| Professor Joe Howe is a Korean War veteran who is hired to teach English at Channing College. The dean Fred Baker is his mentor as Howe is writing a novel about his experiences. They are frequently involved in the student's lives. Channing, a production of Revue Studios, aired during the same time frame as the first season of NBC's somewhat similar offering, Mr. Novak. |
| Name | Character | Episodes |
|---|---|---|
| Ed Nelson | Deke Allison | 2 |
| Leslie Nielsen | Prof. Paul Stafford | 1 |
| Suzanne Pleshette | Lori Moore | 1 |
| William Shatner | Tom Ericson | 1 |
| George Voskovec | Prof. Thielman | 1 |
| Mariette Hartley | Evelyn Crown | 1 |
| Russ Tamblyn | Hal Langley | 1 |
| Peter Fonda | Everett Partridge | 1 |
| Stuart Margolin | Bob Brodie | 1 |
| Jason Evers | Professor Joseph Howe | 1 |
| Forrest Tucker | Major Don Landon | 1 |
| Rip Torn | Donald Burrows | 1 |
| Norma Crane | Harriet Cody | 1 |
| Tim Conway | The Young Man | 1 |
| Robert Stephens | Paddy Riordan | 1 |
| Michael Parks | Benny Dickson | 1 |
| Wendell Corey | Professor Jonathan Kobitz | 1 |
| Jacqueline Scott | Irene Kobitz | 1 |
| Nancy Olson | Jessica Landon | 1 |
| Maggie Pierce | Jean Curtis | 1 |
| Denver Pyle | Sam Riddle | 1 |
| John Cassavetes | Lloyd Sullivan | 1 |
| George Segal | Andre | 1 |
| Henry Jones | Dean Fred Baker | 1 |
| Leslie Parrish | Joyce Ruskin | 1 |
| Jeanne Cooper | Margaret Dellafield | 1 |
| Michael Constantine | Nick | 1 |
| Don Gordon | Mario Saccone | 1 |
| Robert Foulk | Otto | 1 |
| Herb Vigran | Manny | 1 |
| Philip Ober | Partridge | 1 |
| Susan Kohner | Rena Covic | 1 |
| Greg Morris | Dr. Bledsoe | 1 |
| Joyce Bulifant | Ellen Dalton | 1 |
| Chris Robinson | Jim Wilson | 1 |
| Jim McMullan | Peter Walker | 1 |
| Sondra Blake | Bernice | 1 |
| Katherine Crawford | Marty Maddow | 1 |
| Eve McVeagh | Bellamy's Assistant | 1 |
| Kip King | Bunky | 1 |
| Yale Summers | Fraternity President | 1 |
| Lisabeth Hush | Stephanie Burrows | 1 |
| Hedley Mattingly | Holman | 1 |
| Aron Kincaid | George | 1 |
| David Wayne | Dr. James Crown | 1 |
| Barbara Harris | Sophie Kannakos | 1 |