Episodes
On the Line
September 17, 1979
The second season begins with Jackson, wanting to make some extra money, gets unknowingly involved with sports bookies. Things get especially difficult when they start offering him big money to shave points at Carver's games.
Albert Hodges
September 24, 1979
Coach Reeves begins teaching a class on sex education, but comes under fire when he makes joking comments that Albert Hodges, a new black student who is very racially sensitive, interprets as insulting to blacks. Hodges then tries to rally the black players on the team against Reeves.
Cross-Town Hustle
October 1, 1979
A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.
Sudden Death
October 8, 1979
after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death
A Silent Cheer
October 15, 1979
No Place Like Home
October 29, 1979
after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates
Globetrotters
November 5, 1979
The basketball team is on a winning streak and proceeds to showboat and run up the score on their latest opponent, prompting a tongue-lashing from Reeves. With their newfound success gone to their head, the team gets cocky with the workers at a local car wash and challenges them to a pickup game at the Carver gym. The boys are unaware that the car wash workers are really members of the Harlem Globetrotters doing a benefit and Reeves has arranged for them to show the team they're really not as good as they think.
Me?
November 12, 1979
Thorpe contracts a sexually transmitted disease and has passed it onto Coolidge's girlfriend. The two of them must now tell Warren that he too must get tested.
Needle
November 26, 1979
Sliding By
December 3, 1979
Delores, Of Course
December 18, 1979
a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker
A Christmas Present
December 25, 1979
Feeling No Pain
January 1, 1980
Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.
Artist
January 8, 1980
a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever
Salami's Affair
January 15, 1980
Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.
Links
January 22, 1980
Deciding that some of the players could use a dose of class, Coach Reeves takes Coolidge, Thorpe, and Salami to an exclusive country club for a day of golfing.
The Stripper
January 29, 1980
a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line
Gonna Fly Now
February 5, 1980
Out at Home
February 19, 1980
The Russians Are Coming
February 26, 1980
A touring high school team from the then-Soviet Union comes to Carver. The players have trouble relating to the Russian players, with the exception of one Russian, whom Hayward befriends, and later wants to defect to the U.S.
The Hitter
March 4, 1980
Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.
The Death of Me Yet
March 11, 1980
Coolidge Goes Hollywood
March 18, 1980
A Few Good Men
April 1, 1980
