Friday, April 29, 2016

Welcome Back, Kotter: Mr. Kotter, Teacher

One of the better moments, a dance number out of nowhere.
Welcome Back, Kotter: Mr. Kotter, Teacher
ABC
November 4, 1975
Sitcom
DVD
B-

Jerry Rannow and Jewel Jaffe Rannow wrote this story where Woodman has Kotter suspended for his teaching methods.  Despite throwing in celebrity imitations and costumes (see Travolta in drag decades before Hairspray), this never quite makes it, although it seems an inevitable episode given the characters.

Hope Summers, who plays Ms. Riley, previously was on That Girl and M*A*S*H.  She was 79 at this point and had been acting since the '50s; she'd die in 1979 and Foul Play would be one of her last credits.

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