The Best Episodes of The White Shadow

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.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Bruce Paltrow

Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Bruce Paltrow

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Director: Bruce Paltrow

Writer: N/A

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Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: Bob DeLaurentis

College scouts are impressed with Reese and believe he has a good shot at a scholarship. However, Reese's plans are put on hold when his girlfriend, a Carver cheerleader, tells him she's pregnant. Coach Reeves and the team discover her attending cheerleader practices and believe she may be lying about the pregnancy to trap Reese into marrying her.

Director: Jackie Cooper

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Director: Jackie Cooper

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after gomez gets knocked off the carver high basketball team he joins a street gang he onced belonged to

Director: Bruce Paltrow

Writer: N/A

Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.

Director: Bruce Paltrow

Writer: N/A

The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.

Director: Jackie Cooper

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Mark Tinker

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Victor Lobl

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Michael Zinberg

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Director: Victor Lobl

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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.

Director: Ernest Pintoff

Writer: N/A

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.

Director: Mark Tinker

Writer: N/A

The second season begins with Jackson, wanting to make some extra money, gets unknowingly involved with sports bookies. Things get especially difficult when they start offering him big money to shave points at Carver's games.

Director: Mark Tinker

Writer: N/A

Coach Reeves begins teaching a class on sex education, but comes under fire when he makes joking comments that Albert Hodges, a new black student who is very racially sensitive, interprets as insulting to blacks. Hodges then tries to rally the black players on the team against Reeves.

Director: Bruce Paltrow

Writer: N/A

A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.

Director: Mark Tinker

Writer: N/A

after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death

Director: Victor Lobl

Writer: N/A

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Director: Victor Lobl

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after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates

Director: Betty Goldberg

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The basketball team is on a winning streak and proceeds to showboat and run up the score on their latest opponent, prompting a tongue-lashing from Reeves. With their newfound success gone to their head, the team gets cocky with the workers at a local car wash and challenges them to a pickup game at the Carver gym. The boys are unaware that the car wash workers are really members of the Harlem Globetrotters doing a benefit and Reeves has arranged for them to show the team they're really not as good as they think.

Director: Bruce Paltrow

Writer: N/A

Thorpe contracts a sexually transmitted disease and has passed it onto Coolidge's girlfriend. The two of them must now tell Warren that he too must get tested.

Director: Thomas Carter

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Director: Victor Lobl

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Director: Victor Lobl

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