The Toledo Walleye make their prime-time network debut with the latest episode of the NBC sitcom A.P. Bio, seen locally at 8:30 p.m. Thursday on WNWO-TV, Channel 24.
The midseason replacement series is set in Toledo and a camera crew came to the city in mid-November for a day of filming including a Walleye morning game against the Fort Wayne Komets at the Huntington Center. Other local spots to make a cameo in the Thursday episode are the Toledo Museum of Art, International Park, and the Maumee Indoor Theatre.
A.P. Bio is about a disgraced Harvard philosophy scholar from Toledo who reluctantly returns to his hometown to teach Advanced Placement biology at the fictional Whitlock High School.
The series was created by Mike O’ Brien, a 1995 graduate of St. John’s High School, who recently told The Blade that setting his series in Toledo “does mean something to people there.
“Like it meant when you heard about even [Toledoan] Jimmy Jackson,” a Macomber High School graduate and former NBA All-Star.
Thursday’s episode, titled “Walleye,” is the penultimate of A.P. Bio’s 13-episode first season. NBC recently announced A.P. Bio was renewed for a second season.
First Published April 26, 2018, 11:00 a.m.
