The Happy Years

Overview

Based on a collection of stories with the focus on young John Humperkink "Dink" Stover, a student at the Lawrenceville Prepatory School, in 1896, whose family, in Eastcester, New York, have just about given up on his education because he is an incorrigible student. He gets into one situation after another and incurs the dislike of his classmates, who think he is cowardly but he changes their opinion when he challenges several of them to a fight. When he returns home for the summer, he meets Miss Dolly Travers and increases his 'hatred of women' because she does not accept his schoolboy pranks. Back at school, in the fall, he is more difficult than ever until his philosophy is changed by a teacher.

Cast

Dean Stockwell

John Humperdink 'Dink' Stover

Darryl Hickman

George 'Tough' McCarty

Scotty Beckett

'Tennessee' Shad

Leon Ames

Sr. Samuel H. Stover

Margalo Gillmore

Maude Stover

Leo G. Carroll

Mr. Hopkins

Donn Gift

Joshua Montgomery Smead

N/A

Danny Mummert

"Butsey" White

Elinor Donahue

Connie Brown

George Chandler

Johnny

Irving Bacon

Mr. Conover

Arthur Space

Al