List of episodes of the series «The White Shadow»
- Seasons count: 3
- Episodes count: 54
- Total viewing time: 2 d. 7 h.
Release date: 11/27/1978
(pilot)
- Episode number: 1
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: Ken Reeves, a forward with the Chicago Bulls, is forced to retire after suffering a serious knee injury. His old friend and high school teammate, Jim Willis, who is principal of Carver High near L.A., drops by to offer him a job as basketball coach. Reeves is reluctant, but agrees. Among the challenges he faces with the school and the team include a female vice principal who doesn't like him and a player, James Hayward, who has a lot of potential, but also is fatherless and may have to drop out of school to go to work and take care of his mom and little brother.
Release date: 12/4/1978
Here's Mud in Your Eye
- Episode number: 2
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.
Release date: 12/11/1978
The Offer
- Episode number: 3
- Episode duration: 60 min.
Release date: 12/25/1978
Bonus Baby
- Episode number: 4
- Episode duration: 60 min.
Release date: 1/1/1979
Pregnant Pause
- Episode number: 5
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: College scouts are impressed with Reese and believe he has a good shot at a scholarship. However, Reese's plans are put on hold when his girlfriend, a Carver cheerleader, tells him she's pregnant. Coach Reeves and the team discover her attending cheerleader practices and believe she may be lying about the pregnancy to trap Reese into marrying her.
Release date: 1/8/1979
Wanna Bet?
- Episode number: 6
- Episode duration: 60 min.
Release date: 1/15/1979
That Old Gang of Mine
- Episode number: 7
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: after gomez gets knocked off the carver high basketball team he joins a street gang he onced belonged to
Release date: 1/27/1979
Just One of the Boys
- Episode number: 8
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.
Release date: 2/3/1979
Airball
- Episode number: 9
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.
Release date: 2/10/1979
We're in the Money
- Episode number: 10
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: 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.
Release date: 2/17/1979
Spare the Rod
- Episode number: 11
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: Coach Reeves substitute-teaches a P.E. class, loses his temper, and hits a student, Lucius Robinson, who refuses to participate. Reeves feels guilty about the incident, learns of Lucius' troubles, and offers to help him in any way. Reeves then quickly learns that some students can't be helped when Lucius tries to rape Mrs. Buchanan.
Release date: 2/24/1979
The Great White Dope
- Episode number: 12
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: Mac Wade, a tall, white, ""can't miss"" college basketball prospect, transfers to Carver for his senior year due to re-zoning, which excites Reeves. However, Reeves discovers that Mac can't read and has been allowed a free ride through school because of his basketball skills. The problem is further compounded when Mac, who has never had to take a test in school, is caught cheating on a test and has to be suspended.
Release date: 3/5/1979
Mainstream
- Episode number: 13
- Episode duration: 60 min.
Release date: 3/26/1979
Little Orphan Abner
- Episode number: 14
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: Goldstein's grandmother is hospitalized and his grandfather stays at the hospital with her, so Coach Reeves asks the team to check in on him at home every so often. The other guys aren't too keen on this because Goldstein really doesn't fit in with them, but they agree to check on him and, in the process, take advantage of him and his hospitality. Goldstein threatens to quit the team, and Coach Reeves gives him a lecture on standing up for himself.
Release date: 4/9/1979
LeGrand Finale
- Episode number: 15
- Episode duration: 60 min.
- Episode description: The team wants to form a singing group, but elect not to include Thorpe, who begins a dating interest with Karen LeGrand, a white girl with an unsavory reputation around school.