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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 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.
Last Episode Aired
2002-06-02
S1E22 — The Pursuit of Happiness
On rejoining a weekly poker game, Max learns of something he did to one of the guys while still a drunk, for which the friend can't forgive him. Nell decides to pawn her guitar so that she can join an expensive music education program.
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Richard Dreyfuss
Max Bickford
Marcia Gay Harden
Andrea Haskell
Regina Taylor
Judith Bryant
Katee Sackhoff
Nell Bickford
Eric Ian Goldberg
Lester 'Pres' Bickford
Stephen Spinella
Rex Pinsker
Bonnie Dennison
Hannah Grunwald
Patrick Fabian
Josh Howlett
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