The Faculty

The Faculty is an American sitcom starring Meredith Baxter as a middle school administrator. The show aired on ABC from March to June 1996. Premise Baxter played Flynn Sullivan, a divorced vice-principal balancing the demands of her career with single motherhood. The Faculty was notable among school-based programs for its focus on activity in Hamilton Middle School's faculty lounge, rather than in the classrooms. Co-creator Neil Thompson called it "an adult-based show," and said that the relationships among the school's staff were the central element. The premiere episode featured Sullivan's decision whether to expel a student for painting graffiti on a school wall that accused a teacher of having sex with a sheep. Cast Meredith Baxter as Flynn Sullivan, school vice principal Jenica Bergere as Amanda Duvall, new math teacher Peter Michael Goetz as Herb Adams, school principal Nancy Lenehan as Daisy Skelnick, Herb's secretary Peter MacKenzie as Clark Edwards, a history teacher Miguel A. Núñez, Jr. as Luis Jackson, a school nurse Constance Shulman as Shelly Ray, Flynn's best friend and the school's most cynical teacher