Alan Sacks, Co-Creator of ‘Welcome Back Kotter’ and TV Producer, Dies at 81

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Film and TV writer-producer Alan Sacks, who had an eclectic career that included co-creating the popular 1970s series “Welcome Back, Kotter” and working on projects set in the 1980s L.A. punk scene, died of complications from lymphoma on Tuesday in New York. He was 81. Sacks was born in Brooklyn and started his career in […]