The White Shadow

Épisode 1 - (pilot)

27 novembre 1978

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 doesn't 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.

Épisode 2 - Here's Mud in Your Eye

4 décembre 1978

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

Épisode 3 - The Offer

11 décembre 1978

Reeves is tempted after a beautiful newswoman takes an interest in him and then her boss offers him a high-paying sports commentator job.

Épisode 4 - Bonus Baby

25 décembre 1978

After winning the Most Valuable Player trophy, Coolidge is easily seduced by a young woman who says a sports agent is interested in promoting his career.

Épisode 5 - Pregnant Pause

1 janvier 1979

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

Épisode 6 - Wanna Bet?

8 janvier 1979

Coach Reeves finds himself involved in burglary, bookies and murder after he helps an amazing young basketball player enroll at Carver High and join the team.

Épisode 7 - That Old Gang of Mine

15 janvier 1979

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

Épisode 8 - Just One of the Boys

27 janvier 1979

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

Épisode 9 - Airball

3 février 1979

Épisode 10 - We're in the Money

10 février 1979

Épisode 11 - Spare the Rod

17 février 1979

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 can't be helped when Lucius tries to rape Mrs. Buchanan.

Épisode 12 - The Great White Dope

24 février 1979

Salami has dreams of becoming a professional boxer, like his father was. However, his dad is dead-set against it. Coach Reeves offers to help Salami train, but gets more than he bargained for when he learns his father is against it and that he and Salami don't talk to each other

Épisode 13 - Mainstream

5 mars 1979

A mainstreaming program is put in place at Carver, and as a result, Coach Reeves is forced to take in an autistic kid on the basketball team.

Épisode 14 - Little Orphan Abner

26 mars 1979

Goldstein's 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 aren't too keen on this because Goldstein really doesn't 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.

Épisode 15 - LeGrand Finale

9 avril 1979

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.

Épisode 1 - On the Line

17 septembre 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.

Épisode 2 - Albert Hodges

24 septembre 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.

Épisode 3 - Cross-Town Hustle

1 octobre 1979

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

Épisode 4 - Sudden Death

8 octobre 1979

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

Épisode 5 - A Silent Cheer

15 octobre 1979

Épisode 6 - No Place Like Home

29 octobre 1979

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

Épisode 7 - Globetrotters

5 novembre 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.

Épisode 8 - Me?

12 novembre 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.

Épisode 9 - Needle

26 novembre 1979

Épisode 10 - Sliding By

3 décembre 1979

Épisode 11 - Delores, Of Course

18 décembre 1979

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

Épisode 12 - A Christmas Present

25 décembre 1979

Épisode 13 - Feeling No Pain

1 janvier 1980

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

Épisode 14 - Artist

8 janvier 1980

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

Épisode 15 - Salami's Affair

15 janvier 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.

Épisode 16 - Links

22 janvier 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.

Épisode 17 - The Stripper

29 janvier 1980

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

Épisode 18 - Gonna Fly Now

5 février 1980

Épisode 19 - Out at Home

19 février 1980

Épisode 20 - The Russians Are Coming

26 février 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.

Épisode 21 - The Hitter

4 mars 1980

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

Épisode 22 - The Death of Me Yet

11 mars 1980

Épisode 23 - Coolidge Goes Hollywood

18 mars 1980

Épisode 24 - A Few Good Men

1 avril 1980

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's ahead. Meanwhile, Reeves' girlfriend wants him to spend the summer with her in Greece.

Épisode 1 - Reunion (1)

16 octobre 1980

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.

Épisode 2 - Reunion (2)

23 octobre 1980

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

Épisode 3 - Georgia on My Mind

30 octobre 1980

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

Épisode 4 - If Your Number's Up, Get It Down

16 décembre 1980

Épisode 5 - Christmas Story

23 décembre 1980

Épisode 6 - No Blood, No Foul

30 décembre 1980

Salami faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing team's player's jaw during an on court brawl.

Épisode 7 - Vanity Fare

6 janvier 1981

Épisode 8 - Mister Hero

13 janvier 1981

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 the TV news and sensationalizes the story.

Épisode 9 - B.M.O.C

2 février 1981

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 he's not alone. NBA Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell guest stars.

Épisode 10 - Trial and Error

9 février 1981

Épisode 11 - Car Repo

16 février 1981

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.

Épisode 12 - Psyched Out

23 février 1981

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

Épisode 13 - Cops

2 mars 1981

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.

Épisode 14 - Burnout

9 mars 1981

Carver's 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.

Épisode 15 - A Day in the Life

16 mars 1981

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 doesn't believe he'll 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.