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6 unusual facts about Welcome Back


Adam Hollander

Hollander appeared on 1 episode of the television series Welcome Back, Kotter playing the punk.

BMT West End Line

Additionally, the opening credits of the television show Welcome Back, Kotter (1975) also featured the West End line.

Colmar Manor, Maryland

John Sylvester White, television actor best known as vice principal/high school principal Mr. Woodman on Welcome Back, Kotter, was a boyhood resident and son of Colmar Manor's first mayor.

Sebastian Leone

The opening credits of the television show Welcome Back, Kotter, which was set in Brooklyn, began with the image of a sign that read, "Welcome to Brooklyn, 4th largest city in America, Hon Sebastian Leone Borough President".

Welcome Back, Carter

Peter then interjects his hatred of PBS, after viewing a nine-part series on traffic signs by director and producer Ken Burns, the fourth of which on the yield sign.

It was watched by 7.02 million viewers, according to Nielsen ratings, despite airing simultaneously with Desperate Housewives on ABC, The Amazing Race on CBS and Sunday Night Football on NBC, and falling only 15% from the previous week's broadcast.


The Prospect Studios

Many other classic television shows were also produced there including The Lawrence Welk Show, Barney Miller, Fridays, Mr. Belvedere, Welcome Back, Kotter, Benson, and Soap.

WPRT-FM

The last song played was the appropriately-titled "Welcome Back" by John Sebastian.


see also

Altars in Latin America

On Todos Santos, or All Saints Day, people welcome back the souls of their departed loved ones by offering altars or ofrendas, commemorating them (Read 158-161).

Brigade 2506

On 29 December 1962, President John F. Kennedy hosted a 'welcome back' ceremony for captured Brigade 2506 veterans at the Orange Bowl in Miami.

Dale Lazarov

His collaboration with artist Drubskin, "The Welcome Back Fuck", was featured in Best Gay Erotica 2007 and subsequently in Best of the Best Gay Erotica, both published by Cleis Press.

Debra Lee

Debralee Scott, an American actress known for performing in television roles such as Welcome Back, Kotter

House of Mystery

A one shot reprint (in color), Welcome Back to the House of Mystery, featured ten of the most highly regarded stories as selected by Alisa Kwitney in a Cain wraparound by Neil Gaiman and Sergio Aragonés, under the Vertigo imprint.

Ma Gnucci

She was created by Garth Ennis and Steve Dillon, and appears in the "Welcome Back, Frank" storyline.

Punisher video games

The game's story is a loose mixture of the 2004 film, as well as the 2000 mini-series, Welcome Back, Frank, written by Garth Ennis and pencilled by Steve Dillon, wherein the character has no aversion to committing acts of extreme (if not gratuitous) violence.

Vincent Pagano

Sabrina, the Teenage Witch star Melissa Joan Hart told the Providence Journal she took a role in Jesus, Mary and Joey/Welcome Back, Miss Mary because her roommate, Angelo Spizzirri, was a close friend of Pagano.