My 30 Most Favorite Episodes of "Diff'rent Strokes".
If the title didn't give it away - these are my 30 most favorite episodes of the TV Show, "Diff'rent Strokes". Watch one per day for a full month of hilarity and smiles!
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- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesAfter Arnold buys a toy train that doesn't work, he takes the owner of the store, who refuses to refund his money, to small claims court.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesFor his initiation into a club, Arnold attempts to steal a comic book from a store. When he gets caught, he and Drummond are shocked to learn that the comic is a collector's item worth $400 and he is charged with grand theft.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesDrummond's plan to tear down old apartments and replace them with luxury condominiums creates anger among one soon-to-be homeless elderly woman who refuses to leave the Drummond household.
- DirectorHerbert KenwithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold feels he's being ignored by the other members of the family, so he pretends to wet the bed in order to get attention and sympathy.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold's plans to go out on his first date are in jeopardy when Drummond won't allow him to go out at night without a chaperon.
- DirectorHerbert KenwithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWillis starts to feel that Arnold is a nuisance and wants his own space away from him.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesA girl at school pretends that she likes Arnold only so that she can get close to Willis.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWhen Adelaide goes away, Drummond hires a temporary housekeeper to take her place. With the new housekeeper, Arnold soon realizes that she reminds him a lot of his mom and tries to arrange it so that she and Drummond fall in love.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesMr. Drummond worries that Willis's newfound Afrocentric attitudes are dividing the family.
- DirectorHerbert KenwithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesMrs. Garrett bonds with the girls at Eastland Academy, the school Kimberly attends.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWhile a new housekeeper, Adelaide Brubaker, takes over from Mrs. Garrett, Mr. Drummond decides to run for city council after a friend's suggestion.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesIn his efforts to help Willis dethrone an arrogant video game champion at the local arcade, Arnold becomes hooked on video games.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold and his friends meet Mr. T in this tale about Arnold trying to win the heart of a classmate.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWith his grades down, Drummond forbids Willis to see his new girlfriend, Charlene. However, a love-struck Willis is determined to see her, even if means doing it behind Drummond's back.
- DirectorHerbert KenwithStarsConrad BainMcLean StevensonGary ColemanMr. Drummond's company has bought out a radio station in Portland, Oregon, where his old army buddy, Larry Alder, hosts a talk show.IMDB does not show Part 2 of this episode.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold wants to meet his hero, world champion boxer Muhammad Ali. Willis and Kimberly meet him and say that their little brother is dying and that his last wish is to meet him.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWillis asks Kimberly to help a classmate who lacks sensitivity to try and get a girl at school. However, the plan backfires when he falls in love with Kimberly.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesAfter being selected to play Abraham Lincoln in his school play, Arnold develops a case of stage fright. His confidence suffers even more after Kathy blows up at him when he tries to convince her to walk with her crutches.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold and Willis become hostages during a bank robbery by two experienced criminals.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold and Dudley become friends with the owner of a local bicycle shop named Henry, unaware that he is a pedophile looking for his next victim.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesDrummond and Mr. Ramsey learn the truth about Mr. Horton, the seemingly friendly bicycle shop owner with a very sinister side. It soon becomes a race against time to get details out of Arnold after learning that Dudley is about to become Mr. Horton's latest victim.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesTired of being treated like a child, Kimberly and a friend plan a ski weekend in which they will be staying with guys. She has a lot of explaining to do when Drummond and Willis drop by the lodge to surprise her.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold is tired of being bullied at school so he takes karate lessons.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesMr. Drummond's plans to officially adopt Arnold and Willis are delayed when a man claiming to be the boys' cousin claims he was promised custody in their father's will.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWhile Mr. Drummond's lawyers investigate Jethro Simpson's claim, Arnold and Willis prepare themselves for the possibility that they may have to live with the man.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesA huge fight ensues when Kimberly invites her friends from Eastland Academy over at the same time that Willis has his friends over.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesWhen Arnold finds out that he will only grow to be 5 foot tall, he becomes very depressed. To make him feel better, Drummond introduces him to a friend's daughter who is very upbeat despite being confined to a wheelchair.
- DirectorHerbert KenwithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesAfter 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.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesArnold's beloved goldfish Abraham passes away.
- DirectorGerren KeithStarsConrad BainGary ColemanTodd BridgesAfter hearing that a nearby house is supposedly haunted by the ghost of its dead owner, Arnold and Sam decide to visit the house and do some investigating on their own.