The White Shadow - Season 1

The White Shadow - Season 1

Season 1

Network
Episodes15
DatesNov. 27, 1978 - Apr. 9, 1979
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Episodes

(pilot)
Season 1Episode 160 min

(pilot)

Ken Reeves, a forward with the Chicago Bulls, is forced to retire after suffering a serious knee injury. His old friend and high school teammate, Jim Willis, who is principal of Carver High near L.A., drops by to offer him a job as basketball coach. Reeves is reluctant, but agrees. Among the challenges he faces with the school and the team include a female vice principal who doesn't like him and a player, James Hayward, who has a lot of potential, but also is fatherless and may have to drop out of school to go to work and take care of his mom and little brother.
Nov. 27, 1978
Here's Mud in Your Eye
Season 1Episode 260 min

Here's Mud in Your Eye

Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.
Dez. 4, 1978
The Offer
Season 1Episode 360 min

The Offer

Dez. 11, 1978
Bonus Baby
Season 1Episode 460 min

Bonus Baby

Dez. 25, 1978
Pregnant Pause
Season 1Episode 560 min

Pregnant Pause

Reese, Carver High's star player, is pressured to quit school by his girlfriend, who says she's pregnant and desperate to get married. 

Jan. 1, 1979
Wanna Bet?
Season 1Episode 660 min

Wanna Bet?

The team heads for Las Vegas to compete in a basketball game, but ends up competing—and losing—at the gaming tables instead. Las Vegas is indeed a town for gamblers as Coach Reeves' boys learn the hard way. They not only have problems with monetary wagers, but the squad encounters problems on the court in the tournament in which they've come to Vegas to play.

Jan. 8, 1979
That Old Gang of Mine
Season 1Episode 760 min

That Old Gang of Mine

after gomez gets knocked off the carver high basketball team he joins a street gang he onced belonged to
Jan. 15, 1979
Just One of the Boys
Season 1Episode 860 min

Just One of the Boys

Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.
Jan. 27, 1979
Airball
Season 1Episode 960 min

Airball

The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.
Feb. 3, 1979
We're in the Money
Season 1Episode 1060 min

We're in the Money

When the team goes to Las Vegas to play in a tournament, they secretly take a pool of money collected from the students so they can gamble and return home with a fortune.
Feb. 10, 1979
Spare the Rod
Season 1Episode 1160 min

Spare the Rod

Coach Reeves substitute-teaches a P.E. class, loses his temper, and hits a student, Lucius Robinson, who refuses to participate. Reeves feels guilty about the incident, learns of Lucius' troubles, and offers to help him in any way. Reeves then quickly learns that some students can't be helped when Lucius tries to rape Mrs. Buchanan.
Feb. 17, 1979
The Great White Dope
Season 1Episode 1260 min

The Great White Dope

Mac Wade, a tall, white, ""can't miss"" college basketball prospect, transfers to Carver for his senior year due to re-zoning, which excites Reeves. However, Reeves discovers that Mac can't read and has been allowed a free ride through school because of his basketball skills. The problem is further compounded when Mac, who has never had to take a test in school, is caught cheating on a test and has to be suspended.
Feb. 24, 1979
Mainstream
Season 1Episode 1360 min

Mainstream

März 5, 1979
Little Orphan Abner
Season 1Episode 1460 min

Little Orphan Abner

Goldstein's grandmother is hospitalized and his grandfather stays at the hospital with her, so Coach Reeves asks the team to check in on him at home every so often. The other guys aren't too keen on this because Goldstein really doesn't fit in with them, but they agree to check on him and, in the process, take advantage of him and his hospitality. Goldstein threatens to quit the team, and Coach Reeves gives him a lecture on standing up for himself.
März 26, 1979
LeGrand Finale
Season 1Episode 1560 min

LeGrand Finale

The team wants to form a singing group, but elect not to include Thorpe, who begins a dating interest with Karen LeGrand, a white girl with an unsavory reputation around school.
Apr. 9, 1979

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