The White Shadow
Ken Reeves was a professional basketball player who had to retire because of injuries. Against his sister Katie's advice, Ken takes a job as the basketball coach at Carver High School in Los Angeles, a tough, mixed-race school. Jim Willis, Ken's friend, was the principal for the first two seasons and was replaced by Sybil Buchanan, the former vice-principal, in the third year.
- 1978-1981
- 3 seasons
- 20th Century Fox Television
- Drama, Sports
- TV-PG
Ken Reeves was a professional basketball player who had to retire because of injuries. Against his sister Katie's advice, Ken takes a job as the basketball coach at Carver High School in Los Angeles, a tough, mixed-race school. Jim Willis, Ken's friend, was the principal for the first two seasons and was replaced by Sybil Buchanan, the former vice-principal, in the third year.
Season 3 Episode Guide
15 Episodes 1980 - 1981
Episode 1
Reunion: Part 1
Thu, Oct 16, 1980 60 mins
Coach returns home to spend some time with his father. While they maintain father to son love their relationship is strained. The tough and fearless Mr. Reeves is terminally ill and Ken knows its time to mend fences before its too late.
Episode 2
Reunion: Part 2
Thu, Oct 23, 1980 60 mins
Reeves decides to spend some time with his terminally ill father before reporting back to Carver. He returns to a new Carver High principal (Sybil Buchanan) and holds tryouts to replace departed players.
Episode 3
Georgia on My Mind
Thu, Oct 30, 1980 60 mins
Coolidge ego grows regarding his basketball skills, ignoring academics and planning a pro career. Buchanan and Reeves warn him with Reeves arranging an introduction that teaches Coolidge a valuable lesson.
Episode 4
If Your Number's Up, Get It Down
Tue, Dec 16, 1980 60 mins
Reeves is asked to use his former-NBA-player connections to raise funds for a mobile care unit to treat patients with high blood pressure. As punishment for wrecking the driver's ed car, he makes the team do the collecting. However, they decide to publicize that Reeves is dead to entice celebrities to attend the benefit and contribute.
Episode 5
Christmas Story
Tue, Dec 23, 1980 60 mins
Reeves and the team put on a basketball clinic. The players soon learn that although they live in poverty, there are children much more needy. Meanwhile Stone attempts a get rich scheme but as usual it blows up.
Episode 6
No Blood, No Foul
Tue, Dec 30, 1980 60 mins
Shortly after Salami's 18th birthday, he breaks a player's jaw during an on court brawl. That incident, landed Salami in jail and the other player's parents filed a lawsuit against him so, Reeves assisted Salami to avoid further consequences.
Episode 7
The Vanity Fare
Tue, Jan 6, 1981 60 mins
The team decides to capitalize on their shower singing ability by signing a recording contract, but the contract turns out to resemble a "vanity press" and they are left with $300 spent on a bunch of demo records.
Episode 8
Mister Hero
Tue, Jan 13, 1981 60 mins
Lifelong underachiever Wardell Stone is thrust into the spotlight as a hero when he mistakenly rescues a old woman from a burning car.
Episode 9
B.M.O.C.
Mon, Feb 2, 1981 60 mins
Coolidge begins to realize that being tall is not all that its cracked up to be.
Episode 10
Trial and Error
Mon, Feb 9, 1981 60 mins
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.
Episode 11
Car Repo
Mon, Feb 16, 1981 60 mins
Needing extra money, Salami and Vitaglia take jobs as car re-possessors. However, their friendship begins to suffer and the late night hours land them in coach Reeves' doghouse.
Episode 12
Psyched Out
Mon, Feb 23, 1981 60 mins
Reeves befriends a fellow teacher who was once hospitalized after suffering a nervous breakdown. However, she is soon the target of a student who is also suffering from emotional problems. Soon it leads to a very tense situation that nearly leads to tragedy for not only the student, but the teacher as well.
Episode 13
Cops
Mon, Mar 2, 1981 60 mins
Racial tensions arise when a group of the players are apprehended without cause and Thorpe is shot by a police office.
Episode 14
Burnout
Mon, Mar 9, 1981 60 mins
Ken and the students are critical of a teacher who seems to be burnt out of his teaching job at Carver High.
Episode 15
A Day in the Life
Mon, Mar 16, 1981 60 mins
As Reeves makes preparations for a special alumni game, the four surviving graduates all have very eventful days. College student Hayward applies for a job in the law library of a very prestigious law firm and deals with the guys in his neighborhood who constantly tell him he will never make it. Goldstein returns home on leave and immediately looks up the girl he had a crush on in high school. Reese is working as a cab driver while trying to make it as a singer and has a chance meeting with one of his idols. Gomez has a more hectic day. He has a very intense argument with his wife and thinks he about how much different things would have been if he hadn't gotten married. However, his day ends on a happy note as his wife is about to give birth. Also, Reeves and Thorpe are saddened by the fact that Curtis Jackson won't be there due to the fact that he was killed just before he had a chance to graduate.
