Series regulars or semi-regulars in 'The White Shadow' from 1970-1982:
- Byron Stewart as Warren Coolidge (1978-1981)
- Joan Pringle as Sybil Buchanan (1978-1981)
- Ken Howard as Ken Reeves (1978-1981)
- Kevin Hooks as Morris Thorpe (1978-1981)
- Timothy Van Patten as Mario 'Salami' Pettrino (1978-1981)
- Ed Bernard as Jim Willis (1978-1980)
- Erik Kilpatrick as Curtis Jackson (1978-1980)
- Ira Angustain as Ricky Gomez (1978-1980)
- Ken Michelman as Abner Goldstein (1978-1980)
- Nathan Cook as Milton Reese (1978-1980)
- Thomas Carter as James Hayward (1978-1980)
- John Mengatti as Nick Vitaglia (1979-1981)
- Russell Phillip Robinson as Manager Phil Jefferson (1979-1981)
- John Laughlin as Paddy Falahey (1980-1981)
- Stoney Jackson as Jesse B. Mitchell (1980-1981)
- Wolfe Perry as Teddy Rutherford (1980-1981)
1970-1982 Episode Guide for 'The White Shadow':
(Episodes with dates prior to 1970 aired as reruns.)
Season 1, episode 1
W: Bruce Paltrow D: Jackie Cooper
With Gerry Black (Store Manager), Marilyn Coleman (Mrs. Hayward), Bethel Leslie (Mrs. Lawrence), Al Stellone (Policeman), Jonathan Ian (Jackie Hayward), Jerry Fogel (Bill Donohue), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donohue).
Series premiere. Ken Reeves, a former pro basketball player, takes over as coach at a racially mixed high school. In the first episode, a player who has a lot of potential, but also is fatherless, may have to drop out of school to go to work.
Season 1, episode 2
W: Bruce Paltrow D: Jackie Cooper
With Lincoln Kilpatrick (Reverend Jackson), Christine Belford (Dr. Evelyn Crawford), Jerry Fogel (Bill Donohue), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donohue).
Coach Reeves discovers that one of his players has a drinking problem.
Season 1, episode 3
W: Marc Rubin D: Bruce Paltrow
With Fawne Harriman (Sally Adams), Rosanna DeSoto (Spanish Teacher), Lupe Ontiveros (Mrs. Gomez), Lew Brown (Probation Officer), Chick Hearn (TV Announcer), Alan Rachins (Director), Ken Letner (Policeman).
Coach Reeves is offered a much more lucrative and glamorous job as a network sports broadcaster.
Season 1, episode 4
W: Robert DeLaurentis D: Jackie Cooper
With Art Metrano (Walter Preston), Annazette Chase (Marcia), Chris Wallace (Car Salesman), Robert Phalen (Doug Batty), Hilda Haynes (Mrs. Coolidge), Fred Slyter (Jewelry Salesman), Charles Robinson (Jackie Solomon).
An unscrupulous pro basketball scout tries to persuade Coolidge to quit high school.
Season 1, episode 5
W: Steven Bochco D: Jackie Cooper
With Gail Cameron (Miss Tyler), Naomi Caryl (Nurse Haskell), Renn Woods (Darlene Robinson).
Reese has a good shot at a college scholarship, but his plans are put on hold when his girlfriend tells him she's pregnant.
Season 1, episode 6
W: Michael Kane D: Jackie Cooper
With Simmy Bow (Pete), David Himes (Detective), Lionel Decker (Detective), Leone James (Helen), Len Ross (Cop), Booth Colman (Pawnbroker), Richard Reicheg (Carmine), Justin De Rosa (Larry), Michael Warren (Bobby Magnum).
Coach Reeves learns that an ace basketball player he is trying to get on his team is wanted by gangsters.
Season 1, episode 7
W: Marc Rubin, Gary Kott D: Bruce Paltrow
With Gloria Calomee (Mrs. Newkirk), Lupe Ontiveros (Mrs. Gomez), Carmen Zapata (Mrs. Alvarez), Lisle Wilson (Mr. Finniman).
When Gomez is kicked off the team for poor grades, he returns to a street gang he once ran with.
Season 1, episode 8
W: John Falsey D: Bruce Paltrow
With Peter Horton (Raymond Collins), Bruce Weitz (Joe Kelly), Jerry Fogel (Bill Donohue), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donohue), Sue Casey (Mrs. Collins), Paul Marin (Mr. Collins), Karole Selmon (Belinda), Jonathan Frakes (Basketball Player).
Coach Reeves faces an explosive situation when a talented young transfer student joins his squad after being forced to change schools when rumors were spread that he is a homosexual.
Season 1, episode 9
W: Marc Rubin D: Jackie Cooper
With Jonelle Allen (Shelley), Jenny Sullivan (Stewardess), Paul Tuerpe (Co-Pilot), Penelope Willis (Counter Girl), Georgie Paul (Inspector).
The plane carrying Coach Reeves' basketball team to a tournament is forced to make an emergency landing.
Season 1, episode 10
W: Mark Tinker D: Mark Tinker
With Ric Mancini (Salvatore Mariani), Mykelti Williamson (Malcolm Gruner), Regina Hooks (Audrey), John LaMotta (Pit Boss), Phyllis Katz (Teller).
Coach Reeves' team gets taken to the cleaners, both on and off the court, during a tournament in Las Vegas.
Season 1, episode 11
W: Marc Rubin D: Victor Lobl
With Lisle Wilson (Mr. Finniman), Robert Moloney (Mr. Ellis), Fred Pinkard (Mr. Robinson), Royce Wallace (Mrs. Robinson), Jeff Bannister (Referee), Philip Sterling (Lee Burns), Renny Temple (Mr. Harris), Brian Mitchell (Lucius Robinson).
Coach Reeves' personal stand on corporal punishment in the school is unexpectedly put to a test when a belligerent student forces him into a fight.
Season 1, episode 12
W: John Falsey D: Michael Zinberg
With Carlos Palomino (Himself), Robert Costanzo (Mr. Pettrino), Jerry Fogel (Bill Donohue), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donohue), Jay Varela (Mr. Palomino), Chick Hearn (Announcer), Art Gilmore (Announcer), Bob Basso (Bouncer).
Coach Reeves uses the values of the prize-fighting ring to pound some sense into a father-son relationship.
Season 1, episode 13
W: George Geiger D: Victor Lobl
With Jason Green (Tom Hendricks), Ketty Lester (Mrs. Hendricks), Barbara Babcock (Mrs. Simpson), Jerry Fogel (Bill Donohue), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donohue), James Cromwell (Mr. Hamilton).
Coach Reeves is prompted to permit an autistic boy to join the Carver basketball team.
Season 1, episode 14
W: John Falsey D: Ernest Pintoff
With Eda Reiss Merin (Abner's Grandmother), John Bleifer (Abner's Grandfather), Michael Pataki (Rabbi), Ralph Byers (Dr. Silver), Lou Tiano (Mr. Townsend).
Goldstein's self-assured teammates take advantage of him during a critical period in his life.
Season 1, episode 15
W: Marc Rubin D: Mark Tinker
With Alexandria Johnson (Karen LeGrand), Milt Kogan (Mr. LeGrand).
Thorpe misses a team dinner and singing practice to date a white girl of questionable reputation -- and ends up confronting the girl's father and his own teammates.
September 17, 1979: On The Line
Season 2, episode 1
W: Joshua Brand D: Mark Tinker
With David Raynr (Harold Witherspoon), Ralph Wilcox (Jackie Patton), Deborah Lacy (Jaine).
Season premiere. Jackson, one of the first-team regulars, becomes a key suspect in an aspriring sportswriter's intended expose of point-shaving in high school basketball.
Season 2, episode 2
W: Marc Rubin D: Bruce Paltrow
With Saundra Sharp (Paula Jenkins), Ellaraino (Mrs. Hodges), Richard Derr (Dean Sullivan), Richard Cummings Jr. (Albert Hodges), F. William Parker (Mr. Biletti).
A bitter black youth returning to Carver after 18 months in prison for a crime he didn't commit convinces the basketball team that Coach Reeves is a racist.
Season 2, episode 3
W: Steve Kline D: Mark Tinker
With Dennis Howard (Coach Rogers), Hari Rhodes (Harmon Reese), Wayne Heffley (Coach Harper), Jay Bilas (Larsen), Isabel Cooley (Reba Reese), Keny Long (Little Mack), Ronald McQueen (Adrian Bender).
An ambitious rival coach from a predominantly white school convinces Coach Reeves' top guard to transfer and play for him.
Season 2, episode 4
W: Joshua Brand D: Victor Lobl
With Haywood Nelson (Randy Judd), Madge Sinclair (Mrs. Judd), Hal Williams (Mr. Judd), Phil Rubenstein (School Doctor), Jennifer Harmon (Nurse), David Ankrum (Dr. Luria).
Coach Reeves is guilt-stircken when one of his players suffers a brain hemorrhage and dies on the court as his team is preparing for the city championship basketball finals.
Season 2, episode 5
W: Steve Kline D: Victor Lobl
With Larry Farmer (Selridge), Robert DoQui (Carl Simpson), Kim Hamilton (Carol Simpson), Glenn-Michael Jones (Jeff Simpson), Taylor Lacher (Don Foster).
Reeves is given a very unexpected chance to return to pro basketball as a substitute forward with the Portland Trail Blazers.
Season 2, episode 6
W: Marshall Herskovitz D: Betty Goldberg
With Hilda Haynes (Mrs. Coolidge), Mary Moon (Jenny), Erin Blunt (Darren).
Coach Reeves finds his quarters more than a bit cramped when a six foot, eight inch tall player becomes his temporary roommate.
Season 2, episode 7
W: John Masius D: Bruce Paltrow
With The Harlem Globetrotters (Themselves), Stanley Brock (Salesman), Bob Delegall (Coach), Joseph Burns (Rocky), James dePriest (Newsman).
Coach Reeves enlists the services of the Harlem Globetrotters to teach his team a much-needed lesson in humility.
Season 2, episode 8
W: Sam Hefter D: Thomas Carter
With Rosanne Katon (Diana), Judyann Elder (Dr. Chatton), Mary Moon (Jenny), Erica Lyon (Marcy Frankel), Becky Gonzalez (Nurse), Teri Taylor (Marilyn).
Classroom theory gives way to reality when Coach Reeves teaches about venereal disease, and one of his players proves to have it.
Season 2, episode 9
W: John Falsey D: Victor Lobl
With Al Fann (Minister), Hope Clarke (Aunt Edna), Marc Jefferson (Jason Hayward), Tan Adams (Charlene Hayward).
Hayward, sick over a cousin's death from a drug overdose, sets out to kill the pusher responsible for "turning on" the youth.
Season 2, episode 10
W: Charles Eric Johnson D: Victor Lobl
With Jerry Hardin (Charlie Wade), Brian Frishman (Mack Wade), Lisle Wilson (Mr. Finniman), S. John Launer (Mr. Boyd), Mary Moon (Jenny), George Paul (Clerk).
Coach Reeves realizes that one of the nation's most famous All-American players, a recent transfer to Carver High, is illiterate.
Season 2, episode 11
W: Sam Hefter D: Leon Carrere
With Taurean Blacque (Calvin Lewis), Susan Davis (Mirian LaRue), Debbi Morgan (Delores Raye), Deanne Mencher (Nurse), Michael O'Dwyer (Charlie), Jay Fletcher (Lobo), Jan Hill (Candy), Dacarla Kilpatrick (Pammie).
A beautiful girl, ensnared for a time in the "world's oldest profession", returns home and resumes her high school romance with Curtis.
Season 2, episode 12
W: John Falsey, Joshua Brand D: Betty Goldberg
With Teddy Wilson (Doug Buchanan), Jerry Fogel (Bill Donohue), Robin Pearson Rose (Katie Donohue), Rod Browning (Steve Craig), Deborah Lacey (Nancy), Trinidad Silva (Julio).
As Christmas approaches, everyone at Carver High School has something special going on, except Coach Reeves.
Season 2, episode 13
W: John Falsey, Marc Rubin D: Victor Lobl
With Andy Romano (Dr. Parmel), Todd Susman (Reporter), Maurice Sneed (Lester), Jerry Lacy (Board Member), Jessica Nelson (Janice).
Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.
Season 2, episode 14
W: Marc Rubin D: LeRoy McDonald
With Gloria Foster (Wanda Bridges), Hazel Medina (Pamela Thorpe).
Thorpe is torn between his love of art and basketball when he learns that a scout from a small southern college is considering giving him a four-year basketball scholarship.
Season 2, episode 15
W: David Assael, Joshua Brand D: Thomas Carter
With Darleen Carr (Ellen Jensen), Darnell Williams (Eddie), Fran Myers (Kathy Plunkett), Rosanne Katon (Diana), Verria Whitehead (Rozanne), Theresa Hayes (Gwen), Michael Karm (Riley), Reggie Dunn (Walter).
Carver holds a school "turnabout" dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami -- and going further.
Season 2, episode 16
W: John Masius, Mark Tinker D: Mark Tinker
With Fred Scott (Les Evans), Felix Nelson (Lawrence), Robert Alda (Bob Beardsley), Stacey Kuhne (Melanie Beardsley), Simone Griffeth (Marjorie Beardsley), Jeff Bannister (Steve Verses).
Coach Reeves takes Coolidge, Thorpe, and Salami to an exclusive country club for a day of golfing, then discovers the club is racially restricted.
Season 2, episode 17
W: John Falsey D: Victor Lobl
With Randee Heller (Susan), Robert Constanzo (Mr. Pettrino), Gloria LeRoy (Dolly), Eric Server (Casey), Jon St. Elwood (Darryl).
Coach Reeves finds out that the fellow Carver High teacher he is currently dating is also moonlighting as a stripper.
Season 2, episode 18
W: Steve Kline D: Mark Tinker
With Kathleen Lloyd (Paula), Carl Crudup (Cletus Rice), Vernoica Redd (Mrs. Jeffers), Rudy Lowe (Lonnie Burns), Nicholas Mele (Mr. Bellerini), Lark Hackshaw (Debby).
Reeves and a female undercover police officer team up to try and stop a drug dealer from selling PCP to the students.
Season 2, episode 19
W: Barry Gold D: Victor Lobl
With Beverly Hope Atkinson (Madge Owens), James McEachin (Jake Owens), Meshach Taylor (Chipper), Nicholas Mele (Mr. Bellerini), Arnold Johnson (Mickey), Jeff Gallagher (Miss Perkins).
Coach Reeves is asked to be the Carver High athletic director, a position the baseball coach wanted.
Season 2, episode 20
W: David Assael, Joshua Brand D: Victor Lobl
With Jon Gries (Uri Kogenski), Brad Maule (Alexi Korchov), Chris Mulkey (Ilya), Zitto Kazann (Russian Coach), Gene Scherer (Dimitrov), McKee Anderson (Mrs. Johnson).
A touring high school team from the Soviet Union comes to Carver High, and one of the Russian players wants Hayward to help him defect.
Season 2, episode 21
W: Tom De Martini D: Marc Norman
With Lupe Ontiveros (Mrs. Gomez), Hector Elias (Mr. Gomez), Carmen Zapata (Mrs. Alvarez), Natalie Davis (Evita Gomez), Bubba Smith (Strong Man), Pepe Hern (Garcia), Gerald Castillo (Esteban), Mike Robelo (Carlos).
Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.
Season 2, episode 22
W: Marc Rubin D: Victor Lobl
With Fran Myers (Kathy Plunkett), Beany Williams (Willie Jackson), James Cromwell (Art Cummings), Grant Wilson (Alan Wiggins), Will Gill Jr. (Proprietor).
Carver wins the city championship and moves on to the state tournament, but the celebration turns tragic for one player and his family.
Season 2, episode 23
W: Marc Rubin, John Falsey D: Marc Norman
With George Wyner (Director), Edward Asner (Himself), Peter Jurasik (Producer), Colby Chester (Mr. Hays), Harry Danner (Mr. Leonard), Paul Willson (Writer), Alvin Kupperman (Agent), John Dewey Carter (Jason).
Coolidge is offered a role on a television series, which becomes a hit and soon causes him to forget where he came from.
Season 2, episode 24
W: John Falsey, Joshua Brand D: Thomas Carter
With Fran Myers (Kathy Plunkett), Carl Franklin (Lonie), Glynn Turman (Ron Taylor), Darnell Williams (Walchansky), Ron Pinkard (Recruiter), Dee Timberlake (Ms. Gladding), Eleanor McCoy (Marilyn), Teri Taylor (Charlene).
Graduation means the end of the Carver playing careers of Goldstein, Gomez, Hayward and Reese, and it also means anxiety for all of them as they wonder what lies ahead.
October 16, 1980: Reunion (1)
Season 3, episode 1
W: John Falsey D: Bruce Paltrow
With James Whitmore (Jake Reeves), Alfre Woodard (Sandra Wilcox), JoBeth Williams (Paula Harris), Peter Hobbs (Dr. McCabe), Robert Hooks (Dr. Tucker), Vernon Washington (Mr. Tucker), Betty Cole (Mrs. Tucker).
The third season begins with Coach Reeves visiting the town where he grew up and reuniting with old friends -- and with his father, whose health is failing.
Season 3, episode 2
W: John Falsey, Joshua Brand D: Bruce Paltrow
With James Whitmore (Jake Reeves), JoBeth Williams (Paula Harris).
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.
Season 3, episode 3
W: Marc Rubin D: Victor Lobl
With Roosevelt Grier (Himself), Melinda Cordell (Ms. Hansen), Ken Sansom (Mr. Hyde), The Harlem Globetrotters.
Coolidge feels he is too good for high school basketball, so Coach Reeves arranges a tryout for him with the Harlem Globetrotters.
Season 3, episode 4
W: Joshua Brand D: Mark Tinker
With Jimmie Walker (Himself), Elgin Baylor (Himself), Sparky Anderson (Himself), Willie Tyler (Himself), Roosevelt Grier (Himself), Red Auerbach (Himself), Chet Walker (Himself), Sandra Will (Marlene Sandler), Edmund Stoiber (Mr. Wexler), Carl Byrd (Dr. Sanders), Robin Braxton (Miss March).
To get sports celebrities' help in raising funds for a community mobile health care unit, the Carver High team organizes a "memorial" dinner for Coach Reeves by spreading the word that he has died.
Season 3, episode 5
W: John Falsey, Joshua Brand D: Victor Lobl
With Shavar Ross (Herbert), Craig T. Nelson (Father Phil), Penny Peyser, Elizabeth Kerr (Mrs. Visilikos), Dain Turner (Conrad), Hollis Irving (Emilie).
A Catholic boys' club and a local orphanage provide Coach Reeves and his basketball team with a unique opportunity for proving the true spirit of Christmas.
Season 3, episode 6
W: Joshua Brand D: Thomas Carter
With Lee Chamberlin, Randy Brooks (Greg Adler), Robert Constanzo (Mr. Pettrino), Lawrence Cook (Mr. Adler), Gamy L. Taylor (Mrs. Adler), Dana Gladstone (Detective), Robert Phalen (District Attorney), Eric Laneuville (Kid), Paul Larson (Judge), Howard George (Detective).
Salami is charged with aggravated assault and faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing team's player's jaw during an on-court brawl.
Season 3, episode 7
W: John Masius, Mark Tinker D: Mark Tinker
With Ray Girardin (Bill Price), James Staley (Robbie Maine), Sandra Will (Marlene), Robin Coleman (Director), Frazer Smith (DJ).
The team tries to capitalize on their shower singing abilities by signing with a record company, but the results aren't what they bargained for.
Season 3, episode 8
W: Marshall Herskovitz D: Marc Norman
With Eleanor McCoy (Denise Shaw), Bryan O'Dell (Leroy), Saundra Sharp (Ms. Jenkins), Lee Bryant, Gene Bua (Jack Benedict), Susan Keller (Cheryl Maynard), Fred Holliday (Newscaster), Karl Bruck (Dr. Meltzer).
Stone saves an elderly woman's life by rescuing her from a burning car, and the experience goes to his head after he appears on a TV news program which sensationalizes the story.
Season 3, episode 9
W: Steve Kline D: LeRoy McDonald
With Bill Russell (Himself), Maidie Norman (Mrs. Coolidge), John Wyler (Harry), Michael Williams (Stan), Eugenia Wright.
Coolidge, having grown another inch, begins to realize that being tall is not all that its cracked up to be and starts feeling awkward around girls, and good-natured ribbing by his teammates stirs him to anger.
Season 3, episode 10
W: Marc Rubin D: Victor Lobl
With Jennifer Perito (Roseanne), Ron Pinkard (Clerk), Roosevelt Grier (Ezra Davis).
Coach Reeves threatens to kick Falahey off the team when he suspects that he faking injuries to get out of practicing. However, the coach looks like a hypocrite when he is summoned for jury duty and tries to lie his way out of it.
Season 3, episode 11
W: Joshua Brand D: Mark Tinker
With John Steadman (George), Helen Martin (Louise), Robert Constanzo, Tom Patchett (Tom).
Needing extra money, Salami and Vitaglia take jobs as car repossessors. However, their friendship begins to suffer and the late night hours land them in coach Reeves' doghouse.
Season 3, episode 12
W: Joanne Pagliaro D: Victor Lobl
With Christina Pickles (Teacher), Leslie Speights (Lorraine), Michael Winslow (Lee), Nicholas Mele (Tom Bellerini), Renee Jones (Angela).
Coach Reeves comes to the aid of a female teacher with a past history of mental illness and nervous breakdowns when she is tormented by an unknown student.
Season 3, episode 13
W: Erwin Washington, David Assael D: Lawrence Levy
With A Martinez (Officer Ramirez), Louis Giambalvo (Officer), Wyatt Johnson (Officer Lewis), Stack Pierce (Officer Edwards), Becky Gonzalez (Helen Ramirez), Nicholas Mele (Tom Bellerini).
Racial tensions in the community reach the boiling point when a group of black players are apprehended following the mugging of an elderly woman, and Thorpe is shot by a police officer who mistook him for an armed robbery suspect.
Season 3, episode 14
W: Dennis Danzinger, Eric Stunzi D: Mark Tinker
With Lynne Moody (Luann Mackey), Richard Lawson (David Mackey), Nicholas Mele (Tom Bellerini), Ella Raino Edwards (Louise Bradley), Bill Lodge (George Robinson), Mykelti Williamson (Fred).
Ken and the students are critical of a teacher who seems to be burnt out of his teaching job at Carver High, as he shows a slow emotional disintegration as a result of physical and mental exhaustion.
Season 3, episode 15
W: Joshua Brand D: Victor Lobl
With Ella Fitzgerald (Maxine Jefferies), Dennis Holahan (Mr. Baxter), Ira Angustain (Ricky Gomez), Ken Michelman (Abner Goldstein), Nathan Cook (Milton Reese), Thomas Carter (James Hayward), Martin Garner (Mr. Goldstein).
A Carver alumni exhibition game brings updates on Hayward, Reese, Gomez, and Goldstein since graduation. (Last show of the series.)