Student Exchange (television) Two-hour television show, aired on November 29 and December 6, 1987. Directed by Mollie Miller. Carol and Neil are nobodies, whom no one notices in their high school, but when they plot to exchange places with two arriving French and Italian exchange students who are suddenly transferred to another school, they take their school by storm and cause no end of trouble for the vice principal. Stars Viveka Davis (Carol/Simone), Todd Field (Neil/Adriano), Mitchell Anderson (Rod), Heather Graham (Dorie), Maura Tierney (Kathy), Gavin MacLeod (Dupiner).