Mr. Novak: The Complete First Season Format:DVD ranging from such front-runners as

ranging from such front-runners as Paulette Goddard to such not-a-chancers as Lana Turner

BATTLE GROUP: HALSEY talks with officers and sailors who served under Bull--and reviews his tactics and strategies--to paint a multi-faceted portrait of the legendary admiral

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Julio Iglesias

But during a mining venture

Mr. Novak: The Complete First Season Format:DVD ranging from such front-runners asThe early 1960s were a time with a TV landscape thought of as more innocent than today, but behind the scenes, changes were roiling the nation. Into this fray stepped a groundbreaking series based on true stories from the nation's high school students and the teachers charged with tending them. James Franciscus stars as John Novak, an idealistic, novice teacher, while storied stage and screen veteran Dean Jagger costars as his mentor, Principal Albert