I've said this with Boston Legal - it's a big firm, hundreds of lawyers. Why focus on just 7 or 8 of them. Have 3 or 4 constant regulars, but make all the other lawyers recurring. Have each of them have a 2 or 3 episode arc, and just drop in every once in a while to be seen.
Boston Public could have done the same thing. They must have had at least 50 faculty members. They could have focussed on more than just the 7 or 8. The only time the showed a different teacher (other than the ones in the opening credits) was when they were doing something wrong - ie. the two teachers have sex in an empty classroom; the science teacher who was caught having sexual IMs with a student; the one who died; the one they thought had died but only quit without telling anyone.
E.R. is very good about spreading the storylines. They have at least 15 regulars, so not all the regulars have to have a main storyline every episode. They only had 2 or 3 eps per season devoted mostly to them. The rest of the time, they were just around to sign a few charts, give a little advice, and they were gone.
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ajxsmc
16 years ago
that is actually a really good idea, i thought that many times as well, and it made it worst that the only time you ever see any main storyline it only involved these like 6-8 teachers, they only hung out with these teachers, despite some of them clearly havign problems with each other, they should have featured more like you suggested at least as minor characters, remember how many staff members there were when Mr. Senate got stabbed and the had the staff meeeting the next day there were like 50 people there
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