Welcome Back, Kotter
What Goes Up
Season 3, Episode 22 · Aired 1978-02-09
Synopsis
Freddie is prescribed painkillers to treat a nagging injury he suffered playing basketball ... and soon becomes hooked. His friends become concerned about Freddie's increasingly scary behavior, but "Boom-Boom" tries to brush them off - after all, it's just "vitamins." What becomes even more scary is that Horshack blindly believes his friend's explanation, even though it becomes clear that Freddie needs help before something goes horribly wrong.
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