From TelevisionVanguard
“From it's iconic theme song and opening credits, that in our humble opinion is one of television's all-time best (top 15), written by film composer Jerry Goldsmith, to the writing and young team behind the camera, and the wonderful group of actors in front of the camera, Room 222 was new, young, smart, diverse, and challenged the viewer to think different.
The unique comedy-drama balance and youthful tone of the show was not just in front of the camera, but behind it as well. Gene Reynolds was an executive producer and sometime director on the show... he'd worked on The Ghost and Mrs. Muir in a similar capacity, and would go to work on the great TV series M*A*S*H.
Allan Burns was a producer on the show, and would go on to work on the Mary Tyler Moore Show. Burns had started off his career in television working on the iconic family comedy The Munsters, and had worked on the series He & She.
James L. Brooks was a head writer on Room 222, and would join Burns over at The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Brooks had had started out his career as a television writer on such iconic 1960s series as That Girl, My Mother the Car, Good Morning World and The Andy Griffith Show. The show was a part of ABC's new Friday night lineup, and debuted alongside another young upstart, The Brady Bunch.
Although the team at ABC may not have realized it at that time, Room 222 and The Brady Bunch were the first blocks in the Friday lineup that would help create a pop culture powerhouse for the next half decade. The Bradys and teachers and kids of Walt Whitman would soon be joined on Friday nights by Love American Style (which also debuted in the fall of 1969), The Odd Couple and The Partridge Family. ABC was laying the foundation of their powerhouse youth-oriented lineup of the late 1970s with these groundbreaking series of talented creative people on Friday nights. This video clip is a 'where are they now' Entertainment Tonight segment from the early 1990s and provided a nice update from the cast.
And yes, in the short segment of David Jolliffe's LA band called The Jenerators, the guitarist playing in the background is indeed one of our favorites, Bill Mumy of Lost in Space fame. We have a video clip and ET interview with Billy in our archives from 2016 featuring Lost in Space. “