The White Shadow


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Episodes: 54

Seasons: 3

Show dates: November 27, 1978 – March 16, 1981

Performers include: Ken Howard, Kevin Hooks, Byron Stewart

Description: American drama television series starring Ken Howard, about a white former professional basketball player who takes a job coaching basketball at an impoverished urban high school with a racially mixed basketball team. Although the lead actor Howard was white, the series broke new ground as the first television ensemble drama to feature a mostly African American cast, with African American actors playing the high school principal and vice-principal, the majority of the teenage basketball players, and other supporting roles.
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