Obviously designed to emulate the success of Saved By the Bell this sitcom featured three boys and three girls at Middlefield Performing Arts Academy – a New England co-ed boarding school which functioned as a sort of Fame academy for the irremediably untalented.
William Middlefield had been an onion farmer who gave all his money to found the school because he believed in education. A new student tradition was to steal the head from the statue of William Middlefield that stood on the grounds.
Karen Gilman (Pamela Bowen) was the headmistress and ran the academy like a military leader and refused to put up with any nonsense from the students.
Principal students were Holiday “Holly” Friedman (Laurie Fortier), Andy McBain (Richard Hillman), Molloy Simpson (Lackey Bevis), Nikki Watson (Senta Moses), Miles Taylor (Craig Kirkwood) and Mark “The Shark” Stark (Richard Speight Jr.) – who Karen Gilman had selected as her flunky to spy on the students and report to her on any resentment in her ranks.
The school was an acne-free zone where the girls were peachy keen, the boys stripped to the waist on the slightest pretext, and even the spinster music teacher looked like Demi Moore.
Mark G. ‘The Shark’ Stark
Richard Speight Jr. Holiday ‘ Holly’ Friedman
Laurie Fortier Nikki Watson
Senta Moses Andy McBain
Richard Hillman Headmistress Karen Gilman
Pamela Bowen David Reese
Trevor Lissauer Miles Taylor
Craig Kirkwood Molloy Simpson
Lackey Bevis Super George
Michael Bower Sherman Renfield
William Marshall Stanley Schnitzer
Karl Michael Maschek
Episodes
The Arrival | The First Mixer | Dance Squad | The Rowing Competition | Taylor Grades McBain | The Big Kiss | The Term Paper | Shark Moves In | McBain Chokes | The Conductor | The Watch | The Break Up | Rock Reunion
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Mark G. ‘The Shark’ Stark
