Diff'rent Strokes

Plot summary

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.

Seasons

Crew

• personBernie KukoffCreator
• personJeff HarrisCreator
• Gerren KeithDirector
• personHerbert KenwithDirector
• personMel FerberDirector
• personLinda DayDirector
• personEd JuristWriter
• personHoward MeyersWriter
• personBlake HunterWriter · Producer
• personSeaman JacobsWriter

Cast

Production companies

• movieNorman Lear/Tandem Productions
• movieEmbassy Television
• movieEmbassy Pictures Corporation
• Tandem Productions