TV series
Matt Waters
1996 · 1 season
A earnest, issue-driven school drama that moves with steady seriousness, carrying a quiet weight of loss beneath classroom life.
- Created by
- James D. Parriott
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Sam McMurray, Nathaniel Marston, Montel Williams
- Overview
- Matt Waters is an American drama television show which aired in 1996 on CBS. The program starred talk show host Montel Williams, and was created by James D. Parriott. The show, which was a midseason replacement, failed to garner a significant audience and was canceled after just six episodes. Williams played a retired naval officer who becomes a high school science teacher at Bayview High School, the school he had attended 25 years earier. Williams's character had returned home after his brother was killed in a gang related murder. Portions of the program were filmed at Bayonne High School in Bayonne, New Jersey.
- How it feels
- Earnest, melancholic, tense and warm. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Grief, education, crime, family
- Content
- Mild violence, sexual content and language. No gore.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Created by
- James D. Parriott
- Genres
- Drama
- Starring
- Sam McMurray, Nathaniel Marston, Montel Williams







