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The White Shadow is an American drama television series starring Ken Howard that ran on the CBS network from November 27, 1978, to March 16, 1981, about a white former professional basketball player who takes a job coaching basketball at an impoverished urban high school with a racially mixed basketball team. Although the lead actor Howard was a blonde Caucasian, the series broke new ground as the first television ensemble drama to feature a mostly African American cast, with African American actors playing the high school principal and vice-principal, the majority of the teenage basketball players, and other supporting roles. The White Shadow also dealt with controversial subject matter such as sexually transmitted disease and gay sexual orientation among high school students.
Original Release
11/27/1978 on CBS
US Release
11/27/1978
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ken Howard | Ken Reeves |
Kevin Hooks | Morris Thorpe |
Byron Stewart | Warren Coolidge |
Timothy Van Patten | Mario 'Salami' Pettrino |
Joan Pringle | Sybil Buchanan |
Thomas Carter | James Hayward |
Nathan Cook | Milton Reese |
Ken Michelman | Abner Goldstein |
Ira Angustain | Ricky Gomez |
Erik Kilpatrick | Curtis Jackson |
# | Title | Air Date |
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1 | Reunion: Part 1 | Thursday, 16 October 1980 |
2 | Reunion: Part 2 | Thursday, 23 October 1980 |
3 | Georgia on My Mind | Thursday, 30 October 1980 |
4 | If Your Number's Up, Get It Down | Tuesday, 16 December 1980 |
5 | Christmas Story | Tuesday, 23 December 1980 |
6 | No Blood, No Foul | Tuesday, 30 December 1980 |
7 | The Vanity Fare | Tuesday, 06 January 1981 |
8 | Mister Hero | Tuesday, 13 January 1981 |
9 | B.M.O.C. | Monday, 02 February 1981 |
10 | Trial and Error | Monday, 09 February 1981 |
11 | Car Repo | Monday, 16 February 1981 |
12 | Psyched Out | Monday, 23 February 1981 |
13 | Cops | Monday, 02 March 1981 |
14 | Burnout | Monday, 09 March 1981 |
15 | A Day in the Life | Monday, 16 March 1981 |
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Directors
Victor Lobl, Mark Tinker, Bruce Paltrow, Jackie Cooper, Thomas Carter, Marc Norman, Betty Goldberg, LeRoy McDonald, Lawrence Levy, Leon Carrere, Michael Zinberg, Ernest Pintoff
Writers
Marc Rubin, John Falsey, Joshua Brand, Steve Kline, John Masius, Mark Tinker, David Assael, Gary Kott, Tom Chehak, Bruce Paltrow, Marshall Herskovitz, Sam Hefter, Joanne Pagliaro, Robert De Laurentiis, Charles Eric Johnson, Dennis Danzinger, Barry Gold, Denis Belair, Erwin Washington, Leroy Robinson, Eric Stunzi, Michael Kane, Michael Halperin, Robert DiPietro, Tom De Martini, Joan Pringle, Teddy Wilson, Tom Blomquist, Roland Wolpert, William A. Schwartz, George Geiger, Steven Bochco
Creators
Cast
Name | Character |
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Ken Howard | Ken Reeves |
Kevin Hooks | Morris Thorpe |
Byron Stewart | Warren Coolidge |
Timothy Van Patten | Mario 'Salami' Pettrino |
Joan Pringle | Sybil Buchanan |
Thomas Carter | James Hayward |
Nathan Cook | Milton Reese |
Ken Michelman | Abner Goldstein |
Ira Angustain | Ricky Gomez |
Erik Kilpatrick | Curtis Jackson |
John Mengatti | Nick Vitaglia / Student |
Ed Bernard | Jim Willis / Principal Jim Willis |
Russell Phillip Robinson | Manager Phil Jefferson / Team Manager |
Larry Flash Jenkins | Wardell Stone / Student |
Wolfe Perry | Teddy Rutherford |
Stoney Jackson | Jesse B. Mitchell |
John Laughlin | Paddy Falahey |
Art Holliday | Eddie Franklin |
Jerry Fogel | Bill Donahue |
Robin Pearson Rose | Katie Donahue |
Producers
Name | Role |
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Bruce Paltrow | Executive Producer |
Mark Tinker | Producer |
Scott Brazil | Producer |
John Masius | Producer |
Year | Type | Category | Won |
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1981 | Emmy | Outstanding Drama Series | Nominated |
1981 | Emmy | Outstanding Achievement in Film Editing for a Series | Nominated |
1980 | Emmy | Outstanding Drama Series | Nominated |
1979 | Emmy | Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series | Won |