TV Show Details
Air Date:November 3rd, 1978
Last Air Date:March 7th, 1986
Network:ABC
Status:Ended
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Norman Lear/Tandem Productions, Embassy Television, Embassy Pictures Corporation, Tandem Productions
Diff'rent Strokes (1978 - 1986)
Scripted
TV Series
Audience Score
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.
