The White Shadow — Season 2
Can a straight shooter cut it with this bunch of rough, razor-sharp kids from the street?
About this season
The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.
Episodes (24)
1. On the Line
Aired 17 September 1979 • 60 min
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.
2. Albert Hodges
Aired 24 September 1979 • 60 min
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.
3. Cross-Town Hustle
Aired 1 October 1979 • 60 min
A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.
4. Sudden Death
Aired 8 October 1979 • 60 min
after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death
5. A Silent Cheer
Aired 15 October 1979 • 60 min
6. No Place Like Home
Aired 29 October 1979 • 60 min
after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates
7. Globetrotters
Aired 5 November 1979 • 60 min
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.
8. Me?
Aired 12 November 1979 • 60 min
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.
9. Needle
Aired 26 November 1979 • 60 min
10. Sliding By
Aired 3 December 1979 • 60 min
11. Delores, Of Course
Aired 18 December 1979 • 60 min
a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker
12. A Christmas Present
Aired 25 December 1979 • 60 min
13. Feeling No Pain
Aired 1 January 1980 • 60 min
Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.
14. Artist
Aired 8 January 1980 • 60 min
a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever
15. Salami's Affair
Aired 15 January 1980 • 60 min
Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.
16. Links
Aired 22 January 1980 • 60 min
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.
17. The Stripper
Aired 29 January 1980 • 60 min
a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line
18. Gonna Fly Now
Aired 5 February 1980 • 60 min
19. Out at Home
Aired 19 February 1980 • 60 min
20. The Russians Are Coming
Aired 26 February 1980 • 60 min
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.
21. The Hitter
Aired 4 March 1980 • 60 min
Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.
22. The Death of Me Yet?
Aired 11 March 1980 • 60 min
23. Coolidge Goes Hollywood
Aired 18 March 1980 • 60 min
24. A Few Good Men
Aired 1 April 1980 • 60 min