description Diff'rent Strokes Overview
Diff'rent Strokes followed the adoption of two African-American boys, Arnold and Willis Jackson, by Phillip Drummond and his daughter Kimberly after their Harlem upbringing. The NBC sitcom ran from 1978 to 1986, featuring a rotating cast of housekeepers including Edna Garrett, Adelaide Brubaker, and Pearl Gallagher. The series explored the cultural differences between the families living in Park Avenue and Harlem.
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Did Diff'rent Strokes air on NBC its whole run, or did it move networks?
The show spent most of its life on NBC from 1978 to 1985, but it moved to ABC for its eighth and final season in 1985-86 before being cancelled in 1986. The network switch came as ratings declined in the later years.
Did Mrs. Garrett from Diff'rent Strokes get her own show?
Yes, Charlotte Rae's Edna Garrett, the Drummonds' first housekeeper, left to run a girls' school in the spin-off The Facts of Life, which launched on NBC in 1979. Later Diff'rent Strokes housekeepers included Adelaide and Pearl.
Who played Arnold and Willis on Diff'rent Strokes?
Gary Coleman played the young Arnold and Todd Bridges played his brother Willis, two boys from Harlem adopted by wealthy widower Phillip Drummond, played by Conrad Bain. Dana Plato co-starred as Drummond's daughter Kimberly.
What is Arnold's famous catchphrase on Diff'rent Strokes?
Arnold's signature line, 'What'chu talkin' 'bout, Willis?', delivered by Gary Coleman, became one of the most quoted catchphrases of the late 1970s and 1980s. It's still the line the show is remembered for decades later.
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