Boston Public

Boston Public was a popular American television series created by David E. Kelley and broadcast on the Fox Network from October 23, 2000 through 2004. It centered around the Winslow High School, a fictional public high school located in Boston, Massachusetts. The show was named for the real public school district in which it takes place.

Final Season

In the fourth and final season, three new characters came onto the show. The first was Carmen Torres (Natalia Baron), the 21-year-old Spanish physics teacher who would clash with Steven over his insistence that she not speak Spanish in the classroom. Carmen later started an brief relationship with Jake, an undercover cop who was posing as a "bad boy" teenager in order to bring down a student who was selling drugs; Jake was murdered when the drug bust goes wrong.

Related Topics:
Natalia Baron - Spanish

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The second character was Charlie Bixby (Dennis Miller), a smart-alecky, arrogant investment banker who was forced to teach math at Winslow High as part of his community service for being convicted of securities fraud. He is able to reach his students by devising math problems with references to illicit drugs and prostitution, and volunteered at the school's suicide hotline where he befriended a teenager whom he persuaded to not kill himself.

Related Topics:
Prostitution - Suicide

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The final character was an eccentric art teacher named Henry Preston (Phil Buckman) who came on towards the end of the series and had to deal with the frustration of budget cuts. Later, he persuaded a student to focus his talents on mathematics and use art as a secondary hobby.

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