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Welcome Back, Kotter - Season 3
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Title: Welcome Back, Kotter

Overview: 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.

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Average Vote: 7.2 (50 votes)

Cast

  • Gabe Kotter: Gabe Kaplan
  • Vinnie Barbarino: John Travolta
  • Michael Woodman: John Sylvester White
  • Arnold Horshack: Ron Palillo
  • Juan Epstein: Robert Hegyes
  • Freddie Washington: Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs
  • Julie Kotter: Marcia Strassman
  • Beau Shortridge: Stephen Shortridge
  • Welcome Back, Kotter - Sweathogs Back-to-School Special (Season 3 - Episode 1)

    The Sweathogs and administrators at James Buchanan High reminisce about Gabe's past two years at the school. Past episodes are recalled through flashbacks.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - And Baby Makes Four (1) (Season 3 - Episode 2)

    Julie goes into labor.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - And Baby Makes Four (2) (Season 3 - Episode 3)

    Julie gives birth to twin girls.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - And Baby Makes Four (3) (Season 3 - Episode 4)

    Julie's parents come to see the babies.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Brother, Can You Spare a Million? (Season 3 - Episode 5)

    Emotions mix when it seems that the Sweathogs may win the lottery.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Just Testing (Season 3 - Episode 6)

    Everybody helps Vinnie cram for a make-up test.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - The Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack (Season 3 - Episode 7)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - What a Move (Season 3 - Episode 8)

    Juan, with the help of his uncle, hooks the Kotters up with a new apartment.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - A Novel Idea (Season 3 - Episode 9)

    The characters in Mr. Woodman's new novel seem to have an awful lot in common with the Sweathogs...

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Barbarino in Love (1) (Season 3 - Episode 10)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Barbarino in Love (2) (Season 3 - Episode 11)

    Vinnie is torn between trying to win the talent competition, or letting his new girlfriend beat him.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Kotter for Vice Principal (Season 3 - Episode 12)

    Kotter has a dream about life when the Sweathogs are old.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Swine and Punishment (Season 3 - Episode 13)

    Freddie cheats on an English test.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Epstein's Madonna (Season 3 - Episode 14)

    Juan paints a great masterpiece on the walls of the school.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Sweathog Christmas Special (Season 3 - Episode 15)

    At Christmas time, the gang reminisces over past episodes.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Sweatwork (Season 3 - Episode 16)

    Arnold voices angst and pioneers for change on the school radio station, gathering fans in the process.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Meet Your New Teacher: Batteries Not Included (Season 3 - Episode 17)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Angie (Season 3 - Episode 18)

    A new girl joins the Sweathogs.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Epstein's Term Paper (Season 3 - Episode 19)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - There's No Business Like Show Business (1) (Season 3 - Episode 20)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - There's No Business Like Show Business (2) (Season 3 - Episode 21)

    Gabe must choose between the comedy life, or his life at Buchanan.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - What Goes Up (Season 3 - Episode 22)

    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.""

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Good-Bye, Mr. Kripps (Season 3 - Episode 23)

    Mr. Kripps, the shop teacher, has a heart attack and dies while yelling at Vinnie, who blames himself for the man's death.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Horshack and the Madame X (Season 3 - Episode 24)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - The Kiss (Season 3 - Episode 25)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - The Return of Hotsy Totsy (Season 3 - Episode 26)

    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.

    Welcome Back, Kotter - Class Encounter of the Carvelli Kind (Season 3 - Episode 27)

    When Carvelli and Murray come on as exchange students, Carvelli seemingly goes crazy with stories of aliens.

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