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Every teacher's worst nightmare is having a student develop feelings for them, and having those feelings develop into a situation that could jeopardize their career.

This episode shows rather innocently how a situation like that could be resolved all too easily, but in today's world in no way would it have gone down like that. Today, an accused teacher would be most likely removed from the school to a place like a district office when the situation and possible charges could be reviewed and then the teacher (if lucky and found to be innocent) would be allowed to return to his or her school, even it was under a cloud of suspicion. Too often an innocent teacher is sent to a new school instead.

This episode shows how handsome Pete Dixon, who is not even the teacher of the student who develops an interest in him, has to handle the situation with the student, the principal, and the guidance counselor, who is also Pete's love interest.

Even though the episode is 48 years old, some things never change over the years.

Before Play Misty For Me and Fatal Attraction there was this episode of Room 222 where history teacher Pete Dixon's caring heart and good intentions in performing a good deed get him into a world of grief. He is having a late night supper at a diner and gives a ride home to a young woman who says she is being stalked only to find out she is a student at Walt Whitman who set the whole thing up because she is infatuated with him. Leslie is one manipulative person who wants Pete for herself. She might even be considered a borderline sociopath. Pete handles the situation remarkably well under the circumstances. The funny thing about this episode is that Kaufman poo poos the idea of teachers and students being romantically involved but this was before Mary kay Letorenau!