Drummond, Sam, and even Arnold's goldfish Abraham had episodes dealing with their birthdays.
Big Fancy House: The posh penthouse where the Drummonds live. Kimberly, when she suffered from bulimia in Season 8. #Different strokes season 1 episode 4 movie
The moral of that all was thats Big Damn Hero isnt always an action movie star or superhero. Another time, he arrived in time to interrupt a sociopath from raping Kimberly, and a year later he saved Sam from a family who was trying to adopt a " Street Urchin" to replace their son who died in an accident months earlier. He once stopped a child sex fiend from making his move literally seconds before he was going to touch a sedated Dudley.
Big Damn Heroes: Phil, in several of the most memorable episodes where either his own children or close friends of his children were in deep trouble. Arnold and Willis also originally came from Harlem. Big Applesauce: The show takes place in a penthouse on Park Avenue. Baseball Episode: "Baseball Blues", complete with Major League ballplayer Lance Parrish as a guest star. Ballet Episode: Arnold learns ballet in "On Your Toes". Another employee snidely comments "Again?", thus revealing that this isn't the first time he's done this. In another episode, Kimberly has to fend off her lecherous boss and finally does so by spraying him with ketchup. And then there was the child molester who ran the bike shop, and convinced Arnold and his friend to come back into his house for ice cream and shirtless wrestling. He takes them back to his apartment and locks Arnold in another room while he takes Kimberly to his darkroom their father and the police arrive Just in Time. Attempted Rape: In "The Hitchhikers", Arnold and Kimberly accept a ride in a car from a stranger. Horton (the seemingly genial bicycle shop owner with the sinister secret) must be a homosexual, which the detective refutes quickly. In the Very Special Episode's final scene - one where the police detective basically answers common questions, as posed by the Drummonds - Willis remarks that Mr. All Gays Are Pedophiles: Referenced and debunked in "The Bicycle Man" episode. In the end, after Arnold confronts his friend about it, Ricky admits he's addicted and gets help, while Arnold's name and record are cleared. Realizing that his friend has a serious problem, things take an unexpected turn when Arnold takes a bottle of liquor away from Ricky in the boys' bathroom, only to be caught with it by their teacher. Drummond's liquor supply during a study session. The Alcoholic: In season 7's "Cheers to Arnold", Arnold's classmate Ricky is found to have a drinking problem, which gets Arnold into trouble after Ricky encourages him and their other friends to raid Mr. Of note is the one in which she almost gets raped after hitchhiking and the one in which she develops bulimia. Some Kimberly-centric episodes crossed into this. This man also threatens to kill you and your family if your little boy does not cooperate. 
"Sam's Missing": Not only does your (third) adopted son go missing but the man who has him intends to raise him as his own. Gary Coleman's is parodied in the musical Avenue Q. As of the current time, Todd Bridges is the last surviving original cast member of the show, ( Danny Cooksey joined later, and has avoided the fates of his older co-stars), but it's such stories that the Former Child Star trope is built upon. Unfortunately, this show is best remembered now both for its special episodes and the unhappy fates of its three child stars (Gary Coleman, Todd Bridges, and Dana Plato, who played Mr. The theme was co-written and performed by Alan Thicke. Ironically, Diff'rent Strokes itself actually moved to ABC when it got canceled by NBC. 
First Lady Nancy Reagan made a guest appearance in a Very Special Episode about drug abuse, and ABC's Webster was a Follow the Leader rival. As one of NBC's few late-'70s hits, it quickly launched a spinoff in The Facts of Life the following year. Todd Bridges was his older brother Willis and Conrad Bain was the proper white man, Phillip Drummond. Hilarity Ensues.ĭiff'rent Strokes (1978≨6) made a star of Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson, the younger of the two boys. A proper white man adopts two street-wise black boys.
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