Standup comedian and actor Gabe Kaplan is best known for playing the title role in the television series Welcome Back Kotter (1975-1979), the sitcom that launched the career of actor John Travolta. Following Kotter, Kaplan continued to in feature films and TV movies. He made his big-screen debut in Fast Break (1979). In 1981, Kaplan starred in the short-lived series Lewis and Clark as a New Yorker who buys a small country & western bar in Texas. Since then, Gabe has guest-starred on various television series' such as Murder She Wrote and re-focused his attention to his great stand-up comedy act that launched him all those year ago.