The White Shadow
1978–1981
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MTM EnterprisesCompany Four
Seasons
Season 1
- E1 (pilot) 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.
- E2 Here's Mud in Your Eye Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.
- E3 The Offer
- E4 Bonus Baby
- E5 Pregnant Pause 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.
- E6 Wanna Bet?
- E7 That Old Gang of Mine after gomez gets knocked off the carver high basketball team he joins a street gang he onced belonged to
- E8 Just One of the Boys Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.
- E9 Airball The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.
- E10 We're in the Money 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.
- E11 Spare the Rod 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.
- E12 The Great White Dope 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.
- E13 Mainstream
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E14
Little Orphan Abner
- E15 LeGrand Finale 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.
Season 2
- E1 On the Line 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.
- E2 Albert Hodges 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.
- E3 Cross-Town Hustle A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.
- E4 Sudden Death after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death
- E5 A Silent Cheer
- E6 No Place Like Home after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates
- E7 Globetrotters 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.
- E8 Me? 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.
- E9 Needle
- E10 Sliding By
- E11 Delores, Of Course a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker
- E12 A Christmas Present
- E13 Feeling No Pain Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.
- E14 Artist a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever
- E15 Salami's Affair Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.
- E16 Links 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.
- E17 The Stripper a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line
- E18 Gonna Fly Now
- E19 Out at Home
- E20 The Russians Are Coming 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.
- E21 The Hitter Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.
- E22 The Death of Me Yet?
- E23 Coolidge Goes Hollywood
- E24 A Few Good Men
Season 3
- E1 Reunion (1) 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.
- E2 Reunion (2) 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
- E3 Georgia on My Mind getting fed up with high school coolidge tries out for the harlem globetrotters
- E4 If Your Number's Up, Get It Down
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E5
Christmas Story
- E6 No Blood, No Foul Salami faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing team's player's jaw during an on court brawl.
- E7 Vanity Fare
- E8 Mister Hero 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.
- E9 B.M.O.C 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.
- E10 Trial and Error 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.
- E11 Car Repo 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.
- E12 Psyched Out A female teacher with a past history of mental illness and nervous breakdowns is tormented by a psychotic student.
- E13 Cops 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.
- E14 Burnout 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.
- E15 A Day in the Life 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.
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