 150 students enrolled for credit, and bookstores sold out of Stendhals "The Red and the Black".Jack Gould in "The New York Times" called it "a refreshing and civilized hit" and praised the instructor's "[lack of] condescension" and "carefully controlled ...theatrical[ity]".In the mid-1970s, 85 CBS stations were carrying the broadcast, and NYU believed there were up to a million viewers.