The Education of Max Bickford

The Education of Max Bickford
The Education of Max Bickford cast
Genre	Drama
Created by	Dawn Prestwich Nicole Yorkin
Written by	David Black Linda Burstyn
Starring	Richard Dreyfuss Marcia Gay Harden Katee Sackhoff Meredith Roberts Eric Ian Goldberg Helen Shaver
Composer(s)	David Was Don Was
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	22
Production
Executive producer(s)	Keith Addis Joe Cacaci Rod Holcomb Dawn Prestwich Nicole Yorkin
Location(s)	New York City Wagner College
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	Sugar Mama Productions Joe Cacaci Productions Regency Television CBS Productions 20th Century Fox Television
Release
Original network	CBS
Picture format	720p (HDTV)
Original release	September 23, 2001 (2001-09-23) – June 2, 2002 (2002-06-02)

The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS. It starred Richard Dreyfuss as the title character, a college professor of American Studies at Chadwick College, an all-women's school in New Jersey. Also starring was child actor Eric Ian Goldberg, who portrayed the young Lester Bickford, Max's son. Max's colleagues included Marcia Gay Harden as Andrea Haskell, his former student (and lover) who had recently joined the faculty, and Helen Shaver as his best friend Erica, previously known as Steve before her transition. Max's daughter Nell, played by Katee Sackhoff, attended the college.

Full cast

Main cast

• Richard Dreyfuss - Max Bickford
• Marcia Gay Harden - Andrea Haskell
• Regina Taylor - Judith Bryant
• Helen Shaver - Erica Bettis
• Katee Sackhoff - Nell Bickford
• Eric Ian Goldberg - Lester Bickford
• Meredith Roberts - Brenda Vanderpool
• Molly Regan - Lorraine Tator
• Stephen Spinella - Rex Pinsker
• David McCallum - Walter Thornhill

Regulars

• Jayne Atkinson - Lyla Ortiz
• Stefanie Bari - Anna
• Natalie Venetia Belcon - Rose Quigley
• Craig Bonacorsi - Adam
• Brennan Brown - Ron Zinn
• Lynn Collins
• Angel Desai - Jardie
• Ylfa Edelstein - Isabelle
• Angela Goethals - Danielle Hodges
• Donna Murphy - Esther Weber
• Coté de Pablo - Gina
• Ellen Parker - Noleen Bettis
• Robin Raven
• Kristen Schaal - Valerie Holmes
• Chris Stack - Alec
• Kellee Stewart - Yolanda

Main crew

• Keith Addis (Executive Producer)
• Joe Cacaci
• Rod Holcomb
• Dawn Prestwich
• Nicole Yorkin
• Jan Oxenberg
• Rob Thomas
• David Black
• Grace McKeaney
• Michael Fields
• David Hugh Jones
• Elodie Keene
• Martha Mitchell
• Matthew Penn
• David Platt
• Don Scardino
• Linda Burstyn
• Tom Garrigus
• Sharon Lee Watson

List of episodes

1. "Pilot", 23 September 2001
2. "Herding Cats", 30 September 2001
3. "Who Is Breckenridge Long?", 14 October 2001
4. "Hearts and Minds", 21 October 2001
5. "In the Details", 28 October 2001
6. "Do It Yourself", 11 November 2001
7. "Revisionism", 18 November 2001
8. "A Very Great Man", 2 December 2001
9. "It's Not the Wrapping, It's the Candy", 9 December 2001
10. "The Good, the Bad, and the Lawyers", 6 January 2002
11. "Save the Country", 13 January 2002
12. "The Cost of Living", 20 January 2002
13. "I Never Schlunged My Father", 27 January 2002
14. "Money Changes Everything", 24 February 2002
15. "Genesis", 3 March 2002
16. "An Open Book", 10 March 2002
17. "Past, Present, Future", 17 March 2002
18. "Murder of the First", 31 March 2002
19. "The Bad Girl", 14 April 2002
20. "The Egg and I", 21 April 2002
21. "One More Time", 12 May 2002
22. "The Pursuit of Happiness", 2 June 2002

External links

• The Education of Max Bickford at the Internet Movie Database
• The Education of Max Bickford at TV.com