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Sat, Jan 14, 1984. Arnold and Dudley give into peer pressure and experiment with smoking. They realize they don't like the effects of cigarettes, but the real persuasion to have them kick the habit comes from someone very close to home from Dudley - his father, whom despite having had a lung operation, is still a chronic smoker. 7.6 /10 (62) Rate.
S3.E6 ∙ Football Father. Wed, Dec 17, 1980. When he sees that Arnold is heartbroken after not making his Pee Wee league football team, Drummond secretly meets with the coach and agrees to buy the team new uniforms in exchange for Arnold being given a spot on the team. 6.8/10 (69) Rate.
Diff'rent Strokes (TV Series 1978–1986) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more.
Phillip Drummond, a widowed Manhattan millionaire and president of the mega-firm Trans Allied Inc., adopts two African American orphans from Harlem, 8-year-old Arnold and 12-year-old Willis. Drummond had made a promise to their dying mother, his housekeeper, that he would care for the boys after she passes away; their father had died years earlier.
Diff'rent Strokes. Two orphaned brothers, Arnold & Willis Jackson, are adopted by wealthy Manhattan widower Phillip Drummond when their mother (Drummond's maid) passes away. Along with Drummond's daughter Kimberly & housekeeper Mrs. Garrett, this family sitcom covers topics such as wealth- & racial- inequality.
S8 E4 - Sam's Missing - Part I. September 26, 1985. 22min. TV-PG. Sam becomes the victim of a bizarre kidnapping in the special one-hour, eighth season premiere episode of DIFF'RENT STROKES. The Drummond's worst fear is realized when they learn that Sam's trip to the market ended when the youngster left the store with a stranger.
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 ...
