My 30 Most Favorite Episodes of "Welcome Back, Kotter".
If the title didn't give it away - these are my 30 most favorite episodes of the TV Show, "Welcome Back, Kotter". Watch one per day for a full month of hilarity and smiles!
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- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteMr. Kotter is suspended because Mr. Woodman doesn't like his teaching methods.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteFreddie and Vernajean wants to quit school to get married. So Mr. Kotter has them act out a marriage in class.
- DirectorJames KomackStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteGabriel Kotter is a teacher in Brooklyn, New York who ends up teaching at his old alma mater: Buchanan High School. He has been assigned to teach the remedial students, better known as the Sweathogs, a group to which he used to belong.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteArnold and Mr. Kotter persuade the Sweathogs to hold a telethon for much needed school supplies.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteMr. Kotter dreads an old successful classmate coming to dinner.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteKotter is pressured to give Boom-Boom a passing grade on his exam, which he fails, so that he can continue to play on the basketball team.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteMr. Woodman and Mr. Kotter reverse roles. Mr. Woodman starts being nice to the sweathogs, and Mr. Kotter starts getting mean to them.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteMr. Kotter talks Judy into tutoring Barbarino. The two eventually become friends, but Barbarino doesn't want the other Sweathogs to know about it.
- 1975–197930mTV-PG7.4 (78)TV EpisodeDirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteEpstein loses a fight to Todd Ludlow, he feels so ashamed about it he runs away.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteHorshack takes on the role of Cyrano de Bergerac for the school play. But when the other Sweathogs rank on him, he gets upset and runs away. Now, since nobody can find Horshack, Barbarino has to go on stage in his place as Cyrano.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteInstead of the planned food fight, Kotter convinces the Sweathogs to stage an all-night classroom sit-in to protest the school's serving of liver for lunch.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteMr. Woodman gleefully informs Kotter that there are no records of his having completed his senior exams, so Kotter has to take the tests alongside his Sweathogs, who commit to tutoring him.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteKotter's father travels 1,400 miles to see him and to see what he does at school. While the senior Kotter observes his son teaching about the Great Depression, he tries to take over the class and tell stories of living through that time.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteWith the approach of Sadie Hawkins Day, where the girls ask the guys to the school dance, everybody, including Horshack, has a date - everyone but Barbarino.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteKotter needs $1,400 to fix his teeth. He becomes so desperate he starts moonlighting at a second job only to be discovered by the Sweathogs.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteA student teacher joins Kotter's class only to find that normal teaching methods don't work with the Sweathogs. Then she adopts Kotter's style only to find out that it doesn't work for her.
- DirectorBill PerskyStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteThe Sweathogs form a gang to the consternation of Mr. Kotter.
- 1975–197930mTV-PG5.9 (57)TV EpisodeDirectorRobert HegyesStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteCarvelli goes to Buchannan High as part of an exchange program and tells the students about his encounter with aliens. Woodman, convinced his story is true, plans to go on the spaceship when it lands in the schoolyard.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteKotter arranges a debate between the Sweathogs and the debate team.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteVinnie runs for class president.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteWhen it is announced that Horshack has graduated out of the Sweathogs and into regular classes, Kotter instructs the remaining Sweathogs to shun him so that he can meet people in his new classes.
- DirectorJeff BlecknerStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteFreddie is prescribed painkillers to treat a nagging injury he suffered playing basketball ... and soon becomes hooked. His friends become concerned about Freddie's increasingly scary behavior, but "Boom-Boom" tries to brush them off - after all, it's just "vitamins." What becomes even more scary is that Horshack blindly believes his friend's explanation, even though it becomes clear that Freddie needs help before something goes horribly wrong.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteA new girl sweathog arrives and has all the boy sweathogs in heat.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteBarbarino wants revenge after a gym teacher slaps him in the face.
- DirectorBill HobinStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteWhen the Sweathogs' treasury money is stolen, all fingers point to Washington who has just purchased a new bike.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteEpstein goes to the guidance counselor to talk about being a veterinarian. She says he is not smart enough and he should look for a career in manual labor. So he gives his animals Kotter because he thinks he can't take care of them anymore.
- DirectorBob ClaverStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteEpstein paints a mural of a nude woman on the wall of the school, using the image of Julie Kotter as his inspiration.
- DirectorBill DavisStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteThe Sweathogs go on a field trip to a museum and meet its mysterious curator.
- DirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteThe Sweathogs visit a radio station and get introduced on the air. When Freddie gets his turn to talk, he proves to be a big hit and develops a large fan following, but the other Sweathogs become jealous of his success.
- 1975–197930mTV-PG7.1 (76)TV EpisodeDirectorBob LaHendroStarsGabe KaplanMarcia StrassmanJohn Sylvester WhiteA flu epidemic requires several advanced students to join Kotter's class, where they quickly outshine his struggling students. Kotter boosts the battered self-confidence of his Sweathogs by demonstrating that not all smarts are book smarts.