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List Price: $9.98 | | Label: Warner Home Video
Salesrank: 36943
Released: February 28, 2006 |
| Our Price: $40.00 |
| Used Price: $51.49 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Take a time-trip back to the wide lapels and bell bottoms of the '70s in one of that decade's biggest comedy hits! Teacher Gabe Kotter (Gabe Kaplan) returns to his former high school, teaching the remedial class--of which he had been a member--known as the "sweathogs." But, for some reason, the lovable losers and delinquents of Buchanan High accept their new teacher as they provide a nonstop string of laughs on Welcome Back, Kotter. This compilation brings you the hit series for the first time ever on DVD!
Description of Welcome Back, Kotter (Television Favorites Compilation):
Welcome to DVD, Mr. Kotter. Born of Gabe Kaplan's stand-up comedy reminiscences, this 1975 series stars the Marxist (as in Groucho) comedian as a teacher who returns to the tough Brooklyn high school of his youth to teach students who are as unmotivated and undisciplined as he was. If Ron Paillo, as "village schmendrik" Arnold Horshack was Kotter's class clown, then John Travolta, as Vinnie Barbarino, the dim leader of the Sweathogs, became this series' "Most Likely to Succeed" star pupil. He gets extra credit for graduating from Teen Beat idol to A-list movie star, and seeing him at the beginning of his roller coaster career is the main fascination. Not to take anything from the rest of the cast, including Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs as Freddie "Boom Boom Washington," Robert Hegyes as self-described "flim-flam man" Juan Epstein, the late John Sylvester White as curmudgeon Mr. Woodman, who remembers Kotter from his delinquent days; and Marcia Strassman (displaying an off-center Diane Keaton quality) as Mrs. Kotter, whose main purpose seems to be an audience for Kotter's jokes that open each episode. This collection contains six episodes from the series' first three seasons: "One Flu Over the Cuckoo's Nest"; "Father Vinnie"; "Sweatside Story"; "I'm Having Their Baby"; "The Deprogramming of Arnold Horshack"; and "Goodbye, Mr. Kripps," something of a Very Special Episode in which Vinnie blames himself for a teacher's heart attack. Welcome Back, Kotter is grade-A nostalgia, but points are taken off for lack of commentary or interviews with Kaplan or any other members of the ensemble who aren't John Travolta. Casting memo to Ice Cube, who is reportedly preparing a big screen remake: Philip Baker Hall for Mr. Woodman! After that, you're on your own. --Donald Liebenson
Welcome Back, Kotter (Television Favorites Compilation) Reviews:
I remember when. 
2009-02-23 - This is so silly and so "back in the day"! I laugh with every episode.
True enjoyment.
Only for those who liked the TV series 
2008-11-12 - It's exactly what you think: a handful of episodes from the original TV series. Nothing more, nothing less. For a cheap price, it was the perfect Christmas gift to wrap for myself from my young children.
Well hello there Mr. Kotter!!! 
2008-08-17 - A great collection of six classic Welcome Back Kotter episodes!!! See the one and only John Travolta before he hit megastardom!!! The rest of the cast was great too!!! A seventies classic!!! Recommended!!! A+
Still funny today
2008-06-15 - I've been buying movies and series I grew up with to share them with my boys (13,10,6). They laughed out loud through most of these. Neat to see a sitcom with an obvious moral to the story again. Fun to see them again through adult eyes and see how perceptions change. Even more fun to see these old shows through my kids comments, laughter, etc.
Welcome Back Kotter Compilation
2008-04-17 - I bought this dvd because I am a big fan of John Travolta and I do actually remember the show from when I was a little boy and my Dad used to let me watch it with him. The 6 episodes on this compilation give the viewer quite a few laughs with the amount of screen time for each character fairly even. Personally I was looking for more JT (that's John Travolta, the original JT, not Justin Timberlake) who is extremely funny with his himbo character Barbarino and his thick Brooklyn accent. The happy theme tune is likely to stir memories from childhood even in people who think they've never heard of the show...
Note to huge WBK fans, Ice Cube is rumoured to be doing a Welcome Back Kotter movie sometime soon.
