1. (pilot)  

First aired: 11/27/1978    Production Code: 5216

Ken Reeves, a forward with the Chicago Bulls, is forced to retire after suffering a serious knee injury. His old friend and high school teammate, Jim Willis, who is principal of Carver High near L.A., drops by to offer him a job as basketball coach. Reeves is reluctant, but agrees. Among the challenges he faces with the school and the team include a female vice principal who doesn't like him and a player, James Hayward, who has a lot of potential, but also is fatherless and may have to drop out of school to go to work and take care of his mom and little brother.

2. Here's Mud in Your Eye  

First aired: 12/4/1978    Production Code: 8101

Coach Reeves and the team discover liquor in Jackson's locker, and fear he may have a drinking problem.

3. The Offer  

First aired: 12/11/1978    Production Code: 8103

A beautiful young TV reporter is in town to do a special on Coach Reeves at Carver High and tries to lure him into quitting and going into broadcasting.

4. Bonus Baby  

First aired: 12/25/1978    Production Code: 8110

Coolidge believes he's ready for the NBA, and thinks about signing with a crooked agent to get there.

5. Pregnant Pause  

First aired: 1/1/1979    Production Code: 8102

College scouts are impressed with Reese and believe he has a good shot at a scholarship. However, Reese's plans are put on hold when his girlfriend, a Carver cheerleader, tells him she's pregnant. Coach Reeves and the team discover her attending cheerleader practices and believe she may be lying about the pregnancy to trap Reese into marrying her.

6. Wanna Bet?  

First aired: 1/8/1979    Production Code: 8105

Coach Reeves brings in a new player named Bobby Magum, who happens to be a hustler of basketball games.

7. That Old Gang of Mine  

First aired: 1/15/1979    Production Code: 8109

When Gomez is kicked off the team for poor grades, he turns to a street gang he once ran with.

8. Just One of the Boys  

First aired: 1/27/1979    Production Code: 8115

Reeves deals with a new player, Raymond Collins, who was forced to transfer from his old school because of rumors about his being gay.

9. Airball  

First aired: 2/3/1979    Production Code: 8116

Reeves attempts to fly the team to an out-of-town tournament in San Jose. All sorts of trouble ensues, ranging from the players' mischief in the airport, to their fear of flying, and to the plane developing mechanical problems.

10. We're in the Money  

First aired: 2/10/1979    Production Code: 8111

The team pools some money in hopes of hitting it big in Las Vegas.

11. Spare the Rod  

First aired: 2/17/1979    Production Code: 8118

Coach Reeves substitute-teaches a P.E. class and runs into trouble with Lucius Robinson, a student with a past history of teacher abuse.

12. The Great White Dope  

First aired: 2/24/1979    Production Code: 8119

Salami has dreams of becoming a professional boxer, like his father was. However, his dad is dead-set against it. Coach Reeves offers to help Salami train, but gets more than he bargained for when he learns his father is against it and that he and Salami don't talk to each other.

13. Mainstream  

First aired: 3/5/1979    Production Code: 8123

A mainstreaming program is put in place at Carver, and as a result, Coach Reeves is forced to take in an autistic kid on the basketball team.

14. Little Orphan Abner  

First aired: 3/26/1979    Production Code: 8125

Goldstein's grandfather is hospitalized and his grandmother stays at the hospital with him, so Coach Reeves asks the team to check in on him at home every so often. The other guys aren't too keen on this because Goldstein really doesn't fit in with them, but they agree to check on him and, in the process, take advantage of him and his hospitality. Goldstein threatens to quit the team, and Coach Reeves gives him a lecture on standing up for himself.

15. LeGrand Finale  

First aired: 4/9/1979    Production Code: 8122

The team wants to form a singing group, but elect not to include Thorpe, who begins a dating interest with Karen LeGrand, a white girl with an unsavory reputation around school.