Saturday, May 7, 2016

Welcome Back, Kotter: The Telethon

Welcome Back, Kotter: The Telethon
ABC
February 12, 1976
Sitcom
DVD
B

School supplies are running low so the Sweathogs hold a telethon on a very local TV station.  There are some good performances here, including "Me and My Shadow," but I think it would've been better to have not just Barbarino (again doing his "Barbara Ann" parody/homage, with the crowd going even wilder) able to perform on camera.  After all, Marcia Strassman could actually sing.  (Her 1967 "Flower Children" single can be found on Youtube.)

Kristine Greco makes her first of thirteen uncredited appearances as a female Sweathog.  Sometime WBK writer Jerry Rannow plays Oliver Niles.

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