Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)

Name: Welcome Back, Kotter
Genre: Comedy
Rating: 7.1
Cast: Gabe Kaplan, John Travolta, John Sylvester White, Ron Palillo, Robert Hegyes

Comedy

Welcome Back, Kotter is an American television sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan and featuring a young John Travolta. Videotaped in front of a live studio audience, it originally aired on the ABC network from September 9, 1975, to June 8, 1979.

IMDb rating: 7.1 (8,428 votes)
Seasons: 4
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Aug 19, 2026 · 4 seasons indexed

Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1975)

7.35 avg 22 episodes 7.5 → 7.2 30 min avg

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Great Debate	7.5	169
2	Basket Case	7.5	113
3	Welcome Back (Pilot)	7.7	147
4	Whodunit?	7.3	109
5	The Election	7.4	100
6	No More Mr. Nice Guy	7.3	96
7	Classroom Marriage	7.5	95
8	One of Our Sweathogs Is Missing	7.6	87
9	Mr. Kotter, Teacher	7.7	94
10	The Reunion	7.5	91
11	Barbarino's Girl	7.1	94
12	California Dreamin'	7.3	93
13	Arrividerci, Arnold	7.2	82
14	The Longest Weekend	7.1	81
15	The Sit-In	7.5	87
16	Follow the Leader: Part 1	7.0	81
17	Follow the Leader: Part 2	7.2	79
18	Dr. Epstein, I Presume	6.9	80
19	One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest	7.3	87
20	The Telethon	7.7	96
21	Kotter Makes Good	7.3	79
22	Father Vinnie	7.2	83

Season 2 (1976)

7.07 avg 23 episodes 7.0 → 7.2 30 min avg

Rebound

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Career Day	7.0	75
2	Inherit the Halibut	7.1	75
3	Sweatside Story	7.2	73
4	The Fight	6.9	67
5	The Museum	6.5	76
6	Gabe Under Pressure	6.9	66
7	Sweathog, Nebraska Style	6.8	74
8	Sadie Hawkins Day	7.5	85
9	Hello Ms. Chips	7.0	68
10	Horshack vs. Carvelli	7.1	73
11	Sweathog Clinic for the Cure of Smoking	6.8	67
12	Hark, the Sweatkings	7.3	77
13	A Love Story	6.9	73
14	Caruso's Way	7.3	68
15	Sweatgate Scandal	7.2	66
16	Kotter and Son	7.3	68
17	Chicken a la Kotter	7.4	71
18	Has Anyone Seen Arnold?	7.4	73
19	There Goes Number 5	6.2	74
20	The Littlest Sweathog	7.2	65
21	Radio Free Freddie	7.6	82
22	I'm Having Their Baby	6.9	64
23	I Wonder Who's Kissing Gabe Now	7.2	63

Season 3 (1977)

6.75 avg 27 episodes 6.7 → 6.0 30 min avg

Bad finale

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Sweathog Back-to-School Special	6.7	65
2	And Baby Makes Four: Part 1	6.7	70
3	And Baby Makes Four: Part 2	7.2	70
4	And Baby Makes Four: Part 3	7.0	66
5	Brother, Can You Spare a Million?	6.8	61
6	Just Testing	6.6	58
7	The Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack	6.7	62
8	What a Move	6.8	63
9	A Novel Idea	6.2	60
10	Barbarino in Love: Part 1	6.8	64
11	Barbarino in Love: Part 2	6.8	63
12	Kotter for Vice Principal	6.7	65
13	Swine and Punishment	6.6	61
14	Epstein's Madonna	6.9	64
15	A Sweathog Christmas Special	6.8	70
16	Sweatwork	6.7	61
17	Meet Your New Teacher: Batteries Not Included	6.7	58
18	Angie	6.5	61
19	Epstein's Term Paper	7.0	65
20	There's No Business: Part 1	6.8	60
21	There's No Business: Part 2	6.6	59
22	What Goes Up	7.7	77
23	Goodbye, Mr. Kripps	7.0	69
24	Horshack and the Madame X	6.6	62
25	The Kiss	6.5	64
26	The Return of Hotsy Totsy	6.8	62
27	Class Encounters of the Carvelli Kind	6.0	66

Season 4 (1978)

6.37 avg 23 episodes 7.1 → 6.3 30 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Drop-Ins: Part 1	7.1	67
2	The Drop-Ins: Part 2	6.7	64
3	Don't Come Up and See Me Sometime	6.7	65
4	Once Upon a Ledge	7.2	66
5	The Sweatmobile	6.7	65
6	Beau's Jest	5.6	69
7	Barbarino's Boo-Boo	6.2	63
8	X-Rated Education	6.2	60
9	The Barbarino Blues	6.5	66
10	Washington's Clone	5.7	63
11	Frog Day Afternoon	6.5	64
12	A Little Fright Music	6.0	60
13	A Winter's Coat Tale	6.2	66
14	Bride and Gloom	6.0	57
15	Barbarino's Baby	6.7	62
16	The Goodbye Guy	6.3	60
17	Come Back, Little Arnold	6.5	66
18	The Sweat Smell of Success	5.9	58
19	The Gang Show	6.5	57
20	Oo-Oo, I Do: Part 1	6.7	65
21	Oo-Oo, I Do: Part 2	6.4	67
22	I'm Okay, But You're Not	5.9	55
23	The Bread Winners	6.3	67

Welcome Back, Kotter (1975)

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