Comedy series about tough school
Welcome to James Buchanan High School in Brooklyn. “You know how rough it is?” says Gabe Kotter (comedian Gabriel Kaplan). “The gangs here don’t use guns. They just insert bullets manually.”
He ought to know — he graduated from Buchanan about 10 years ago and has come back to the blackboard jungle to teach a remedial class. The incorrigible students are known as “the sweat hogs.” Most conspicuous
amongst them are Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta) — sweathog-in-chief; Juan Epstein (Robert Hegyes; voted “most likely to kill”; Freddie (“Boom Boom’’); Washington (Lawrence Jacobs) and Arnold Horshack (Ron Palillo).
The stresses and strains of teaching this group of incipient drop-outs and delinquents could get a man down if it were not for a teacher named Kotter.
“Welcome Back Kotter,” one of the comedy successes in America this decade, will begin on Thursday night on South Pacific Television. The theme from the programme called “Welcome Back” was on the Top 40 charts in New Zealand last year.
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Press, 26 February 1977, Page 10
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