&lt;div class=&#34;meta &#34;&gt;&lt;span class=&#34;caption-text &#34;&gt;Gabe Kaplan, who played Mr. Kotter on the 1970s show &#38;#39;Welcome Back, Kotter,&#38;#39; went onto star in the series &#38;#39;Lewis and Clark&#38;#39; in the early 1980s and also had parts in shows such as &#38;#39;Murder, She Wrote.&#38;#39; He released a book, &#38;#39;Kotter&#38;#39;s Back&#38;#39; in 2007.  An avid poker player, Kaplan worked as a broadcaster for the World Series of Poker on ESPN in 1997. He also provided commentary for the National Heads-Up Poker Challenge on CNBC in 2005. &#40;ABC &#38;#47; Poker.net&#41;&lt;&#47;span&gt;&lt;&#47;div&gt;