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."
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- 03x13 Cops (Mar. 02, 1981)
- 03x12 Psyched Out (Feb. 23, 1981)
- 03x11 Car Repo (Feb. 16, 1981)
- 03x10 Trial and E… (Feb. 09, 1981)
- 03x09 B.M.O.C (Feb. 02, 1981)
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Directors
- Victor Lobl (16 episodes)
- Mark Tinker (10 episodes)
- Bruce Paltrow (8 episodes)
Writers
- Bruce Paltrow (56 episodes)
- Marc Rubin (16 episodes)
- John Falsey (13 episodes)
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- The original telecast of the first half of the Season 2 episode "The Death of Me Yet" was shown with no commercial interruptions, up to the point where Curtis Jackson (Erik Kilpatrick) was killed.
- In the two instances where Coach Reeves (Ken Howard) "dunked", he had to use an off camera ramp. He did this in both the pilot episode and in Season 1's "Wanna Bet" during the game with Bobby…
[show]In the two instances where Coach Reeves (Ken Howard) "dunked", he had to use an off camera ramp. He did this in both the pilot episode and in Season 1's "Wanna Bet" during the game with Bobby Magum ('Michael Warren').
[hide] - The character of Jackson never graduated from Carver because he was shot and killed by armed robbers holding up a liquor store, as he tried to talk the robbers into giving up. According to…
[show]The character of Jackson never graduated from Carver because he was shot and killed by armed robbers holding up a liquor store, as he tried to talk the robbers into giving up. According to writer Marc Rubin, executive producer Bruce Paltrow originally wanted Jackson to be killed while committing the robbery.
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