Welcome Back, Kotter
One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Season 1, Episode 19 · Aired 1976-02-05
Synopsis
A flu epidemic requires several advanced students to join Kotter's class, where they quickly outshine his struggling students. Kotter boosts the battered self-confidence of his Sweathogs by demonstrating that not all smarts are book smarts.
In the series
This episode is part of Welcome Back, Kotter (1975–1979) on ABC.
Sweathogs in the back row — and a theme song that charted for real.
Key cast
- Gabe Kaplan as Gabe Kotter
- Marcia Strassman as Julie Kotter
- John Travolta as Vinnie Barbarino
- Robert Hegyes as Juan Epstein
- Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs as Freddie 'Boom Boom' Washington
- Ron Palillo as Arnold Horshack