The Bad News Bears
Friday, May 5th, 2000SEASON 1 – CBS
Developed by Bob Brunner and Arthur Silver based on characters created by Bill Lancaster
This series is based on the 1975 film of the same name, and its sequels “The Bad News Bears in Breaking Training” and “The Bad News Bears Go to Japan“
Theme Song: “March of the Toreadors (Carmen Overture)” by Georges Bizet, arranged by David Michael Frank
- 001. Here Comes the Coach – 3/24/1979
- Pool cleaner Morris Buttermaker (Jack Warden) is arrested after driving the Cadillac of a customer who stiffed him into the customer’s pool, and is sentenced to either go to prison or volunteer to coach at the local W. Wendel Weever School where kids with discipline problems are sent. The baseball team he is given consists of Rudi Stein (Billy Jacoby), Regi Tower (Corey Feldman), Timmy Lupus (Shane Butterworth), Ahmad Abdul Rahim (Kristoff St. John), Mike Engelberg (J. Brennan Smith), Leslie Ogilve (Sparky Marcus), and Tanner Boyle (Meeno Peluce). After seeing how terrible the team is on the practice field, Buttermaker quits, but when the school principal Emily Rappant (Catherine Hicks) shows up at his house with the police, he recants and resumes coaching. Their first game against the Lions with their obnoxious coach Roy Turner (Phillip Richard Allen), ends with the Bears forfeiting after they are losing by 39 runs in the first inning. The Bears want to quit the team, but Buttermaker gives them a speech about quitting and they take to the practice field once again. 5/5/13 Read the rest of this entry »