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Before casting John Travolta as Vincent Vega in "Pulp Fiction", Quentin Tarantino invited him to his apartment (which was the same exact apartment Travolta lived in when he first got his start) to play a vintage "Welcome Back Kotter" board game.

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Producer of sitcom Welcome Back Kotter pitted star Gabe Kaplan and Marcia Strassman who played his wife against one another by falsely telling each the other didn't like them. Kaplan got wise and, as host of The Tonight Show that week, had Strassman on as a guest to tell the story

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1. Over a dozen TV theme songs have made the US Billboard charts. Three even hit #1: S.W.A.T; Welcome Back Kotter; and Miami Vice

2. Due to John Sebastian's (The Lovin' Spoonful) difficulty writing lyrics for the theme to a new show called Kotter, the series' producer ended up naming the show Welcome Back, Kotter to fit in with the lyrics.

3. The show "Welcome Back, Kotter" was simply going to be called "Kotter" but the producers changed it when they heard John Sebastian's theme song for the show, "Welcome Back"

4. Gabe Kaplan from Welcome Back, Kotter has been a pro poker player since 1978

5. I learned that a Boston ABC affiliate refused to air "Welcome Back, Kotter" until the fifth episode over fears the show's integrated classroom setting would stir up racial relations during a tumultuous period in the city's history.

6. A local TV station initially refused to broadcast the sitcom 'Welcome Back, Kotter' in 1975 because of the show's fictional integrated classroom. The station was not in the South - it was in Boston, which was dealing with protests and riots over their school busing program at the time

7. John Sebastian of The Lovin' Spoonful wrote and sang the theme to Welcome Back, Kotter and it was so popular he wrote a 2nd verse and released it as a single, where it hit #1 for 1 week.

8. Actor Robert Hegyes who played Juan Epstein on Welcome Back Kotter was Jon Bon Jovi's cousin.