 "), when "Headmaster" was launched.Griffith had just signed a three-picture deal with Universal Pictures but was so disappointed with the first film in the contract, the rural comedy "Angel in My Pocket", that the two parties never made the other two films and he quickly returned to television.With "Headmaster", Griffith fulfilled his desire to be cast in a television series as something other than a rural bumpkin dispensing folksy wisdom; here his character, Andy Thompson, was the headmaster of a prestigious Californian private school, the Concord School.