A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids.A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids.A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of trouble making kids.
- Nominated for 4 Primetime Emmys
- 3 wins & 8 nominations total
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- TriviaGroucho Marx was to make a cameo appearance in the episode "Sadie Hawkins Day". The planned scene was Kotter doing his frequent impression of Marx, then Marx appearing with his reaction. But when the 86-year-old Marx arrived on the set, it was decided that he was too weak to perform and the scene was scrapped. Marx posed for publicity photos with the cast but they were never released due to his frail appearance. Six years after Groucho Marx died, Gabe Kaplan would portray him in a stage play, filmed as Groucho (1983).
- GoofsThroughout out the series, it's clear that the actors/actresses portraying teenagers are actually in their 20s+. This is done as to not interfere with the schooling of real teenagers and to give the general viewing audience who are teenagers (or young people) themselves someone they can look up to.
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Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington: Hey, Mr. Kot-tair!
- ConnectionsFeatured in The 28th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards (1976)
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Not the "classic" I expected
Recently, TV Land ran their marathon of "Welcome Back, Kotter", so I watched a few episodes. What stuck out most about the show was how amazingly, astonishingly awful the acting was. The episodes still had John Travolta, so I know they came from the early years, which means they are supposed to be the "good" episodes. Now, the dialogue and plotting weren't bad, and some of the jokes they tried to make might have even been funny --- if anyone on the show had a sense of comic timing. There was a lot of dead time between every line of dialogue; it seemed as if the actors needed to take a second to remember their lines, or weren't sure it was their cue to speak. It was like a bad high school production. Of course, the terribly broken pacing kills the humor. After watching two episodes, I had had all I could take. It makes me wonder how the show ever became popular.
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- mozartpc27
- Jul 22, 2001
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