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Whatever Happened to the Sweathogs? See What the From ‘Welcome Back, Kotter’ Cast Is Up to Now!
UNITED STATES - SEPTEMBER 09: WELCOME BACK, KOTTER - pilot - Season One - 9/9/75, Gabe Kotter (played by Gabe Kaplan, center), a former Sweathog, returned to his Brooklyn high school to teach the new class of misfits, from left: Vinnie Barbarino (John Travolta), Arnold Horshack (Ron Palillo), Juan Epstein (Robert Hegyes) and Freddie "Boom-Boom" Washington (Lawrence-Hilton Jacobs)., (Photo by Walt Disney Television via Getty Images Photo Archives/Walt Disney Television via Getty Images via Getty Images)
From September 1975, to June 1979, this high school class said “up your nose with a rubber hose” to authority. The iconic American sitcom Welcome Back, Kotter told the story of Gabe Kotter — played by actor Gabe Kaplan — who finds himself in charge of a class full of unruly remedial students called the Sweathogs after being hired as a teacher at his old high school.
The Sweathogs were known as obnoxious, wisecracking and underachieving students — played by John Travolta, Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs, Robert Hegyes and Ron Palillo — who test their new teacher’s patience to the max every day.
In honor of the sitcom’s 40th anniversary since it’s final episode that aired on June 8, 1979, take a look at what the beloved cast has been up to!
