Language links are at the top of the page across from the title. Arnold wants to impress Tootie with his "riches" when the Drummond family goes on a trip, so he and Willis go to the bank to make a withdrawal, but the two of them along with Mr. Drummond get trapped during a holdup by robbers (Michael Cavanaugh and Jesse D. Goins). When Charlene feels Willis is taking her for granted, she dumps him. "), with a separately filmed cameo tagged on to the end of one episode explaining that he was away in the country visiting some of Mr. Drummond's relatives. The pilot was not picked up for a series, and was the only time the characters and setting appeared in Diff'rent Strokes. [36] Season 4 was released on November 20, 2012. : The time comes for Mr. Drummond to officially adopt Arnold and Willis, but a junk dealer named Jethro Simpson (Whitman Mayo) pretends to be their cousin and tries to interfere with the adoption in order to obtain an inheritance coming to the boys. Fortunately for Arnold, Sam saved the shoes and money from being thrown away. Just when you start licking, it drips all over you. Several such concepts were considered before a rough outline for the eventual seriesin which Bain plays a wealthy businessman left to take care of his late housekeeper's son, the orphaned Colemanwas settled upon and given the working title 45 Minutes from Harlem (even though Harlem is only ten to fifteen minutes away from the Upper East Side by subway or taxi). After Willis is hospitalized for trying to stop the bullies, Arnold is asked to participate in a. Willis lets his potential membership in an exclusive club go to his head, but falls hard when he alienates the club members. Sam calls his family and gives them the Browns' phone number, which the police trace to Sam's location. 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. As a result, from the later first season and on into the second season, Plato became a regular character. Mr. Drummond: I've never seen a black goldfish before. In 1984, she married the father of her child, musician Lanny Lambert, but the couple divorced in 1990. The main plot of the series is a rich family who lives in Manhattan that adopts the children of their late maid. : Literature. Arnold: Be careful with my goldfish. When the dispute was ultimately settled, Coleman returned to the series, missing only two more episodes (season 7's "The Gymnasts" and "Baseball Blues"). Arnold Jackson When Kimberly tries to get into Willis' all-male letterman's club at school, he gets back at her by becoming a contestant in the school's beauty pageant. Watch Diff'rent Strokes | Prime Video - amazon.com [40] Season 8 was released on May 29, 2018. Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series 1978-1986) - IMDb [12] Carter was introduced midway into the sixth season (in the episode "Drummond's Lady"); after she abruptly left for California, Drummond and the family took off after her, in the two-part story "Hooray for Hollywood", a storyline that also introduced Sam, Maggie's son from her previous marriage. A fast-talking baseball coach woos Willis for a high school team and uses expensive gifts and deception to attain his goal. Maggie and Sam surprise Mr. Drummond for his birthday by having Kimberly return from France to visit him. Philip Drummond GoodDay 19:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC) Janet . Hilarity Ensues.. Diff'rent Strokes (1978-86) made a star of Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson, the younger of the two boys. Arnold is heartbroken when he finds out he will not do much growing when he gets older, so Mr. Drummond arranges for a business associate's handicapped daughter (Melanie Watson, in her first of four appearances as Kathy) to show him how fortunate he really is. What is the name of Arnold's goldfish? They arrest Donald, and Sam returns home. The producers were also impressed by Bridges stint on the sitcom Fish, which had also been cancelled earlier in 1978. When Arnold faces a streak of bad luck, he is given a lucky cricket to help him out. After the series ended Bridges developed an addiction to cocaine. Arnold tries to impress a girl by organizing his friends into a rock group, and by learning the saxophone himself. This is a one disc compilation consisting of eight episodes from Season 2. This gets the attention of First Lady Nancy Reagan, who visits the family's home and Arnold's school, and speaks to his class about the dangers of drug use. [27] Bridges was also arrested on a concealed weapon charge and possession of cocaine. 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. He was acquitted in November 1989. Arnold: That's okay. Diff'rent Strokes - Wikipedia Arnold and Willis go into the brownie business, but get in over their heads when they alienate Kimberly and overwork Adelaide, so they're forced to make the brownies themselves. When Arnold sees that Dudley isn't doing things the way he wants him to, he decides to run against him. 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. However, his intentions aren't made clear and she comes to the party with someone else. 2chins/Getty Images. Diff'rent Strokes, 1st episode of 1984-1985 A Haunting We Will Go 1st aired episode of this show without Dana Plato as regular. They can be red, orange, white, yellow, black and brown, or even calico. Mr. Drummond travels to Hollywood and proposes to Maggie and finds out she has a young son named Sam (Danny Cooksey). "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. Arnold Jackson Question: 7/10 Choose the correct answer! "It's My Party and I'll Cry If I Want To". [42] They subsequently re-released the first and second seasons on DVD on July 15, 2014. The son of a woman Mr. Drummond knew during the Korean War (Keone Young) shows up claiming that Mr. Drummond is his father. 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. Watchoo talkin' 'bout? The fifth season also introduced a new recurring character in Arnold's class at school, that of Lisa Hayes (Nikki Swasey). The Trial: Directed by Herbert Kenwith. Arnold and Lisa get stuck working together on a school assignment and get locked in their school's darkroom. Willis lies to Arnold about knowing first aid in order to get a job at the school carnival, but when Arnold gets an electrical shock, Willis doesn't know how to save him. For some swim strokes, kicking is more powerful than others. When they try to tell her they can't hang out with her anymore, she begins having an epileptic seizure. 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. Philip Drummond change the world. Other recurring characters introduced over the third season included Le Tari as Dudley's adoptive father, Ted Ramsey (in the episode "Football Father"), Janet Jackson as Willis's girlfriend Charlene DuPrey and, in the fourth season episode "Kathy", Arnold's teacher Miss Chung, played by Rosalind Chao, who had played a different character in the third-season episode "Almost American", in which the regular cast only have minor roles, which served as the backdoor pilot for a potential sitcom focusing on the students of an immigration and naturalization class. His confidence suffers even more after Kathy blows up at him when he tries to convince her to walk with her crutches. Arnold struggles to find a subject for the school's journalism contest. Willis tries to negotiate peace between two rival groups of students at his school, but when one of the students, Larry (, Willis wears a fake mustache to get into a club and lands a date with the waitress (. [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. Arnold's toy rocket crash lands at the Russian embassy and nearly causes an international incident. [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. Name Type Author Work Notes Terrible Dogfish: Sea monster: Carlo Collodi: The Adventures of Pinocchio: The Crested Basketfish (Sagenapinna obriensis) Fish Species Also first appearing in the second season was Arnold's best friend Dudley Johnson (Shavar Ross), first seen in the episode "Teacher's Pet". Two unofficial docudramas were produced about the show: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment (formerly Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment) has released Seasons 1 and 2 of Diff'rent Strokes on DVD in Region 1 & 4. But Arnold finds out that Lisa's mom doesn't like her telling on her classmates, so he decides to sabotage her science project as revenge. 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. (Although Hasselhoff, in his costume as Michael Knight appears, the voice of K.I.T.T. Meanwhile, Arnold and Dudley try to meet the star of Knight Rider (David Hasselhoff) and sneak into a car on the set that's about to be blown up. The P.I. Mr. Drummond's mother (Irene Tedrow) visits and is surprised when she sees that his new sons are black, so he tries to make her get over her racial prejudices. In an attempt to boost her faltering career, Plato posed for Playboy in June 1989, but her appearance in the magazine did not help her land acting jobs. Arnold escapes from the kidnapper and makes it home, but leaves Kimberly behind and can't remember where she is. Outside the Drummond household, there were a large number of supporting characters over the years. 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. List of Diff'rent Strokes episodes - Wikipedia Despite what the name suggests, goldfish sport a wide range of colors and aren't just gold. Official Sites Arnold Jackson Season 1 was also released in Regions 2 & 5 on October 6, 2008. This leads to a reunion with the woman (Nobu McCarthy) and the truth about who the father really is. The Alders visit the Drummonds in the final Hello, Larry crossover, when Larry and Mr. Drummond argue over a potential business deal. QUIZ: How Well Do You Remember "Different Strokes"? Goldfish ( Carassius auratus) Family Cyprinidae Temperament Peaceful, social and curious Care Level Varies by breed Diet Omnivore; Ideal diet varies by breed Average Size 8 to 12 inches from snout to tail at maturity Water Hardness Does well with either soft or hard water pH Range 6.0 to 8.0 Water Current Willis saves Arnold's life, so Arnold feels obligated to dote on him constantly. [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. [Arnold refuses to fight the school bully] Diff'rent Strokes - The Complete First Season - amazon.com Accordingly, he kidnaps Sam as a replacement, while he is shopping for snacks at the grocery store. A fire has the family trapped in the building and when smoke starts coming through the vents, it makes everyone think the end is near. Bridges was offered the role without needing an audition. Arnold attends Kimberly's ballet recital and decides he wants to learn ballet, which makes Willis very uncomfortable and he tries to put a stop to it. Abraham, was the name of Arnold's beloved goldfish on TV's Sitcom, Diff'rent Strokes. "Diff'rent Strokes" Kathy (TV Episode 1982) - IMDb 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. A great memorable quote from the Diff'rent Strokes movie on Quotes.net - Arnold Jackson: Be careful with my goldfish. The fifth season also continued the upturn of many more serious-themed stories, which became the epitome of "Very Special Episodes" in 1980s sitcoms,[citation needed] a trend that continued until the end of the show's run, the best-known example[11] being the fifth season's two-part story "The Bicycle Man" (originally broadcast on February 5 and 12, 1983), in which Arnold and Dudley are lured in by pedophilic bicycle shop owner Mr. Horton (Gordon Jump) who attempts to molest them. . When Drummond is honored by the club, a confrontation takes place. Kathy: Directed by Gerren Keith. : 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. but the truth is that the whole family has been. 169 more photos . Diff'rent Strokes The Will Comedy . Arnold is forced to deal with a bully at school; Mr. Drummond doesn't want him to fight, but Willis thinks fighting is the only option. [20] In 2007, Coleman was cited for disorderly conduct in Provo, Utah, for having a "heated discussion" with a woman. However, sharing a room with Arnold leads to discomfort for Mr. Drummond, while Arnold finds much humor at his expense. She was a frequent recurring character until the sixth season, when Charlene and Willis break up but remain friends. When Arnold finds out, he is angry at what Willis did, but it turns out the girl likes Arnold for real. A tough guy (Forest Whitaker) wants Arnold to take care of his girlfriend while he is away, but the girl develops feelings for Arnold. Kimberly goes on a ski trip with her friend, but doesn't let the family know that there will be boys there. Arnold lies to his friends about having sex with a girl, which leads to her deciding to have sex for real which Arnold isn't ready for. In the end, both lose out to a third candidate. 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 (. Producer Al Burton had spotted Dana Plato as part of a cheerleading team auditioning on The Gong Show and felt she had a spark about her, and recommended her for the role of Drummond's daughter Kimberly. Married? In 2004, Coleman appeared on the second season of The Surreal Life and was pressured to quote his famous catchphrase by Vanilla Ice. David Mendenhall portrays the juvenile drug-pusher. Image Awards (NAACP) 1983 Nominee Image Award Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series is not provided by William Daniels, who voices K.I.T.T. Arnold and Willis try to get into Mr. Drummond's health club, but are turned away because they are black. The second episode of the fifth season, "In The Swim", introduced Mary Jo Catlett as the rotund, ever-cheerful Pearl Gallagher, the last of the Drummond household's three maids. 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. | 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. Comedy Drama Family The misadventures of a wealthy Manhattan family who adopted the children of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem. This list includes synopses and air dates. A new landlord tries to have the Drummonds thrown out of their penthouse apartment because he doesn't like children. I'm too young for Wonderwoman. 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). [citation needed]. The pitch meeting to NBC took place on Friday May 9, 1978,[7] with NBC immediately ordering an optional 26 episodes. 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. On-screen this was explained with her character often said to be away at her private school; in reality the producers were still undecided whether the character was extraneous to the format, with the option that she could simply be faded into the background and written out as away studying should they choose to drop her. 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. Willis decides to interfere and gets more than he bargained for. I'm studying. Arnold is writing a report on athletes at his school who are using anabolic steroids. Amazon.com: Diff'rent Strokes - The Complete First Season : Mary Jo Catlett, Danny Cooksey, Mary Ann Mobley, Dixie Carter, Leslie H. Martinson, Ellen Falcon, Dolores Ferraro, Lee Lochhead, Selig Frank, Barbara Schultz, Tony Singletary, Mel Ferber, Lee Shallat Chemel, Jeremiah Morris: Movies & TV Movies & TV Studio Specials Why Your Child Benefits from Learning Different Swim Strokes When Arnold is given the cold shoulder from teachers and classmates at his new school, he concocts a plan to steal the school mascot and pretend to rescue it to get some positive attention, but he gets in trouble with the family when the goat gets loose in the apartment. "Diff'rent Strokes Quotes." He never saw a rich white man before either.. Abraham Goldfish Diff'rent Strokes: Abraham is the pet goldfish of Arnold Jackson, played by Gary Coleman. His name's Abraham. The Alders visit New York in this second crossover with Hello, Larry, as the Drummonds help Larry get a job hosting a talk show. Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) is a . Gary Coleman, who plays the main character, is Arnold Jackson the young 8 year old boy. The reason for this, in part, was that it was in Rae's contract that she be allowed to return to Diff'rent Strokes should The Facts of Life be canceled. David Hasselhoff rescues Arnold and Dudley just in time and the rest of the family find out about Mr. Drummond's marriage plans. That's okay. : Be careful with my goldfish. But ABC picked up the series for an eighth season, airing it on Friday nights. A more humorous episode on pollution and the environment ("Green Hair") had Kimberly's hair turning green from acid rain. The press and fans of the series blamed the cast's personal problems and faltering careers on what was eventually dubbed the "curse of Diff'rent Strokes" by various tabloids. Back in Harlem, that's fightin' talk. [30] Bridges has continued acting in films and television. : 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. Diff'rent Strokes: Season 1 - amazon.com Arnold is in charge of keeping donations for a fundraising drive at school, but loses the money when he puts it in an old pair of shoes that gets thrown out, so the rest of the family has to dig through the garbage to find them. After a performance, she has an epileptic seizure and Sam thinks she's dying. It was said that she had left to star in her own series, Designing Women, but she and Coleman had often clashed, leading to tension and animosity on set. Mr. Drummond, Willis and Arnold all have different interpretations of what happened, but Pearl, who was in the kitchen and saw everything, tells Kimberly what really took place. You mean Sleeping Ugly. Dixie Carter and Danny Cooksey portrayed recently divorced television aerobics instructor Margaret "Maggie" McKinney and her son Sam. Awww Willis, please don't say anything to him. With Arnold's help, Willis gets everyone out of the house so he and his girlfriend Charlene can make love for the first time. Once the story is submitted, the principal confronts Arnold, demanding that the boy reveal his sources. First seen in the episode "Bully For Arnold", a number of storylines focus on Arnold, Dudley, Robbie and Charlie as a quartet. Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) is a widower for whom their deceased mother previously worked; his daughter, Kimberly is played by Dana Plato. Kathy transfers to Arnold's school and is treated very poorly because of her disability. Think he wants a coward for a son? Sam develops a bedwetting problem and the family begins showing him a lot more attention, which rubs Arnold the wrong way. Release Dates They reference Willis by name before meeting Will Smith's character, leading to Coleman uttering a variation of his catchphrase, "What'cha talkin' about, Will?". Philip Drummond : I've never seen a black . When Arnold becomes suspicious, and happens to notice Mr. Drummond's will, he jumps to the wrong conclusion. This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 02:11. The wedding is about to take place, until Maggie and Mr. Drummond realize that neither of them called anybody to perform the ceremony. Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series 1978-1986) - IMDb Dixie Carter opted not to return to the series. 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. [31] Since Charlotte Rae's death in 2018 at the age of 92, Bridges is the only living member of the original cast. Someone has put the family's goldfish in the hot tub and Arnold (Gary Coleman) is the main suspect. They even call the tonic "Mama Brady's Hair tonic"; an obvious reference to the 70s Sherwood Schwartz series. He later confesses to Arnold what happened and Arnold is angry when he finds out the truth. Coleman was then placed on life support after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage and died on May 28 from complications of his injury at age 42.[22]. Willis' friends and Kimberly's schoolmates clash over who gets to do what in the apartment and ruin Mr. Drummond's date in the process. At the end of the episode, Bain (in an out-of-character PSA) spoke about what to do if real life situations as the one portrayed on the show were to occur. In the second, season 7's "Cheers to Arnold," Arnold must deal with Ricky (Robert Jayne), a classmate whom he catches drinking a thermos of alcohol in the school bathroom. Robbie Jason (Steven Mond), another recurring school friend, also makes his first appearance in that episode. In 1994, Coleman appeared in an episode of Married with Children ("How Green Was My Apple"), playing a building code inspector whom Al Bundy (Ed O'Neill) called to report an illegal driveway. After watching a pornographic cartoon at the bike shop, Arnold decides he's had enough of Mr. Horton and goes home, leaving Dudley behind. discussion topics for scrum master community of practice When Arnold and Dudley are caught smoking cigarettes in a bid to impress their "cool" classmates, there are no ifs or ands or buttsthey're grounded. Eventually he sleeps anyway. They also come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and with some very different physical characteristics. [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. Mr. Drummond tries to turn around Sam's losing baseball team; in order to do so, he has to leave Sam on the bench. He never saw a rich white man before either. Arnold Jackson: Be careful with my goldfish. His name's Abraham.Philip Arnold is made to give up junk food, which is difficult, since his school has junk food vending machines and having them removed may hurt his chances at winning a school election. Arnold is pressured to drink by his friend Ricky (. Mr. Drummond's dotty sister Sophia (Dody Goodman) was regularly seen in the fourth season, playing matchmaker for her brother in hopes of getting him to remarry. A computer error leads to Arnold getting mail to sign up with the, Kimberly finds out she'll be getting a trust fund on her 18th birthday and has plans to travel to. At first, the two are scared by the incident, but later on they start to make jokes about her condition. With Conrad Bain, Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato. I owe you an insult! A student in an immigration and naturalization class (Rosalind Chao) becomes the suspect in a robbery. Kimberly impresses professional skater Dorothy Hamill with her ice skating and is taken under her wing. Arnold's beloved goldfish Abraham dies, so the family tries to hide it from him until they can get a replacement. Arnold and Dudley are harassed by two bullies who force them to hand over their lunch and money. But Plato and her character were well received by audiences, and the producers became convinced that her inclusion added an extra element of appeal to the audience, offering a female character for young girls and women to identify with. In this final season Jason Hervey joined the semi-regular cast as Charlie, another of Arnold's school friends. in the television series, but by an uncredited voice actor who voiced the car for various Universal Studios promotions.). 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).

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