Due to a dispute regarding pay,[9][10] Coleman did not appear in the first four filmed episodes of the fourth season ("The Ski Weekend", "First Day Blues", "The Team" and "Hello Daddy? A tough guy (Forest Whitaker) wants Arnold to take care of his girlfriend while he is away, but the girl develops feelings for Arnold. Midway through the sixth season, Plato became pregnant and approached the producers of the show to include her pregnancy. Mary Ann Mobley joins the cast, replacing Dixie Carter as "Maggie". Arnold Jackson: That's okay. This seemed to be a copy of the bathroom funeral for Arnold's goldfish (Abraham) "Those who come from the sea, shall return to the sea". 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. [23] In February 1991, she was arrested after robbing a Las Vegas video store armed with a pellet gun. The time comes for Mr. Drummond to officially adopt Arnold and Willis, but a junk dealer named Jethro Simpson (Whitman Mayo) pretends to be their cousin and tries to interfere with the adoption in order to obtain an inheritance coming to the boys. I'm too young for Wonderwoman. Plato's publicized brushes with substance abuse contributed to this decision, resulting in her dismissal from the series at the end of the sixth season. Factory? They can be red, orange, white, yellow, black and brown, or even calico. discussion topics for scrum master community of practice 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. Willis saves Arnold's life, so Arnold feels obligated to dote on him constantly. . 2 May 2023. In order to get him to open up about the incident, Mr. Drummond arranges for a crime-prevention demonstration at his school, but the demonstration becomes too real for Arnold. Good morning, Arnold. For some swim strokes, kicking is more powerful than others. Arnold: Be careful with my goldfish. - Diff'rent Strokes - Facebook 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. 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. Arnold: That's okay. [3][4] During the first season and the first half of the second season, Charlotte Rae also starred, as Mrs. Edna Garrett, the Drummonds' first housekeeper, who ultimately spun off into her own sitcom, The Facts of Life, as a housemother at the fictional Eastland School. A new landlord tries to have the Drummonds thrown out of their penthouse apartment because he doesn't like children. : Arnold Jackson: Be careful with my goldfish. His name's Abraham.Philip The second housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker, was played by Nedra Volz. Mrs. Garrett is present for the first 13 episodes of the second season of Diff'rent Strokes, with the character last seen in the episode "The Rivals", after which she leaves, offscreen, to take a permanent position at Eastland, The Facts of Life having by then been picked up for a full series. : "Diff'rent Strokes" The Trial (TV Episode 1978) - IMDb Be careful with my goldfish. He'll talk some sense into you. You mean Sleeping Ugly. He never saw a rich white man before either. I'm barely outta toilet-training. Arnold and Sam go into business selling roach spray, but Arnold's greed causes Sam to go his own way. Arnold Jackson At first, the two are scared by the incident, but later on they start to make jokes about her condition. Season 1 was also released in Regions 2 & 5 on October 6, 2008. Note: Basketball player Meadowlark Lemon guest stars. Factory had acquired the rights to the series; they subsequently released the third season on DVD on July 17, 2012. Arnold Faces Fatality: Directed by Gerren Keith. An oft-mentioned character spanning the entire show's run, was "The Gooch", a notorious bully at Arnold's school. Sam begins to hang out with Willis a lot more than with Arnold, making Arnold feel left out. Abraham Goldfish Diff'rent Strokes: Abraham is the pet goldfish of Arnold Jackson, played by Gary Coleman. 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. A fast-talking baseball coach woos Willis for a high school team and uses expensive gifts and deception to attain his goal. 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. The first and second season also included three hour-long crossover episodes (edited into two-part format for syndication and overseas broadcasts) with NBC sitcom Hello, Larry, which had been moved to the slot immediately following Diff'rent Strokes in an effort to boost its ratings (an effort that ultimately failed; it was canceled after the end of its second season). Willis gets the sister of one of his old girlfriends (Robin Givens) to go out with Arnold by giving her concert tickets. On MY allowance? Mr. Drummond doesn't want Willis to see his girlfriend Charlene (Janet Jackson) because it's interfering with his schoolwork, so the two make secret arrangements to be together. Maggie and Sam surprise Mr. Drummond for his birthday by having Kimberly return from France to visit him. Be careful with my goldfish. Arnold takes the story to a big-city newspaper, where the situation is reported. When Kimberly submits a candid picture of Arnold with his butt exposed to a photo contest, he is infuriated and demands that Kimberly withdraw it, but the picture remains in the contest by mistake and almost ruins Arnold's chances of winning the class election. [21] On May 26, 2010, Coleman, who had battled health problems since childhood caused by congenital kidney disease, was admitted to Utah Valley Regional Medical Center in Provo after falling and hitting his head after suffering a seizure. 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. 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. Sign in to rate and Watchlist for personalized recommendations. 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. When Arnold becomes suspicious, and happens to notice Mr. Drummond's . 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. In 2001, Coleman (still working as a security guard) was videotaped trying to stop a vehicle from entering the mall. 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. Arnold Jackson The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two Black boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), for whom their deceased mother previously worked. Diff'rent Strokes (1978-1986) Gary Coleman: Arnold Jackson. 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. Arnold is made to give up junk food, which is difficult, since his school has junk food vending machines and having them removed may hurt his chances at winning a school election. Mr. Drummond's mother (Irene Tedrow) visits and is surprised when she sees that his new sons are black, so he tries to make her get over her racial prejudices. In the seventh season, after years of harassing Arnold (and later Sam), the Gooch was finally defeated by Arnold's neighbor and nemesis (and eventually friend) Carmella, a foreign exchange student. Arnold and Sam try to keep a children's television show from getting taken off the air. After reading a book on the American legal system, Willis demands a fair trial for Arnold after he is accused of putting his goldfish in the hot tub. Arnold is mugged on his way home from school and is so traumatized that he begins carrying a knife with him. Hilarity Ensues.. Diff'rent Strokes (1978-86) made a star of Gary Coleman as Arnold Jackson, the younger of the two boys. However, his intentions aren't made clear and she comes to the party with someone else. 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. Sam later learns that Kurt is a foster child, and is very jealous of what Sam has. Arnold imagines himself to be a Superman knockoff named Super Arnold. The second episode of the fifth season, "In The Swim", introduced Mary Jo Catlett as the rotund, ever-cheerful Pearl Gallagher, the last of the Drummond household's three maids. [12] Carter was introduced midway into the sixth season (in the episode "Drummond's Lady"); after she abruptly left for California, Drummond and the family took off after her, in the two-part story "Hooray for Hollywood", a storyline that also introduced Sam, Maggie's son from her previous marriage. They live in a penthouse with Drummond, his daughter Kimberly (Plato), and their housemaid. David Hasselhoff rescues Arnold and Dudley just in time and the rest of the family find out about Mr. Drummond's marriage plans. Arnold tries to impress a girl by organizing his friends into a rock group, and by learning the saxophone himself.