The White Shadow

1. (pilot)

Air Date: 1978-11-27

Ken Reeves, a forward with the Chicago Bulls, is forced to retire after suffering a serious knee injury. His old friend and high school teammate, Jim Willis, who is principal of Carver High near L.A., drops by to offer him a job as basketball coach. Reeves is reluctant, but agrees. Among the challenges he faces with the school and the team include a female vice principal who doesn't like him and a player, James Hayward, who has a lot of potential, but also is fatherless and may have to drop out of school to go to work and take care of his mom and little brother.

2. Here's Mud in Your Eye

Air Date: 1978-12-04

Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.

3. The Offer

Air Date: 1978-12-11

4. Bonus Baby

Air Date: 1978-12-25

5. Pregnant Pause

Air Date: 1979-01-01

College scouts are impressed with Reese and believe he has a good shot at a scholarship. However, Reese's plans are put on hold when his girlfriend, a Carver cheerleader, tells him she's pregnant. Coach Reeves and the team discover her attending cheerleader practices and believe she may be lying about the pregnancy to trap Reese into marrying her.

6. Wanna Bet?

Air Date: 1979-01-08

7. That Old Gang of Mine

Air Date: 1979-01-15

after gomez gets knocked off the carver high basketball team he joins a street gang he onced belonged to

8. Just One of the Boys

Air Date: 1979-01-27

Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.

9. Airball

Air Date: 1979-02-03

The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.

10. We're in the Money

Air Date: 1979-02-10

When the team goes to Las Vegas to play in a tournament, they secretly take a pool of money collected from the students so they can gamble and return home with a fortune.

11. Spare the Rod

Air Date: 1979-02-17

Coach Reeves substitute-teaches a P.E. class, loses his temper, and hits a student, Lucius Robinson, who refuses to participate. Reeves feels guilty about the incident, learns of Lucius' troubles, and offers to help him in any way. Reeves then quickly learns that some students can't be helped when Lucius tries to rape Mrs. Buchanan.

12. The Great White Dope

Air Date: 1979-02-24

Mac Wade, a tall, white, ""can't miss"" college basketball prospect, transfers to Carver for his senior year due to re-zoning, which excites Reeves. However, Reeves discovers that Mac can't read and has been allowed a free ride through school because of his basketball skills. The problem is further compounded when Mac, who has never had to take a test in school, is caught cheating on a test and has to be suspended.

13. Mainstream

Air Date: 1979-03-05

14. Little Orphan Abner

Air Date: 1979-03-26

Goldstein's grandmother is hospitalized and his grandfather stays at the hospital with her, so Coach Reeves asks the team to check in on him at home every so often. The other guys aren't too keen on this because Goldstein really doesn't fit in with them, but they agree to check on him and, in the process, take advantage of him and his hospitality. Goldstein threatens to quit the team, and Coach Reeves gives him a lecture on standing up for himself.

15. LeGrand Finale

Air Date: 1979-04-09

The team wants to form a singing group, but elect not to include Thorpe, who begins a dating interest with Karen LeGrand, a white girl with an unsavory reputation around school.

1. On the Line

Air Date: 1979-09-17

The second season begins with Jackson, wanting to make some extra money, gets unknowingly involved with sports bookies. Things get especially difficult when they start offering him big money to shave points at Carver's games.

2. Albert Hodges

Air Date: 1979-09-24

Coach Reeves begins teaching a class on sex education, but comes under fire when he makes joking comments that Albert Hodges, a new black student who is very racially sensitive, interprets as insulting to blacks. Hodges then tries to rally the black players on the team against Reeves.

3. Cross-Town Hustle

Air Date: 1979-10-01

A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.

4. Sudden Death

Air Date: 1979-10-08

after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death

5. A Silent Cheer

Air Date: 1979-10-15

6. No Place Like Home

Air Date: 1979-10-29

after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates

7. Globetrotters

Air Date: 1979-11-05

The basketball team is on a winning streak and proceeds to showboat and run up the score on their latest opponent, prompting a tongue-lashing from Reeves. With their newfound success gone to their head, the team gets cocky with the workers at a local car wash and challenges them to a pickup game at the Carver gym. The boys are unaware that the car wash workers are really members of the Harlem Globetrotters doing a benefit and Reeves has arranged for them to show the team they're really not as good as they think.

8. Me?

Air Date: 1979-11-12

Thorpe contracts a sexually transmitted disease and has passed it onto Coolidge's girlfriend. The two of them must now tell Warren that he too must get tested.

9. Needle

Air Date: 1979-11-26

10. Sliding By

Air Date: 1979-12-03

11. Delores, Of Course

Air Date: 1979-12-18

a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker

12. A Christmas Present

Air Date: 1979-12-25

13. Feeling No Pain

Air Date: 1980-01-01

Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.

14. Artist

Air Date: 1980-01-08

a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever

15. Salami's Affair

Air Date: 1980-01-15

Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.

16. Links

Air Date: 1980-01-22

Deciding that some of the players could use a dose of class, Coach Reeves takes Coolidge, Thorpe, and Salami to an exclusive country club for a day of golfing.

17. The Stripper

Air Date: 1980-01-29

a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line

18. Gonna Fly Now

Air Date: 1980-02-05

19. Out at Home

Air Date: 1980-02-19

20. The Russians Are Coming

Air Date: 1980-02-26

A touring high school team from the then-Soviet Union comes to Carver. The players have trouble relating to the Russian players, with the exception of one Russian, whom Hayward befriends, and later wants to defect to the U.S.

21. The Hitter

Air Date: 1980-03-04

Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.

22. The Death of Me Yet

Air Date: 1980-03-11

23. Coolidge Goes Hollywood

Air Date: 1980-03-18

24. A Few Good Men

Air Date: 1980-04-01

1. Reunion (1)

Air Date: 1980-10-16

The third season begins with Coach Reeves visiting the town where he grew up and reuniting with old friends, including an old high school teammate, an old girlfriend, and his father, whose health is failing.

2. Reunion (2)

Air Date: 1980-10-23

Coach Reeves heals his strained relationship with his dying father, breaks things off once and for all with Paula, and returns to Carver for the new school year, where some new players have joined the team: Wardell Stone, Mitchell, Rutherford, Paddy Falahey, and Eddie Franklin

3. Georgia on My Mind

Air Date: 1980-10-30

getting fed up with high school coolidge tries out for the harlem globetrotters

4. If Your Number's Up, Get It Down

Air Date: 1980-12-16

5. Christmas Story

Air Date: 1980-12-23

6. No Blood, No Foul

Air Date: 1980-12-30

Salami faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing team's player's jaw during an on court brawl.

7. Vanity Fare

Air Date: 1981-01-06

8. Mister Hero

Air Date: 1981-01-13

Stone saves an elderly woman's life by rescuing her from a burning car, and the experience goes to his head after he appears on the TV news and sensationalizes the story.

9. B.M.O.C

Air Date: 1981-02-02

Coolidge starts having problems stemming from his abnormal height and size, such as normal clothes not fitting. He gets self-conscious and defensive until Coach Reeves, who has dealt with the same problems, takes him under his wing and tries to let him know he's not alone. NBA Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell guest stars.

10. Trial and Error

Air Date: 1981-02-09

Coach Reeves threatens to kick Falahey off the team when he suspects that he is missing practices and faking injuries. However, the coach himself looks like a hypocrite when he is summoned for jury duty and he tries to lie his way out of it.

11. Car Repo

Air Date: 1981-02-16

Salami and Vitaglia take on a part-time job reposessing cars, but the ungodly work hours and the harassments from the car owners affect both their performances in school and on the basketball court.

12. Psyched Out

Air Date: 1981-02-23

A female teacher with a past history of mental illness and nervous breakdowns is tormented by a psychotic student.

13. Cops

Air Date: 1981-03-02

An elderly woman is mugged on the street at night by two big, tall black men, and the description she gives the police matches both Coolidge and Franklin, who happen to be out on the town that night. The police apprehend the two with Thorpe looking on. Thorpe observes what appears to be police brutality, reaches into his pocket to get a pen to write the cops' car number, and is shot by one of them.

14. Burnout

Air Date: 1981-03-09

Carver's baseball coach, who also teaches English, begins to experience teacher burnout. He begins handing out free grades, which hurts Rutherford, who works hard in his class. Vitaglia, too, is disappointed in his attitude because he wants to try out for the baseball team.

15. A Day in the Life

Air Date: 1981-03-16

Goldstein, Gomez, Hayward, and Reese all return for an ""alumni"" exhibition game, amid all the troubles the four have encountered in ""real life"" since graduating. Hayward is in college and wants to go to law school, but doesn't believe he'll be given the chance because of his skin color. Goldstein, after a year in the Marines, now believes he has the confidence to ask out a girl he admired while at Carver. Gomez is struggling to make ends meet as a car mechanic with a pregnant wife. And, finally, Reese is bouncing from job to job until he finally finds his niche as a phone counselor at a suicide prevention center.