After becoming the breakout of “Welcome Back, Kotter,” John Travolta’s first starring role was in the made-for-TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.  Tonight the CALS Ron Robinson Theater offers the chance to see this movie on the big screen.

It starred Travolta as a teen with immune deficiencies who has spent his life in a germ-free enclosed “bubble.” But after falling in love with the girl next door, he wants to get out of the bubble and experience life on the outside.

In addition to Travolta, the movie starred Glynnis O’Connor (who seemed to appear in every 1970s made-for-TV movie) as the girl next door, Robert Reed (in one of his first post-Mike Brady roles – but still playing a dad), and Diana Hyland. During the filming of the movie, Travolta and Hyland started dating. She was 18 years older than he and played his mom in the movie.

Others in the movie included Buzz Aldrin (as himself), Ralph Bellamy, Karen Morrow, Howard Platt, and John Megna (who had played Dill in the movie version of To Kill a Mockingbird.)

The showing starts at 6:30pm. The cost is $5.00.