The White Shadow Episode Rating Graph
Nov 1978 - Mar 1981
Nov 1978 - Mar 1981
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Browse episode ratings trends for The White Shadow. Simply click on the interactive rating graph to explore the best and worst of The White Shadow's 54 episodes.
S3 Ep11
10.0
16th Feb 1981
Salami and Vitaglia take on a part-time job reposessing cars, but the ungodly work hours and the harassments from the car owners affect both their performances in school and on the basketball court.
S2 Ep15
10.0
15th Jan 1980
Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.
S1 Ep15
9.2
9th Apr 1979
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.
S2 Ep1
8.8
17th Sep 1979
The second season begins with Jackson, wanting to make some extra money, gets unknowingly involved with sports bookies. Things get especially difficult when they start offering him big money to shave points at Carver's games.
S2 Ep13
8.7
1st Jan 1980
Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.
S2 Ep7
8.7
5th Nov 1979
The basketball team is on a winning streak and proceeds to showboat and run up the score on their latest opponent, prompting a tongue-lashing from Reeves. With their newfound success gone to their head, the team gets cocky with the workers at a local car wash and challenges them to a pickup game at the Carver gym. The boys are unaware that the car wash workers are really members of the Harlem Globetrotters doing a benefit and Reeves has arranged for them to show the team they're really not as good as they think.
S2 Ep3
8.7
1st Oct 1979
A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.
S1 Ep11
8.7
17th Feb 1979
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.
S1 Ep10
8.7
10th Feb 1979
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.
S2 Ep2
8.6
24th Sep 1979
Coach Reeves begins teaching a class on sex education, but comes under fire when he makes joking comments that Albert Hodges, a new black student who is very racially sensitive, interprets as insulting to blacks. Hodges then tries to rally the black players on the team against Reeves.
S1 Ep9
8.4
3rd Feb 1979
The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.
S2 Ep4
6.0
8th Oct 1979
after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death
S2 Ep14
6.0
8th Jan 1980
a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever
S2 Ep17
6.0
29th Jan 1980
a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line
S3 Ep8
6.0
13th Jan 1981
Stone saves an elderly woman's life by rescuing her from a burning car, and the experience goes to his head after he appears on the TV news and sensationalizes the story.
S3 Ep9
6.0
2nd Feb 1981
Coolidge starts having problems stemming from his abnormal height and size, such as normal clothes not fitting. He gets self-conscious and defensive until Coach Reeves, who has dealt with the same problems, takes him under his wing and tries to let him know he's not alone. NBA Hall-of-Famer Bill Russell guest stars.
S3 Ep10
6.0
9th Feb 1981
Coach Reeves threatens to kick Falahey off the team when he suspects that he is missing practices and faking injuries. However, the coach himself looks like a hypocrite when he is summoned for jury duty and he tries to lie his way out of it.
S3 Ep12
6.0
23rd Feb 1981
A female teacher with a past history of mental illness and nervous breakdowns is tormented by a psychotic student.
S3 Ep2
7.0
23rd Oct 1980
Coach Reeves heals his strained relationship with his dying father, breaks things off once and for all with Paula, and returns to Carver for the new school year, where some new players have joined the team: Wardell Stone, Mitchell, Rutherford, Paddy Falahey, and Eddie Franklin
S3 Ep6
7.0
30th Dec 1980
Salami faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing team's player's jaw during an on court brawl.
S1 Ep1
7.1
27th Nov 1978
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.
S1 Ep8
7.3
27th Jan 1979
Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.
S1 Ep1
7.1
27th Nov 1978
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.
S1 Ep2
7.9
4th Dec 1978
Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.
S1 Ep5
7.7
1st Jan 1979
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.
S1 Ep7
7.6
15th Jan 1979
after gomez gets knocked off the carver high basketball team he joins a street gang he onced belonged to
S1 Ep8
7.3
27th Jan 1979
Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.
S1 Ep9
8.4
3rd Feb 1979
The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.
S1 Ep10
8.7
10th Feb 1979
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.
S1 Ep11
8.7
17th Feb 1979
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.
S1 Ep12
8.3
24th Feb 1979
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.
S1 Ep14
8.3
26th Mar 1979
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.
S1 Ep15
9.2
9th Apr 1979
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.
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The first episode of The White Shadow aired on November 27, 1978.
The last episode of The White Shadow aired on March 16, 1981.
There are 54 episodes of The White Shadow.
There are 3 seasons of The White Shadow.
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The White Shadow has ended.