Poster: Stuck In The '70's
(see this users gallery) The Waverly Wonders aired from September until October 1978 on NBC.
An early fatality of the 1978-1979 season, The Waverly Wonders was dropped after only three airings.The half-hour sitcom, apparently inspired by the movie, The Bad News Bears, starred former pro football quarterback Joe Namath as Joe Casey, a washed-up prp basketball player turned history teacher and coach at Waverly High, in Eastfield Wisconsin.It was questionable who was more inept, Joe in the classroom ( he knew nothing about history)or his team The Waverly Wonders, on the court ( they hadn't won a game in three years). Nice kids though: Tate ( Charles Bloom), so shy he wouldn't take a shot; Faguzzi ( Joshua Grenrock) the fumbling "Italian Stallion"; Parks ( Tierre Turner), the fast-talking con artist; and Connie ( Kim Lankford), the cute tomboy who was the best player of the lot. Linda Harris ( Gwynne Gilford) was the attractive principal, Alan Kerner ( James Staley) was a faculty member and George Benton ( Ben Piazza) the stodgy former coach, know affectionately as "old prune face." |