White Shadow Episode Guide

Episode Guide

White Shadow: Season 3 (1980 - 1981)

• Season 3 Episode 15: A Day in the Life

  An alumni game brings graduates Hayward, Goldstein, Reese and Gomez back to Carver to play the current team; guest Ella Fitzgerald.

• Season 3 Episode 14: Burnout

  Rutherford's hero, a young teacher who was a civil-rights activist during the 1960s, succumbs to stress and becomes apathetic.

• Season 3 Episode 13: Cops

  Police, looking for robbers, stop Thorpe and Coolidge, wounding Thorpe; guest A Martinez.

• Season 3 Episode 12: Psyched Out

  An unstable student (Michael Winslow) harasses a new teacher (Christina Pickles) recovering from an emotional breakdown.

• Season 3 Episode 11: Car Repo

  Salami and Vitaglia take jobs as auto repossessors, which winds up causing problems with their coach, the police and each other.

• Season 3 Episode 10: Trial and Error

  Reeves is called for jury duty days before a critical game; Falahey's girlfriend tells him she's pregnant; guest Roosevelt Grier.

• Season 3 Episode 9: B.M.O.C.

  Reeves calls on an old friend (Bill Russell) for help when Coolidge begins to feel self-conscious about his ever-increasing height.

• Season 3 Episode 8: Mr. Hero

  Perennial delinquent Stone becomes an instant hero after he pulls an unconscious, elderly woman from a car just before it explodes.

• Season 3 Episode 7: Vanity Fare

  Troubles plague Reeves' foray into television commercials and the team's attempts at a music-business career; guest Frazer Smith.

• Season 3 Episode 6: No Blood, No Foul

  Reeves feels personally responsible when Salami faces assault charges for injuring an opposing team's player during a rough game.

• Season 3 Episode 5: Christmas Story

  At Christmas, Thorpe befriends an orphan; Reeves helps a priest (Craig T. Nelson); and the team sells trees; guest Penny Peyser.

• Season 3 Episode 4: If Your Number's Up, Get It Down

  The team tries to use deception to raise funds for a mobile health-care unit; guests Elgin Baylor, Sparky Anderson, Jimmie Walker.

• Season 3 Episode 3: Georgia on My Mind

  Coolidge, certain he's good enough to play professional basketball, tries out for the Harlem Globetrotters; guest Roosevelt Grier.

• Season 3 Episode 2: Reunion

  Reeves confronts his father (James Whitmore) after coming home for a reunion; guests Robert Hooks, JoBeth Williams.

• Season 3 Episode 1: Reunion

  Reeves reconciles with his dying father (James Whitmore) and returns to meet new team members; guest JoBeth Williams.

White Shadow: Season 2 (1979 - 1980)

• Season 2 Episode 24: A Few Good Men

  As graduation approaches, Reeves considers a trip while Reese and Goldstein face life after high school. Directed by Thomas Carter.

• Season 2 Episode 23: Coolidge Goes Hollywood

  Coolidge is cast in a Carver production of 'A Streetcar Named Desire,' but takes TV series role instead.

• Season 2 Episode 22: The Death of Me Yet

  Sudden tragedy strikes the team just before they are to play in the city championships, leaving Reeves with a difficult choice.

• Season 2 Episode 21: The Hitter

  When Gomez displays frequent bruises and injuries, Reeves begins to suspect the player is a victim of abuse; guest Carmen Zapata.

• Season 2 Episode 20: The Russians Are Coming

  A teenage Soviet basketball player, part of a specially selected team touring the United States, asks Hayward to help him defect.

• Season 2 Episode 19: Out at Home

  Carver's crusty, cynical baseball coach (James McEachin) resigns after a selection committee names Reeves as athletic director.

• Season 2 Episode 18: Gonna Fly Now

  Reeves and an attractive narcotics officer (Kathleen Lloyd) go after a pusher who slipped PCP to unsuspecting Phil during a party.

• Season 2 Episode 17: The Stripper

  Reeves is astonished to discover that the ballet instructor (Randee Heller) he's been dating moonlights as a strip-tease artist.

• Season 2 Episode 16: Links

  Reeves and some of his players encounter prejudice when they attempt to play golf at an exclusive country club; guest Robert Alda.

• Season 2 Episode 15: Salami's Affair

  A pretty, young teacher's (Darleen Carr) offer to tutor Salami in history evolves into a love affair. Directed by Thomas Carter.

• Season 2 Episode 14: Artist

  His parents' dreams for him affect Thorpe's decision between basketball and art as a way out of the neighborhood.

• Season 2 Episode 13: Feeling No Pain

  Reeves' players are caught in a drug investigation after Salami gets a prescription for amphetamines from the coach's doctor.

• Season 2 Episode 12: A Christmas Present

  The players elect Phil as host for their Christmas party; pregnant Buchanan and her estranged husband discuss the future.

• Season 2 Episode 11: Delores -- Of Course

  Jackson's old sweetheart (Deborah Morgan-Weldon) returns, concealing her current occupation as a prostitute; guest Taurean Blacque.

• Season 2 Episode 10: Sliding By

  After threatening to bench Coolidge for bad grades, Reeves discovers a highly publicized, spectacular new player is illiterate.

• Season 2 Episode 9: Needle

  Hayward pursues a heroin dealer who fatally doses two 15-year-olds, one Hayward's cousin.

• Season 2 Episode 8: Me?

  Thorpe learns he has venereal disease after having a brief affair with Coolidge's girlfriend. Directed by Thomas Carter.

• Season 2 Episode 7: Globetrotters

  The players, insufferably inflated by a winning streak, learn humility from the Harlem Globetrotters.

• Season 2 Episode 6: No Place Like Home

  The relationship between Coolidge and Reeves is tested when a apartment-building fire forces them to become temporary roommates.

• Season 2 Episode 5: A Silent Cheer

  Reeves is offered a chance to return to pro basketball, but learns the difference between dreams and reality from a deaf player.

• Season 2 Episode 4: Sudden Death

  Reeves blames himself after a talented freshman he recruited for the team unexpectedly dies; guests Madge Sinclair, Hal Williams.

• Season 2 Episode 3: Cross Town Hustle

  Reese, angry over Reeves' treatment of him, is recruited by a new school but can't adjust to the tough coach and academic standards.

• Season 2 Episode 2: Albert Hodges

  An embittered black player, wrongfully convicted and sent to prison for 18 months, returns to school and accuses Reeves of racism.

• Season 2 Episode 1: On the Line

  A hard-hitting school-newspaper reporter (David Hubbard) uncovers a dubious arrangement that involves Jackson and a local bookmaker.

White Shadow: Season 1 (1978 - 1979)

• Season 1 Episode 15: Le Grand Finale

  Thorpe is excluded from the team's musical endeavors after dating a girl (Alexandra Johnson) who has a questionable reputation.

• Season 1 Episode 14: Little Orphan Abner

  When the team takes advantage of his hospitality, shy Goldstein is forced to defend his rights; guest Michael Pataki.

• Season 1 Episode 13: Mainstream

  A program to integrate handicapped students puts an autistic boy (Jason Green) on the basketball team.

• Season 1 Episode 12: The Great White Dope

  Believing boxing is the key to his future, Salami quits basketball to become a poorly paid bar fighter; guest Carlos Palomino.

• Season 1 Episode 11: Spare the Rod

  Reeves refuses to file charges with the police after being forced into a fistfight with a delinquent student (Brian Mitchell).

• Season 1 Episode 10: We're in the Money

  The team members borrow money from other students and head for the tables when they travel to a Las Vegas basketball tournament.

• Season 1 Episode 9: Airball

  The team's first airplane ride runs into trouble and seems to be headed for a crash landing; guests Jonelle Allen, Jenny Sullivan.

• Season 1 Episode 8: Just One of the Boys

  A new student (Peter Horton) who transferred to Carver from an affluent school is shunned when rumors suggest that he is homosexual.

• Season 1 Episode 7: That Old Gang of Mine

  Gomez rejoins his old street gang and is headed for trouble after being dropped from the team for poor grades; guest Carmen Zapata.

• Season 1 Episode 6: Wanna Bet

  Reeves recruits a fast-talking, talented player (Michael Warren) deeply involved in gambling.

• Season 1 Episode 5: Pregnant Pause

  Reese's girlfriend claims to be pregnant and insists on an immediate marriage, which would cost him a college scholarship.

• Season 1 Episode 4: Bonus Baby

  A shady sports agent (Art Metrano) and his assistant (Annasette Chase) tempt Coolidge to quit and sign with them.

• Season 1 Episode 3: The Offer

  A beautiful newswoman offers Reeves a chance to become a highly paid television sports commentator.

• Season 1 Episode 2: Here's Mud in Your Eye

  Reeves enlists the aid of a health-department psychologist (Christine Belford) when he learns of a player with a drinking problem.

• Season 1 Episode 1: Pilot

  An old friend convinces Ken Reeves, a white former pro-basketball player, to take a job as coach of a ghetto high-school team.