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#1 - Sudden Death
Season 2 Episode 4
Aired 10/8/1979
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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#2 - On the Line
Season 2 Episode 1
Aired 9/17/1979
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
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#3 - Albert Hodges
Season 2 Episode 2
Aired 9/24/1979
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
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#4 - The Hitter
Season 2 Episode 21
Aired 3/4/1980
Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.
Director: Marc Norman
Writer: N/A
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#5 - Globetrotters
Season 2 Episode 7
Aired 11/5/1979
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
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#6 - Needle
Season 2 Episode 9
Aired 11/26/1979
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#7 - Delores, Of Course
Season 2 Episode 11
Aired 12/18/1979
a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#8 - Artist
Season 2 Episode 14
Aired 1/8/1980
a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever
Director: N/A
Writer: N/A
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#9 - Sliding By
Season 2 Episode 10
Aired 12/3/1979
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#10 - The Death of Me Yet
Season 2 Episode 22
Aired 3/11/1980
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#11 - Cross-Town Hustle
Season 2 Episode 3
Aired 10/1/1979
A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.
Director: Mark Tinker
Writer: N/A
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#12 - A Silent Cheer
Season 2 Episode 5
Aired 10/15/1979
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#13 - Feeling No Pain
Season 2 Episode 13
Aired 1/1/1980
Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
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#14 - Gonna Fly Now
Season 2 Episode 18
Aired 2/5/1980
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#15 - A Few Good Men
Season 2 Episode 24
Aired 4/1/1980
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#16 - No Place Like Home
Season 2 Episode 6
Aired 10/29/1979
after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates
Director: Betty Goldberg
Writer: N/A
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#17 - A Christmas Present
Season 2 Episode 12
Aired 12/25/1979
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#18 - Links
Season 2 Episode 16
Aired 1/22/1980
Deciding that some of the players could use a dose of class, Coach Reeves takes Coolidge, Thorpe, and Salami to an exclusive country club for a day of golfing.
Director: Mark Tinker
Writer: N/A
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#19 - The Russians Are Coming
Season 2 Episode 20
Aired 2/26/1980
A touring high school team from the then-Soviet Union comes to Carver. The players have trouble relating to the Russian players, with the exception of one Russian, whom Hayward befriends, and later wants to defect to the U.S.
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
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#20 - Me?
Season 2 Episode 8
Aired 11/12/1979
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
Writer: N/A
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#21 - Salami's Affair
Season 2 Episode 15
Aired 1/15/1980
Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.
Director: Thomas Carter
Writer: N/A
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#22 - Out at Home
Season 2 Episode 19
Aired 2/19/1980
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#23 - The Stripper
Season 2 Episode 17
Aired 1/29/1980
a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
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#24 - Coolidge Goes Hollywood
Season 2 Episode 23
Aired 3/18/1980
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"Sudden Death" is the best rated episode of "The White Shadow" season 2. It scored 8.8/10 based on 32 votes. Directed by Victor Lobl and written by N/A, it aired on 10/8/1979. This episode is rated 0.4 points higher than the second-best, "On the Line".