Kevin Hooks as Morris Thorpe

Episodes 54

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(pilot)

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November 27, 19781h
1x1

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.

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Here's Mud in Your Eye

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December 4, 19781h
1x2

Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.

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The Offer

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December 11, 19781h
1x3

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Bonus Baby

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December 25, 19781h
1x4

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Pregnant Pause

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January 1, 19791h
1x5

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.

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Wanna Bet?

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January 8, 19791h
1x6

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That Old Gang of Mine

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January 15, 19791h
1x7

after gomez gets knocked off the carver high basketball team he joins a street gang he onced belonged to

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Just One of the Boys

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January 27, 19791h
1x8

Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.

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Airball

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February 3, 19791h
1x9

The team's excitement over being invited to compete in a basketball tournament is overshadowed when the plane they're on develops mechanical trouble.

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We're in the Money

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February 10, 19791h
1x10

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.

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Spare the Rod

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February 17, 19791h
1x11

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.

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The Great White Dope

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February 24, 19791h
1x12

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.

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Mainstream

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March 5, 19791h
1x13

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Little Orphan Abner

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March 26, 19791h
1x14

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.

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LeGrand Finale

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Season Finale
April 9, 19791h
1x15

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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On the Line

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September 17, 19791h
2x1

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.

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Albert Hodges

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September 24, 19791h
2x2

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.

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Cross-Town Hustle

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October 1, 19791h
2x3

A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.

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Sudden Death

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October 8, 19791h
2x4

after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death

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A Silent Cheer

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October 15, 19791h
2x5

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No Place Like Home

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October 29, 19791h
2x6

after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates

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Globetrotters

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November 5, 19791h
2x7

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.

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Me?

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November 12, 19791h
2x8

Thorpe contracts a sexually transmitted disease and has passed it onto Coolidge's girlfriend. The two of them must now tell Warren that he too must get tested.

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Needle

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November 26, 19791h
2x9

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Sliding By

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December 3, 19791h
2x10

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Delores, Of Course

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December 18, 19791h
2x11

a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker

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A Christmas Present

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December 25, 19791h
2x12

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Feeling No Pain

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January 1, 19801h
2x13

Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.

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Artist

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January 8, 19801h
2x14

a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever

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Salami's Affair

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January 15, 19801h
2x15

Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.

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Links

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January 22, 19801h
2x16

Deciding that some of the players could use a dose of class, Coach Reeves takes Coolidge, Thorpe, and Salami to an exclusive country club for a day of golfing.

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The Stripper

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January 29, 19801h
2x17

a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line

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Gonna Fly Now

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February 5, 19801h
2x18

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Out at Home

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February 19, 19801h
2x19

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The Russians Are Coming

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February 26, 19801h
2x20

A touring high school team from the then-Soviet Union comes to Carver. The players have trouble relating to the Russian players, with the exception of one Russian, whom Hayward befriends, and later wants to defect to the U.S.

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The Hitter

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March 4, 19801h
2x21

Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.

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The Death of Me Yet

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March 11, 19801h
2x22

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Coolidge Goes Hollywood

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March 18, 19801h
2x23

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A Few Good Men

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Season Finale
April 1, 19801h
2x24

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Reunion (1)

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October 16, 19801h
3x1

The third season begins with Coach Reeves visiting the town where he grew up and reuniting with old friends, including an old high school teammate, an old girlfriend, and his father, whose health is failing.

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Reunion (2)

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October 23, 19801h
3x2

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

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Georgia on My Mind

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October 30, 19801h
3x3

getting fed up with high school coolidge tries out for the harlem globetrotters

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If Your Number's Up, Get It Down

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December 16, 19801h
3x4

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Christmas Story

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December 23, 19801h
3x5

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No Blood, No Foul

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December 30, 19801h
3x6

Salami faces possible jail time after breaking an opposing team's player's jaw during an on court brawl.

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Vanity Fare

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January 6, 19811h
3x7

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Mister Hero

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January 13, 19811h
3x8

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.

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B.M.O.C

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February 2, 19811h
3x9

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.

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Trial and Error

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February 9, 19811h
3x10

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.

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Car Repo

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February 16, 19811h
3x11

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.

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Psyched Out

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February 23, 19811h
3x12

A female teacher with a past history of mental illness and nervous breakdowns is tormented by a psychotic student.

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Cops

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March 2, 19811h
3x13

An elderly woman is mugged on the street at night by two big, tall black men, and the description she gives the police matches both Coolidge and Franklin, who happen to be out on the town that night. The police apprehend the two with Thorpe looking on. Thorpe observes what appears to be police brutality, reaches into his pocket to get a pen to write the cops' car number, and is shot by one of them.

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Burnout

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March 9, 19811h
3x14

Carver's baseball coach, who also teaches English, begins to experience teacher burnout. He begins handing out free grades, which hurts Rutherford, who works hard in his class. Vitaglia, too, is disappointed in his attitude because he wants to try out for the baseball team.

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A Day in the Life

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Season Finale
March 16, 19811h
3x15

Goldstein, Gomez, Hayward, and Reese all return for an ""alumni"" exhibition game, amid all the troubles the four have encountered in ""real life"" since graduating. Hayward is in college and wants to go to law school, but doesn't believe he'll be given the chance because of his skin color. Goldstein, after a year in the Marines, now believes he has the confidence to ask out a girl he admired while at Carver. Gomez is struggling to make ends meet as a car mechanic with a pregnant wife. And, finally, Reese is bouncing from job to job until he finally finds his niche as a phone counselor at a suicide prevention center.

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