The Education of Max Bickford is a television drama that aired from 2001 to 2002 on CBS

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. It starred Richard Dreyfuss

Richard Dreyfuss

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 as the title character, a college professor of American Studies at Chadwick College, an all-women's school in New Jersey

New Jersey

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. Also starring was child actor Eric Ian Goldberg, who portrayed the young Lester Bickford, Max's son. Max's colleagues included Marcia Gay Harden

Marcia Gay Harden

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 as Andrea Haskell, his former student (and lover) who had recently joined the faculty, and Helen Shaver

Helen Shaver

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 as his best friend Erica, previously known as Steve before her transition

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. Max's daughter Nell, played by Katee Sackhoff

Katee Sackhoff

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, attended the college.

Main cast

• Richard Dreyfuss
  Richard Dreyfuss
  Richard Stephen Dreyfuss is an American actor best known for starring in a number of film, television, and theater roles since the late 1960s, including the films American Graffiti, Jaws, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, The Goodbye Girl, Whose Life Is It Anyway?, Stakeout, Always, What About...
  
   - Max Bickford
• Marcia Gay Harden
  Marcia Gay Harden
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   - Andrea Haskell
• Regina Taylor
  Regina Taylor
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   - Judith Bryant
• Helen Shaver
  Helen Shaver
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   - Erica Bettis
• Katee Sackhoff
  Katee Sackhoff
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   - Nell Bickford
• Eric Ian Goldberg - Lester Bickford
• Meredith Roberts - Brenda Vanderpool
• Molly Regan - Lorraine Tator
• Stephen Spinella - Rex Pinsker
• David McCallum
  David McCallum
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   - Walter Thornhill

Regulars

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

Main crew

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