The White Shadow: Season 2
Season 2 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of The White Shadow Season 1.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 2 Progress Shield
On the Line
Sep 17, 1979 · 60 min
The second season begins with Jackson, wanting to make some extra money, gets unknowingly involved with sports bookies. Things get especially difficult when they start offering hi
Albert Hodges
Sep 24, 1979 · 60 min
Coach Reeves begins teaching a class on sex education, but comes under fire when he makes joking comments that Albert Hodges, a new black student who is very racially sensitive, in
Cross-Town Hustle
Oct 1, 1979 · 60 min
A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.
Sudden Death
Oct 8, 1979 · 60 min
after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death
No Place Like Home
Oct 29, 1979 · 60 min
after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates
Globetrotters
Nov 5, 1979 · 60 min
The basketball team is on a winning streak and proceeds to showboat and run up the score on their latest opponent, prompting a tongue-lashing from Reeves. With their newfound succ
Me?
Nov 12, 1979 · 60 min
Thorpe contracts a sexually transmitted disease and has passed it onto Coolidge's girlfriend. The two of them must now tell Warren that he too must get tested.
Delores, Of Course
Dec 18, 1979 · 60 min
a former girlfreind a jacksons comes to los angeles saying that shes fashion model but is really a hooker
Feeling No Pain
Jan 1, 1980 · 60 min
Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.
Artist
Jan 8, 1980 · 60 min
a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever
Salami's Affair
Jan 15, 1980 · 60 min
Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.
Links
Jan 22, 1980 · 60 min
Deciding that some of the players could use a dose of class, Coach Reeves takes Coolidge, Thorpe, and Salami to an exclusive country club for a day of golfing.
The Stripper
Jan 29, 1980 · 60 min
a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line
The Russians Are Coming
Feb 26, 1980 · 60 min
A touring high school team from the then-Soviet Union comes to Carver. The players have trouble relating to the Russian players, with the exception of one Russian, whom Hayward be
The Hitter
Mar 4, 1980 · 60 min
Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.