Welcome Back, Kotter - The Complete First Season | 
| Actors: Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta, Ron Palillo, Lawrence Hilton-jacobs, Robert Hegyes
Studio: Warner Home Video
Category: DVD
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Rating:  45 reviews
Sales Rank: 3493
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd, Ntsc
Language: English (Original Language)
Rating: Unrated
Region: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Number Of Discs: 4
Running Time: 553 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.4 x 0.7
MPN: WARD113099D
UPC: 085391130994
EAN: 0085391130994
ASIN: B000NJMJHA
Theatrical Release Date: September 9, 1975
Release Date: June 12, 2007
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Travel back to a time when sitcoms were recorded live on tape before a studio audience and dialogue was dominated by nonsensical catch phrases, like "Up your nose with a rubber hose!" and "Off my case, potato face!" The year was 1975. Saturday Night Fever had yet to make John Travolta a star, and stand-up comedian-turned-creator Gabe Kaplan had yet to become a late-night poker mainstay. Welcome to four years at Brooklyn's Buchanan High School. Along with What's Happening, Welcome Back, Kotter was what the cool kids were watching--just as their kids would turn to Freaks and Geeks in the years to come. Unlike the teens of Happy Days, Buchanan's remedial students aren't polite preppies, but slang-slinging hooligans. Gabe Kotter (Kaplan) serves as home-room teacher to a "pack of howling baboons" led by Vinnie Barbarino (Travolta), Arnold Horshack (Ron Palillo), Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs), and self-described Puerto Rican Jew Juan Epstein (Robert Hegyes) Their adversary: Vice Principal Woodman (John Sylvester White), who lives to put a kibosh on their high jinks--just as he did when Kotter was a Sweathog in the 1960s. Other regulars include Kotter's wife, Julie (Marcia Strassman, who hosts the featurette "Only a Few Degrees from a Sweathog"), and Rosalie "Hotzy" Totzy (Mary Hartman's Debra Lee Scott). At the time, Welcome Back, Kotter was more than just a show. It was a cultural phenomenon, spawning lunch boxes, schoolyard taunts, and the like. In retrospect, the jokes are cornier than ever, but the anything-goes spirit--crazy costumes and musical numbers--is hard to resist. At least that's true of the first three seasons. By the fourth, Travolta and Kaplan became scarce, and Kotter ran out of steam. Rest assured, though, that John Sebastian's clap-happy, chart-topping theme remains as catchy as ever. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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Warm Kotter Welcome :) May 23, 2009
Jenna A. Dahmer (Omaha, NE)
Thank you for having this product available for purchasing. It was in mint condition & arrived promptly. It's a wonderful dvd collection of all the great episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter. Lotsa Thankyas!
amazon is amazing April 4, 2009
Richard C. Sprinthall (ma)
Again, Amazon.com is amazing. They have just what you want, always at a fair price and shipped quickly and very well packaged. If there were six stars, I would award them to Amazon.
Kotter Series April 4, 2009
Gay S. Horry
My twenty year old loves The Kotter Gang! It is nice when you can direct the young back to a more peaceful less violent time in television.
Welcome Back Kotter Season 1 January 21, 2009
Leo Dizon Rustia (Philippines)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have viewed all of the episodes and they brought back memories. When will you be selling the next three seasons?
 Great Show, Unusually Good DVD Release! November 16, 2008
Retro_Saiyan (Australia)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
I guess you could say I'm picky with DVD releases, but this one was quite good. The theme song is intact, the studio audience laughter is still there and the episodes are mostly complete, with the episodes usually running from 24-25 minutes. It's always annoying when a show is released on DVD but is badly edited, glad to see they left this show mostly intact. The price is also quite good, you get 22 episodes, compared with some DVDs which contain 15 at a higher price (I'm looking at you, Paramount). Picture quality is decent, certainly not the level seen in "I Love Lucy" or "MASH" but those shows were done on film, and considering this show was done on tape I'd say it's pretty good. As for the humor, well taste is subjective but I enjoyed this even if I didn't quite get the occasional topical joke, with much of it being quite watchable.
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