The BEST episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter season 4
Every episode of Welcome Back, Kotter season 4, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Welcome Back, Kotter season 4!
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. Changes on the show. Gabe Kaplan left the series in the third season. He hadn't expected the show to run as long as it had. Kotter was made Vice-Principal, and thus was seen considerably less. John Travolta, of course, found his own place as a celebrity, leaving the show around the same time Gabe Kaplan did (returning every so often as a "spec
#1 - The Drop-Ins (1)
Season 4 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/11/1978
Gabe announces that he is now the vice-principal and Mr. Woodman is the principal. The Sweathogs are pleased, until Gabe gets strict. After Vinnie visits the school to tell the gang he's dropped out, the other Sweathogs decide to follow in his footsteps.
#2 - The Goodbye Guy
Season 4 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/10/1979
Mr. Woodman's niece Kelly is babysitting for the Kotters when Juan drops by the apartment. The two abruptly fall in love and decide to move in together, but the romance begins to crumble when it seems that they can't respect one another's interests.
#3 - Once Upon a Ledge
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/2/1978
Horshack saves a lonely, overlooked girl named Mary Johnson from commiting suicide by jumping off the ledge of the school.
#4 - Barbarino's Baby
Season 4 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/3/1979
Vinnie is forced to deliver a baby in an elevator.
#5 - The Sweat Smell of Success
Season 4 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/3/1979
Convinced that the school newspaper is too dull, Juan sets out to turn it into a tabloid, bringing down his friends' names in the process.
#6 - The Drop-Ins (2)
Season 4 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/11/1978
With Barbarino now an ordlery at a hospital, the Sweathogs try to get jobs there, too. Meanwhile, Kotter tries to get the gang to return to school.
#7 - Barbarino's Boo-Boo
Season 4 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/21/1978
When Mr. Woodman comes to Vinnie's hospital for an operation, Vinnie loses him and he and the other Sweathogs try to find him.
#8 - X-Rated Education
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1978
The gang is liable to get in trouble when the x-rated film Carvelli brought into school is accidentally mixed up with a film on sexual education.
#9 - Bride and Gloom
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/13/1979
Juan asks Vinnie to marry his immigrant cousin.
#11 - The Gang Show
Season 4 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/17/1979
Freddie and Juan plan to do an act together for the upcoming talent contest, while Carvelli has some bribed judges up his sleeves. Arnold and Beau take over as judges, leaving Murray in the third spot.
#12 - Come Back, Little Arnold
Season 4 - Episode 17 - Aired 2/24/1979
To get up his nerve with Mary, Carvelli offers Arnold liquor. He doesn't like the idea at first, but as time goes on, he becomes addicted to drinking; developing a scary and unlikable new personality that only turns Mary away.
#13 - A Little Fright Music
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/2/1978
The Sweathogs opt to change Mr. Woodman's tired old school song.
#14 - The Barbarino Blues
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1978
Vinnie becomes depressed when it seems that he has lost his way with women.
#15 - The Sweatmobile
Season 4 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/9/1978
The Sweathogs remember how they tried to buy a used car from Vinnie's uncle.
#16 - Oo, Oo, I Do (1)
Season 4 - Episode 20 - Aired 5/25/1979
Arnold's relationship with Mary gets serious. Then he finds out he has to move and leave the school. Upset, Arnold decides to propose marriage to Mary. She accepts.
#17 - Oo, Oo, I Do (2)
Season 4 - Episode 21 - Aired 5/25/1979
Arnold gets upset when the other Sweathogs tease him about not being able to provide for Mary, and he vanishes. Mary finds him and convinces him not to worry, and the two get married.
#18 - The Breadwinners
Season 4 - Episode 23 - Aired 6/8/1979
While Horshack adjusts the married life, Epstein sets up an interview for a job. Washington gets the job before Epstein, unaware that it's the same job. The two get into a fight and end up in a gym ready to box.
#19 - Don't Come Up and See Me Sometime
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/25/1978
Vinnie throws the Sweathogs out of his new apartment.
#21 - I'm Okay, But You're Not
Season 4 - Episode 22 - Aired 6/1/1979
Beau plays a number of pranks on Mr. Woodman.
#22 - A Winter's Coat Tail
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/16/1978
Vinnie is saddened when his new coat is stolen.
#23 - Washington's Clone
Season 4 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1978
A younger student begins to imitate Freddie, not much to Freddie's liking.