The White Shadow
Wanna Bet?
Season 1, Episode 6 · Aired 1979-01-08
Synopsis
The team heads for Las Vegas to compete in a basketball game, but ends up competing—and losing—at the gaming tables instead. Las Vegas is indeed a town for gamblers as Coach Reeves' boys learn the hard way. They not only have problems with monetary wagers, but the squad encounters problems on the court in the tournament in which they've come to Vegas to play.
In the series
This episode is part of The White Shadow (1978–1981) on CBS.
White coach, mostly Black high-school team — gym class as social drama.
Key cast
- Ken Howard as Coach Ken Reeves
- Jason Bernard as Jim Willis
- Byron Stewart as Warren Coolidge
- Timothy Van Patten as Mario 'Salami' Pettrino