# Welcome Back Kotter **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [June 9, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843 "2000-06-09T04:54:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![spluurtaf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/53a042/32.png) [@spluurtaf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spluurtaf)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/1 "2000-06-09T04:54:42Z")
I wish Welcome Back Kotter were still on TV. Does anyone know how to tell a Tv station this without getting one of those stupid “we care about your concern…etc…keep watching” letters? And does anyone else want Welcome Back Kotter on TV again? I mean, who doesn’t like the Sweathogs? ---
**Author:** ![spartacist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/67e7ee/32.png) [@spartacist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/spartacist)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/2 "2000-06-09T05:01:40Z")
I watched marathons of that show while I was in college. I was worried at first that it might not hold up the way I remembered it when I was five. I was right - it was bad, but I watched it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/3 "2000-06-09T05:20:54Z")
1970s TV shows don’t seem to wear as well in reruns as 1950s or 1960s shows. I think there isn’t as large a bloc of viewers who liked the 70s. The Baby Boomers will always outvote the Baby Busters. ---
**Author:** ![occ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/8c91f0/32.png) [@occ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/occ)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/4 "2000-06-09T13:43:02Z")
Hmm, isn’t Welcome Back Kotter shown regularly on either Nick-at-Nite or its sister station (TV Land)? Call your cable company. I know they used to show it, anyway. ---
**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/5 "2000-06-09T17:57:08Z")
Yeah, I think TV Land has shown WBK in marathons. Of course, they can’t reunite the cast. Travolta’s salary alone would break a network. (Who’d believe 25 years ago that he’d be the most successful?) ---
**Author:** ![RM\_Mentock](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/e274bd/32.png) [@RM\_Mentock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RM_Mentock)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 9:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/6 "2000-06-09T21:54:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course, they can’t reunite the cast. Travolta’s salary alone would break a network. (Who’d believe 25 years ago that he’d be the most successful?) Who else ya got? ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/7 "2000-06-09T22:11:38Z")
> [@](#): > > Travolta’s salary alone would break a network. Maybe in three years after he hasn’t been able to work except for “Battlefield Earth 2”, he’ll need the cash. ---
**Author:** ![obfusciatrist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/4af34b/32.png) [@obfusciatrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/obfusciatrist)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 10:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/8 "2000-06-09T22:13:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Of course, they can’t reunite the cast. Travolta’s salary alone would break a network. If I remember correctly, there was an episode of [Mr. Rhodes](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0115278) that reunited several of the castmember of _Welcome Back Kotter_ and they ran into just this problem. They couldn’t afford Travolta. Of course, Travolta could truthfully claim he wouldn’t appear on such a crap-ass TV show no matter what he’d be paid. > [@](#): > > (Who’d believe 25 years ago that he’d be the most successful?) Oh, I think if you went back to the shows run most people would have bet on Travolta as the one who would break out of that cast. Consider that while the show was still on the air in made Carrie, Saturday Night Fever, Grease, and Urban Cowboy. ---
**Author:** ![BobT](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/8e8cbc/32.png) [@BobT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BobT)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2000, 11:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/welcome-back-kotter/21843/9 "2000-06-09T23:36:39Z")
I always thought that Marcia Strassman was headed for stardom, but it was not to be. She did get a part in the “Honey, I …” franchise with Disney.