Diff'rent Strokes

30m8 SeasonsTV-PGTMDb 7.1

ComedyFamilyDrama

EnglishEnded

1 · Movin' In

2 · The Social Worker

3 · Mother's Last Visit

4 · Prep School

5 · The Spanking

6 · Goodbye Dolly

7 · The Trial

8 · Retrospective (1)

9 · Retrospective (2)

10 · The Fight

11 · The Club Meeting

12 · The Woman

13 · No Time for Arnold

14 · The Relative

15 · The Tutor

16 · The New Landlord

17 · Willis' Privacy

18 · Mrs. Garrett's Crisis

19 · The Job (a.k.a.) Willis' Job

20 · The Trip (I)

21 · The Trip (2)

22 · Getting Involved

23 · Willis' Birthday

24 · The Girls School (a.k.a.) Garrett's Girls

Crew and Cast

Storyline

The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two African American boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman named Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly, for whom their deceased mother previously worked. During the first season and first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred as the Drummonds' housekeeper, Mrs. Garrett.

Diff'rent Strokes poster

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Info

Status: Ended
First aired: 3 November 1978
Last aired: 7 March 1986
Rating: TV-PG
TMDB score: 7.1 / 10 (299 votes)

Production

Created by: Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris
Studios: Norman Lear/Tandem Productions, Embassy Television, Embassy Pictures Corporation
Countries: United States of America
Networks: ABC, NBC

Episodes

Seasons: 8
Episodes: 189
Runtime: 30m
Type: Scripted
In production: No

Languages

Original: English
Spoken: English