Talk:The White Shadow
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[edit] Possible copyvio?
See [1]. I think the tone of the article makes it likely that the tv.com page is the original source, but I can't find a way to date that page and prove it. --61.214.155.14 03:04, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] rm copyvio
Tone an obvious copyvio. Probably from [2] originally. Removing the following content:
When a professional athlete busts his knee, there are a few vocational routes to take. There's sports commentary, the autobiography business, personal appearances at used car lot grand openings, and the lecture circuit—all careers that A.E. Housman may have been thinking of when he wrote his poem "To An Athlete Dying Young." But more than all of those other post-athletic activities, there's coaching, shaping young talent with the wisdom accrued in years of experience.
Fictional Chicago Bulls forward Ken Reeves was talked into the latter career by his old friend and teammate Jim Willis, and that was the premise behind TV's White Shadow. Jim was a principal at Los Angeles' Carver High School, located in an inner-city, working-class neighborhood. Although Reeves was new to the world of clipboards and de facto paternal responsibilities, coaching soon appeared to be his true calling.
The White Shadow was created by TV producer (and big basketball fan) Bruce Paltrow, later of St. Elsewhere and father of Gwenyth Paltrow. It was about the sport, of course, but it was also about a growing up in a tough neighborhood at a tough time. The kids on the team had to face drugs, gangs, race hostility, learning disabilities, financial hardship, and more—so it wasn't all towel rattail fights in the locker room. Whatever the dilemma, Coach Reeves figured into the solution, be it through good advice or hands-on intervention. His players trusted him, which was significant given the general mistrust they had for people older than them.
In the 1979-80 season, one of Reeves' players, Curtis Jackson, was shot while standing in a liquor store that was being held up. That was also the year that a large number of players "graduated" from high school and moved on, and a new batch of actors came in to take their place. In its third season, the show lightened up—there were more laughs and decidedly more singing in the shower, which some would argue the Carver players did as well as they played hoops.
On the court or off, the young men on the Carver High basketball team were a funny and eclectic group, and their coach, their "white shadow," was always there to assist.
Raggaga 19:30, 28 June 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Air dates?
A user known as AarHan3 keeps changing the last air date of the show from March 16 to August 12. He also adds the comment "for 54 episodes" after the last air date. I'm starting to get mad at this user, will someone just make him stop?! Gabrielkat 11:21, 24 July 2006 (UTC)
