2x1 - On the Line

September 17, 1979

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 him big money to shave points at Carver's games.

2x2 - Albert Hodges

September 24, 1979

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, interprets as insulting to blacks. Hodges then tries to rally the black players on the team against Reeves.

2x3 - Cross-Town Hustle

October 1, 1979

A rival coach from a predominantly white high school in the area tries to convince Reese to transfer.

2x4 - Sudden Death

October 8, 1979

after a rookie basketball player dies of an anerism coach reeves goes blaming himself for his death

2x5 - A Silent Cheer

October 15, 1979

2x6 - No Place Like Home

October 29, 1979

after coolidges apartment house burns down coolidge and coach reeves become roommates

2x7 - Globetrotters

November 5, 1979

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 success gone to their head, the team gets cocky with the workers at a local car wash and challenges them to a pickup game at the Carver gym. The boys are unaware that the car wash workers are really members of the Harlem Globetrotters doing a benefit and Reeves has arranged for them to show the team they're really not as good as they think.

2x8 - Me?

November 12, 1979

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.

2x9 - Needle

November 26, 1979

2x10 - Sliding By

December 3, 1979

2x12 - A Christmas Present

December 25, 1979

2x13 - Feeling No Pain

January 1, 1980

Salami sprains a knee during a pickup basketball game, and his doctor prescribes amphetamines, which he unwittingly shares with the team.

2x14 - Artist

January 8, 1980

a nagging art teacher thinks that thorpe should go to art school but thorpe has no interest in it what so ever

2x15 - Salami's Affair

January 15, 1980

Carver holds a school 'turnabout' dance for Sadie Hawkins Day, and a young female teacher has her thoughts on asking Salami and going further.

2x16 - Links

January 22, 1980

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.

2x17 - The Stripper

January 29, 1980

a teacher who moonlights as a exotic dancer teaching career is on the line

2x18 - Gonna Fly Now

February 5, 1980

2x19 - Out at Home

February 19, 1980

2x20 - The Russians Are Coming

February 26, 1980

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 befriends, and later wants to defect to the U.S.

2x21 - The Hitter

March 4, 1980

Coach Reeves suspects that Gomez is being physically abused at home by his father, but has trouble getting him to admit it.

2x22 - The Death of Me Yet

March 11, 1980

2x23 - Coolidge Goes Hollywood

March 18, 1980

2x24 - A Few Good Men

April 1, 1980