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Season: 1  |  2  |  3  |  4
Year: 1975  |  1976  |  1977  |  1978  |  1979


Season 1


Season 1, Episode 1: The Great Debate

Original Air Date—9 September 1975
Kotter arranges a debate between the Sweathogs and the debate team.

Season 1, Episode 2: Basket Case

Original Air Date—16 September 1975
Kotter is pressured to give Boom-Boom a passing grade on his exam, which he fails, so that he can continue to play on the basketball team.

"Welcome Back, Kotter" (1975): Season 1: Episode 3 -- Clip: Season 3 - Episode 20 - There's No Business Like Show Business: Part 1
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Season 1, Episode 3: Welcome Back (Pilot)

Original Air Date—23 September 1975
Gabriel Kotter is a teacher in Brooklyn, New York who ends up teaching at his old alma mater: Buchanan High School. He has been assigned to teach the remedial students, better known as the Sweathogs, a group to which he used to belong.

Season 1, Episode 4: Whodunit?

Original Air Date—30 September 1975
Rosalie fakes shes pregnant in order to make the sweathogs confess she did not fool around with them.

Season 1, Episode 5: The Election

Original Air Date—7 October 1975
Vinnie runs for class president.

Season 1, Episode 6: No More Mr. Nice Guy

Original Air Date—14 October 1975
Mr. Woodman and Mr. Kotter reverse roles. Mr. Woodman starts being nice to the sweathogs, and Mr. Kotter starts getting mean to them.

Season 1, Episode 7: Classroom Marriage

Original Air Date—21 October 1975
Freddie and Vernajean wants to quit school to get married. So Mr. Kotter has them act out a marriage in class.

Season 1, Episode 8: One of Our Sweathogs Is Missing

Original Air Date—28 October 1975
Epstein loses a fight to Todd Ludlow, he feels so ashamed about it he runs away.

Season 1, Episode 9: Mr. Kotter, Teacher

Original Air Date—4 November 1975
Mr. Kotter is suspended because Mr. Woodman doesn't like his teaching methods.

Season 1, Episode 10: The Reunion

Original Air Date—18 November 1975
Mr. Kotter dreads an old successful classmate coming to dinner.

Season 1, Episode 11: Barbarino's Girl

Original Air Date—25 November 1975
Mr. Kotter talks Judy into tutoring Barbarino. The two eventually become friends, but Barbarino doesn't want the other Sweathogs to know about it.

Season 1, Episode 12: California Dreamin'

Original Air Date—2 December 1975
A new girl sweathog arrives and has all the boy sweathogs in heat.

Season 1, Episode 13: Arrividerci, Arnold

Original Air Date—16 December 1975
When it is announced that Horshack has graduated out of the Sweathogs and into regular classes, Kotter instructs the remaining Sweathogs to shun him so that he can meet people in his new classes.

Season 1, Episode 14: The Longest Weekend

Original Air Date—6 January 1976
Kotter begins to behave erratically when he learns that Julie will be going on a weekend ski trip, marking the first time that they've been separated since their marriage.

Season 1, Episode 15: The Sit-In

Original Air Date—13 January 1976

Season 1, Episode 16: Follow the Leader: Part 1

Original Air Date—20 January 1976
Sweathogs tapping at the window for breakfast, coupled with the love, attention and time Mr. Kotter lavishes upon his students finally drive the neglected Julie to leave Gabe. Meanwhile, Kotter's classroom lesson on democracy goes awry when the Sweathogs vote Barbarino out and Freddie in as their new leader, provoking the rejected Vinnie to drop out of school.

Season 1, Episode 17: Follow the Leader: Part 2

Original Air Date—22 January 1976
Mr. Kotter seeks to reconcile with Julie, Freddie's leadership of the Sweathogs evokes the adage of absolute power corrupting absolutely and Barbarino weighs humility versus being a high school dropout and door-to-door Tidy-Didy cleanser salesman.

Season 1, Episode 18: Dr. Epstein, I Presume

Original Air Date—29 January 1976

Season 1, Episode 19: One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Original Air Date—5 February 1976

Season 1, Episode 20: The Telethon

Original Air Date—12 February 1976

Season 1, Episode 21: Kotter Makes Good

Original Air Date—19 February 1976
Mr. Woodman gleefully informs Kotter that there are no records of his having completed his senior exams, so Kotter has to take the tests alongside his Sweathogs, who commit to tutoring him.

Season 1, Episode 22: Father Vinnie

Original Air Date—26 February 1976
Vinnie's 87 year old grandmother is in the hospital possibly on her death bed. When his grandmother dies he decides he must honor her death bed request of him and become a priest. He now walks the hallways of Buchanan telling everyone he loves them and organizing prayer meetings. But what is he to do when faced with an after school date with Bambi? Kotter and the rest of the guys must convince Vinnie that he just isn't cut out to be a priest.

Season 2


Season 2, Episode 1: Career Day

Original Air Date—23 September 1976

Season 2, Episode 2: Inherit the Halibut

Original Air Date—30 September 1976

Season 2, Episode 3: Sweatside Story

Original Air Date—7 October 1976

Season 2, Episode 4: The Fight

Original Air Date—21 October 1976

Season 2, Episode 5: The Museum

Original Air Date—28 October 1976
The Sweathogs go on a field trip to a museum and meet its mysterious curator.

Season 2, Episode 6: Gabe Under Pressure

Original Air Date—4 November 1976

Season 2, Episode 7: Sweathog, Nebraska Style

Original Air Date—11 November 1976
Julie's sister from Nebraska visits and enrolls at Buchanan. She wants to be in Gabe's class and develops a fondness for Epstein...much to Julie's dismay.

Season 2, Episode 8: Sadie Hawkins Day

Original Air Date—18 November 1976

Season 2, Episode 9: Hello Ms. Chips

Original Air Date—2 December 1976

Season 2, Episode 10: Horshack vs. Carvelli

Original Air Date—9 December 1976

Season 2, Episode 11: Sweathog Clinic for the Cure of Smoking

Original Air Date—16 December 1976
The Sweathogs try to convince Epstein to give up his smoking habit.

Season 2, Episode 12: Hark, the Sweatkings

Original Air Date—23 December 1976

Season 2, Episode 13: A Love Story

Original Air Date—30 December 1976
Juan's younger sister is enrolled in Kotter's class and Arnold is immediately attracted to her, but so is Vinnie, and this drives Juan crazy. Freddie is also in a romantic mood and Kotter sees it as an opportunity to teach the Sweathogs about love.

Season 2, Episode 14: Caruso's Way

Original Air Date—6 January 1977

Season 2, Episode 15: Sweatgate Scandal

Original Air Date—13 January 1977

Season 2, Episode 16: Kotter and Son

Original Air Date—20 January 1977

Season 2, Episode 17: Chicken a la Kotter

Original Air Date—27 January 1977

Season 2, Episode 18: Has Anyone Seen Arnold?

Original Air Date—3 February 1977

Season 2, Episode 19: There Goes Number 5

Original Air Date—3 February 1977

Season 2, Episode 20: The Littlest Sweathog

Original Air Date—10 February 1977

Season 2, Episode 21: Radio Free Freddie

Original Air Date—17 February 1977

Season 2, Episode 22: I'm Having Their Baby

Original Air Date—24 February 1977

Season 2, Episode 23: I Wonder Who's Kissing Gabe Now

Original Air Date—3 March 1977

Season 3


Season 3, Episode 1: Sweathog Back-to-School Special

Original Air Date—10 September 1977

Season 3, Episode 2: And Baby Makes Four: Part 1

Original Air Date—15 September 1977

Season 3, Episode 3: And Baby Makes Four: Part 2

Original Air Date—15 September 1977

Season 3, Episode 4: And Baby Makes Four: Part 3

Original Air Date—22 September 1977

Season 3, Episode 5: Brother, Can You Spare a Million?

Original Air Date—29 September 1977

Season 3, Episode 6: Just Testing

Original Air Date—6 October 1977

Season 3, Episode 7: The Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack

Original Air Date—13 October 1977

Season 3, Episode 8: What a Move

Original Air Date—20 October 1977
The Kotters are looking for a new apartment and having no luck. Juan has an answer to their problem. His Uncle owns a building in a good neighborhood at the right price. The gang helps the Kotters move in and everything seems to be going great...until Moe Epstein tells them that there are no babies allowed.

Season 3, Episode 9: A Novel Idea

Original Air Date—27 October 1977

Season 3, Episode 10: Barbarino in Love: Part 1

Original Air Date—3 November 1977

Season 3, Episode 11: Barbarino in Love: Part 2

Original Air Date—10 November 1977

Season 3, Episode 12: Kotter for Vice Principal

Original Air Date—17 November 1977

Season 3, Episode 13: Swine and Punishment

Original Air Date—24 November 1977

Season 3, Episode 14: Epstein's Madonna

Original Air Date—8 December 1977

Season 3, Episode 15: A Sweathog Christmas Special

Original Air Date—15 December 1977

Season 3, Episode 16: Sweatwork

Original Air Date—22 December 1977

Season 3, Episode 17: Meet Your New Teacher: Batteries Not Included

Original Air Date—5 January 1978

Season 3, Episode 18: Angie

Original Air Date—12 January 1978

Season 3, Episode 19: Epstein's Term Paper

Original Air Date—19 January 1978

Season 3, Episode 20: There's No Business: Part 1

Original Air Date—26 January 1978

Season 3, Episode 21: There's No Business: Part 2

Original Air Date—2 February 1978

Season 3, Episode 22: What Goes Up

Original Air Date—9 February 1978
Freddie is prescribed painkillers to treat a nagging injury he suffered playing basketball ... and soon becomes hooked. His friends become concerned about Freddie's increasingly scary behavior, but "Boom-Boom" tries to brush them off - after all, it's just "vitamins." What becomes even more scary is that Horshack blindly believes his friend's explanation, even though it becomes clear that Freddie needs help before something goes horribly wrong.

Season 3, Episode 23: Goodbye, Mr. Kripps

Original Air Date—16 February 1978

Season 3, Episode 24: Horshack and the Madame X

Original Air Date—23 February 1978

Season 3, Episode 25: The Kiss

Original Air Date—9 March 1978

Season 3, Episode 26: The Return of Hotsy Totsy

Original Air Date—11 May 1978

Season 3, Episode 27: Class Encounters of the Carvelli Kind

Original Air Date—18 May 1978

Season 4


Season 4, Episode 1: The Drop-Ins: Part 1

Original Air Date—11 September 1978

Season 4, Episode 2: The Drop-Ins: Part 2

Original Air Date—11 September 1978

Season 4, Episode 3: Beau's Jest

Original Air Date—18 September 1978

Season 4, Episode 4: Don't Come Up and See Me Sometime

Original Air Date—25 September 1978

Season 4, Episode 5: Once Upon a Ledge

Original Air Date—2 October 1978

Season 4, Episode 6: The Sweatmobile

Original Air Date—9 October 1978

Season 4, Episode 7: Barbarino's Boo-Boo

Original Air Date—21 October 1978

Season 4, Episode 8: X-Rated Education

Original Air Date—28 October 1978

Season 4, Episode 9: The Barbarino Blues

Original Air Date—4 November 1978

Season 4, Episode 10: Washington's Clone

Original Air Date—11 November 1978

Season 4, Episode 11: Frog Day Afternoon

Original Air Date—25 November 1978

Season 4, Episode 12: A Little Fright Music

Original Air Date—2 December 1978

Season 4, Episode 13: A Winter's Coat Tale

Original Air Date—16 December 1978

Season 4, Episode 14: Bride and Gloom

Original Air Date—13 January 1979

Season 4, Episode 15: Barbarino's Baby

Original Air Date—3 February 1979

Season 4, Episode 16: The Goodbye Guy

Original Air Date—10 February 1979

Season 4, Episode 17: Come Back, Little Arnold

Original Air Date—24 February 1979

Season 4, Episode 18: The Sweat Smell of Success

Original Air Date—3 March 1979

Season 4, Episode 19: The Gang Show

Original Air Date—17 March 1979

Season 4, Episode 20: Oo, Oo, I Do: Part 1

Original Air Date—25 May 1979

Season 4, Episode 21: Oo, Oo, I Do: Part 2

Original Air Date—25 May 1979

Season 4, Episode 22: I'm Okay, But You're Not

Original Air Date—1 June 1979

Season 4, Episode 23: The Breadwinners

Original Air Date—8 June 1979
Epstein has a job prospect, but Washington unknowingly takes the job before Epstein gets a chance to interview. Their friendship is in danger, and they decide to settle their differences through a fight at the local spa.

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