Special Coverage Michael Jackson Reality TV The Must List Twilight Summer Entertainment Pop Style
  • --
kotter_l
SWEATHOG HEAVEN Kaplan and Co. earn honors on DVD
Everett Collection

Credits

DVD Release Date: Jun 12, 2007; With: Gabe Kaplan, Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs, Ron Palillo, Robert Hegyes and John Travolta
B+
By Mandi Bierly
Mandi Bierly
Mandi Bierly

THE PREMISE: In Welcome Back, Kotter's first season, Gabe Kotter (comic Gabe Kaplan) returns to his Brooklyn high school to teach remedial social studies to the underachieving Sweathogs.

THE SEASON'S BEST EPISODE In ''Barbarino's Girl,'' ladies' man Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta) is tutored by comeback queen Judy (Helaine Lembeck), and it's a match made in smartass heaven.

THE GRADE, THREE DECADES LATER... We dig the after-school-special-style morals. And Horshack's ''Oh, oh!'' and Barbarino's ''What?...Where?'' still kill. B+


Posted Jun 05, 2007
  • Print
  • Del.icio.us
  • Google
  • StumbleUpon
  • Facebook
  • Digg
  • More
 

Add Your Comments

The rules: Keep it clean, and stay on the subject or we might delete your comment. If you see inappropriate language, e-mail us. You must have javascript enabled to submit a comment.
--
Change/Edit your grade
characters remaining