Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)
Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.
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Episode 1 - Sweathogs Back-to-School Special
Release Date: 1977-09-29The Sweathogs and administrators at James Buchanan High reminisce about Gabe's past two years at the school. Past episodes are recalled through flashbacks.
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Episode 2 - And Baby Makes Four (1)
Release Date: 1977-09-15Julie goes into labor.
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Episode 3 - And Baby Makes Four (2)
Release Date: 1977-09-15Julie gives birth to twin girls.
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Episode 4 - And Baby Makes Four (3)
Release Date: 1977-09-22Julie's parents come to see the babies.
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Episode 5 - Brother, Can You Spare a Million?
Release Date: 1977-10-06Emotions mix when it seems that the Sweathogs may win the lottery.
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Episode 6 - Just Testing
Release Date: 1977-10-13Everybody helps Vinnie cram for a make-up test.
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Episode 7 - The Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack
Release Date: 1977-10-20Arnold is accepted into a religious cult. Mr. Kotter and the three other sweathogs try to get Arnold to snap out of it. Eventually, he does and goes back to his former self, complete with his trademark laugh.
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Episode 8 - What a Move
Release Date: 1977-10-27Juan, with the help of his uncle, hooks the Kotters up with a new apartment.
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Episode 9 - A Novel Idea
Release Date: 1977-11-03The characters in Mr. Woodman's new novel seem to have an awful lot in common with the Sweathogs...
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Episode 10 - Barbarino in Love (1)
Release Date: 1977-11-10During a talent competition, Vinnie falls for a girl who the Sweathogs are competing against, and starts spending more time with her then rehearsing with the Sweathogs.
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Episode 11 - Barbarino in Love (2)
Release Date: 1977-11-17Vinnie is torn between trying to win the talent competition, or letting his new girlfriend beat him.
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Episode 12 - Kotter for Vice Principal
Release Date: 1977-11-24Kotter has a dream about life when the Sweathogs are old.
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Episode 13 - Swine and Punishment
Release Date: 1977-12-08Freddie cheats on an English test.
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Episode 14 - Epstein's Madonna
Release Date: 1978-01-12Juan paints a great masterpiece on the walls of the school.
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Episode 15 - Sweathog Christmas Special
Release Date: 1978-01-05At Christmas time, the gang reminisces over past episodes.
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Episode 16 - Sweatwork
Release Date: 1978-01-19Arnold voices angst and pioneers for change on the school radio station, gathering fans in the process.
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Episode 17 - Meet Your New Teacher: Batteries Not Included
Release Date: 1978-01-26The Sweathogs' new tutor is a computer. Despite initial raises in grades, Gabe becomes displeased with the machine, as it is turning him obsolete to the class.
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Episode 18 - Angie
Release Date: 1977-12-22A new girl joins the Sweathogs.
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Episode 19 - Epstein's Term Paper
Release Date: 1978-02-02Juan buys four term papers - one for each Sweathog - from Carvelli, only to end up with an essay that Gabe had turned in eleven years earlier.
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Episode 20 - There's No Business Like Show Business (1)
Release Date: 1978-02-09Gabe finds success as a stand-up comic, using material regarding the Sweathogs. But when the oppportunity for a full-time comedy gig arises, it could mean the end of his teaching career.
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Episode 21 - There's No Business Like Show Business (2)
Release Date: 1978-02-16Gabe must choose between the comedy life, or his life at Buchanan.
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Episode 22 - What Goes Up
Release Date: 1978-02-23Freddie becomes addicted to drugs after taking prescribed pain killers. Despite the other Sweathogs' best efforts, the only thing that can bring Freddie around is Arnold's faith in him...and in his ""vitamin pills.""
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Episode 23 - Good-Bye, Mr. Kripps
Release Date: 1978-03-09Mr. Kripps, the shop teacher, has a heart attack and dies while yelling at Vinnie, who blames himself for the man's death.
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Episode 24 - Horshack and the Madame X
Release Date: 1978-05-18Arnold, saddened by the rejection he keeps recieving from the opposite sex, gets advice and comfort from Julie before quickly falling in love with her.
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Episode 25 - The Kiss
Release Date: 1978-05-11After performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a female student who has passed out in the classroom, Gabe is accused of molestation, and is in danger of losing his job.
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Episode 26 - The Return of Hotsy Totsy
Release Date: 1977-09-10Rosalie ""Hotsy"" Totsy has grown up ... a little too fast. The Sweathogs go to a local strip club on a dare, and learn that Hotsy has gotten a job performing there (yup, she bares all, unknowingly in front of her former classmates). Vinnie, Freddie and Epstein all ride Hotsy's case, but Arnold is sensitive to her plight. Seems that, during a coversation with her former teacher Gabe, Rosalie really lived up to her nickname one night and got pregnant. And getting a job at a strip joint is the only way for this single mother (the baby's father had left Hotsy) to support her child. Gabe and Arnold convince the others to give Hotsy Totsy moral support, and they also refer her to a social agency which can help her finish school and find a more meaningful job.
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Episode 27 - Class Encounter of the Carvelli Kind
Release Date: 1977-12-15When Carvelli and Murray come on as exchange students, Carvelli seemingly goes crazy with stories of aliens.