''Teech'' is an American

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television series that briefly aired on

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from September 18 to October 16, 1991 as part of its 1991 Fall lineup. The series was co-produced by Nikndaph Productions in association with

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for CBS.

Synopsis

''Teech'' stars

Phill Lewis Phillip David Lewis (born February 14, 1968) is an American actor, comedian and director who is best known for his role as hotel manager Mr. Moseby on the Disney Channel series ''The Suite Life of Zack & Cody'' and its spin-off, ''The Suite Li ...

as "Teech" Gibson, an

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music instructor (and the "coolest teacher") at Winthrop Academy, a prestigious, predominantly-white

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. He has style and drives a Corvair. Teech loves music and has tremendous appeal even to troubled, disruptive students. Teech also had appeal to Cassie Lee (

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), the sexy assistant headmaster who had hired him. Headmaster Alfred Litton (

Steven Gilborn Steven Neil Gilborn (July 15, 1936 – January 2, 2009) was an American actor and educator. Gilborn was born in New Rochelle, New York. He attended Swarthmore College, where he was awarded a bachelor's degree in English and earned a Ph.D. ...

) wanted to dismiss Teech's troubled students from the school. He apparently would like to have done the same to Teech except he realized that so doing would likely open him to charges of

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and discrimination. Scheduled opposite

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's Top 20 hit ''

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'', ''Teech'' drew low ratings and was pulled from the lineup after only four episodes had aired.

Cast

as David "Teech" Gibson * Curnal Achilles Aulisio as George Dubcek, Jr. *

as Alfred W. Litton *

as Cassie Lee * Josh Hoffman as Kenny Freedman * Kevin Lawrence Johnson as Boyd Askew * Jason Kristofer as Alby Nichols *

Jack Noseworthy Jack Evan Noseworthy Jr. (born December 21, 1964) is an American actor known for his roles in ''Event Horizon'', '' U-571'', ''Barb Wire'' and ''Killing Kennedy''. Early life Noseworthy earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the Boston Conse ...

as Adrian Peterman

Production notes

The series was created by

David Frankel David Frankel (born April 2, 1959) is an American filmmaker. Most known as the director of 2006 film, '' The Devil Wears Prada'', he is an executive producer and the director of the first and fourth episodes of the Netflix miniseries ''Inventing ...

and Norman Steinberg. ''Teechs theme song "Teach Me" was performed by

B.B. King Riley B. King (September 16, 1925 – May 14, 2015), known professionally as B.B. King, was an American blues singer-songwriter, guitarist, and record producer. He introduced a sophisticated style of soloing based on fluid string bending, shimm ...

Episodes

References

*Brooks, Tim and Marsh, Earle, ''

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External links

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