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| | Welcome Back, Kotter History | sjpc_05_package.xml |
 | | Kaplan, who created the show with Alan Sacks, based Welcome Back, Kotter on his own real-life experiences in the Bensonhurst section of Brooklyn, where he had himself been branded an "unteachable" student until inspired by a teacher named Miss Shepherd. |
 | | Kaplan, a standup comedian with a bushy mustache and a perpetual smirk, incorporated some of his material, sometimes awkwardly, into the beginning and end of the episodes, but seemed a little less at ease as an actor carrying a sitcom. |
 | | That year, Kaplan chose to sit out many of the episodes due to creative differences with ABC, and he was rarely seen on television after that. |
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