"The White Shadow"

[youvalss]

Any1 remember the TV show "The White Shadow"? I liked it a lot! It's from 1978 and it was so good! The coach was great and had chrisma, and those guys were funny despite being poor and having tough life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077101/

[koebner]

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I wonder why they called the one dude "Salami"-they liked to sing doo-wop in the showers together,too.

[DC]

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Yea it still comes on NBATV from time to time and I think it comes on one of those Nickelodeon channels

[Scottdau]

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I wonder why they called the one dude "Salami"-they liked to sing doo-wop in the showers together,too.

I thought it was because he was Italian. Yeah that was a good show. Coolidge was the man. I remember him being the only one that could dunk!

[sadams33]

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used to watch this show religiously and i believe salami is a producer and produced a few episodes of the sopranos

[Scottdau]

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used to watch this show religiously and i believe salami is a producer and produced a few episodes of the sopranos

I know he was in this one show about him becoming a ninja with some old white guy as his master!

[youvalss]

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I thought it was because he was Italian. Yeah that was a good show. Coolidge was the man. I remember him being the only one that could dunk!

Yeah, Coolidge was a beast. I used to wait for his dunks. I liked that 70's atmosphere, it's something that just doesn't exists anymore. Too bad.

[daflyboys]

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The White Shadow was basically the 70's "Friday Night Lights". Looking back on the basketball action, it was kind of lame, but the relationships and social situations was what it was all about. I think the one actor's name was Kevin Hooks? I went to basketball camp with him one year. I remember the buzz around the camp was that he and his little brother were childhood actors. I think his little brother was in a commercial I saw once, but that's all I remember that they did.

And who knew that Coach would move on to better things.....like being the predecessor to Michael Scott!!

[Skyboxer]

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Any1 remember the TV show "The White Shadow"? I liked it a lot! It's from 1978 and it was so good! The coach was great and had chrisma, and those guys were funny despite being poor and having tough life.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0077101/

I used to watch it all the time when it was on.

[youvalss]

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Seems like there were only 27 episodes...too bad. I wish it was aired here again. I watched it for the first time in the 1990's and used to wait for it.

[MassNole]

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How was this on 3 seasons and only had 27 episodes?

I used to watch this on ESPN Classic for a while, oddly enough I only learned of its existence when I came home and my mother was watching it.

[KingV2k3]

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When in doubt, Wikipedia it out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Shadow

I love this show, it's got that 70's "After School Special" vibe where there's a hamfisted 'lesson' wedged into the plot...

I also love when they try to make Reeves a 'ladies man'...he straight up sux at portraying that...

They play reruns on the Yankees YES network...

Lots of fun...

[youvalss]

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OK, on wikipedia it says 54 episodes, though on IMDB it was said that Ken Howard (funny he was called Ken on the show too) starred in 27 episodes, and I couldn't find more than that.

[KingV2k3]

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OK, on wikipedia it says 54 episodes, though on IMDB it was said that Ken Howard (funny he was called Ken on the show too) starred in 27 episodes, and I couldn't find more than that.

Seems way more like 54 to me, b/c some of the players were around for 2-3 'seasons' and then 'graduated' and then there was a final seaon w/ some new guys...

[ndeezlo]

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I bought the first season on DVD, have to get around to buying season 2 soon. Sportsguy references this show often and he claims the downswing after season 2 is dramatic.