Click here to visit our new site --> CafeDVD 2.0 Welcome Back, Kotter: The Complete First Season (1975) Rating: Starring: John Travolta, Marcia Strassman, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Ron Palillo, Gabe Kaplan, Robert Hegyes, John Sylvester White Director: Category: Television Studio: Warner Bros. Subtitles: Length: 553 mins     Gabe Kotter, formerly a Sweathog, returns to James Buchanan High as a teacher and is assigned the remedial class to which he once belonged. Mr. Kotter is an involved and caring teacher, which one would have to be in dealing with a certain four students in his class, who end up in trouble on a regular basis - lady's man Vinnie Barbarino, the always cool Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington, the tough Juan (Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos) Epstein, and the sheepish Arnold Dingfelder Horshack. Welcome Back, Kotter was based on Gabe Kaplan's own high school experiences with redmedial education and a teacher who cared dearly for her students.