette: Jeannetta Arnette. Dennis: Dan Schneider.

repeat 1989 English HD Level Unknown
Comedy Sitcom Family

Cast & Crew
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Howard Hesseman (Actor) .. Charlie Moore
Jeannetta Arnette (Actor) .. Bernadette
Dan Schneider (Actor) .. Dennis

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Howard Hesseman (Actor) .. Charlie Moore
Born: February 27, 1940
Died: January 29, 2022
Birthplace: Lebanon, Oregon, United States
Trivia: Howard Hesseman's early credits have sometimes been hard to trace, mainly because he often billed himself as "Don Sturdy." The mustachioed, prematurely balding Hesseman was a founding member of the San Francisco-based improv troupe The Committee. During his decade-long tenure with this aggregation, he was featured in such films as Petulia (1968) and A Session with the Committee (1970), and showed up on such TV series as The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour and The Dick Cavett Show. Through the auspices of his Committee cohort Peter Bonerz, Hesseman played a recurring role on TV's The Bob Newhart Show (1972-78), playing the unsuccessful producer of such TV disasters as "The Nazi Hour." His screen roles in the 1970s included a showy part as a harried TV-commercial director in the opening sequence of The Sunshine Boys. In 1978, Hesseman achieved celebrity in the role of counterculture deejay Dr. Johnny Fever (aka Johnny Caravella) on the popular sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati. Following WKRP's cancellation in 1982, he spent two seasons playing Ann Romano's third (and presumably final) husband Sam Royer on the weekly One Day at a Time. From 1986 to 1990, he starred as urbane high school teacher Charlie Moore in TV's Head of the Class. During all this activity, Howard Hesseman continued showing up in feature films, playing such roles as smarmy promoter Terry Ladd in This is Spinal Tap (1984) and child star Patty Duke's manipulative manager/guardian John Ross in the TV biopic Call Me Anna (1989). Over the following several years, Hessman would remain active on screen, appearnig on shows like That 70's Show and Crossing Jordan, and in movies like The Rocker.
Jeannetta Arnette (Actor) .. Bernadette
Born: July 29, 1954
Trivia: A fair-haired character actress who maintained a nearly constant presence in American television series and features (making her countenance eminently familiar), Jeanetta Arnette began her career in late-'70s exploitation pictures, such as the 1977 releases Teenage Graffiti and The Class Reunion Massacre. Beginning with a bit part as a party guest in Blake Edwards' midlife-crisis comedy 10 (1979), however, Arnette segued gently into more mainstream efforts. She specialized in playing upbeat, highly energetic women with a professional edge. Early assignments included Rob Cohen's underrated Age of Aquarius period film A Small Circle of Friends (1980), the made-for-television sci-fi opus Brave New World (1980), and Andrew V. McLaglen's telemovie Western The Shadow Riders (1982). Arnette achieved her broadest fame and recognition for several years in 1986, when she signed on to play Bernadette Meara, the assistant principal of the Monroe High School for teen prodigies, on the popular sitcom Head of the Class (1986-1991) -- a role she carried for the entire run of the series. Subsequent assignments included the Rodney Dangerfield comedy Ladybugs (1992), the gender-bending melodrama Boys Don't Cry (1999), and Lasse Hallström's offbeat romantic drama The Shipping News (2001). In 2007, Arnette tackled a more prominent role in director David Gordon Green's earnest ensemble drama Snow Angels.
Dan Schneider (Actor) .. Dennis
Born: January 14, 1966
Birthplace: Memphis, Tennessee, United States
Trivia: Has three older sisters.Was Senior class president at his high school.After dropping out of Harvard, returned to Memphis and worked at a computer store.Moved to Los Angeles after being discover by a movie producer while attending Memphis State University.Got a job as a pizza delivery boy soon after his move to Los Angeles.Supporter of the St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee.Owner of the production company Schneider's Bakery.
Valri Bromfield (Actor)
Born: February 10, 1949

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