Royce D. Applegate portrays family man Donald Brown, whose wife (Ronne Troup) and he have never recovered from the death of their son. Arnold's always under my feet. In season 7's "A Special Friend," Arnold and Sam met Karen, a street performer. As Arnold, Coleman popularized the catchphrase "What'cha talkin' 'bout, Willis?" He never saw a rich white man before either.. Arnold attempts to steal an expensive comic book (Amazing Spider-Man issue 14) to get into the Gooch's club and gets taken to court when he's caught. The P.I. [24] In 1998, she appeared in a softcore pornographic film entitled Different Strokes: The Story of Jack and Jilland Jill, which was intended to capitalize on her Diff'rent Strokes fame. With Arnold's help, Willis gets everyone out of the house so he and his girlfriend Charlene can make love for the first time. Arnold wants to impress Tootie with his "riches" when the Drummond family goes on a trip, so he and Willis go to the bank to make a withdrawal, but the two of them along with Mr. Drummond get trapped during a holdup by robbers (Michael Cavanaugh and Jesse D. Goins). His name's Abraham. When Charlene feels Willis is taking her for granted, she dumps him. Since there was a new fresh-faced kid in the house with Sam, Arnold now had his own little sidekick and was happy to be a "big brother" for a change. [36] Season 4 was released on November 20, 2012. Howard Leeds, Blake Hunter & Martin Cohan. Also introduced in the third season is Philip's dotty and eccentric sister Sophia (Dody Goodman), in the episode "Junk Food Junkie". Kimberly's hair turns green before a date, due to using a copper bowl affected by, Mr. Drummond has a good time going out with a hairdresser (. Willis finds out he has very high stress levels, so Mr. Drummond wants him to lay off on his extracurricular activities, much to Willis' chagrin. A fire has the family trapped in the building and when smoke starts coming through the vents, it makes everyone think the end is near. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. They arrest Donald, and Sam returns home. | An oft-mentioned character spanning the entire show's run, was "The Gooch", a notorious bully at Arnold's school. Arnold plans to have Dudley run for class president so he can control him behind the scenes. Arnold Jackson The ratings did not improve, sinking further over the course of the season. . Mr. Drummond bribes a hard-nosed football coach (Greg Mullavey) into letting Arnold join the team by buying new uniforms for them, but he regrets his decision when he finds out how the coach is motivating the kids. This is a one disc compilation consisting of eight episodes from Season 2. First seen in the episode "Bully For Arnold", a number of storylines focus on Arnold, Dudley, Robbie and Charlie as a quartet. When Kelly (Christina Applegate) recognizes him, he denies any connection to Arnold Jackson, but utters his catchphrase to Al, "What'cha talkin' about, Bundy? (Although Hasselhoff, in his costume as Michael Knight appears, the voice of K.I.T.T. Charles Stewart, Jr. and Charles Stewart, Sr. Arnold and Willis find a lost watch in the building, but soon become suspects when it's discovered the watch was taken from a burglarized apartment. When Mr. Drummond finds out, he objects to Arnold's behavior, saying the group has as much right to speak as everyone else because of the. After a performance, she has an epileptic seizure and Sam thinks she's dying. A more humorous episode on pollution and the environment ("Green Hair") had Kimberly's hair turning green from acid rain. The son of a woman Mr. Drummond knew during the Korean War (Keone Young) shows up claiming that Mr. Drummond is his father. Despite what the name suggests, goldfish sport a wide range of colors and aren't just gold. A social worker (Ellen Travolta) suggests that Willis and Arnold should live with a black family instead of with the Drummonds and Arnold gets the impression that Mr. Drummond agrees with that. Due to the popularity of Coleman's character, a spin-off series was briefly considered, to be titled Arnold and focusing on the character's school life[citation needed]. LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Former child star Gary Coleman, who shot to fame on TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes" but suffered personal troubles as an adult, died in a Utah hospital on Friday, after suffering a brain hemorrhage. Oranda Goldfish. Arnold Jackson Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978 to May 4, 1985 and ABC from September 27, 1985 to March 7, 1986. Arnold has to ask Carmella for help when his plans for a school fundraiser fall apart. Arnold and Sam try to keep a children's television show from getting taken off the air. Arnold is less than thrilled, especially when he finds out he's getting a new little brother as part of the deal. However, Arnold never made such a statement. Taking this especially hard is Dudley's father Ted, a long-time smoker from whom Dudley has been sneaking packsand who, more recently, has lost a lung to cancer. In 1984, she married the father of her child, musician Lanny Lambert, but the couple divorced in 1990. Lear saw immense potential in Coleman and was determined to find him a suitable sitcom, and it was decided that Bain and Coleman would make a good, if unusual, pairing for the project. In the fall of 1985, when the series moved to ABC for the seventh season, Arnold, Dudley and Lisa entered high school, where they gained a new friend in Charlie (Jason Hervey). Willis gets the sister of one of his old girlfriends (Robin Givens) to go out with Arnold by giving her concert tickets. Two notable episodes dealt with the consequences of alcoholism. They even call the tonic "Mama Brady's Hair tonic"; an obvious reference to the 70s Sherwood Schwartz series. With Conrad Bain, Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato. [7] Producers were keen to cast Charlotte Rae as housekeeper Edna Garrett, feeling that her more "traditional sitcom" talents would work well for the unusual line-up and that as an older character she would have good chemistry with Bain. Willis Jackson S2 E25: Arnold's beloved goldfish Abraham dies, so the family tries to hide it from him until they can get a replacement. Dixie Carter opted not to return to the series. Arnold (Gary Coleman) has overheard a conversation about Mr. Drummond's (Conrad Bain) will and he worries that his adoptive dad might be sick. 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GoodDay 19:51, 2 May 2006 (UTC) Janet . The pilot was not picked up for a series, and was the only time the characters and setting appeared in Diff'rent Strokes. Phillip Drummond is the only character to appear in every episode of the series. Willis saves Arnold's life, so Arnold feels obligated to dote on him constantly. | Sam gets into a fight at Hamburger Hangar with Kurt, a kid (Carl Steven) who constantly picks on him. Arnold Jackson "), with a separately filmed cameo tagged on to the end of one episode explaining that he was away in the country visiting some of Mr. Drummond's relatives. His confidence suffers even more after Kathy blows up at him when he tries to convince her to walk with her crutches. January 1, 1980 Arnold's beloved goldfish Abraham dies, so the family tries to hide it from him until they can get a replacement. : Mr. Drummond makes a last minute bid to run for a local political office. With Conrad Bain, Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, Dana Plato. Note: This is Dana Plato's final appearance in the series as Kimberly Drummond. This episode was originally produced for Season 3 but was postponed because of a writer's strike. However, he changes his mind when he finds out he's not the only one having trouble adjusting. A new landlord tries to have the Drummonds thrown out of their penthouse apartment because he doesn't like children. After being selected to play Abraham Lincoln in his school play, Arnold develops a case of stage fright. When Arnold feels the heat from his friends over getting away with everything, he tries to get Kathy to lighten up, but she refuses and gets tough with Arnold instead. Lisa's mother takes over teaching Arnold's class and Lisa forces him and his friends to be nice to her or she'll rat them out to her mom. The final season ranked 69th out of 106 shows and averaged an 11.5 household rating.[14]. After an argument with her father, Charlene moves in with the Drummonds and ends up fighting with Willis. Mr. Drummond tries to make a business deal with exercise instructor Maggie McKinney (Dixie Carter) and falls in love with her. It turns out Willis had done it to prove a point that everyone is "innocent until proven guilty". When a neighbor's pregnancy leads to Arnold asking about where babies come from, he is given conflicting stories from both Willis and Mr. Drummond. Arnold is accused of putting his goldfish Abraham in the hot tub and he is put on trial by the Drummond family to prove his innocence. After the series ended Bridges developed an addiction to cocaine. Image Awards (NAACP) 1983 Nominee Image Award Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series However, sharing a room with Arnold leads to discomfort for Mr. Drummond, while Arnold finds much humor at his expense. The 1982 Diff'rent Strokes: Green Hair (1982) episode is a nod to The The Brady Bunch: The Hair-Brained Scheme (1974) episode from the Brady Bunch, where Bobby's hair tonic turns Greg's hair orange. He later confesses to Arnold what happened and Arnold is angry when he finds out the truth. The final two episodes produced for the third season ("Growing Up" and "The Model") had originally been postponed due to a writer's strike,[citation needed] and the interspersing of these two episodes with the ones without Coleman taped at the start of the fourth season allowed the span of his absence to be broken down onscreen. Arnold and Willis accidentally get locked in the basement of their apartment building, so they recall previous emotional events to pass the time until someone lets them out. But the idea was dropped, both due to producers not wanting to water down the character's appeal in the main series, and deciding that the additional workload would be too much for Coleman. Willis joins a musical group and wants Charlene to join as well, but Kimberly ends up impressing his bandmates so much that they want her in the group instead. Be careful with my goldfish. A classmate of Arnold's (Joey Lawrence) is given a lot of attention by the rest of the Drummond family, leaving Arnold to feel unwanted. In the end, both lose out to a third candidate. Mr. Drummond, Willis and Arnold all have different interpretations of what happened, but Pearl, who was in the kitchen and saw everything, tells Kimberly what really took place. His name's Abraham. It turns out Willis . As one of NBC's few late-'70s hits, it quickly launched a spinoff in The Facts of Life the following year. There ain't enough of me to spank! This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 02:11. Mr. Drummond takes Sam and Arnold camping, but is unable to compete with Sam's more-experienced dad. Why are you still in bed, Arnold? A girl feigns interest in Arnold so she can get close to Willis. John Astin, best known as Gomez in 1964 . Sam begins to hang out with Willis a lot more than with Arnold, making Arnold feel left out. Factory had acquired the rights to the series; they subsequently released the third season on DVD on July 17, 2012. [6] An alternate version of the basic scenario had a slightly harder-nosed Bain as a wealthy estate developer who finds that he can only purchase a potentially lucrative Harlem housing block for redevelopment if he also takes custody of the orphan, Coleman, who lives there; this version was nixed in favor of the former. A fast-talking baseball coach woos Willis for a high school team and uses expensive gifts and deception to attain his goal. This same episode introduces wheelchair-aided Melanie Watson, born with osteogenesis imperfecta, as Kathy Gordon, who continued to guest-star one episode per season until Season 6. Well, somebody's gotta make a man outta you. Arnold Jackson missed five episodes, two from the fourth season in 198182 (First Day Blues" and "The Team") and three from the seventh season in 198485 ("The Gymnasts", "Sam Adopts a Grandparent" and "Baseball Blues"). Release Dates Willis has trouble making friends at his new school, until it's discovered that his family is rich, so he gets asked to buy marijuana for a party. When Arnold becomes suspicious and happens to notice Mr. Drummond's. Willis trades in Mr. Drummond for another man (. [9] She was replaced in the role by Mary Ann Mobley, who had previously played an unrelated, one-off love interest of Drummond's in the second-season episode "Teacher's Pet". With Bain himself having considerable input into the options available and directions they took, producers considered a number of settings and formats, including one in which Bain was a gumshoe, with Coleman as his young associate-cum-informant. Arnold hides from Mr. Drummond, to avoid getting spanked for dropping a water bomb on Henry, the maintenance man. [2] The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, respectively who are two black boys from Harlem taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and his daughter. [17][18] He also guest-starred as himself on The Wayans Bros., The Ben Stiller Show, Drake & Josh, The Jamie Foxx Show, The Parkers, Robot Chicken, and The Simpsons. : : After Willis disobeys and is caught, he decides to move in with Jerry (, Mr. Drummond sneaks around behind the kids' backs while dating his tax attorney (, Kimberly stops working at Mr. Drummond's company and takes a job at a burger place, but is. Arnold Jackson: That's okay. : Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) is a . Additionally, Arnold appeared on the Silver Spoons episode "The Great Computer Caper" and the Amazing Stories episode "Remote Control Man". Arnold: Be careful with my goldfish. His name's Abraham.Philip Drummond: I've never seen a black goldfish before.Arnold Jackson: That's okay. Arnold pulls a prank at the local burger place in order to get into a club, but his prank causes a mentally challenged worker (John Schuck) to get fired, so Arnold tries to make things right. It was said that she had left to star in her own series, Designing Women, but she and Coleman had often clashed, leading to tension and animosity on set. Although he was awarded over $1 million in the decision, he filed for bankruptcy in 1999. Willis joins a gang called the Tarantulas, but Mr. Drummond forbids him to associate with them. Kimberly was written out of the show with the explanation that she moved to Paris to study for a couple of years, but returned as a guest star for the season finale "A Special Friend", after Plato gave birth. Arnold and Dudley (and often Robbie) shared many childhood escapades together, and were featured in many episodes, school-based and otherwise, throughout the show's run. Volz appeared on a semi-regular basis, but was not added to the opening credits, instead always credited with the guest cast on the closing credits. Arnold takes a toy store owner to small claims court over a faulty train engine. In the seventh season, Carter and Cooksey were added to the opening credits (with Carter getting special "and" billing, last in the order) and many new areas and ideas were explored, as viewers now got to see Philip as a happily married man. The reason for this, in part, was that it was in Rae's contract that she be allowed to return to Diff'rent Strokes should The Facts of Life be canceled. [16], In addition, whilst not official in-universe cross-overs, two sixth season stories saw characters meeting stars of two of NBC's other biggest shows: the episode Mr. T and mr. t sees Mr. T guest starring when the apartment block is used to film a (fictional) episode of The A-Team; and in the two-part "Hooray for Hollywood," Arnold and Dudley sneak onto the set of a (fictional) episode of Knight Rider in hope of meeting series star, David Hasselhoff. When Arnold doesn't (because classmate Robbie is involved), his story gets disqualified as made-up. A tough guy (Forest Whitaker) wants Arnold to take care of his girlfriend while he is away, but the girl develops feelings for Arnold. At the end of the episode, Bain (in an out-of-character PSA) spoke about what to do if real life situations as the one portrayed on the show were to occur. Sam has to have his tonsils removed but is afraid to go to the hospital. Official Sites Philip Drummond Producer Al Burton had spotted Dana Plato as part of a cheerleading team auditioning on The Gong Show and felt she had a spark about her, and recommended her for the role of Drummond's daughter Kimberly.

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