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Welcome Back, Kotter | |
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![]() The box set cover for the Warner Bros. Television Favorites DVD release of the series | |
Genre | Sitcom |
Created by | Gabe Kaplan Alan Sachs |
Developed by | Peter Meyerson |
Starring | |
Opening theme | "Welcome Back" performed by John Sebastian |
Country of origin | United States |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 4 |
No. of episodes | 95 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Running time | 24–25 minutes, 30 minutes with commercials |
Production companies | The Komack Company Wolper Productions |
Original release | |
Network | ABC |
Release | September 9, 1975 May 17, 1979 | –
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Welcome Back, Kotter is an American sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a high-school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial education class nicknamed the Sweathogs. Recorded in front of a live studio audience, the series aired on ABC from September 9, 1975, through May 17, 1979. It provided John Travolta with his breakthrough role.[1]