NBC showed immediate interest and felt the format had potential; at their request the pitch was developed, with Coleman's character, Arnold, gaining an older brother, producers feeling Coleman would benefit from the addition of a second, slightly older child to interact with, and who could add a further dynamic to storylines. Mr. Drummond and Maggie are too busy to spend time together, which has Sam worried that their marriage may be in trouble, so he and Arnold put together a romantic evening for the two of them. In the first of three crossovers with the series Hello, Larry, Mr. Drummond's company buys the radio station where his old war buddy Larry Alder (McLean Stevenson) works, so he and his family travel to Portland, Oregon to visit Larry and his two daughters, Ruthie (Kim Richards) and Diane (Donna Wilkes). Arnold Faces Fatality: Directed by Gerren Keith. (Although Hasselhoff, in his costume as Michael Knight appears, the voice of K.I.T.T. Mr. Drummond and Willis end up surprising her by paying an unannounced visit, but get surprised themselves when they see the boys. [16], In addition, whilst not official in-universe cross-overs, two sixth season stories saw characters meeting stars of two of NBC's other biggest shows: the episode Mr. T and mr. t sees Mr. T guest starring when the apartment block is used to film a (fictional) episode of The A-Team; and in the two-part "Hooray for Hollywood," Arnold and Dudley sneak onto the set of a (fictional) episode of Knight Rider in hope of meeting series star, David Hasselhoff. All eight seasons have been released on DVD, with the final season released on May 29, 2018.[1]. With Bain himself having considerable input into the options available and directions they took, producers considered a number of settings and formats, including one in which Bain was a gumshoe, with Coleman as his young associate-cum-informant. When Arnold sees that Dudley isn't doing things the way he wants him to, he decides to run against him. Arnold and Kimberly hitchhike to get home for Mr. Drummond's birthday party and are picked up by a man (Woody Eney) who takes them to his apartment and tries to have his way with Kimberly. The Simpsons (1989) - S04E19 Comedy 1.9s His name is Abraham Simpson. Better not let Willis hear you say the word "shine". Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. Arnold begins having nightmares after he finds out Mr. Drummond is going on a business trip, so a therapist is needed to unlock Arnold's fears. Charles Stewart, Jr. and Charles Stewart, Sr. Arnold and Willis find a lost watch in the building, but soon become suspects when it's discovered the watch was taken from a burglarized apartment. When Arnold doesn't (because classmate Robbie is involved), his story gets disqualified as made-up. [24] In 1998, she appeared in a softcore pornographic film entitled Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jilland Jill, which was intended to capitalize on her Diff'rent Strokes fame. . He never saw a rich white man before either.. But the idea was dropped, both due to producers not wanting to water down the character's appeal in the main series, and deciding that the additional workload would be too much for Coleman. In 2001, Coleman (still working as a security guard) was videotaped trying to stop a vehicle from entering the mall. Lisa's mother takes over teaching Arnold's class and Lisa forces him and his friends to be nice to her or she'll rat them out to her mom. Charlotte Rae appeared as Edna Garrett in every first-season episode; the final broadcast episode of the first season, "The Girl's School", also known as "Garrett's Girls", sees her agreeing to accompany Kimberly to her private school, the fictional Eastland, in order to help with preparations for a play- in actuality, this episode acted as the backdoor pilot for the spin-off series The Facts of Life (Garrett's Girls being an early working title). They lived in the penthouse suite at 697 Park Avenue in New York City. A classmate of Arnold's (Joey Lawrence) is given a lot of attention by the rest of the Drummond family, leaving Arnold to feel unwanted. Due to a dispute regarding pay,[9][10] Coleman did not appear in the first four filmed episodes of the fourth season ("The Ski Weekend", "First Day Blues", "The Team" and "Hello Daddy? Diff'rent Strokes | Arnold Is Worried About Mr. Drummond - YouTube is not provided by William Daniels, who voices K.I.T.T. The sitcom stars Coleman as Arnold Jackson and Bridges as his older brother, Willis, two children from a poor section of Harlem whose deceased mother previously worked for rich widower Philip Drummond (Bain), and on her deathbed asked him to take care of her sons, their father already being deceased. However, he changes his mind when he finds out he's not the only one having trouble adjusting. I've never seen a black goldfish before. As Arnold, Coleman popularized the catchphrase "What'cha talkin' 'bout, Willis?" Arnold is accused of putting his goldfish Abraham in the hot tub and he is put on trial by the Drummond family to prove his innocence. When Kelly (Christina Applegate) recognizes him, he denies any connection to Arnold Jackson, but utters his catchphrase to Al, "What'cha talkin' about, Bundy? ", In 1996, Coleman and Bain reprised their roles for the series finale of The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air entitled "I, Done Part II", where they consider buying the Banks mansion. Mr. Drummond doesn't want Willis to see his girlfriend Charlene (Janet Jackson) because it's interfering with his schoolwork, so the two make secret arrangements to be together. His name's Abraham. Arnold plans to have Dudley run for class president so he can control him behind the scenes. This same episode introduces wheelchair-aided Melanie Watson, born with osteogenesis imperfecta, as Kathy Gordon, who continued to guest-star one episode per season until Season 6. Arnold's always under my feet. Several past characters attended the wedding ceremony, including Aunt Sophia, Adelaide, and Mrs. Garrett. Willis is hired and fired from a new job all in one day and tries to hide it from Mr. Drummond since he thinks he'll be disappointed in him. Diff'rent Strokes began an eight-year run across two networks in 1978, making stars out of its young lead actors Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges and Dana Plato. When the laugh track stopped, he had to scrounge for work. The final episode which was "The Front Page", aired on March 7, 1986. A social worker (Ellen Travolta) suggests that Willis and Arnold should live with a black family instead of with the Drummonds and Arnold gets the impression that Mr. Drummond agrees with that. Name Type Author Work Notes Terrible Dogfish: Sea monster: Carlo Collodi: The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Crested Basketfish (Sagenapinna obriensis) Fish Species The Trial: Directed by Herbert Kenwith. This leads to the two of them coming to an understanding about their adversarial relationship and they both end up liking each other, but it doesn't last. Good morning, Arnold. In the fall of 1985, when the series moved to ABC for the seventh season, Arnold, Dudley and Lisa entered high school, where they gained a new friend in Charlie (Jason Hervey). He was acquitted in November 1989. Question: 7/10 Choose the correct answer! Arnold tries to outdo Willis on an arcade game, but constant playing takes a toll on his schoolwork. The ratings did not improve, sinking further over the course of the season. Arnold's prized doll is sold and Arnold has trouble going to sleep without it, so Mr. Drummond hires a private investigator to track down the doll. Arnold Jackson Why are you still in bed, Arnold? Learn how and when to remove this template message, "The TV Ratings Guide: 1983-84 Ratings History", "Diff'rent Strokes Episode Guide - Diff'rent Strokes Season Episodes - TV.com", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=List_of_Diff%27rent_Strokes_episodes&oldid=1137522719, Short description is different from Wikidata, Articles needing additional references from June 2012, All articles needing additional references, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. Early episodes mostly address typical family sit-com issues, but as the series progresses, it sometimes focuses on more serious topics, including drug abuse, alcoholism, hitchhiking, child abuse and crime. Oranda Goldfish. Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) is a . The Will - Diff'rent Strokes (Season 2, Episode 25) | Apple TV First seen in the episode "Bully For Arnold", a number of storylines focus on Arnold, Dudley, Robbie and Charlie as a quartet. Although he was awarded over $1 million in the decision, he filed for bankruptcy in 1999. When Kimberly submits a candid picture of Arnold with his butt exposed to a photo contest, he is infuriated and demands that Kimberly withdraw it, but the picture remains in the contest by mistake and almost ruins Arnold's chances of winning the class election. Arnold and his classmates protest dress code changes at school, but when the principal (, Arnold is forced to choose between his friend Robbie and a girl he likes when she accuses Robbie of being a nerd and Arnold has to judge the matter in. In the final season (when the sitcom moved from NBC to ABC), the one-hour season opener ("Sam's Missing") revolved around Sam being kidnapped by Donald Brown (Royce D. Applegate), a bereaved father hoping to replace his own dead son, Tommy. Company Credits Bridges' more high-profile role was as Monk, a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, conspiracy theorist, and nephew of Chris's boss Doc on the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris. The police arrive just as Mr. Horton is about to make a move on Dudley (who had been given sedatives to "make him feel good"), saving their friend from a potentially frightening experience. Royce D. Applegate portrays family man Donald Brown, whose wife (Ronne Troup) and he have never recovered from the death of their son. Filming & Production It turns out Willis had done it to prove a point that everyone is "innocent until proven guilty". Arnold and Dudley (and often Robbie) shared many childhood escapades together, and were featured in many episodes, school-based and otherwise, throughout the show's run. Plots focusing on Arnold and Sam also continued to feature prominently, with Willis by this stage appearing on a secondary, semi-regular basis. : Sam begins to hang out with Willis a lot more than with Arnold, making Arnold feel left out. Meanwhile, Donald becomes more and more distant from his wife and son, trying to prevent them from learning that Sam was not found but stolen. Willis' friend, a promising athlete who lost the use of his legs in a car accident, gets a gymnasium named after him and sees a performance by the gold-medal-winning U.S. men's gymnastics team from the 1984 Summer Olympics. Arnold's fortunes soon change and he tries to use the cricket to get out of trouble with the Gooch, but the cricket escapes and Arnold has to come up with a back-up plan. He never saw a rich white man before either. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two Black boys from H. Sam becomes friends with another kid in the building, but is horrified when he finds out the kid isn't a boy but is a girl (. with the ending varying depending on whom he was addressing. The third and fourth seasons had some of the show's highest ratings[citation needed] and continued much of the themes of the first two seasons, but also gradually saw the introduction of some more serious topics into storylines. Season 1 was also released in Regions 2 & 5 on October 6, 2008. Lear saw immense potential in Coleman and was determined to find him a suitable sitcom, and it was decided that Bain and Coleman would make a good, if unusual, pairing for the project. Meanwhile, Mr. Drummond is enthusiastic about seeing. Arnold: Be careful with my goldfish. [Arnold refuses to fight the school bully] Mary Ann Mobley joins the cast, replacing Dixie Carter as "Maggie". Diff'rent Strokes, 1st episode of 1984-1985 A Haunting We Will Go 1st aired episode of this show without Dana Plato as regular. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. Arnold: That's okay. Watch Diff'rent Strokes | Prime Video - amazon.com Someone has put the family's goldfish in the hot tub and Arnold (Gary Coleman) is the main suspect. Watch Diff'rent Strokes Season 2 Episode 49 - Ep 49 - The Will Online Now "Diff'rent Strokes" Arnold's Songbird (TV Episode 1984) - IMDb [5] The fictional detective Bulldog Drummond served as inspiration for what would have been Bain's character, and although this concept was ultimately dropped, the surname "Drummond" was retained to become the surname of Bain's character in Diff'rent Strokes. In the seventh season, Carter and Cooksey were added to the opening credits (with Carter getting special "and" billing, last in the order) and many new areas and ideas were explored, as viewers now got to see Philip as a happily married man. Willis soon hears she's seeing another guy and he decides it's time to move on, but Arnold has plans to bring them back together. Comedy Drama Family The misadventures of a wealthy Manhattan family who adopted the children of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem. Arnold finds out that several athletes at school are using anabolic steroids, so he goes undercover to expose the full story. When he discovers that drugs are being sold at the school, he sets up a meeting with the dealer so he can write about it. In the season, Bridges continued as a main cast member, but was absent in several episodes. Arnold and Sam go into business selling roach spray, but Arnold's greed causes Sam to go his own way. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar returns and has Arnold take over teaching the class for one day. : "In The Swim" also saw the move of Kimberly from her private school, to the one attended by Willisa move brought about in part at Plato's suggestion, with it being felt it might open up potential new storylines. His name's Abraham. Arnold and Sam try to keep a children's television show from getting taken off the air. Diff'rent Strokes is a 1978 to 1986 television series that stared Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges and Conrad Bain. Arnold Jackson Arnold pulls a prank at the local burger place in order to get into a club, but his prank causes a mentally challenged worker (John Schuck) to get fired, so Arnold tries to make things right. [43], The series had graded its audio tracks to AAC 2 Channels. [34] On September 29, 2009, a "Fan Favorites" DVD was released. Philip Drummond: I've never seen a black goldfish before. Willis trades in Mr. Drummond for another man (. Dixie Carter and Danny Cooksey portrayed recently divorced television aerobics instructor Margaret "Maggie" McKinney and her son Sam. [citation needed]. In the third season, Janet Jackson played Willis's girlfriend, Charlene DuPrey. I'm too young for Wonderwoman. Arnold hopes to become a photojournalist and ends up getting a job at a newspaper, but he becomes disillusioned when he's asked to run errands instead of taking pictures. Arnold Jackson Fortunately for Arnold, Sam saved the shoes and money from being thrown away. When Arnold becomes suspicious, and happens to notice Mr. Drummond's will, he jumps to the wrong conclusion. Telling his family that Sam was rescued from the streets, Donald tells Sam that he'll kill Sam's parents if Sam doesn't cooperate. Arnold hides from Mr. Drummond, to avoid getting spanked for dropping a water bomb on Henry, the maintenance man. After Willis disobeys and is caught, he decides to move in with Jerry (, Mr. Drummond sneaks around behind the kids' backs while dating his tax attorney (, Kimberly stops working at Mr. Drummond's company and takes a job at a burger place, but is. Willis finds out he has very high stress levels, so Mr. Drummond wants him to lay off on his extracurricular activities, much to Willis' chagrin. : The wedding is about to take place, until Maggie and Mr. Drummond realize that neither of them called anybody to perform the ceremony. Arnold, Kimberly and Willis get jobs at Mr. Drummond's company, but when Willis finds out that minority kids don't have the same opportunities at employment, he goes undercover to see for himself and goes too far. Willis saves Arnold's life, so Arnold feels obligated to dote on him constantly. Arnold struggles to find a subject for the school's journalism contest. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former child star Gary Coleman, who shot to fame on TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" but suffered personal troubles as an adult, died in a Utah hospital on Friday, after suffering a brain hemorrhage. When they try to tell her they can't hang out with her anymore, she begins having an epileptic seizure. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe.If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. She was arrested the following year for forging prescriptions for Valium. : With this move, the show's recognizable opening credits theme song was rerecorded, updating it into a then-more modern pop style. When it looks like Willis and Arnold will legally have to live with Jethro, the truth about him is revealed and the boys are able to officially become members of Mr. Drummond's family. [7] Producers were keen to cast Charlotte Rae as housekeeper Edna Garrett, feeling that her more "traditional sitcom" talents would work well for the unusual line-up and that as an older character she would have good chemistry with Bain. Diff'rent Strokes is an American television sitcom, which aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. "Diff'rent Strokes" The Trial (TV Episode 1978) - IMDb Arnold takes a toy store owner to small claims court over a faulty train engine. I'll never have any privacy until he gets married. ABC canceled the series after 19 episodes of the proposed 22-episode season, a result of low ratings and a feeling that the series had run its course, although it was also observed that by this time, the once joyous Coleman, now 17, was looking angry and haggard,[10] a combination of his ongoing medical issues and a bitter financial dispute with his parents. Once the story is submitted, the principal confronts Arnold, demanding that the boy reveal his sources. : [41], On August 27, 2013, it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library, including Diff'rent Strokes. . Sam gets into a fight at Hamburger Hangar with Kurt, a kid (Carl Steven) who constantly picks on him. List of Diff'rent Strokes episodes - Wikipedia They arrest Donald, and Sam returns home. Dudley Johnson (Shavar Ross) was Arnold's best friend, who, like Arnold, was adopted, and with whom he shared many memorable childhood scrapes. In 1998, Coleman was charged with assault after he punched a woman demanding an autograph while working as a security guard at a shopping mall. With Conrad Bain, Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato. : Kimberly plans to move in with her boyfriend, whom her dad doesn't like, by tricking the family into thinking she's moving in with her girlfriend, Michelle (Dana Kimmell) instead. She was a frequent recurring character until the sixth season, when Charlene and Willis break up but remain friends. Willis decides to interfere and gets more than he bargained for. : Willis joins a gang called the Tarantulas, but Mr. Drummond forbids him to associate with them. Quotes.net. Mr. Drummond enrolls Arnold and Willis at his former school, but the headmaster (Howard Morton) makes arrangements for them to fail their entrance exams. When Pearl overhears them, she reveals that she herself is epileptic, which causes the two to patch things up with their friend. Factory? Arnold's toy rocket crash lands at the Russian embassy and nearly causes an international incident. Arnold enjoys going out with a classmate, but his friends think she isn't good enough for him and gets him to dump her for a pretty cheerleader. David. Hilarity Ensues.. Diff'rent Strokes (1978-86) made a star of Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson, the younger of the two boys. Willis Jackson Sam manages to get a popular children's show host for his birthday party, but is disappointed when his friends are more interested in the guest than him. As with Bridges, Rae was offered the role without audition, but was locked into a contract with CBS; however, Lear was determined to have Rae for the role and used his influence to convince CBS to release her from her contract, freeing her up to be available for the role. The character never appeared onscreen. When Arnold becomes suspicious, and happens to notice Mr. Drummond's .
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