The Complete First Season

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Episode Guide

Disc 1
PILOT
Air date: 11/27/78

When a serious knee injury forces Ken Reeves to quit playing basketball for the Chicago Bulls, an old friend offers him a basketball coaching job in Los Angeles at an inner-city high school. Optional Episode Commentary by Jackie Cooper and Mark Tinker.
HERE’S MUD IN YOUR EYE
Air date: 12/4/78

Coach Reeves needs the team’s help after one of its players refuses to admit that his drinking problem has gotten out of control.
THE OFFER
Air date: 12/11/78

Reeves is tempted after a beautiful newswoman takes an interest in him and then her boss offers him a high-paying sports commentator job.
BONUS BABY
Air date: 12/25/78

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.

Disc 2
PREGNANT PAUSE
Air date: 1/1/79

One of the team’s best players is shocked after his girlfriend tells him she’s pregnant and he has to quit school and get a job so they can get married.
WANNA BET?
Air date: 1/8/79

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.
THAT OLD GANG OF MINE
Air date: 1/15/79

When Gomez is kicked off the team due to poor grades, he starts hanging out with the Aztecs, a violent Chicano street gang he used to belong to.
JUST ONE OF THE BOYS
Air date: 1/27/79

Coach Reeves struggles with a sensitive situation after word leaks out that a new team member transferred to Carver High to escape rumors that he’s a homosexual.

Disc 3
AIRBALL
Air date: 2/3/79

The team’s excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they’re on develops mechanical trouble.
WE’RE IN THE MONEY
Air date: 2/10/79

When the team goes to Las Vegas to play in a tournament, they secretly take a pool of money collected from the students so they can gamble and return home with a fortune.
SPARE THE ROD
Air date: 2/17/79

Coach Reeves feels guilty after an arrogant and unruly student takes a swing at him, and in an act of self-defense, he swings back and punches the boy out.
THE GREAT WHITE DOPE
Air date: 1/24/79

The coach tries to help Salami after the boy gets involved with bar fighting and says that boxing, not basketball, is the key to his future. Optional Episode Commentary by Ken Howard and Timothy Van Patten.

Disc 4
MAINSTREAM
Air date: 3/5/79

The team’s excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they’re on develops mechanical trouble.
LITTLE ORPHAN ABNER
Air date: 3/26/79

When Goldstein’s grandfather is hospitalized, Coach Reeves ask the team to check in on their teammate, but they end up hurting him instead of helping him.
LeGRAND FINALE
Air date: 4/9/79

When the team forms a singing group, they decide not to include Thorpe because he’s dating a white girl with a bad reputation around school.

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