You may not personally remember high school the way it was presented in the ABC sitcom Welcome Back Kotter, but from 1976 to 1979 the comic interactions between teacher Gabe Kotter (played by Gabe ...

Robert Hegyes (L) and John Travolta accept the 35th Anniversary Award for "Welcome Back, Kotter" onstage at the 9th Annual TV Land Awards at the Javits Center on April 10, 2011 in New York City.

"Welcome Back, Kotter" was a staple on ABC for much of its four-season run. Popular with kids and teenagers, the talented "Welcome Back, Kotter" cast was notable for bringing big screen star John ...

Welcome Back, Kotter was the perfect combination of humor and life lessons, as it hilariously followed teacher Gabe Kotter and his group of misfit students. Just picturing Reynolds in the middle ...

Loosely based on Kaplan's memories and stand-up routine about life as a teenager in a remedial class at New Ultrecht High School in New York, "Welcome Back, Kotter" caused teenagers and kids to ...

The two were part of sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter, which ran on ABC from Sept. 1975 to May, 1979. Gabe Kaplan starred as a high school teacher in a charge of a remedial education class nicknamed ...

Hollywood Flashback: ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ Was the Original School Sitcom Success. Lisa de los Reyes. Thu, May 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM UTC. 2 min read.

Mayor Eric Adams honored “Welcome Back, Kotter” and “Cooley High” actor Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs with a proclamation as he marked the 50th anniversary of both the show and movie at Ember ...

Alan Sacks, Co-Creator of ‘Welcome, Back, Kotter,’ Dies at 81. He also worked on the 1980s films ‘Du-Beat-e-o’ and ‘Thrashin' ’ and produced films and shows for the Disney Channel.

Alan Sacks, who teamed with stand-up comic and fellow Brooklynite Gabe Kaplan to create the popular 1970s ABC sitcom Welcome, Back, Kotter, has died. He was 81. Sacks died Tuesday of complications ...

Film and TV writer-producer Alan Sacks, who had an eclectic career that included co-creating the popular 1970s series “Welcome Back, Kotter” and working on projects set in the 1980s L.A. punk ...