Season 2

Season 2 (1979)




Episodes List

Ep.1 On the Line

Air Date: 1979-09-17

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.

Ep.2 Albert Hodges

Air Date: 1979-09-24

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.

Ep.3 Cross-Town Hustle

Air Date: 1979-10-01

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

Ep.4 Sudden Death

Air Date: 1979-10-08

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

Ep.5 A Silent Cheer

Air Date: 1979-10-15

Ep.6 No Place Like Home

Air Date: 1979-10-29

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

Ep.7 Globetrotters

Air Date: 1979-11-05

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.

Ep.8 Me?

Air Date: 1979-11-12

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.

Ep.9 Needle

Air Date: 1979-11-26

Ep.10 Sliding By

Air Date: 1979-12-03

Ep.11 Delores, Of Course

Air Date: 1979-12-18

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

Ep.12 A Christmas Present

Air Date: 1979-12-25

Ep.13 Feeling No Pain

Air Date: 1980-01-01

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

Ep.14 Artist

Air Date: 1980-01-08

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

Ep.15 Salami's Affair

Air Date: 1980-01-15

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

Ep.16 Links

Air Date: 1980-01-22

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.

Ep.17 The Stripper

Air Date: 1980-01-29

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

Ep.18 Gonna Fly Now

Air Date: 1980-02-05

Ep.19 Out at Home

Air Date: 1980-02-19

Ep.20 The Russians Are Coming

Air Date: 1980-02-26

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.

Ep.21 The Hitter

Air Date: 1980-03-04

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

Ep.22 The Death of Me Yet?

Air Date: 1980-03-11

Ep.23 Coolidge Goes Hollywood

Air Date: 1980-03-18

Ep.24 A Few Good Men

Air Date: 1980-04-01