The hell with John Travolta, Epstein was the sexy one on "Welcome Back Kotter" with all that chest hair. Damn, he used to turn me ON. Sure hate to hear that he's passed. Everybody's dropping like flies these days.

imago said:

Damn, he was HOT in that picture!

PDogz said:

Aside from the show's theme song (...which was a huge hit that constantly played on the radio), I don't remember ever being much of a fan of "Welcome Back Kotter". I think it was because my family must have been watching "The Walton's" instead during that time slot. Just the same, you couldn't be living in the 70's without knowing about The Sweathogs, and all their various catch-phrases. May Robert Hegyes be resting peacefully - he was definitely an icon of my time.

Oh, we would have been fighting over the TV and tore that house down. I hated "The Waltons".

lazycrockett said:

SoulAlive said:

I'll steal this pic from the other thread which was locked.Looks like it's from a recent reunion of the cast....

No horseshack?? and why is Lily Tomlin there?

That's Travolta's sister

vainandy said:

PDogz said:

Aside from the show's theme song (...which was a huge hit that constantly played on the radio), I don't remember ever being much of a fan of "Welcome Back Kotter". I think it was because my family must have been watching "The Walton's" instead during that time slot. Just the same, you couldn't be living in the 70's without knowing about The Sweathogs, and all their various catch-phrases. May Robert Hegyes be resting peacefully - he was definitely an icon of my time.

Oh, we would have been fighting over the TV and tore that house down. I hated "The Waltons".

I wasn't all that crazy about "The Walton's" myself, but it certainly was a highly rated show. I was more into "The Mary Tyler Moore Show", "The Bob Newhart Show", "Rhoda", or "One Day at a Time" during those years personally. Then of course "Good Times", "Sandford and Son", "All in The Family", "The Jefferson's", "Chico and The Man", "Maude", "M*A*S*H" and the ever present "I Love Lucy" were big in our household too.

You know, as I think back to those days, there was basically one television in the living room that the entire family watched (...IMAGINE THAT, lol. The entire family sat around ONE tiny dinner table for dinner EVERY NIGHT as well, lol). But whatever the parents wanted to watch was basically what all of us watched, and my parents loved Westerns like "Bonanza" and "Little House on The Prarie" (...which truth be told; I didn't mind looking at Michael Landon for an hour, even as a kid, lol). I don't remember "Welcome Back Kotter" ever being on that much in our house. By the late 70's though, I began to have control of the TV after 11:30PM when my parents went to bed. My older brother had moved away by that time too, so I got to watch whatever I wanted to watch in those late-night/early morning hours. That's when I started watching "The Tonight Show" with Johnny Carson, "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder", "The Midnight Special" with Wolfman Jack, and "Don Kirshner's Rock Concert". Now those were MY shows, lol. Getting to watch those shows by myself so late at night was when I began to develop my own idea of who I was and who it was I would become as an adult. "Tomorrow with Tom Snyder" was particularly useful to me in my development due to the mature themes and interviews he had on his show, and my young mind just sat there by myself and soaked it up.

lazycrockett said:

SoulAlive said:

I'll steal this pic from the other thread which was locked.Looks like it's from a recent reunion of the cast....

No horseshack?? and why is Lily Tomlin there?

Marcia Strassman back row center, damn I had a thing for her when I was like 8. She was the hottest nurse on MASH too

Ron Palillo aka Arnold Dingfelder Horshack was ill during that reunion and could not attend, his absence was not due to any conflict. He actually grew up not too far from me and went to UConn.

Kinda silly looking back, the last season he was a 30 year old playing a high school student and his teacher was just 4 years older in real life.

too sad, for I loved his stories of why and such

RIP

RIP. I grew up watching this show.