All Episodes of The White Shadow

Season 1

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  8.0/1054 votes

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  (pilot)

  Season 1 Episode 1 - Aired 11/27/1978

  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

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  8.0/1045 votes

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  Here's Mud in Your Eye

  Season 1 Episode 2 - Aired 12/4/1978

  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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  8.2/1039 votes

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  The Offer

  Season 1 Episode 3 - Aired 12/11/1978

  No description available

  Director: Bruce Paltrow

  Writer: N/A

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  8.1/1042 votes

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  Bonus Baby

  Season 1 Episode 4 - Aired 12/25/1978

  No description available

  Director: Jackie Cooper

  Writer: Bob DeLaurentis

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  7.7/1034 votes

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  Pregnant Pause

  Season 1 Episode 5 - Aired 1/1/1979

  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

  Writer: N/A

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  8.3/1046 votes

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  Wanna Bet?

  Season 1 Episode 6 - Aired 1/8/1979

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  Director: Jackie Cooper

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1041 votes

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  That Old Gang of Mine

  Season 1 Episode 7 - Aired 1/15/1979

  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

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  7.8/1046 votes

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  Just One of the Boys

  Season 1 Episode 8 - Aired 1/27/1979

  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

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  7.3/1033 votes

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  Airball

  Season 1 Episode 9 - Aired 2/3/1979

  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

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  7.4/1031 votes

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  We're in the Money

  Season 1 Episode 10 - Aired 2/10/1979

  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

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  8.7/1040 votes

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  Spare the Rod

  Season 1 Episode 11 - Aired 2/17/1979

  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

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  7.8/1032 votes

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  The Great White Dope

  Season 1 Episode 12 - Aired 2/24/1979

  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

  Writer: N/A

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  7.2/1044 votes

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  Mainstream

  Season 1 Episode 13 - Aired 3/5/1979

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  Director: Victor Lobl

  Writer: N/A

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  8.2/1028 votes

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  Little Orphan Abner

  Season 1 Episode 14 - Aired 3/26/1979

  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

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  8.2/1027 votes

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  LeGrand Finale

  Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 4/9/1979

  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