The White Shadow

A white former NBA professional retires from the pro game and gets a job as a basketball coach in a predominantly Black inner-city high school.

1978 HD 60min TV-14 United States English

Bruce Paltrow Ken Howard Kevin Hooks Byron Stewart Tim Van Patten Ed Bernard Stoney Jackson Erik Kilpatrick Nathan Cook Ira Angustain

Drama Sport

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S1E1 - (pilot) 1978-11-27

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 doesnt 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.

S1E2 - Here's Mud in Your Eye 1978-12-04

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

S1E3 - The Offer 1978-12-11

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S1E4 - Bonus Baby 1978-12-25

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S1E5 - Pregnant Pause 1979-01-01

College scouts are impressed with Reese and believe he has a good shot at a scholarship. However, Reeses plans are put on hold when his girlfriend, a Carver cheerleader, tells him shes 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.

S1E6 - Wanna Bet? 1979-01-08

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S1E7 - That Old Gang of Mine 1979-01-15

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

S1E8 - Just One of the Boys 1979-01-27

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

S1E9 - Airball 1979-02-03

The teams excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane theyre on develops mechanical trouble.

S1E10 - We're in the Money 1979-02-10

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.

S1E11 - Spare the Rod 1979-02-17

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 cant be helped when Lucius tries to rape Mrs. Buchanan.

S1E12 - The Great White Dope 1979-02-24

Mac Wade, a tall, white, ""cant miss"" college basketball prospect, transfers to Carver for his senior year due to re-zoning, which excites Reeves. However, Reeves discovers that Mac cant 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.

S1E13 - Mainstream 1979-03-05

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S1E14 - Little Orphan Abner 1979-03-26

Goldsteins 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 arent too keen on this because Goldstein really doesnt 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.

S1E15 - LeGrand Finale 1979-04-09

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.

S2E1 - On the Line 1979-09-17

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 Carvers games.

S2E2 - Albert Hodges 1979-09-24

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.

S2E3 - Cross-Town Hustle 1979-10-01

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

S2E4 - Sudden Death 1979-10-08

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

S2E5 - A Silent Cheer 1979-10-15

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S2E6 - No Place Like Home 1979-10-29

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

S2E7 - Globetrotters 1979-11-05

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 theyre really not as good as they think.

S2E8 - Me? 1979-11-12

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

S2E9 - Needle 1979-11-26

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S2E10 - Sliding By 1979-12-03

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S2E11 - Delores, Of Course 1979-12-18

a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker

S2E12 - A Christmas Present 1979-12-25

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S2E13 - Feeling No Pain 1980-01-01

Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.

S2E14 - Artist 1980-01-08

a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever

S2E15 - Salami's Affair 1980-01-15

Carver holds a school turnabout dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.

S2E16 - Links 1980-01-22

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.

S2E17 - The Stripper 1980-01-29

a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line

S2E18 - Gonna Fly Now 1980-02-05

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S2E19 - Out at Home 1980-02-19

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S2E20 - The Russians Are Coming 1980-02-26

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.

S2E21 - The Hitter 1980-03-04

Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.

S2E22 - The Death of Me Yet 1980-03-11

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S2E23 - Coolidge Goes Hollywood 1980-03-18

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S2E24 - A Few Good Men 1980-04-01

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S3E1 - Reunion (1) 1980-10-16

The third season begins with Coach Reeves visiting the town where he grew up and reuniting with old friends, including an old high school teammate, an old girlfriend, and his father, whose health is failing.

S3E2 - Reunion (2) 1980-10-23

Coach Reeves heals his strained relationship with his dying father, breaks things off once and for all with Paula, and returns to Carver for the new school year, where some new players have joined the team: Wardell Stone, Mitchell, Rutherford, Paddy Falahey, and Eddie Franklin

S3E3 - Georgia on My Mind 1980-10-30

getting fed up with high school coolidge tries out for the harlem globetrotters

S3E4 - If Your Number's Up, Get It Down 1980-12-16

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S3E5 - Christmas Story 1980-12-23

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S3E6 - No Blood, No Foul 1980-12-30

Salami faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing teams players jaw during an on court brawl.

S3E7 - Vanity Fare 1981-01-06

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S3E8 - Mister Hero 1981-01-13

Stone saves an elderly womans life by rescuing her from a burning car, and the experience goes to his head after he appears on the TV news and sensationalizes the story.

S3E9 - B.M.O.C 1981-02-02

Coolidge starts having problems stemming from his abnormal height and size, such as normal clothes not fitting. He gets self-conscious and defensive until Coach Reeves, who has dealt with the same problems, takes him under his wing and tries to let him know hes not alone. NBA Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell guest stars.

S3E10 - Trial and Error 1981-02-09

Coach Reeves threatens to kick Falahey off the team when he suspects that he is missing practices and faking injuries. However, the coach himself looks like a hypocrite when he is summoned for jury duty and he tries to lie his way out of it.

S3E11 - Car Repo 1981-02-16

Salami and Vitaglia take on a part-time job reposessing cars, but the ungodly work hours and the harassments from the car owners affect both their performances in school and on the basketball court.

S3E12 - Psyched Out 1981-02-23

A female teacher with a past history of mental illness and nervous breakdowns is tormented by a psychotic student.

S3E13 - Cops 1981-03-02

An elderly woman is mugged on the street at night by two big, tall black men, and the description she gives the police matches both Coolidge and Franklin, who happen to be out on the town that night. The police apprehend the two with Thorpe looking on. Thorpe observes what appears to be police brutality, reaches into his pocket to get a pen to write the cops car number, and is shot by one of them.

S3E14 - Burnout 1981-03-09

Carvers baseball coach, who also teaches English, begins to experience teacher burnout. He begins handing out free grades, which hurts Rutherford, who works hard in his class. Vitaglia, too, is disappointed in his attitude because he wants to try out for the baseball team.

S3E15 - A Day in the Life 1981-03-16

Goldstein, Gomez, Hayward, and Reese all return for an ""alumni"" exhibition game, amid all the troubles the four have encountered in ""real life"" since graduating. Hayward is in college and wants to go to law school, but doesnt believe hell be given the chance because of his skin color. Goldstein, after a year in the Marines, now believes he has the confidence to ask out a girl he admired while at Carver. Gomez is struggling to make ends meet as a car mechanic with a pregnant wife. And, finally, Reese is bouncing from job to job until he finally finds his niche as a phone counselor at a suicide prevention center.

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