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| Season 2, Episode 15 Number (#28) in series (133 episodes) | ||||
| Tape date | December 5, 1974 | |||
| Air date: | January 7, 1975 | |||
| Network/Country: | CBS-TV | |||
| Written by: | John Baskin & Roger Shulman (teleplay) Michael E. Coleman (story) | |||
| Directed by: | Herbert Kenwith | |||
| Production code: | 215 | |||
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Florida Goes to School | |||
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| Starring: | Esther Rolle John Amos Jimmie Walker Bern Nadette Stanis Ja'net Dubois Ralph Carter | |||
| Guest starring: | Hal Williams | |||
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Florida Goes to School is the fifteenth episode of Season 2 of Good Times, and the twenty-eighth series episode overall. Written as a teleplay by John Baskin and Roger Shulman from an original story written by Michael E. Coleman, the episode, which was directed by Herbert Kenwith, originally aired on CBS-TV, premiering on January 7, 1975.
Synopsis[]
Florida wants to get her GED but between night school and working, her relationship with James suffers.
Storyline[]
Florida comes home excited that she is going to night school hoping to achieve a High School Equivalency diploma, but working in the daytime and going to school at night puts a strain on her relationship with James, who is against her entertaining the notion of school.
Plot summary[]
Hoping to improve her chances in the workplace, Florida (Esther Rolle) begins attending night school in pursuit of her high-school equivalency diploma. Though most everyone is thrilled at Florida's progress, her nocturnal classroom duties put a severe strain on her marriage. It isn't that James (John Amos) wants Florida to stay home -- simply that he's reluctant to have a wife who is "smarter" than he, as he dropped out of school in the sixth grade to help his family in Mississippi; Florida dropped out in the tenth grade to do the same.
Guest starring[]
- Hal Williams as Willie Washington