Gabe Kaplan as Gabe Kotter
Episodes 95
Hosted by Marcia Strassman. Everybody is back to talk about the show (except, predictably, Travolta) with some fun memories and stories about the production. As well, there are some cool original screen tests for the major characters.
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The Great Debate
The sweathogs out debate a smarter debate class.
Read MoreWelcome Back (Pilot)
A flashback recalls Gabe's first meeting with his class. The Sweathogs Out Debate A Superior Class.
Read MoreBasket Case
Gabe insists that basketball ace Washington pass his social-studies test.
Read MoreThe Election
Barbarino is running for Student Body President but his campain turns into disaster.
Read MoreNo More Mister Nice Guy
After returning to his roots by taking over the Sweathogs' history class for a day, Mr. Woodman turns into a nice guy; and Kotter turns into the new Mr. Woodman.
Read MoreClassroom Marriage
With Vernajean's family moving, she and Freddie decide that they must get married in order to stay together. Their classmates act out married life to discourage the young couple.
Read MoreOne of Our Sweathogs Is Missing
After losing a fight with Todd Ludlow, Juan is made fun of by his fellow Sweathogs. His feelings and his pride hurt, he runs away -- to the Kotters' bathroom.
Read MoreMr. Kotter, Teacher
Gabe's teaching theories in question, he is temporarily suspended. The Sweathogs, liable to lose their teacher, come to his defense.
Read MoreThe Reunion
Gabe is less than thrilled when an old too-perfect classmate, and his too-perfect wife, decide to pay him a visit.
Read MoreBarbarino's Girl
In order to bring up Vinnie's grades, Judy Borden, highly unpopular with the Sweathogs, is called in to tutor him. But when the two start liking one another, problems arise.
Read MoreCalifornia Dreamin'
The sweathogs go bananas over Bambi, a pretty blonde girl from California. We get some very funny scenes of the guys in various costumes: Epstein as a guru, Freddy in a colorful shirt, Horshack as a movie producer, and Vinnie as a surfer. When Mr. Kotter gets fed-up with them disrupting the class, it's revealed that Bambi was just pretending to be from California in order to get attention.
Read MoreArrividerci, Arnold
Arnold is promoted to a regular class, but is less than happy about the forced transition.
Read MoreThe Longest Weekend
When Julie goes away on a ski trip with a friend, stories from the Sweathogs and Mr. Woodman lead Gabe to be worried about the possibility of Julie cheating on him while she is away.
Read MoreThe Sit-In
The Sweathogs, diverged from a food-fight, hold a sit-in to protest the school cafetieria's Wednesday liver.
Read MoreFollow The Leader (1)
The class votes to make Freddie the new leader of the Sweathogs, taking Vinnie down a notch. Vinnie becomes so upset with the loss of his title that he quits school. When his parents become aware of this, they kick him out, and he ends up staying with the Kotters; much to the dismay of Julie, who is growing tired of the Sweathogs constantly occupying Gabe's attention and life, never leaving them any time alone together. Angry, she leaves to go to a hotel.
Read MoreFollow The Leader (2)
The sweathogs soon tire of Freddy as leader. Mr. Woodman even admits that he misses Barbarino. Julie and Vinnie turn up at the apartment, and Mr. Kotter has a heartfelt talk with them about the situation. Fortunately, all is forgiven, with Julie moving back home and Vinnie returning to class.
Read MoreDr. Epstein, I Presume
Juan, because of his love for animals, decides that he would like to be a veterinarian. A guidance couselor quickly thwarts his dream, until he performs an emergency operation on his pet hamster.
Read MoreOne Flu Over The Cuckoo's Nest
A flu epidemic hits Buchannan and everybody gets sick except for Kotter, Horshack and a few students in the other classes. In the end, the few healthy students team up with the remaining Sweathogs in the classroom.
Read MoreThe Telethon
Kotter and the ""Sweathogs"" raise a telethon to raise $700 for new supplies. If not the remiedial class will be cut.
Read MoreKotter Makes Good
Gabe is forced to take final exams when it's revealed by Mr. Woodman that he wasn't really qualified to graduate when he did.
Read MoreFather Vinnie
Vinnie's grandmother's dying wish is for him to become a priest, and he takes the request seriously, until the strain of being holy becomes too much for him.
Read MoreCareer Day
On career day, an inventor who is treated poorly by the Sweathogs offers a well-paying job to Gabe.
Read MoreInherit The Halibut
Freddie, class treasurer, is accused of stealing funds, and an impromptue trial is held in the classroom.
Read MoreSweatside Story
The Sweathogs form a gang, but won't let Arnold in until the night of their first rumble, and Arnold, against the idea of being killed, brings along Gabe and Mr. Woodman in order to prevent the fight.
Read MoreThe Museum
Mr. Kotter takes the sweathogs on a field trip to a museum. Mrs. Kotter and Mr. Woodman are along as chaperones. They meet the unusual museum curator Mr.Gore (John Astin) who seems odd and superstitious. In the Egyptian display, he warns them of the mummy coming back to life if they joke and kid around. Naturally, the door shuts itself and everyone is trapped. They humorously begin to panic and make attempts to get out. Epstein manages to get the door open.
Read MoreGabe Under Pressure
Gabe is afraid to get a physical when the free clinic comes to Buchanan High.
Read MoreSweathog, Nebraska Style
Julie's visiting sister, recently at odds with her long-time boyfriend, falls for Juan.
Read MoreSadie Hawkins Day
A girl wants to ask Vinnie to the Sadie Hawkins Day dance, but his insensitivity leads her to ask Arnold in retaliation, leaving Vinnie with no date at all.
Read MoreHello, Ms. Chips
The new student teacher discovers that all her training to work with remedial children hasn't prepared her for dealing with the Sweathogs.
Read MoreHorshack vs. Carvelli
When the opportunity to fight Carvelli in a boxing match arises, Arnold wants to be the one to do it; and when the other Sweathogs put down his manhood, he is even more determined to prove himself by getting in the ring.
Read MoreSweathog Clinic for the Cure of Smoking
Epstein is caught smoking cigarettes. Gabe and the sweathogs try to get him to stop.
Read MoreHark, the Sweatkings
At Christmas time, the Sweathogs are all too eager to tease resident bum Angie. But after Angie tells his life story to the class, they have a change of heart, and decide to help him get back up on his feet.
Read MoreA Love Story
When Juan's sister Carmen joines the Sweathogs, she catches the eye of Arnold, but Carmen is only interested in Vinnie. Juan, meanwhile, is displeased with the entire situation, and is ready to kill anybody who dares to lay a hand on his baby sister.
Read MoreCaruso's Way
Vinnie's goofing off in gym gets him in trouble with the teacher, Mr. Caruso, who's reprimending after class gets out of hand when he hits Vinnie in front of the girls' locker room.
Read MoreSweatgate Scandal
Tired of the way the school newspaper is always putting them down, the Sweathogs join the staff in order to redeem themselves; and the crack investigative team of ""Vinstein"" (Vinnie and Juan) are hot on the trail of the culprit behind the recent break-in of Principal Lazarus's office.
Read MoreKotter and Son
Gabe's overly-critical father comes for a visit and, unconvinced that his son has chosen a worthwhile career, goes with Gabe to school in order to watch him in action with his Sweathogs.
Read MoreChicken a la Kotter
Gabe, in need of money for a root canal, takes a second job as a restaurant mascot.
Read MoreHas Anyone Seen Arnold? (1)
For the school drama festival, Gabe is going to direct a scene from Cyrano de Bergerac. Arnold is set to play the lead, but recieves only heckling and ridicule from his fellow Sweathogs; and when Arnold turns up missing, Vinnie is forced to take his place on stage.
Read MoreThere Goes Number 5 (2)
When Arnold finally shows back up at school, it's discovered that his absence was due to the recent death of his fifth father. A feeling of responsibility within him, Arnold sets out to find a job to help support his siblings and his mother, who's only priority lies in finding a replacement father for her kids.
Read MoreThe Littlest Sweathog
Gabe and Julie find out that they are going to have a baby.
Read MoreRadio Free Freddie
It seems that Freddie has a future in radio, but he may also risk losing his friends for fame.
Read MoreI'm Having Their Baby
With Gabe away at a teacher's convention, the Sweathogs take it upon themselves to watch over the pregnant Julie...but the harder they try to make Julie comfortable, the more trouble they seem to cause.
Read MoreI Wonder Who's Kissing Gabe Now?
The art teacher falls in love with Gabe.
Read MoreThe Return of Hotsy Totsy
Rosalie ""Hotsy"" Totsy has grown up ... a little too fast. The Sweathogs go to a local strip club on a dare, and learn that Hotsy has gotten a job performing there (yup, she bares all, unknowingly in front of her former classmates).
Vinnie, Freddie and Epstein all ride Hotsy's case, but Arnold is sensitive to her plight. Seems that, during a coversation with her former teacher Gabe, Rosalie really lived up to her nickname one night and got pregnant. And getting a job at a strip joint is the only way for this single mother (the baby's father had left Hotsy) to support her child.
Gabe and Arnold convince the others to give Hotsy Totsy moral support, and they also refer her to a social agency which can help her finish school and find a more meaningful job.
Read MoreAnd Baby Makes Four (1)
Julie goes into labor.
Read MoreAnd Baby Makes Four (2)
Julie gives birth to twin girls.
Read MoreAnd Baby Makes Four (3)
Julie's parents come to see the babies.
Read MoreSweathogs Back-to-School Special
The Sweathogs and administrators at James Buchanan High reminisce about Gabe's past two years at the school. Past episodes are recalled through flashbacks.
Read MoreBrother, Can You Spare a Million?
Emotions mix when it seems that the Sweathogs may win the lottery.
Read MoreJust Testing
Everybody helps Vinnie cram for a make-up test.
Read MoreThe Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack
Arnold is accepted into a religious cult. Mr. Kotter and the three other sweathogs try to get Arnold to snap out of it. Eventually, he does and goes back to his former self, complete with his trademark laugh.
Read MoreWhat a Move
Juan, with the help of his uncle, hooks the Kotters up with a new apartment.
Read MoreA Novel Idea
The characters in Mr. Woodman's new novel seem to have an awful lot in common with the Sweathogs...
Read MoreBarbarino in Love (1)
During a talent competition, Vinnie falls for a girl who the Sweathogs are competing against, and starts spending more time with her then rehearsing with the Sweathogs.
Read MoreBarbarino in Love (2)
Vinnie is torn between trying to win the talent competition, or letting his new girlfriend beat him.
Read MoreKotter for Vice Principal
Kotter has a dream about life when the Sweathogs are old.
Read MoreSwine and Punishment
Freddie cheats on an English test.
Read MoreClass Encounter of the Carvelli Kind
When Carvelli and Murray come on as exchange students, Carvelli seemingly goes crazy with stories of aliens.
Read MoreSweathog Christmas Special
At Christmas time, the gang reminisces over past episodes.
Read MoreEpstein's Madonna
Juan paints a great masterpiece on the walls of the school.
Read MoreMeet Your New Teacher: Batteries Not Included
The Sweathogs' new tutor is a computer. Despite initial raises in grades, Gabe becomes displeased with the machine, as it is turning him obsolete to the class.
Read MoreEpstein's Term Paper
Juan buys four term papers - one for each Sweathog - from Carvelli, only to end up with an essay that Gabe had turned in eleven years earlier.
Read MoreThere's No Business Like Show Business (1)
Gabe finds success as a stand-up comic, using material regarding the Sweathogs. But when the oppportunity for a full-time comedy gig arises, it could mean the end of his teaching career.
Read MoreThere's No Business Like Show Business (2)
Gabe must choose between the comedy life, or his life at Buchanan.
Read MoreWhat Goes Up
Freddie becomes addicted to drugs after taking prescribed pain killers. Despite the other Sweathogs' best efforts, the only thing that can bring Freddie around is Arnold's faith in him...and in his ""vitamin pills.""
Read MoreGood-Bye, Mr. Kripps
Mr. Kripps, the shop teacher, has a heart attack and dies while yelling at Vinnie, who blames himself for the man's death.
Read MoreHorshack and the Madame X
Arnold, saddened by the rejection he keeps recieving from the opposite sex, gets advice and comfort from Julie before quickly falling in love with her.
Read MoreDon't Come Up and See Me Sometime
Vinnie throws the Sweathogs out of his new apartment.
Read MoreThe Sweatmobile
The Sweathogs remember how they tried to buy a used car from Vinnie's uncle.
Read MoreThe Drop-Ins (2)
With Barbarino now an ordlery at a hospital, the Sweathogs try to get jobs there, too. Meanwhile, Kotter tries to get the gang to return to school.
Read MoreBeau's Jest
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Once Upon a Ledge
Horshack saves a lonely, overlooked girl named Mary Johnson from commiting suicide by jumping off the ledge of the school.
Read MoreFrog Day Afternoon
After Horshack refuses to disect a frog in class, his grade is in jeopardy.
Read MoreBarbarino's Boo-Boo
When Mr. Woodman comes to Vinnie's hospital for an operation, Vinnie loses him and he and the other Sweathogs try to find him.
Read MoreX-Rated Education
The gang is liable to get in trouble when the x-rated film Carvelli brought into school is accidentally mixed up with a film on sexual education.
Read MoreThe Barbarino Blues
Vinnie becomes depressed when it seems that he has lost his way with women.
Read MoreWashington's Clone
A younger student begins to imitate Freddie, not much to Freddie's liking.
Read MoreThe Drop-Ins (1)
Gabe announces that he is now the vice-principal and Mr. Woodman is the principal. The Sweathogs are pleased, until Gabe gets strict. After Vinnie visits the school to tell the gang he's dropped out, the other Sweathogs decide to follow in his footsteps.
Read MoreA Little Fright Music
The Sweathogs opt to change Mr. Woodman's tired old school song.
Read MoreA Winter's Coat Tail
Vinnie is saddened when his new coat is stolen.
Read MoreBride and Gloom
Juan asks Vinnie to marry his immigrant cousin.
Read MoreBarbarino's Baby
Vinnie is forced to deliver a baby in an elevator.
Read MoreThe Goodbye Guy
Mr. Woodman's niece Kelly is babysitting for the Kotters when Juan drops by the apartment. The two abruptly fall in love and decide to move in together, but the romance begins to crumble when it seems that they can't respect one another's interests.
Read MoreCome Back, Little Arnold
To get up his nerve with Mary, Carvelli offers Arnold liquor. He doesn't like the idea at first, but as time goes on, he becomes addicted to drinking; developing a scary and unlikable new personality that only turns Mary away.
Read MoreThe Sweat Smell of Success
Convinced that the school newspaper is too dull, Juan sets out to turn it into a tabloid, bringing down his friends' names in the process.
Read MoreThe Gang Show
Freddie and Juan plan to do an act together for the upcoming talent contest, while Carvelli has some bribed judges up his sleeves. Arnold and Beau take over as judges, leaving Murray in the third spot.
Read MoreOo, Oo, I Do (1)
Arnold's relationship with Mary gets serious. Then he finds out he has to move and leave the school. Upset, Arnold decides to propose marriage to Mary. She accepts.
Read MoreOo, Oo, I Do (2)
Arnold gets upset when the other Sweathogs tease him about not being able to provide for Mary, and he vanishes. Mary finds him and convinces him not to worry, and the two get married.
Read MoreI'm Okay, But You're Not
Beau plays a number or pranks on Mr. Woodman.
Read MoreThe Breadwinners
While Horshack adjusts the married life, Epstein sets up an interview for a job. Washington gets the job before Epstein, unaware that it's the same job. The two get into a fight and end up in a gym ready to box.
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