Created by Gabriel Kaplan and Alan Sacks. Originally broadcast on television in 1975-1976. Special features: actors' original screen tests; "Only a few degrees from a Sweathog" retrospective featurette. Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Ron Palillo, John Travolta.
Contents:
Disc 4. Father Vinnie. Basket case -- Welcome back (pilot) -- Whodunit? -- The election -- No more Mister Nice Guy -- Disc 2. Classroom marriage -- One of our Sweathogs is missing -- Mr. Kotter, teacher -- The reunion -- Barbarino's girl -- California dreamin' -- Disc 3. Arrivederci, Arnold -- The longest weekend -- The sit-in -- Follow the leader, pt. 1 -- Follow the leader, pt. 2 -- Dr. Epstein, I presume -- Disc 4. One flu over the cuckoo's nest -- The telethon -- Kotter makes good -- Father Vinnie.
Summary:
Gabe Kotter returns to James Buchanan High as a teacher and is assigned the remedial class in which he once belonged. Based on Gabe Kaplan's own high school experiences with remedial education and a teacher who cared dearly for his students.
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