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The White Shadow (TV series)

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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. [1]

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Aaron McGruder

Aaron Vincent McGruder (born May 29, 1974) is an American writer, lecturer, producer, screenwriter and cartoonist best known for writing and drawing The Boondocks, a Universal Press Syndicate comic strip and its animated TV series adaptation for which he was the creator, executive producer, and head writer.

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African Americans

African Americans (also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans) are an ethnic group of Americans with total or partial ancestry from any of the black racial groups of Africa.

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Amherst College

Amherst College is a private liberal arts college located in Amherst, Massachusetts, United States.

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Bill Russell

William Felton Russell (born February 12, 1934) is an American retired professional basketball player.

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Bill Simmons

William John Simmons III (born September 25, 1969), is an American sports columnist, analyst, author, and podcaster.

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Bruce Paltrow

Bruce Weigert Paltrow (November 26, 1943 – October 3, 2002) was an American television and film director and producer.

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Byron Stewart

Byron Stewart (born May 1, 1956, in Baxter Springs, Kansas) is an American actor best known for his portrayal of Warren Coolidge in the Bruce Paltrow-directed television series The White Shadow and the television medical drama St. Elsewhere.

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Caucasian race

The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid or Europid) is a grouping of human beings historically regarded as a biological taxon, which, depending on which of the historical race classifications used, have usually included some or all of the ancient and modern populations of Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, North Africa, the Horn of Africa, Western Asia, Central Asia and South Asia.

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CBS

CBS (an initialism of the network's former name, the Columbia Broadcasting System) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of CBS Corporation.

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Chicago Bulls

The Chicago Bulls are an American professional basketball team based in Chicago, Illinois.

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Child abuse

Child abuse or child maltreatment is physical, sexual, or psychological maltreatment or neglect of a child or children, especially by a parent or other caregiver.

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Decades (TV network)

Decades is an American digital broadcast television network that is owned as a joint venture between the CBS Television Stations subsidiary of CBS Corporation and Weigel Broadcasting.

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Drama (film and television)

In reference to film and television, drama is a genre of narrative fiction (or semi-fiction) intended to be more serious than humorous in tone.

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Ed Bernard

Ed Bernard (born July 4, 1939) is an American actor best known for his roles as Detective Joe Styles on Police Woman, Principal Jim Willis on The White Shadow, and as Lieutenant Bill Giles on Hardcastle and McCormick.

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Erik Kilpatrick

Erik Kilpatrick is an American actor who is best known for playing Curtis Jackson on the CBS television series The White Shadow.

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ESPN Classic

ESPN Classic is an American digital cable and satellite television network that is owned by ESPN Inc., a joint venture between The Walt Disney Company (which owns a controlling 80% stake) and Hearst Communications (which owns 20%).

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Flash (Barry Allen)

The Flash (Bartholomew Henry Allen) is a superhero who appears in comics published by DC Comics.

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Funk

Funk is a music genre that originated in African American communities in the mid-1960s when African American musicians created a rhythmic, danceable new form of music through a mixture of soul music, jazz, and rhythm and blues (R&B).

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Gary Kott

Gary Kott is an American television and advertising writer and artist.

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Heroes & Icons

Heroes & Icons (H&I) is an American digital broadcast television network owned by Weigel Broadcasting.

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Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues is an American serial police drama that aired on NBC in primetime from 1981 to 1987 for 146 episodes.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic Americans and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos) are people in the United States who are descendants of people from countries of Latin America and Spain.

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Hulu

Hulu (stylized as hulu) is an American entertainment company that provides over-the-top media services owned by Hulu LLC, a joint venture with The Walt Disney Company (through Disney Direct-to-Consumer and International) (30%), 21st Century Fox (30%), Comcast (through NBCUniversal) (30%),Although NBC Universal is also a major shareholder (30%) of Hulu, by the Federal Communications Commission, NBC Universal and Comcast are required not to exercise any right to influence the conduct or operation of Hulu.

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Ira Angustain

Ira Angustain (born August 6, 1958 in Glendale, California) is an American actor best known for his roles as Ricardo "Go Go" Gomez on The White Shadow and as Freddie Prinze on the made-for-TV movie Can You Hear The Laughter: The Story of Freddie Prinze.

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Jack Black

Thomas Jacob "Jack" Black (born August 28, 1969) is an American actor, comedian, and musician.

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Jackie Cooper

John Cooper Jr. (September 15, 1922 – May 3, 2011) was an American actor, television director, producer and executive.

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Jason Bernard

Jason Bernard (May 17, 1938 – October 16, 1996) was an American film and television actor.

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Jim Carrey

James Eugene Carrey (born January 17, 1962) is a Canadian-American actor, comedian, impressionist, screenwriter, musician, producer and painter.

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Joan Pringle

Joan Pringle, (born June 2, 1945, in Harlem, New York City, New York, USA), is an American actress.

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John Falsey

John Henry Falsey Jr. (born 6 November 1951) is an American television writer and producer.

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John Laughlin (actor)

John Laughlin (born April 3, 1956), sometimes credited as John C. McLaughlin or John McLaughlin, is an American film and television actor.

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John Masius

John Masius (born July 30, 1950 in Scarsdale, New York) is an American writer.

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John Mengatti

John Mengatti (born September 21, 1954, in New York City) is an American actor primarily famous for his role as Nick Vitaglia, Salami's cousin, on the CBS television series The White Shadow.

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Joshua Brand

Joshua Brand is an American television writer, director, and producer who created St. Elsewhere, I'll Fly Away and Northern Exposure with his writing-and-producing partner John Falsey.

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Ken Howard

Kenneth Joseph Howard Jr. (March 28, 1944 – March 23, 2016) was an American actor, best known for his roles as Thomas Jefferson in 1776 and as basketball coach and former Chicago Bulls player Ken Reeves in the television show The White Shadow (1978–1981).

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Ken Michelman

Ken Michelman (born May 23, 1956) is an American actor primarily known for his role as Abner Goldstein on the TV series The White Shadow.

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Kevin Hooks

Kevin Hooks (born September 19, 1958) is an American actor, and a television and film director; he is notable for his roles in Aaron Loves Angela and Sounder, but may be best known as Morris Thorpe from TV's The White Shadow.

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Larry "Flash" Jenkins

Larry "Flash" Jenkins (born May 10, 1955) is an American actor, film director, producer, and screenwriter.

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List of The Boondocks episodes

The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim.

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List of The White Shadow episodes

This is a list of episodes for the CBS television series The White Shadow.

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Long Island

Long Island is a densely populated island off the East Coast of the United States, beginning at New York Harbor just 0.35 miles (0.56 km) from Manhattan Island and extending eastward into the Atlantic Ocean.

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Manhasset Secondary School

Manhasset Secondary School is a six-year public high school and middle school located in Manhasset, Nassau County, New York on the North Shore of Long Island.

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Marc Norman

Marc Norman (born 1941 in Los Angeles, California) is an American screenwriter.

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Mark Tinker

Mark Tinker (born January 16, 1951) is an American television producer and director.

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Matthew Broderick

Matthew Broderick (born March 21, 1962) is an American actor, stage actor and singer.

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Mike Post

Mike Post (born Leland Michael Postil, September 29, 1944) is an American composer, best known for his TV theme songs for such series as Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU, The A-Team, NYPD Blue, Renegade, The Rockford Files, L.A. Law, Quantum Leap, Magnum, P.I., and Hill Street Blues.

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MTM Enterprises

MTM Enterprises (later known as MTM Enterprises, Inc.) was an American independent production company established in 1969 by Mary Tyler Moore and her then-husband Grant Tinker to produce The Mary Tyler Moore Show for CBS.

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My So-Called Life

My So-Called Life is an American teen drama television series created by Winnie Holzman and produced by Edward Zwick and Marshall Herskovitz.

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Nathan Cook (actor)

Nathan Earl Cook (April 9, 1950 – June 11, 1988) was an American actor.

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National Basketball Association

The National Basketball Association (NBA) is a men's professional basketball league in North America; composed of 30 teams (29 in the United States and 1 in Canada).

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Oakland, California

Oakland is the largest city and the county seat of Alameda County, California, United States.

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Pete Carpenter

Clarence E. "Pete" Carpenter (April 1, 1914 – October 18, 1987) was an American jazz trombonist, musical arranger, and a veteran of television theme song scoring.

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Prostitution

Prostitution is the business or practice of engaging in sexual activity in exchange for payment.

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Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live (SNL) is an American late-night live television variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol.

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Seinfeld

Seinfeld is an American television sitcom that ran for nine seasons on NBC, from 1989 to 1998.

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Sexual orientation

Sexual orientation is an enduring pattern of romantic or sexual attraction (or a combination of these) to persons of the opposite sex or gender, the same sex or gender, or to both sexes or more than one gender.

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Sexually transmitted infection

Sexually transmitted infections (STI), also referred to as sexually transmitted diseases (STD) or venereal diseases (VD), are infections that are commonly spread by sexual activity, especially vaginal intercourse, anal sex and oral sex.

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Sitcom

A sitcom, short for "situation comedy", is a genre of comedy centered on a fixed set of characters who carry over from episode to episode.

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South Los Angeles

South Los Angeles is a region in southern Los Angeles County, California lying to south of downtown Los Angeles, California.

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St. Elsewhere

St.

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Steven Bochco

Steven Ronald Bochco (December 16, 1943 – April 1, 2018) was a television producer and writer.

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Stoney Jackson

Stonewall W. "Stoney" Jackson (born Alwyn Jackson on February 27, 1960) is an American actor.

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The Boondocks (TV series)

The Boondocks is an American adult animated sitcom on Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim.

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The Cable Guy

The Cable Guy is a 1996 American black comedy film directed by Ben Stiller, starring Jim Carrey and Matthew Broderick.

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The Flash (2014 TV series)

The Flash is an American superhero television series developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, airing on The CW.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Summer of George

"The Summer of George" is the 156th episode of the sitcom Seinfeld.

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Thomas Carter (director)

Thomas Colbert Carter (born July 17, 1953) is an American film and television director known for Swing Kids, Save the Last Dance and Coach Carter.

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Tim Van Patten

Timothy Van Patten (born June 10, 1959) is an American television director, actor, screenwriter, and producer.

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Turkey

Turkey (Türkiye), officially the Republic of Turkey (Türkiye Cumhuriyeti), is a transcontinental country in Eurasia, mainly in Anatolia in Western Asia, with a smaller portion on the Balkan peninsula in Southeast Europe.

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TVShowsOnDVD.com

TVShowsOnDVD.com was a website dedicated to cataloging, campaigning for, and reporting news about Region 1 television series releases on DVD and region A Blu-ray.

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Virgil W. Vogel

Virgil William Vogel (November 29, 1919 – January 1, 1996) was an American television and film director.

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Wally West

Wally West is a fictional superhero that appears in American comic books published by DC Comics.

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Welcome Back, Kotter

Welcome Back, Kotter is an American sitcom starring Gabe Kaplan as a sardonic high school teacher in charge of a racially and ethnically diverse remedial class called the "Sweathogs".

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Wolfe Perry

Wolfe Perry (born Lieutenant Wolfe Perry, Jr.; 22 January 1957) is an American actor and former college basketball player at Stanford University.

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20th Century Fox Home Entertainment

Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment LLC (formerly Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc., doing business as 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment) is the home video distribution arm of the 20th Century Fox film studio.

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20th Television

Twentieth Television (or 20TV, stylized as 20th Television) is an American television syndication studio and the syndication arm of 20th Century Fox Television, itself a subsidiary of 21st Century Fox.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_White_Shadow_(TV_series)

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