Best of Welcome Back Kotter

2007 • ABC
4.9
130 reviews
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Season 1 episodes (16)

1 Basket Case
9/16/75
Season-only
Gabe and Washington have a problem after Washington makes the varsity basketball team and he decides not to take his exams.
2 Welcome Back
9/23/75
Season-only
Mr. Kotter returns to his alma mater, James Buchanan High School, to teach the Sweathogs, a group of remedial students. At first the students don't want to have anything to do with him until they find out he was once a Sweathog himself.
3 Father Vinnie
9/26/76
Season-only
Barbarino honors his dying grandmother's request for him to become a priest.
4 Inherit the Halibut
9/30/76
Season-only
When the Sweathogs' treasury money is stolen, all fingers point to Washington who has just purchased a new bike.
5 The Museum
10/28/76
Season-only
Gabe takes the Sweathogs on a field trip to a museum, only to become locked in a tomb with a mummy for the night. John Astin guest stars.
6 I Wonder Who's Kissing Gabe Now?
3/3/77
Season-only
Epstein spies a sexy art teacher kiss Kotter and assumes that Kotter is cheating on Julie.
7 A Sweathog Christmas Special
12/15/77
Season-only
Merriment, mistletoe and menorahs are the beginnings of a Merry Christmas celebration with the Sweathogs and Gabe and Julie Kotter.
8 Epstein's Term Paper
1/19/78
Season-only
The sweathogs purchase term papers from a couple of local hoods. Kotter recognizes Epstein's paper as one he himself had handed in years ago.
9 There's No Business..., Part 1
1/26/78
Season-only
The Sweathogs convince Gabe to audition at a local hot spot, never expecting him to succeed, but after Mr. Charnoff a slick agent gets through with him, it's goodbye teacher, hello show biz.
10 There's No Business..., Part 2
2/2/78
Season-only
Kotter is a success at being a comedian but it is putting a strain on his marriage and his relationship with the Sweathogs. Second of a two-part episode.
11 Once Upon a Ledge
10/2/78
Season-only
A new girl at Buchanan High contemplates suicide after having a hard time making friends.
12 Bride and Gloom
1/13/79
Season-only
Barbarino's wedding is coming up very soon and he's getting cold feet.
13 The Sweat Smell of Success
3/3/79
Season-only
Epstein is assigned to the school paper and changes it from a dull, lifeless weekly to a gossipy, sensationalist money-maker -- almost losing his friends in the process.
14 I'm Okay, But You're Not
6/1/79
Season-only
Beau's sweet-talking to Mr. Woodman backfires when the guys accuse him of bad-mouthing them.
15 The Breadwinners
6/8/79
Season-only
Epstein goes to interview for a new job and discovers that it's already been taken -- by Washington.
16 One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
2/5/76
Season-only
When the flu epidemic sweeps through Buchanan, the 'enriched' students are put with the Sweathogs, creating a learning problem for Gabe's Sweathogs.

About this show

Take a time-trip back to the wide lapels and bell bottoms of the '70s in one of that decade's biggest comedy hits! Teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) returns to his former high school, teaching the remedial class--of which he had been a member--known at the "sweathogs." But, for some reason, the lovable losers and delinquents of Buchanan High accept their new teacher as they provide a nonstop string of laughs on Welcome Back, Kotter. The series that launched John Travolta's career.

Ratings and reviews

4.9
130 reviews
David Morales
January 29, 2015
this show is a throwback 2 throwbacks, they play reruns on WZME METV, nothing but old school shows from the '70s are played on this network. I watch this show with my little girl, 4 years old.
6 people found this review helpful
Ralph “Joshy” Cortez
April 12, 2015
It opens. The happiness to the oldies but also the sadness as I've gotten older to see that Welcome Back Kotter is no longer here and lot of the cast has whisked us by here's to you for all the laughs.
6 people found this review helpful
Yellow Venus
March 8, 2015
Love this show watch it on metv every Thursday at 9-10 pm and Sunday morning at7-8 love marcia strassman in the show