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The White Shadow Episode Guide

1 :01x01 - Pilot

First aired: Nov/27/1978
Writer: Bruce Paltrow
Director: Jackie Cooper
Guest star: Gerry Black (Store Owner), Bethel Leslie (Mrs. Lawrence), Marilyn Coleman (Mrs. Hayward), Bob Love (Himself), Jerry Sloan (Himself)

With his pro career ended due to a knee injury, Ken Reeves is offered a chance to coach an innner city high school basketball team.



2 :01x02 - Here's Mud in Your Eye

First aired: Dec/04/1978
Writer: Bruce Paltrow
Director: Jackie Cooper, Chuck Arnold
Guest star: Sari Rice (Receptionist), Montana Smoyer (Master of ceremonies), Jan Hill (Girl), Lincoln Kilpatrick (Reverend Jackson)

Coach Reeves needs help when he discovers that Jackson has a drinking probelm and refuses to get help.



3 :01x03 - The Offer

First aired: Dec/11/1978
Writer: Mark Rubin
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Guest star: Lupe Ontiveros (Mrs. Gomes), Alan Rachins (Director), Ed Grover (Himself), Ken Letner (Policeman), Lew Brown (Probation Officer), Chick Hearn (Himself), Fawne Harriman (Sally Adams)

A newswoman tempts Reeves with the offer to do a sport commentary job.



4 :01x04 - Bonus Baby

First aired: Dec/25/1978
Director: Jackie Cooper
Guest star: Hilda Haynes (Mrs. Coolidge), Robert Phalen (Doug Batty), Duane Ladage (Student), Art Metrano (Walt Preston), Joe Petrullo (Delivery Man), Fred Slyter (Jewelry Salesman), Tony Monaco (Man), Annazette Chase (Maria), Charles Robinson (Jackie Solomon), Chris Wallace (Car Salesman), Nick Angotti (Announcer), George N. Neise (Maitre'd)

Coolidge wins the Most Valuable Player trophy after the team loses in a tournament and a sports agent uses a girl to get Coolidge to help with his career.



5 :01x05 - Pregnant Pause

First aired: Jan/01/1979
Writer: Steven Bochco
Director: Jackie Cooper
Guest star: Naomi Caryl (Nurse Haskell), Ren Woods (Darlene Robinson), Gail Cameron (Ms. Tyler)

Reese's chance at college is up in the air after learning that his girlfriend is expecting his baby. The others learn about it when Thorpe tells everybody.



6 :01x06 - Wanna Bet?

First aired: Jan/08/1979
Writer: Michael Kane
Director: Jackie Cooper
Guest star: Dennis Haysbert (Basketball Player), Mark Woods (Baskteball Player), David Himes (Detective #1), Mary Moon (Jenny), Justin De Rosa (Larry), Lionel Decker (Detective #2), Leone James (Helen), Booth Colman (Pawnbroker), Len Ross (Cop), Simmy Bow (Pete), Michael Warren (Robert Magnum), Richard Marcus (Benny), Richard Reicheg (Carmine)

After getting a young hot shot basketball player to enroll at Carver, Reeves now has to deal with the baggage that he brings with him.



7 :01x07 - That Old Gang of Mine

First aired: Jan/15/1979
Writer: Mark Rubin, Gary Kott
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Guest star: Alma Beltran (Spanish woman), Gloria Calomee (Mrs. Newkirk), Robert Huerta (Aztec # 4), James Victor (**Unknown**), Carmen Zapata (Mrs. Alvarez), Lisle Wilson (Mr. Finninan), Lupe Ontiveros (Mrs. Gomez), Peter Aguilar (Gang Member), David Hernandez (Juan), Nate Jones (Student), J. Christopher Sullivan (Teacher), Jesse Dizon (Aztec), Manuel Padillo (Aztec# 3), Scott Garrett (Student), Leonard Lightfoot (Teacher), Sharon James (Secretary)

Gomez is taken off the team for his low grades and considers returning to the Aztecs, his old street gang.



8 :01x08 - Just One of the Boys

First aired: Jan/27/1979
Writer: John Falsey
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Guest star: Sue Casey (Mrs. Collins), Bruce Weitz (Joe Kelly), Peter Horton (Raymond Horton), Eugene Lee (Student), Jonathan Frakes (Basketball Player)

A new transfer to Carver's basketball carries the rumor that he is homosexual.



9 :01x09 - Airball

First aired: Feb/03/1979
Writer: Mark Rubin
Director: Jackie Cooper
Guest star: Nick LaTour (Skycap), Paul Tuerpé (Co-Pilot), Jonelle Allen (Flight Attendant), Shane Sinutko (Young Boy), Penelope Willis (Counter Girl), Jenny Sullivan (Woman), James Gallery (Business Man)

A plane trip to a basketball tournament is overshadowed with the plane's mechanical troubles.



10 :01x10 - We're in the Money

First aired: Feb/10/1979
Writer: Mark Tinker
Director: Mark Tinker

While in Las Vegas for a basketball tournament, Morris takes bets from school to win money gambling at night.



11 :01x11 - Spare the Rod

First aired: Feb/17/1979
Writer: Mark Rubin
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Renny Temple (Mr. Harris), Leonard Lightfoot (Teacher), Kenny Ellis (Student), Philip Sterling (Lee Burns), Jeff Bannister (Referee), Robert Moloney (Mr. Ellis), Royce Wallace (Mrs. Robinson), Brian Stokes Mitchell (Lucius Robinson), Nicholas Mele (Teacher), Lisle Wilson (Mr. Finninan), Larry "Flash" Jenkins (Student), Fred Pinkard (Mr. Robinson)

Coach Reeves punches a boy out in self defense.



12 :01x12 - The Great White Dope

First aired: Feb/24/1979
Writer: John Falsey
Director: Michael Zinberg
Guest star: Carlos Palomino (Himself), Robert Costanzo (Mr. Pettrino), Bob Basso (Bouncer), Bobby Bass (Fight Ref)

Coach Reeves tries to using boxing to help Salami after he gets into a bar fight.



13 :01x13 - Mainstream

First aired: Mar/05/1979
Writer: George Geiger
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Jason Green (Tom Hendricks), Barbara Babcock (Ms. Simpson), Ketty Lester (Mrs. Hendricks), James Cromwell (Mr. Hamilton)

An autistic boy is placed on the team as part of a new mainstream program.



14 :01x14 - Little Orphan Abner

First aired: Mar/26/1979
Writer: John Falsey
Director: Ernest Pintoff
Guest star: Ernie Hudson (Johnson), Michael Pataki (Rabbi), John Bleifer (Grandpa), Eugene Lee (Bobby), Eda Reiss Merin (Grandma)

The team try to help Goldstein after his grandparents are placed in the hospital.



15 :01x15 - LeGrand Finale

First aired: Apr/09/1979
Writer: Mark Rubin
Director: Mark Tinker
Guest star: Alexandra Johnson (karen legrand)

Morris has a trouble as he develop feelings for a white girl with a reputation.



16 :02x01 - On the Line

First aired: Sep/17/1979
Director: Mark Tinker
Guest star: David Raynr (Harold Witherspoon), Ralph Wilcox (Jackie), Deborah Lacey (Janice)

Harold, the school reporter, joins the team to do a series of stories for the paper. He soon discovers that one of the members is placing bets on the team.



17 :02x02 - Albert Hodges

First aired: Sep/24/1979
Writer: Mark Rubin
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Guest star: F. William Parker (Mr. Biletti), Mary Moon (Jenny), Jesse D. Goins (Student), Richard Derr (Dean Sullivan), Richard Cummings, Jr. (Albert Hodges), Ella Raino (Mrs. Hodges), Saundra Sharp (Ms. Jenkins), Eric Douglas (Student)

A former student returns from prison and his accusations of racism splits the team apart.



18 :02x03 - Cross-Town Hustle

First aired: Oct/01/1979
Writer: Steve Kline
Director: Mark Tinker
Guest star: Wayne Heffley (Coach Harper)

A crosstown rival tries to lure Reese into leaving Carver for his school.



19 :02x04 - Sudden Death

First aired: Oct/08/1979
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Hal Williams (Mr. Judd), Madge Sinclair (Mrs. Judd)

A freshman that Reeves fought for to join the team dies during practice to an illness he never knew about.



20 :02x05 - A Silent Cheer

First aired: Oct/15/1979
Writer: Steve Kline
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Robert DoQui (Carl Simpson), Glenn-Michael Jones (Jeff Simpson), Larry Farmer (Selridge), Kim Hamilton (Carol Simpson), Taylor Lacher (Don Foster)

Coach Reeves begins to realize that his basketball career is really over and must move on.



21 :02x06 - No Place Like Home

First aired: Oct/29/1979
Director: Betty Goldberg
Guest star: Hilda Haynes (Mrs. Coolidge), Erin Blunt (Darren Coolidge)

Coolidge's apartment burns down and Reeves offers to let Coolidge stay with him.



22 :02x07 - Globetrotters

First aired: Nov/05/1979
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Guest star: Lou Dunbar (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Jimmy Blacklock (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Russel Phillip Robinson (Team Manager), James E. Depriest (Newsman), Nate Branch (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Robert Paige (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Mark James (Kid), Twiggy Sanders (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Joseph Burns (Rocky), Geese Ausbie (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Renée Jones (Girl), Curley Neal (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Stanley Brock (Salesman), Bob Delegall (Pinico Coach)

The team is on a winning streak and egos flair to the point that Reeves gets the Harlem Globetrotters to help.



23 :02x08 - Me?

First aired: Nov/12/1979
Writer: Sam Hefter
Director: Thomas Carter
Guest star: Mary Moon (Jenny), Darryl Tribble (Student)

Thorpe contracts a sexually transmitted disease from a former girlfriend, who is now Coolidge's girlfriend. The two of them must now tell Warren that he too must get tested.



24 :02x09 - Needle

First aired: Nov/26/1979
Writer: John Falsey
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Ben Gerard (Detective), Tierre Turner (Black Man), Eric Laneuville (Gordy), Hope Clarke (Aunt Edna Haywood), Michael Cornelison (Cop), Tan Adams (Charlene Haywood), David Harris (Rollo), Jonathan Ian (Jackie Haywood), Andrea Nelson (Janice Haywood), Marc Jefferson (Jason Haywood), Hal Hawkins (Rennie Wolford), Leopoldo (Trotter Jordan), Al Fann (Minster), Bryan O'Dell (Dickie Wilder), Tony Edwards (Black Kid)

Haywood is out to get a drug dealer that gave his cousin a fatal does of heroin.



25 :02x10 - Sliding By

First aired: Dec/03/1979
Writer: Charles Johnson
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Jerry Hardin (Charlie Wade), Brian Frishman (Mack Wade), Mary Moon (Jenny), Darryl Tribble (Student)

A basketball star transfers to Carver, much to Coach Reeves delight. However that delight ends when it's discovered that he can't read.



26 :02x11 - Delores, Of Course

First aired: Dec/18/1979
Writer: Sam Hefter
Director: Leon Carrere
Guest star: Debbi Morgan (Dolores (Credited as Deborah Morgan-Weldon)), Jan Hill (Candy), Michael O'Dwyer (Charlie), Dacarla Kilpatrick (Pammie), John Mengatti (Nick Vitagatti), Taurean Blacque (Guy), Jay Fletcher (Lobo), Deanne Mencher (Nurse), Susan Davis (Miriam LaRue)

Jackson's old girlfriend, Dolores, returns and wants to marry him. However she is hiding a secret from him about her job.



27 :02x12 - A Christmas Present

First aired: Dec/25/1979
Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
Director: Betty Goldberg
Guest star: J. Rob Jordan (Man With Car), Mary Gail Hobbs (Caroler), John Mengatti (Nick Vitagatti), Jessica Salem (Caroler), Stuart Mabray (Caroler), Rod Browning (Steve Cary), Nancy Pearlberg (Personnel Woman), Christopher James (Little Boy), Deborah Lacey (Nancy), Theodore Wilson (Doug Buchanan), megan Jeffers (Little Girl), Trinidad Silva (Julio), Jerry Fogel (Bill), Don Diamond (Salvation Army Man), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donahue)

Coach Reeves faces Christmas alone, while the team gets ready for a holiday party.



28 :02x13 - Feeling No Pain

First aired: Jan/01/1980
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Andy Romano (Doctor), Julius Carry (Basketball Player)

Coach Reeves tries to help his players get painkillers.



29 :02x14 - Artist

First aired: Jan/08/1980
Director: Leroy McDonald
Guest star: Herbert Jefferson, Jr. (Mr. Thorpe), Hazel Medina (Mrs. Thorpe)

Thorpe's love of art is tearing his family aprat as his father sees basketball as the only way out of the ghetto.



30 :02x15 - Salami's Affair

First aired: Jan/15/1980
Director: Thomas Carter
Guest star: Darnell Williams (Eddie)

Salami get tutoring in history with a tutor that has other plans for him.



31 :02x16 - Links

First aired: Jan/22/1980
Director: Mark Tinker
Guest star: Felix Nelson (Lawrence), Fred D. Scott (Les Evans)

Coach Reeves faces racism at a country club that doesn't allow blacks.



32 :02x17 - The Stripper

First aired: Jan/29/1980
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Randee Heller (Susan), Joe E. Elwood (Darryl)

Coach Reeves's girlfriend is a stripper.



33 :02x18 - Gonna Fly Now

First aired: Feb/05/1980
Writer: Steve Kline
Director: Mark Tinker
Guest star: Kathleen Lloyd (Paula), Carl W. Crudup (Student), Veronica Redd (Mrs. Jefferson)

Reeves and a police officer go in search of the drug dealer selling drugs to students.



34 :02x19 - Out at Home

First aired: Feb/19/1980
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Beverly Hope Atkinson (Madge), James McEachin (Jake), Arnold Johnson (Mickey), Meshach Taylor (Chipper)

Coach Reeves becomes the Athletic Director and now deals with the baseball coach that wanted the same postition.



35 :02x20 - The Russians Are Coming

First aired: Feb/26/1980
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Gail Fisher (Unknown)

A Soviet Union basketabll player wants to defect to the United States with the team's help.



36 :02x21 - The Hitter

First aired: Mar/04/1980
Writer: Tom Demartini
Director: Marc Norman

Coach Reeves helps a boy named Go-Go after discovering he is abused at home.



37 :02x22 - The Death of Me Yet

First aired: Mar/11/1980
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: James Cromwell (Mr. Hamilton)

The team faces a tragedy as they qualify for the city championship game.



38 :02x23 - Coolidge Goes Hollywood

First aired: Mar/18/1980
Director: Marc Norman
Guest star: Edward Asner (Himself)

A TV director wants Coolidge for a new series about black students.



39 :02x24 - A Few Good Men

First aired: Apr/01/1980
Writer: John Falsey, Joshua Brand
Director: Thomas Carter
Guest star: Darnell Williams (Walchansky), Glynn Turman (Ron Taylor)

The school year ends and Reeves and the team makes plans for the summer.



40 :03x01 - Reunion (1)

First aired: Oct/16/1980
Writer: John Falsey
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Guest star: Thomas Carter (James Haywood), Mark Margolis (Bar customer), James Whitmore (Unknown), Joseph Jamrog (Barman), M. E. Loree (Annie-Marie Reilly), JoBeth Williams (Paula Harris), Alfre Woodard (Sandra Wilcox), Tom Gagen (Richie), Gary Carpenter (Larry Edison), Shandi Sullivan (Swimmer), Vernon Washington (Mr. Tucker), David Labiosa (Kid), Betty Cole (Mrs. Tucker), Luis Antonio Ramos (Kid), Dan Gilvezan (Man)

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



41 :03x02 - Reunion (2)

First aired: Oct/23/1980
Writer: John Falsey, Joshua Brand
Director: Bruce Paltrow
Guest star: James Whitmore (Unknown)

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



42 :03x03 - Georgia on My Mind

First aired: Oct/30/1980
Writer: Mark Rubin
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Jimmy Blacklock (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter)), Nate Branch (Himself (Harlem Globetrotter))

Coolidge is tired of school and wants to join the Harlem Globetrotters.



43 :03x04 - If Your Number's Up, Get It Down

First aired: Dec/16/1980
Writer: Joshua Brand
Director: Mark Tinker
Guest star: Rosey Grier (Himself), Jimmie Walker (Himself), Sparky Anderson (Himself), Dawn Gilliam (L.A. Rams Cheerleader), Patricia Conklin (Lila), John Laughlin (Paddy Falahey), Sandra Will (Marlene Sandler), Red Auerbach (Himself), Jackie Thorp (L.A. Rams Cheerleader), Robin Braxton (Miss March), Elgin Baylor (Himself), Edmund Stoiber (Mr. Wexler), Karl Held (Dr. Sanders), Jagene Simmons (L.A. Rams Cheerleader), Willie Tyler (Himself), Ken Hill (Tony), Mary Lynne Gehr (L.A. Rams Cheerleader), Helen Martin (Woman), Mary Margaret Lewis (Teacher)

In order to raise money for Carver's athletics, the team decides to organize a benefit. However, they publicize that Coach Reeves is dead in order to entice major sports and entertainment figures like Sparky Anderson, Elgin Baylor, and Willie Tyler and Lester to attend.



44 :03x05 - Christmas Story

First aired: Dec/23/1980
Writer: Joshua Brand, John Falsey
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Shavar Ross (Herbert)



45 :03x06 - No Blood, No Foul

First aired: Dec/30/1980
Writer: Joshua Brand
Director: Thomas Carter
Guest star: Randy Brooks (Greg Adler)

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



46 :03x07 - Vanity Fare

First aired: Jan/06/1981
Writer: Mark Tinker, John Masius
Director: Mark Tinker

The team decides to get a record deal to take advantage of their shower singing skills, while Reeves mulls an offer to do a TV commercial.



47 :03x08 - Mister Hero

First aired: Jan/13/1981
Writer: Marshall Herskovitz
Director: Marc Norman
Guest star: Fred Holliday (Reporter), Eleanor Mccoy (Denise), Jay Merriman Riley (Card Player), Garrett Pearson (Reporter), Beany Williams (Student), Norman Alexander Gibbs (Police Officer), Hugo L. Stranger (Card Player), Bryan O'Dell (Leroy), Lee Bryant (Man), Ed Kenney (Watchman), Walter Janowitz (Card Player), Gene Bua (Jack Benedict), Saundra Sharp (Ms. Jenkins), Charles Alvin Bell (Card Player), Karl Bruck (Dr. Meltzer), Susan Keller (Cheryl Maynard)

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.



48 :03x09 - B.M.O.C

First aired: Feb/02/1981
Writer: Steve Kline
Director: Leroy McDonald
Guest star: Bill Russell (Himself)

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.



49 :03x10 - Trial and Error

First aired: Feb/09/1981
Writer: Mark Rubin
Director: Victor Lobl

Coach Reeves lies to get out of jury duty and it backfires in his face when Franklin lies to get out of practice.



50 :03x11 - Car Repo

First aired: Feb/16/1981
Director: Mark Tinker

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.



51 :03x12 - Psyched Out

First aired: Feb/23/1981
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Christina Pickles (Christine Stanley), Leslie Speights (Lorraine), Michael Winslow (Lee)

Ms. Stanley needs the team's help when a psychotic student is after her.



52 :03x13 - Cops

First aired: Mar/02/1981
Director: Lawrence Levy
Guest star: A. Martinez (Officer Jerry Ramirez)

Coolidge, Thorpe and Franklin are charged with robbing a woman based upon the description she provided the police. Things turn bad to worst when one of the officers assaults Thorpe.



53 :03x14 - Burnout

First aired: Mar/09/1981
Director: Mark Tinker
Guest star: Ronald Saulsberry (Tough Student), Don Beard (Student on stairs), Deborah Lacey (Janice), Bill Lodge (George Robinson), Merv Hawkins (Arnold), Brandyn Artis (Mrs. McEwen), Becky Gonzalez (Teacher), Nicholas Mele (Tom Bellerini), Ella Raino (Mrs. Hodges), John Laughlin (Paddy Falahey), Wesley Thompson (Mean Student), Lynne Moody (Mrs. Mackey), Don Cervantes (Raul), Mykelti Williamson (Fred), Richard Lawson (Mr.Mackey), Juney Smith (Gerald)

One of Carver's teachers, Mr. Mackey, starts showing signs of burnout by handing out undeserved grades, and this hurts Rutherford, who enjoys the class.



54 :03x15 - A Day in the Life

First aired: Mar/16/1981
Writer: Joshua Brand
Director: Victor Lobl
Guest star: Dennis Holahan (Mr. Baxter), Marilyn Coleman (Mrs. Haywood), Ella Fitzgerald (Maxine Jefferies), Arthur Adams (Waiter), Eda Reiss Merin (Grandma Goldstien)

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 driving a cab and pursuing his dream of becoming a singer.