Remember Welcome Back, Kotter

WELCOME BACK, KOTTER September 9, 1975 to June 8, 1979 on ABC The show was based on Gabe Kotter who was a founding member of the Sweathogs when he was a student at Buchanan and who is now returning to teach the same remedial classes in which he was a student in. The show brought attention to Brooklyn being “The 4th Largest City in America”. The theme song, "Welcome Back", was written and recorded by former Lovin’ Spoonful John Sebastian and became a #1 hit in the spring of 1976. Gabe Kaplan starred as Gabe Kotter, with John Travolta as Vincent "Vinnie" Barbarino. The other student characters were named Arnold Horshack, Freddie "Boom Boom" Washington, and Juan Luis Pedro Philippo DeHuevos Epstein.