Series Description

Welcome Back Kotter was a 30 minute comedy series on ABC about a who returned to his old inner city high school to teach a bunch of rowdy teenagers who give him almost nothing but a hard time. That treatment didn't bother Mr. Kotter too much though because he could give back as good as he got and ... on yeah ... he and his students did their antics all in good fun while caring deeply about each other.

Welcome Back Kotter Cast

Gabe Kaplan .... Gabe Kotter
Marcia Strassman .... Julie Kotter
John Travolta .... Vinnie Barbarino
Robert Hegyes .... Juan Luis Pedro Phillipo de Huevos Epstein
Ron Palillo .... Arnold Dingfelder Horshak
Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs .... Freddy "Boom Boom" Washington
Debralee Scott .... Rosalie "Hotzie" Totzie
John Sylvester White .... Michael Woodman

Welcome Back Kotter Theme Song

Title: "Welcome Back"

By: "John Sebastian"

Welcome back,
Your dreams were your ticket out.

Welcome back,
To that same old place that you laughed about.

Well the names have all changed since you hung around,
But those dreams have remained and they're turned around.

Who'd have thought they'd lead ya (Who'd have thought they'd lead ya)
Here where we need ya (Here where we need ya)

Yeah we tease him a lot cause we've hot him on the spot, welcome back,
Welcome back, welcome back, welcome back.