Backdrop fallback

The White Shadow

The White Shadow

Share

The White Shadow

"Can a straight shooter cut it with this bunch of rough, razor-sharp kids from the street?"

1978- 1981

3 Seasons

54 Episodes

7.1(17 votes)

Ended

Drama

Family

Overview

The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to March 16 1981.

Links & Resources

Social & External

Production Companies

MTM Enterprises

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

The people behind it

Cast & crew

10 featured cast members

Starring

Ken Howard

Ken Howard

Ken Reeves

Kevin Hooks

Kevin Hooks

Morris Thorpe

Byron Stewart

Warren Coolidge

Tim Van Patten

Tim Van Patten

Mario 'Salami' Pettrino

Stoney Jackson

Stoney Jackson

Jesse B. Mitchell

Ed Bernard

Ed Bernard

Jim Willis

Erik Kilpatrick

Erik Kilpatrick

Curtis Jackson

Nathan Cook

Nathan Cook

Milton Reese

Ira Angustain

Ricky Gomez

Ken Michelman

Ken Michelman

Abner Goldstein

Creative team

Created by: Bruce Paltrow
Showrunner: Bruce Paltrow
Written by: Steven Bochco
Mark Tinker
Produced by: Scott Brazil
John Masius

Similar TV Shows

The Promise of Growing Up Together

The Promise of Growing Up Together

In the lively town of Luxiang, an ordinary girl, Xia Mi, unexpectedly gains entry to the city’s top high school, where she meets three unique classmates: the outgoing Zhang Ruoxi, the steady top student Fan Yuan, and the kind-hearted Lin Ruolei. Together with a diverse group of friends, they embark on a humorous and heartfelt journey, navigating friendship, family, and first love. As they grow and pursue their dreams, they create an unforgettable story of youth and resilience.

Pride

Pride

Haru Satonaka is the captain of an ice-hockey team, a star athlete who stakes everything on hockey but can only consider love as a game. Aki Murase is a woman who has been waiting for her lover who went abroad two years ago. These two persons start a relationship while frankly admitting to each other that it is only a love game. …The result is the unfolding of a drama of people with their respective pasts and with their pride as individuals.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Buffy the Vampire Slayer

Into every generation a slayer is born: one girl in all the world, a chosen one. She alone will wield the strength and skill to fight the vampires, demons, and the forces of darkness; to stop the spread of their evil and the swell of their number. She is the Slayer.

Blue Water High

Blue Water High

Blue Water High is an Australian television drama series, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation on ABC1 and on Austar/Foxtel Nickelodeon channel in Australia and on various channels in many other countries. Each season follows the lives of a young group of students at Solar Blue, a high-performance surf academy where several lucky 16-year-olds are selected for a 12-month-long surfing program on Sydney's northern beaches. There are three series in Blue Water High. The first two series were screened in 2005 and 2006 and the producers did not intend to create a third series. However, due to popular demand by fans, they relented and made one more series with only Kate Bell returning in a main role. Series three ended with the closure of Solar Blue, indicating that the show would most likely not continue.

GELBOYS

GELBOYS

After falling for a gel-nail enthusiast, Fou4Mod gets caught in a messy love triangle when he tries to make his crush jealous.

Rearrange

Rearrange

Win gets a second chance to relive the past and chase the dreams he once shared with Nut. But as he tries to change fate, will he save their love—or lose it again?

When We Meet

When We Meet

An office worker, Lu Ming, and a high school student, Deng Yu, look exactly alike and cross paths by chance, intertwining their fates. As they navigate each other’s worlds, they gradually learn to understand and heal one another, growing closer until they become an inseparable part of each other’s lives.

So Little Time

So Little Time

So Little Time is an American sitcom starring Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen that aired on Fox Family. The first half of the series aired from June 2, 2001, to August 15, 2001. The series then went on a four-month hiatus owing to network management changes. By December 2001, Fox Family had become ABC Family, and the remaining episodes aired until May 4, 2002.

One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill

In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.

To Be Continued

To Be Continued

Years after ending a friendship that became intimate, a mercurial doctor and a timid artist grapple with their feelings when they reconnect as adults.

Boston Public

Boston Public

Principal Steven Harper runs Winslow High School as best as he can while dealing with the demands of the faculty, the students and their parents.

Captain

Captain

The original is an impressive sports manga featuring not heroes, but common boys, and the story depicts the growth of Sumiya 2 junior high school baseball team (the successive captains and players) in downtown Tokyo. Takao Taniguchi, who was a substitute player of the second team of Aoba Gakuin, a prestigious junior high school in the baseball world, but he transferred to Sumiya 2 and he became the captain of the baseball club. After steady training, the team try to do a final game in the regional preliminaries, against Aoba Gakuin.

Wolfblood

Wolfblood

Being a teenager is hard enough. Being a Wolfblood teenager is ten times more complicated. 14 year old Maddy loves her abilities - heightened senses, being faster, stronger and more graceful - but hates the secrets that come with them.

Shark

Shark

Notorious Los Angeles defense attorney Sebastian Stark becomes disillusioned with his career after his successful defense of a wife-abuser results in the wife's death. After more than a month trying to come to grips with his situation, he is invited by the Los Angeles district attorney to become a public prosecutor so he can apply his unorthodox-but-effective talents to putting guilty people away instead of putting them back on the street.

21 Days Theory

21 Days Theory

A playful rivalry turns into something more when a cocky senior dares his classmate to win the school’s top celebrity’s heart in just 21 days.

True Beauty

True Beauty

Once bullied for her looks, Jugyeong transforms herself using the art of makeup. When she joins a new school with a True Beauty goddess competition, offering winners the chance of recruitment by entertainment agencies, she instantly becomes a top candidate! But her new identity is at stake when heartthrob Suho Lee accidentally sees her bare face. Will her elite status be short-lived?

The Rebound

The Rebound

Zen fightsfor a basketball scholarship, but a scandal threatens his dream. Rebuilding the team, he reconnects with Ryu—where friendship blurs into something more.

Lou Grant

Lou Grant

The trials of a former television station manager turned newspaper city editor, and his journalist staff.

CHiPs

CHiPs

Lighthearted look at the adventures of two Highway Patrol officers in Los Angeles. The main characters are Jon Baker and Frank Poncherello, two motorcycle officers always on the street to save lives.

Saved by the Bell: The New Class

Saved by the Bell: The New Class

Six friends grow and learn at Bayside High.

Recommended TV Shows

One Tree Hill

One Tree Hill

In Tree Hill, North Carolina two half brothers share a last name and nothing else. Brooding, blue-collar Lucas is a talented street-side basketball player, but his skills are appreciated only by his friends at the river court. Popular, affluent Nathan basks in the hero-worship of the town, as the star of his high school team. And both boys are the son of former college ball player Dan Scott whose long ago choice to abandon Lucas and his mother Karen, will haunt him long into his life with wife Deb and their son Nathan.

Knots Landing

Knots Landing

The domestic adventures, misdeeds and everyday interactions of five families living on a cul-de-sac in a small California community.

Tell Me Lies

Tell Me Lies

When Lucy Albright and Stephen DeMarco meet at college, they are at that formative age when seemingly mundane choices lead the way to irrevocable consequences. They quickly fall into an addictive entanglement that will permanently alter not only their lives, but the lives of everyone around them.

Sherlock & Daughter

Sherlock & Daughter

Sherlock Holmes faces a sinister case risking friends' lives. American Amelia joins, seeking her father after her mother's murder. Despite differences, they solve a conspiracy and her mother's case.

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

A dying man's enigmatic last words send vicar's son, Bobby Jones, and his socialite friend, Lady Frankie Derwent, on a crime-solving adventure.

Sugar

Sugar

John Sugar is a dashing private eye navigating the dark corners of sunny LA. Though he sees only the good in humanity, Sugar is haunted by a secret too dangerous to expose.

Echoes

Echoes

Identical twins Leni and Gina have secretly switched places for years. But when one sister disappears, both of their lives start to fall apart.

Bel-Air

Bel-Air

The journey of a book smart teen whose life is forever transformed when he moves from the streets of west Philadelphia to live with his relatives in one of LA’s wealthiest suburbs.

Wolf Pack

Wolf Pack

When a raging wildfire releases a supernatural creature, four young adults find themselves drawn together under a full moon.

Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars

Based on the Pretty Little Liars series of young adult novels by Sara Shepard, the series follows the lives of four girls — Spencer, Hanna, Aria, and Emily — whose clique falls apart after the disappearance of their queen bee, Alison. One year later, they begin receiving messages from someone using the name "A" who threatens to expose their secrets — including long-hidden ones they thought only Alison knew.

Good Trouble

Good Trouble

After moving to The Coterie in Downtown Los Angeles, Callie and Mariana Foster realize that living on their own is not all that it’s cracked up to be.

The Stolen Girl

The Stolen Girl

Mother of two, Elisa, allows her daughter, Lucia, to go on an impromptu sleepover with her new best friend Josephine after meeting Josephine's mother, Rebecca, at her beautiful home. But when Elisa arrives to collect Lucia the next day, the house turns out to be an empty luxury rental and Lucia has been abducted.

The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker

Fresh out of law school, Rudy Baylor goes head to head with courtroom lion Leo Drummond as well as his law school girlfriend, Sarah. Rudy, along with his boss, Bruiser, and her disheveled paralegal, Deck, uncovers two connected conspiracies surrounding the mysterious death of their client's son.

The L Word

The L Word

A group of lesbian friends struggle with romance and careers in Los Angeles.

L.A. Law

L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986, to May 19, 1994. Created by Steven Bochco and Terry Louise Fisher, it contained many of Bochco's trademark features including a large number of parallel storylines, social drama and off-the-wall humor. It reflected the social and cultural ideologies of the 1980s and early 1990s, and many of the cases featured on the show dealt with hot-topic issues such as abortion, racism, gay rights, homophobia, sexual harassment, AIDS, and domestic violence. The series often also reflected social tensions between the wealthy senior lawyer protagonists and their less well-paid junior staff. The show was popular with audiences and critics, and won 15 Emmy Awards throughout its run, four of which were for Outstanding Drama Series.

Rabbit Hole

Rabbit Hole

Nothing is what it seems when John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage, is framed for murder by powerful forces with the ability to influence and control populations.

The L Word: Generation Q

The L Word: Generation Q

In this sequel to The L Word, we continue to follow the intermingled lives of Bette Porter, Alice Pieszecki and Shane McCutcheon, along with a new generation of diverse, self-possessed LGBTQIA+ characters experiencing love, heartbreak, sex, setbacks and success in L.A.

Emergence

Emergence

A police chief takes in a young child she finds near the site of a mysterious accident who has no memory of what has happened. The investigation draws her into a conspiracy larger than she ever imagined, and the child’s identity is at the center of it all.

The Terror: Devil in Silver

The Terror: Devil in Silver

Wrongfully committed to New Hyde Psychiatric Hospital, one man faces secretive doctors, dangerous patients, and something even worse …

All American: Homecoming

All American: Homecoming

Follow the journeys of Simone Hicks, a tennis hopeful from Beverly Hills, and elite baseball player Damon Sims from Chicago, as they navigate life at the prestigious HBCU Bringston University.