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"Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975)

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 (Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos) 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.

(1975-1978) Six episode collection spanning the first three seasons of the sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as high school teacher Mr. Kotter, who returns to his alma mater to teach the class of problem kids and underachievers called "the sweathogs." The show launched the career of John Travolta, who played Vinnie Barbarino, and co-stars Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Robert Hegyes, Ron Pallilo, Marcia Strassman and John Sylvester White. "Up your nose with a rubber hose."