Gabe Kotter, 'Welcome Back Kotter'

Fact or fiction? Fiction
Subject: Remedial studies
Actor: Gabe Kaplan

He had a fondness for Groucho Marx, a grounding in real life, and an unshakeable conviction that the Sweathogs can make something of themselves. He would know -- he was a founding member of the Sweathogs when he went to Brooklyn's James Buchanan High.