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However, his intentions aren't made clear and she comes to the party with someone else. Arnold attends Kimberly's ballet recital and decides he wants to learn ballet, which makes Willis very uncomfortable and he tries to put a stop to it. Kimberly transfers to Willis' school and faces resistance when she tries to join the all-male swim team.

Arnold tries to help Dudley woo classmate Lisa Hayes Nikki Swaseybut the plan backfires when Lisa thinks that Arnold is the one who likes her. Arnold's classmate Joey Lawrence receives attention from the Drummond family, leaving Arnold feeling unwanted. Arnold and Dudley befriend a bicycle shop owner named Mr. Horton Gordon Jumpa pedophile seeking new victims.

After watching a pornographic cartoon at the bicycle shop, Arnold leaves Dudley behind and Mr. Drummond calls the authorities. The police save Dudley in the nick of time. After impressing professional skater Dorothy HamillKimberly is overwhelmed by the hard work involved in becoming a professional skater. Arnold discovers that drugs are being sold at his school and reports it to the newspaper, melanie watson wiki a visit by First Lady Nancy Reaganwho visits the Drummond home and speaks to Arnold's class about the dangers of drugs.

A burglar Terry Kiser holds the family hostage in the apartment, but is knocked out and arrested. 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. Drummond tries to make a business deal with exercise instructor Maggie McKinney Dixie Carter and falls in love with her.

Arnold and Kimberly hitchhike to get home for Mr. Drummond's birthday party and are picked up by a man Woody Eney who takes them to his apartment and tries to have his way with Kimberly. Arnold escapes from the kidnapper and makes it home, but leaves Kimberly behind and can't remember where she is. A policeman helps Arnold remember by hypnotizing him and getting him to reveal the license plate number of the kidnapper so the police can track him down to arrest him.

After the police arrested the man, Kimberly and Arnold have reunited with the family and to celebrate Mr. Drummond's birthday party. Drummond travels to Hollywood and proposes to Maggie and finds out she has a young son named Sam Danny Cooksey. Meanwhile, Arnold and Dudley try to meet the star of Knight Rider David Hasselhoff and sneak into a car on the set that's about to be blown up.

Arrangements are being made for the wedding between Mr. Drummond and Maggie and Maggie becomes furious when she finds out that Mr. Drummond's lawyer suggested a pre-nuptial agreement. The wedding is about to take place, until Maggie and Mr. Drummond realize that neither of them called anybody to perform the ceremony. After an argument with her father, Charlene moves in with the Drummonds and ends up fighting with Willis.

Kimberly plans to move in with her boyfriend, whom her dad doesn't like, by tricking the family into thinking she's moving in with her girlfriend, Michelle Dana Kimmell instead. In this take-off on GhostbustersArnold and Sam explore the allegedly-haunted residence of a reclusive inventor who's been dead for thirty years. Or has he?

Arnold and Sam go into business selling roach spray, but Arnold's greed causes Sam to go his own way. Willis' friend, a promising athlete who lost the use of his legs in a car accident, gets a gymnasium named after him and sees a performance by the gold-medal-winning U. After seeing them perform, he becomes self-conscious about the fact that he can never walk again and decides to give up on himself.

New manager Drummond melanies watson wiki to end a losing streak for Sam's baseball team; in the process, he has to leave Sam on the bench Meanwhile, Willis angles with his dad for a prohibitively-expensive new car. Sam's scout troop is asked to work with a bunch of senior citizens on projects, but Sam's assigned senior citizen John McIntire calls Sam a brat and refuses to help.

So Sam has to put together a model airplane by himself; when he's unable to do so, Sam is humiliated by his troopmates Accordingly, Drummond has a talk with the irascible Mr. Hunter in hopes that he and Sam will patch things up. Maggie and Sam surprise Mr. Drummond for his birthday by having Kimberly return from France to visit him. She brings a present of her own, the Drummond family tree, but the happiness turns to sadness when Philip realizes that he is the last person to carry on the Drummond name.

Arnold comes up with a solution: he and Willis will have their names legally changed to "Drummond".

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This makes Philip happy, but then Willis and Arnold visit their old residence; finding it slated for demolition, and realizing they too are the last of an ancient breed the Jacksonsboth boys struggle with second thoughts. Sam becomes friends with another kid in the building, but is horrified when he finds out the kid isn't a boy but is a girl Soleil Moon Frye.

Drummond convinces him that being friends with a girl isn't so bad, so Sam decides to have her stay the night for a sleepover, which makes both their fathers nervous. Drummond goes undercover at his company to find out how his employees really feel about working there. Arnold is mugged on his way home from school and is so traumatized that he begins carrying a knife with him.

In order to get him to open up about the incident, Mr. Drummond arranges for a crime-prevention demonstration at his school, but the melanie watson wiki becomes too real for Arnold. Drummond's dismay. When they try to tell her they can't hang out with her anymore, she begins having an epileptic seizure. At first, the two are scared by the incident, but later on they start to make jokes about her condition.

When Pearl overhears them, she reveals that she herself is epileptic, which causes the two to patch things up with their friend. Royce D. Applegate portrays family man Donald Brown, whose wife Ronne Troup and he have never recovered from the death of their son. Accordingly, he kidnaps Sam as a replacement, while he is shopping for snacks at the grocery store.

Telling his family that Sam was rescued from the streets, Donald tells Sam that he'll kill Sam's parents if Sam doesn't cooperate. During the middle of a home makeover, the Drummonds learn of Sam's kidnapping and they distribute flyers and go on the news to raise awareness. Maggie unravels emotionally. Meanwhile, Donald becomes more and more distant from his wife and son, trying to prevent them from learning that Sam was not found but stolen.

Sam calls his family and gives them the Browns' phone number, which the police trace to Sam's location. They arrest Donald, and Sam returns home. A tough guy Forest Whitaker wants Arnold to take care of his girlfriend while he is away, but the girl develops feelings for Arnold. Drummond and Maggie are too busy to spend time together, which has Sam worried that their marriage may be in trouble, so he and Arnold put together a romantic evening for the two of them.

Arnold tries to impress a girl by organizing his friends into a rock group, and by learning the saxophone himself. He even recruits Sam as lead vocalist since Robbie, the only other member with singing experience, makes Alfalfa Switzer sound like Freddie Mercury. Yet the more Arnold practices, the worse he sounds; after a couple of rehearsals, his friends are ready to throw him out of his own band.

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. Arnold gets blamed when food starts disappearing from the house, but he soon discovers that Kimberly, who has developed bulimiais the one who has been eating all the food in the house.

Sam later learns that Kurt is a foster childand is very jealous of what Sam has. Willis gets the sister of one of his old girlfriends Robin Givens to go out with Arnold by giving her concert tickets. When Arnold finds out, he is angry at what Willis did, but it turns out the girl likes Arnold for real. Arnold and Lisa get stuck working together on a school assignment and get locked in their school's darkroom.

This leads to the two of them coming to an understanding about their adversarial relationship and they both end up liking each other, but it doesn't last. Arnold finds out that several athletes at school are using anabolic steroidsso he goes undercover to expose the full story. Contents move to sidebar hide. Article Talk. Read Edit View history.

Tools Tools. Download as PDF Printable version. In other projects. Wikidata item. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. Series overview [ edit ]. Episodes [ edit ]. Season 1 —79 [ edit ]. Arnold appreciates Mr.

Drummond's offer to take him in, but Willis wants to move back to their former home in Harlem. Arnold helps convince him otherwise. Note : Dana Plato does not appear in this episode. Note : Although mentioned by Drummond in many episodes, this is the only occasion where his mother is actually seen. Notes : Dana Plato does not appear in this episode.

This episode features the first appearance of Willis' catchphrase "Say what? Arnold hides from Mr. Drummond, to avoid getting spanked for dropping a water bomb on Henry, the maintenance man. Willis decides to dole out the punishment himself, but spanking Arnold proves far more painful for Willis than for Arnold. Arnold's prized doll is sold and Arnold has trouble going to sleep without it, so Mr.

Drummond hires a private investigator to track down the doll. The P. Eventually he sleeps anyway. 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. It turns out Willis had done it to prove a point that everyone is "innocent until proven guilty". The DVD and on-line streaming version use the original broadcast opening, with the unique opening intro and without scenes from "The Trial".

Note : This is the first mention of the unseen bully known as "The Gooch," who is often mentioned on the show but never appeared in person. This episode is the only time that the character's first name is ever given - "Stuart". Arnold and Willis invite their old friends from Harlem to their new Park Avenue home and let their wealth go to their heads.

Drummond wants to marry a woman Elinor Donahue who has plans to send the kids away to boarding school. Arnold fakes bedwetting to get some attention, but when the secret comes out, Willis decides to play a trick on his brother to get even. A distant cousin LaWanda Page visits Arnold and Willis and when she sees how well they are living, she fakes an injury to overextend her stay.

Drummond hires a tutor Barry Diamond for Willis and Arnold who has very unorthodox methods for getting them to learn, but with his help he discovers a mental block that prevents Willis from remembering things that happened inthe year his father died. A new landlord Jack Riley tries to have the Drummonds thrown out of their penthouse apartment because he doesn't like children.

Note : Dana Plato does not appear in this episode, which was reenacted for the third edition of Live in Front of a Studio Audience. Garrett experiences a midlife crisis when she feels her life isn't as exciting as her friends' lives, but she soon realizes how much she is needed by the Drummond family. Willis is hired and fired from a new job all in one day and tries to hide it from Mr.

Drummond since he thinks he'll be disappointed in him. Note : Part 2 was originally a Hello, Larry episode. Some international packages of the series do not include this or the other Hello, Larry crossover episodes. Arnold witnesses a robbery and goes to the police, although a threatening phone call forces Mr. Drummond to prevent Arnold's involvement.

Willis wants to have his birthday party back in Harlem with his friends, but Mr. Drummond is apprehensive about going there. Garrett helps out the girls of the chaotic dormitory at Eastland. Note : This episode is the backdoor pilot for the spin-off The Facts of Lifealthough it contains a number of differences from the eventual series. Garrett's Girls was an early proposed title for The Facts of Life.

Season 2 —80 [ edit ]. Arnold is too scared to go to the doctor after he suffers appendicitisbut his fear goes away when he meets a young girl named Alice who is having her tonsils out and they plan to share a room together in the hospital. However, her father Dabney Coleman decides against it when he finds out Arnold is black and Mr. Drummond negates a planned real estate deal he had with him.

In order to be together, Arnold and Alice run away, which leads to both families frantically searching for them before Arnold's appendix bursts. Garrett dates a much younger man Philip Charles MacKenziebut finds out he's really looking for a mother instead of a lover. When a neighbor's pregnancy leads to Arnold melanie watson wiki about where babies come from, he is given conflicting stories from both Willis and Mr.

Note : First appearance of Robert Rockwell as Mr. Drummond's lawyer, Tom Bishop. When it looks like Willis and Arnold will legally have to live with Jethro, the truth about him is revealed and the boys are able to officially become members of Mr. Drummond's family. Willis trades in Mr. Drummond for another man Reggie Jackson to win an athletic competition.

A girl feigns interest in Arnold so she can get close to Willis. Note : This is the last episode featuring Charlotte Rae as a cast member, as she continued her role as Mrs. Garrett on the spin-off The Facts of Life. The character exits off-screen, not mentioned until following episodes. Arnold and Willis find a lost watch in the building, but soon become suspects when it is discovered the watch was taken from a burglarized apartment.

Arnold may have been bitten by a rabid dog and he tries to do whatever he can to prevent getting rabies shots. Drummond makes a last minute bid to run for a local political office. Note : First appearance of Nedra Volz as the second housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker, who would appear as a recurring character during the second through fourth seasons.

She is not added to the opening credits, instead always being billed with the guest cast on the closing credits this was due initially to an agreement in Charlotte Rae's contract that she be permitted to return to Diff'rent Strokes should The Facts of Life be axed. Willis and Arnold set Mr. Drummond up on a blind datebut confusion arises when the dating service thinks Mr.

Drummond is black and he also ends up with a second date for the same night. Drummond's failure to obtain a business loan causes the family to think they're on the verge of financial ruin, so Arnold and Willis try to put their dad on welfare. However, a man from the welfare office thinks something is fishy and investigates. Arnold and Willis go into the brownie business, but get in over their heads when they alienate Kimberly and overwork Adelaide, so they're forced to make the brownies themselves.

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. Kimberly's new love interest, Roger Grant Wilsonis found out to be a bigot when he won't let his sister, Emily Melora Hardingo on a date with Willis, so Kimberly comes up with a way to teach him a lesson.

Mobley would eventually take over the role of Mr. Arnold's beloved goldfish Abraham dies, so the family tries to hide it from him until they can get a replacement. When Arnold becomes suspicious and happens to notice Mr. Drummond's willhe jumps to the wrong conclusion and thinks that Mr. Drummond is dying. Season 3 —81 [ edit ]. Note : Kim Fields guest stars as Tootie.

Arnold takes a toy store owner to small claims court over a faulty train engine. Arnold wants a temporary housekeeper Denise Nicholas to become his, Willis' and Kimberly's new mother while Adelaide is away. When Adelaide returns early, Arnold inadvertently gives her the impression that she's being replaced permanently. A trip to Disney World is canceled when Mr.

Drummond is hospitalized after being hit by a drunk driver in a car crash and is rendered amnesiac. If he can't recover his memory, Mr. Drummond may lose all of his assets, as well as custody of his children, so his kids try to help him get his memory back. When he starts to remember details about Kimberly and not about Willis and Arnold, they decide to leave and go back to Harlem.

Kimberly's friend, Ellen Marshall Kari Michaelsenis pregnant and everyone thinks Kimberly is the one who is expecting. Arnold is heartbroken when he finds out he will not do much growing when he gets older, so Mr. Drummond arranges for a business associate's handicapped daughter Melanie Watson, in her first of four appearances as Kathy to show him how fortunate he really is.

Arnold wants to help a young doorman Tommy Aguilar get started in business, so he loans him some money to bet on a sure thing in a horse race. Willis' friends think that he and Arnold have lost touch with where they came from, so they adopt a more Afro-centric attitude and alienate the rest of the family. Note : Dody Goodman makes her first appearance as Mr.

Drummond's sister, Sophia, who would make occasional appearances on the show during the third and fourth seasons. Protesters threaten Arnold and his classmates when they become part of a melanie watson wiki integration program. Arnold is adamant about not wanting a pesky young girl Monika Furness at his birthday party, but things become serious when he finds out the girl is very sick, so he pays her a visit at the hospital to cheer her up.

Arnold is trapped on a ledge 30 stories up after he tries to impress his family, a reporter and football player Ed "Too Tall" Jones with his magic act. Drummond recommends a woman Wendy Fulton for a position at his company, but runs into opposition from his coworkers because of her sex and his children, because they think she's using him to get the job.

Drummond finds out that his ancestor was a slave traderwhich affects his plans to build a community center in Harlem. Notes : This episode was a backdoor pilot for a potential series focusing on the immigration and naturalization class; an adaptation of the British sit-com Mind Your Language. The series itself was never picked up, although later inMind Your Language was adapted into the short-lived What a Country.

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For 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. Due to Plato's pregnancy and publicized substance abuse issues, she had been dropped from the regular cast at the end of the previous season.

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. 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.

With Willis shifted into the background slightly, this new brotherly duo took center stage for many storylines. In the season, Bridges continued as a main cast member, but was absent in several episodes. Additionally, stories focusing on Arnold's school life, which had featured occasionally in many previous seasons, were delved into much more.

The introduction of Maggie and Sam had not improved ratings, which continued to decline over the course of the —85 season; as a result, in the spring ofNBC decided to cancel Diff'rent Strokes after seven seasons. However, Embassy Television subsequently reached a deal with ABC to pick up the series for an eighth season; the network change saw Diff'rent Strokes move back to its original night, Friday, airing at pm ET.

With this move, the show's recognizable theme song was re-recorded, updating it into a then-more modern pop style. Fellow Embassy sitcoms and former NBC stablemates The Facts of Life and Silver Spoons —respectively entering their seventh and fourth seasons—also debuted similarly updated versions of their theme songs for the —86 season. Arnold's "What'choo talkin' 'bout?

Dixie Carter opted not to return to the series. It was said that she had left to star in her own series, Designing Womenhowever she and Coleman had often clashed, leading to tension and animosity on-set. She had been considered for Maggie when the role was created, but was not chosen in part due to the age disparity between her and Bain the two actors were born 15 years apart, with Bain being the elder.

In this final season, Jason Hervey joined the semi-regular cast as Charlie, another of Arnold's school friends. Plots focusing on Arnold and Sam also continued to feature prominently, with Willis by this stage appearing on a secondary, semi-regular basis. After her guest appearance at the end of the previous season, Plato made several guest appearances in the final season, being billed alongside the guest cast as a "special guest star".

Despite not being a regular, Plato also appeared at the end of that season's opening credit sequence with the rest of the main cast. Her final appearance, in the episode " Bulimia " originally aired on January 17,dealt with the revelation of Kimberly's eating disorderand won praise both for Plato's performance and the sensitivity of the writing.

ABC canceled the series after 19 episodes of the proposed episode season were produced, a result of low ratings and a feeling that the series had run its course; although it was also observed that by this time, the once joyous Coleman, now 17, was looking angry and haggard, [ 14 ] a combination of his ongoing medical issues and a bitter financial dispute with his parents.

The final episode, "The Front Page" originally aired on March 7,involves Arnold writing an investigative report for his school newspaper on student athletes using anabolic steroids. It was in many respects a standard episode, with no indication that it would be the series finale due to the show's abrupt cancellation. Bridges, Plato and Catlett were all absent from the episode, and several cast members later voiced their disappointment that they had not realized it would be the final episode, and would have liked to have been present to mark the end of the series onscreen more adequately.

The melanie watson wiki season ranked 69th out of shows, and averaged an Phillip Drummond is the only character to appear in every episode of the series. Outside the Drummond household, there were a large number of supporting characters over the years. She was a frequent recurring character until the sixth season, when Charlene and Willis break up but remain friends.

Drummond's dotty sister Sophia Dody Goodman was regularly seen in the fourth season, playing matchmaker for her brother in hopes of getting him to remarry. Dudley Johnson Shavar Ross was Arnold's best friend, who, like Arnold, was adopted, and with whom he shared many memorable childhood scrapes. Some of these were important or serious storylines under the "very special episode" heading, which Diff'rent Strokes popularized.

Ted Ramsey Le Tari was Dudley's adoptive father, who turned up occasionally. Other classmates and friends of Arnold seen over time included Robbie Jason Steven Mond and snobby Lisa Hayes Nikki Swaseywho initially was sweet on Arnold, but later came to despise him, leading to hatred between the pair and many squabbles. Miss Chung Rosalind Chao was Arnold's teacher.

In the fall ofwhen 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. An oft-mentioned character spanning the entire show's run, was "The Gooch", a notorious bully at Arnold's school. First mentioned in the first-season episode "The Fight," which revolves around his bullying of Arnold, he is mentioned in numerous episodes and his bullying of Arnold returned as the center of several plotswith Arnold's frequent descriptions of him as a burly and troublesome brute, forever looking for trouble but not very smart.

The character never appeared onscreen. In the seventh season, after years of harassing Arnold and later Samthe Gooch was finally defeated by Arnold's neighbor and nemesis and eventually friend Carmella, a foreign exchange student. Diff'rent Strokes was also known for its many " very special episodes ," most notably an anti-drug episode "The Reporter" that featured First Lady Nancy Reaganwho promoted her " Just Say No " campaign, and " The Bicycle Man ", a two-part episode that guest starred Gordon Jump as a pedophile who lures Arnold and Dudley into his bicycle shop and attempts to molest them.

In a two-part episode on the dangers of hitchhiking "The Hitchhikers"Kimberly and Arnold who were out in the cold weather and didn't have money for cab or bus fare were abducted by a serial kidnapper-rapist played by Woody Eneywho initially acted as a good Samaritan by giving the two of them a ride and inviting them to his apartment.

After the man's true nature became known, Arnold escaped to look for help and the man nearly raped Kimberly before the police arrived to arrest him. 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. Two notable episodes dealt with the consequences of alcoholism.

In the first, season 5's "A Growing Problem," Willis moves out of the penthouse to live with Jerry Lawrence Monoson who abuses alcohol. In the second, season 7's "Cheers to Arnold," Arnold must deal with Ricky Robert Jaynea classmate whom he catches drinking a thermos of alcohol in the school bathroom. Applegatea bereaved father hoping to replace his own dead son, Tommy.

Other notable episodes included season 8's "Bulimia," in which the family discovered that Kimberly was suffering from bulimia. After a performance, she has an epileptic seizure and Sam thinks she's dying. The boys then feel uncomfortable around her and when they begin making jokes about her seizures, they find out that housekeeper Pearl herself has epilepsy but, unlike Karen, controls her seizures with medication.

Garrett, who had accepted a job as the housemother for a dormitory at Eastland, an all-girls private school that Kimberly was attending. Garrett took Kimberly to the school with the intent of helping her sew costumes for a school play. While there, Mrs. Garrett met Kimberly's classmates and was offered the job as "dorm mother. Garrett "Are you sure we can't change your mind to come back to us?

Drummond had bought the company that owned the radio station where Larry worked as a talk show host. The episode "Almost American" aka "Night School"was the pilot for a potential spin-off series, which ultimately was not picked up for a full series. In addition, while 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. Although Hasselhoff, in his costume as Michael Knight appears, the voice of K.

InColeman appeared in an episode of Married When Kelly Christina Applegate recognizes him, he denies any connection to Arnold Jackson, but utters his catchphrase to Al, "What'cha talkin' about, Bundy? They reference Willis by name before meeting Will Smith's character, leading to Coleman uttering a variation of his catchphrase, "What'cha talkin' about, Will?

InColeman appeared on the second season of The Surreal Life and was pressured to quote his famous catchphrase by Vanilla Ice. Following the cancellation of Diff'rent Strokes inColeman, Bridges, and Plato faced immense struggles in landing other acting jobs. All three experienced various legal problems while Bridges and Plato also struggled with drug addictions, all of which were documented in the press.

The press and fans of the series blamed the cast's personal problems and faltering careers on what was eventually dubbed the "curse of Diff'rent Strokes " by various tabloids. In three years after the series ended, Coleman sued his parents and his former manager over misappropriation of his trust fund. InColeman was charged with assault after he punched a woman harassing him and demanding an autograph while working as a security guard at a shopping mall.

InColeman still working as a security guard was videotaped trying to stop a vehicle from entering the mall. The driver ridiculed him and released the tape to be broadcast on numerous television shows. Coleman was then placed on life support after suffering an intracranial hemorrhage and died on May 28 from complications of his injury at age During the series' sixth season, Plato became pregnant and her character was written out of the series though she would go on to make guest appearances for the final two seasons.

Inshe married the father of her child, musician Lanny Lambert, but the couple divorced in Due to financial difficulties and her severe addiction to drugs and alcohol, Plato voluntarily relinquished custody of her son, Tyler, to Lambert. In an attempt to boost her faltering career, Plato posed for Playboy in Junebut her appearance in the magazine did not help her land acting jobs.

She was arrested the following year for forging prescriptions for Valium. Her death was ruled a suicide. After the series ended Bridges developed an addiction to cocaine. In Februaryhe was arrested and charged with the attempted murder of a drug dealer at a crack house in South Central Los Angeles. He was acquitted in November Bridges's more high-profile role was as Monk, a shell-shocked Vietnam veteran, conspiracy theoristand nephew of Chris's boss Doc on the sitcom Everybody Hates Chris.

Season 1 was also released in Regions 2 and 5 on October 6, This is a one disc compilation consisting of eight episodes from Season 2. On April 6,it was announced that Shout! Factory had acquired the rights to the series; they subsequently released the third season on DVD on July 17, On August 27,it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to various television series from the Sony Pictures library, including Diff'rent Strokes.