Television

Diff'rent Strokes 1978

Created by Bernie Kukoff, Jeff Harris

  • Comedy, Family, Drama
  • 30 min episodes
  • 8 seasons
  • 189 episodes
  • Ended
  • TV-PG

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.

ComedyFamilyDramafamily relationshipswealthyorphanclass differenceswidowermanhattan, new york cityinterracial adoptionadopted childsitcomchild carebrother brother relationshipafrican americanABC, NBC

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