Initially, he was the only main male character of the TV series
The Facts of Life (1979), playing the headmaster of the girls boarding school. However,
after the first season, the writers rewrote the show to concentrate on
a select few female characters and their relationship with the housing
mother instead of the whole school. This also made the stories more
about teenage problems and dilemmas and not about comic relief like the
first seasons was. Thus, he was dropped from the show.