Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Warner Brothers
EAN: 0012569408425
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC
Label: Warner Home Video
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 28, 2006
Running Time: 151 minutes
Sales Rank: 35934
Studio: Warner Home Video
Theatrical Release Date: September 09, 1975
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Description:
Take a time-trip back to the wide lapels and bell bottoms of the '70s in one of that decade's biggest comedy hits! Teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) returns to his former high school, teaching the remedial class--of which he had been a member--known as the 'sweathogs.' But, for some reason, the lovable losers and delinquents of Buchanan High accept their new teacher as they provide a nonstop string of laughs on Welcome Back, Kotter. This compilation brings you the hit series for the first time ever on DVD!
Amazon.com:
Welcome to DVD, Mr. Kotter. Born of Gabe Kaplan's stand-up comedy reminiscences, this 1975 series stars the Marxist (as in Groucho) comedian as a teacher who returns to the tough Brooklyn high school of his youth to teach students who are as unmotivated and undisciplined as he was. If Ron Paillo, as 'village schmendrik' Arnold Horshack was Kotter's class clown, then John Travolta, as Vinnie Barbarino, the dim leader of the Sweathogs, became this series' 'Most Likely to Succeed' star pupil. He gets extra credit for graduating from Teen Beat idol to A-list movie star, and seeing him at the beginning of his roller coaster career is the main fascination. Not to take anything from the rest of the cast, including Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs as Freddie 'Boom Boom Washington,' Robert Hegyes as self-described 'flim-flam man' Juan Epstein, the late John Sylvester White as curmudgeon Mr. Woodman, who remembers Kotter from his delinquent days; and Marcia Strassman (displaying an off-center Diane Keaton quality) as Mrs. Kotter, whose main purpose seems to be an audience for Kotter's jokes that open each episode. This collection contains six episodes from the series' first three seasons: 'One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest'; 'Father Vinnie'; 'Sweatside Story'; 'I'm Having Their Baby'; 'The Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack'; and 'Goodbye, Mr. Kripps,' something of a Very Special Episode in which Vinnie blames himself for a teacher's heart attack. Welcome Back, Kotter is grade-A nostalgia, but points are taken off for lack of commentary or interviews with Kaplan or any other members of the ensemble who aren't John Travolta. Casting memo to Ice Cube, who is reportedly preparing a big screen remake: Philip Baker Hall for Mr. Woodman! After that, you're on your own. --Donald Liebenson
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Only for those who liked the TV series
It's exactly what you think: a handful of episodes from the original TV series. Nothing more, nothing less. For a cheap price, it was the perfect Christmas gift to wrap for myself from my young children.
Rating:  - Well hello there Mr. Kotter!!!
A great collection of six classic Welcome Back Kotter episodes!!! See the one and only John Travolta before he hit megastardom!!! The rest of the cast was great too!!! A seventies classic!!! Recommended!!! A+
Rating: - Still funny today
I've been buying movies and series I grew up with to share them with my boys (13,10,6). They laughed out loud through most of these. Neat to see a sitcom with an obvious moral to the story again. Fun to see them again through adult eyes and see how perceptions change. Even more fun to see these old shows through my kids comments, laughter, etc.
Rating:  - Welcome Back Kotter Compilation
I bought this dvd because I am a big fan of John Travolta and I do actually remember the show from when I was a little boy and my Dad used to let me watch it with him. The 6 episodes on this compilation give the viewer quite a few laughs with the amount of screen time for each character fairly even. Personally I was looking for more JT (that's John Travolta, the original JT, not Justin Timberlake) who is extremely funny with his himbo character Barbarino and his thick Brooklyn accent. The happy theme tune is likely to stir memories from childhood even in people who think they've never heard of the show...
Note to huge WBK fans, Ice Cube is rumoured to be doing a Welcome Back Kotter movie sometime soon.
Rating: - I missed out on sleep for THIS?
I think I had more nostalgia for the theme song than the actual show. What a pity!
I was born in '74 so I never got a chance to get this show "fresh out of the door". I remember as a teenager making myself wake up in the wee hours of the morning to catch this show in reruns and I think I used to think it was really great otherwise why WOULD I be up in the wee hours??? Before I bought this sampler I couldn't remember ANY of the episodes at all so I thought I'd buy this and gear myself up for buying the series when it finally came out. At this point though, this compilation is just enough for me. Maybe there are some great episodes that I've forgotten and they didn't make it on here but I think I'll risk it.
Mr Kotter/Kaplan - I think he (and his character) are the only ones who seem to enjoy his 'uncle' jokes. You can see him almost smirking before he begins, during the telling of the joke and laughing openly at his own jokes after the telling of it. I have never found even one of his planned jokes funny. So sad Gabe, so sad! And what was the point of those jokes anyway??? Filler? The funniest one on this set was told by Mr. Woodman (the vice principal) and I laugh now thinking of it! You'll have to watch the DVD to see though...There is so little that's funny I'll be kind and have no spoilers here.
The Sweathogs - Vinnie, I love the look...the dumb act (what...where...) doesn't fly and gets tedious after a while. Washington is the tall slim cool black dude ... Read More
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