Alan Sacks
Director
Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)
Season 3
Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.
Released Sept. 9, 1975
Episode 30 min
14+
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Production Companies: Wolper Productions
Network: ABC
Country: United States
Languages:
English
S3E1 - Sweathogs 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.
Sept. 29, 1977, midnight
S3E2 - And Baby Makes Four (1)
Julie goes into labor.
Sept. 15, 1977, midnight
S3E3 - And Baby Makes Four (2)
Julie gives birth to twin girls.
Sept. 15, 1977, midnight
S3E4 - And Baby Makes Four (3)
Julie's parents come to see the babies.
Sept. 22, 1977, midnight
S3E5 - Brother, Can You Spare a Million?
Emotions mix when it seems that the Sweathogs may win the lottery.
Oct. 6, 1977, midnight
S3E6 - Just Testing
Everybody helps Vinnie cram for a make-up test.
Oct. 13, 1977, midnight
S3E7 - The 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.
Oct. 20, 1977, midnight
S3E8 - What a Move
Juan, with the help of his uncle, hooks the Kotters up with a new apartment.
Oct. 27, 1977, midnight
S3E9 - A Novel Idea
The characters in Mr. Woodman's new novel seem to have an awful lot in common with the Sweathogs...
Nov. 3, 1977, midnight
S3E10 - Barbarino 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.
Nov. 10, 1977, midnight
S3E11 - Barbarino in Love (2)
Vinnie is torn between trying to win the talent competition, or letting his new girlfriend beat him.
Nov. 17, 1977, midnight
S3E12 - Kotter for Vice Principal
Kotter has a dream about life when the Sweathogs are old.
Nov. 24, 1977, midnight
S3E13 - Swine and Punishment
Freddie cheats on an English test.
Dec. 8, 1977, midnight
S3E14 - Epstein's Madonna
Juan paints a great masterpiece on the walls of the school.
Jan. 12, 1978, midnight
S3E15 - Sweathog Christmas Special
At Christmas time, the gang reminisces over past episodes.
Jan. 5, 1978, midnight
S3E16 - Sweatwork
Arnold voices angst and pioneers for change on the school radio station, gathering fans in the process.
Jan. 19, 1978, midnight
S3E17 - Meet 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.
Jan. 26, 1978, midnight
S3E18 - Angie
A new girl joins the Sweathogs.
Dec. 22, 1977, midnight
S3E19 - Epstein'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.
Feb. 2, 1978, midnight
S3E20 - There'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.
Feb. 9, 1978, midnight
S3E21 - There's No Business Like Show Business (2)
Gabe must choose between the comedy life, or his life at Buchanan.
Feb. 16, 1978, midnight
S3E22 - What 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.""
Feb. 23, 1978, midnight
S3E23 - Good-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.
March 9, 1978, midnight
S3E24 - Horshack 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.
May 18, 1978, midnight
S3E25 - The Kiss
After performing mouth-to-mouth resuscitation on a female student who has passed out in the classroom, Gabe is accused of molestation, and is in danger of losing his job.
May 11, 1978, midnight
S3E26 - The 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.
Sept. 10, 1977, midnight
S3E27 - Class Encounter of the Carvelli Kind
When Carvelli and Murray come on as exchange students, Carvelli seemingly goes crazy with stories of aliens.
Dec. 15, 1977, midnight
Network: ABC
Episode Runtime: 30 min.
Season Runtime: 2850 min.
Released: Sept. 9, 1975
Last Air Date: June 8, 1979, midnight
Status: Ended
Certification: TV-14
Common sense age: 14+
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