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Welcome Back, Kotter is an American sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a high-school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial education class nicknamed the Sweathogs. Recorded in front of a live studio audience , the series aired on ABC from September 9, 1975, through May 17, 1979.
Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television comedy sitcom that originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975 to June 8, 1979. [1]The show stars comedian Gabe Kaplan as the title character Gabe Kotter, a wise-cracking teacher who returns to his high school alma mater—the fictional James Buchanan High in Brooklyn, New York—to teach an often unruly group of remedial wiseguys ...
"Welcome Back" is a popular record that was the theme song of the 1970s American television sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter. [1] Written and recorded by former Lovin' Spoonful frontman John Sebastian, it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for one week in May 1976 after only five weeks on the chart, and also topped the adult contemporary chart [2] (the show itself had become an instant ...
The song is also performed in the sitcom "Welcome Back Kotter" by Gabe Kaplan and the actors playing the sweathogs: Ron Palillo, Robert Hegyes, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs and John Travolta. On October 9, 2015, the song was performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert by host Stephen Colbert and guest James Corden.
Vinnie Barbarino and Freddy “Boom-Boom” Washington reunited this week when Welcome Back, Kotter vet Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs surprised long-ago “classmate” John Travolta on the red carpet at ...
Sweathog. Sweathog was an American rock band. Group members Lenny Goldsmith and David Leonard Johnson first met in 1967 while Johnson was playing in a group called The Persuaders at the Wayne Manor nightclub in Sunnyvale, California. After Johnson did a stint with the Beach Boys and Dr. John, he reconvened with Lenny and formed Sweathog along ...
Mr. T and Tina. Mr. T and Tina is an American sitcom [ 1] and a spin-off of Welcome Back, Kotter starring Pat Morita and Susan Blanchard that aired for five episodes on ABC from September 25 to October 30, 1976. [ 2] It is one of the first television shows to feature a predominantly Asian-American cast.
Ron Palillo. Ronald Gabriel Palillo (April 2, 1949 – August 14, 2012) was an American actor and teacher. [ 3][ 4] He was best known for his role as the endearingly dim-witted character Arnold Horshack on the ABC sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979). [ 5][ 6]