Welcome Back, Kotter: Created by Gabe Kaplan, Alan Sacks, Peter Meyerson. With Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, Robert Hegyes. A compassionate teacher returns to his inner city high school of his youth to teach a new generation of troublemaking kids.

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A flu epidemic requires several advanced students to join Kotter's class, where they quickly outshine his struggling students. Kotter boosts the battered self-confidence of his Sweathogs by demonstrating that not all smarts are book smarts.

Kotter believes that getting a Sweathog involved with the Bugle will promote a better image for the guys, though Judy Borden (Helaine Lembeck) and Todd Ludlow (Dennis Bowen) aren't exactly pleased to have additional help.

Welcome Back (Pilot): Directed by James Komack. With Gabe Kaplan, Marcia Strassman, John Sylvester White, Robert Hegyes. Gabriel Kotter is a teacher in Brooklyn, New York who ends up teaching at his old alma mater: Buchanan High School.

"Radio Free Freddie" was the episode guest starring irreverent stand up comic George Carlin as Wally 'The Wow' Wexler, famed disc jockey at WBAD radio, a former Sweathog from Buchanan called Wally 'The Weasel' Wexler, whose nickname for Gabe was 'clown faced Kotter!'

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All of the Sweathogs are instantly infatuated with the blonde stunner, who flatters each of them in turn, then makes a few moves on Kotter after class. Julie wants to know what her husband has to say about some girl called Sunshine who called four times to ask if he could go skinny dipping with her: (his response: "can I go?").

Since Vinnie put in the highest amount of cash to cinch the deal he insists that he be the driver, the one with the most experience behind the wheel (Epstein: "yeah but Vinnie you spend most of your time in the back seat!").