I watched Welcome Back Kotter as a kid. I remember loving the theme song and the opening credits tour through Brooklyn. But having revisited "Chico and the Man" (another similar show a couple of years ago), I expected the show to be much worse than I remembered. But, it really wasn't. The always bashed Gabe Kaplan comes across as quite likeable and he seems to hold the show's cornball humor together quite well. Don't get me wrong, this is not "The Office" at high school, but it is good natured middlebrow comedy. Of course, the show was always "on the clock" for getting canceled because the premise is time limited, and indeed I guess the show declined horribly over the years, but this is a review of Season One, and as far as that goes, its enjoyable comedy.