8.4/1024 votes#1 - 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
- 8.3/1025 votes
#2 - 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
- 7.9/1021 votes
#3 - 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
- 8.8/1032 votes
#4 - 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
- 7.9/1026 votes
#5 - A Silent Cheer
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1979
No description available
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1017 votes
#6 - 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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- 8.2/1020 votes
#7 - 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
- 7.6/1027 votes
#8 - 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
- 8.2/1029 votes
#9 - Needle
Season 2 Episode 9 - Aired 11/26/1979
No description available
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
- 8.0/1029 votes
#10 - Sliding By
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 12/3/1979
No description available
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
- 8.2/1029 votes
#11 - 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
- 7.7/1023 votes
#12 - A Christmas Present
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 12/25/1979
No description available
Director: Betty Goldberg
Writer: N/A
- 7.9/1027 votes
#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
- 8.2/1029 votes
#14 - 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
- 7.6/1032 votes
#15 - 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
- 7.7/1027 votes
#16 - 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
- 7.2/1029 votes
#17 - 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
- 7.9/1027 votes
#18 - Gonna Fly Now
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 2/5/1980
No description available
Director: Mark Tinker
Writer: N/A
- 7.4/1029 votes
#19 - Out at Home
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 2/19/1980
No description available
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
- 7.7/1022 votes
#20 - 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
- 8.3/1030 votes
#21 - 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
- 8.0/1046 votes
#22 - The Death of Me Yet
Season 2 Episode 22 - Aired 3/11/1980
No description available
Director: Victor Lobl
Writer: N/A
- 7.0/1032 votes
#23 - Coolidge Goes Hollywood
Season 2 Episode 23 - Aired 3/18/1980
No description available
Director: Marc Norman
Writer: N/A
- 7.8/1027 votes
#24 - A Few Good Men
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/1/1980
No description available
Director: Thomas Carter
Writer: N/A
The Best Episodes of The White Shadow Season 2
Every episode of The White Shadow Season 2 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of The White Shadow Season 2!
The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.
Genres:DramaFamily
Network:CBS
Episodes
24
Avg. Rating
7.9
S1
S2
S3
S4
E1
E2
E3
8.4
8.3
7.9
Season 2 Ratings Summary
"On the Line" is the best rated episode of "The White Shadow" season 2. It scored 8.4/10 based on 24 votes. Directed by Mark Tinker and written by N/A, it aired on 9/17/1979. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Albert Hodges".
