Welcome back, Kotter. Season one

Author

Gabriel Kaplan

Call Number

• DVD TV SERIES (CEN)

Languages

Closed-captioned.

Performers

Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Ron Palillo, John Travolta.

Publication Information

Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory, [2020]

Physical Description

4 videodiscs (approximately 528 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

Audience

Not rated.

Summary

Gabe Kotter, formerly a Sweathog, returns to James Buchanan High as a teacher and is assigned the remedial class to which he once belonged. Mr. Kotter is an involved and caring teacher, which one would have to be in dealing with a certain four students in his class, who end up in trouble on a regular basis--lady's man Vinnie Barbarino, the always cool Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington, the tough Juan Epstein, and the sheepish Arnold Dingfelder Horshack. Welcome Back, Kotter was based on Gabe Kaplan's own high school experiences with remedial education and a teacher who cared dearly for her students.

Notes

Based on characters created by Eric Cohen, Gabriel Kaplan & Alan Sacks.

Originally broadcast as individual episodes on ABC during the 1975-1976 television season.

Discs originally released as part of a 16-disc set Welcome back, Kotter: the complete series.

Bonus features: "Only a few degrees from a Sweathog" featurette ; actors' original screen tests.

Contents

• Welcome back (pilot) ; Great debate ; Basket case ; Whodunit? ; Election ; No more Mister Nice Guy
• Classroom marriage ; One of our Sweathogs is missing ; Mr. Kotter, teacher ; Reunion ; Barbarino's girl ; California dreamin'
• Arrivederci, Arnold ; Longest weekend ; Sit-in ; Follow the leader, part 1 ; Follow the leader, part 2 ; Dr. Epstein, I presume--?
• One flu over the cuckoo's nest ; Telethon ; Kotter makes good ; Father Vinnie.