Diff'rent Strokes (series)
- User score: 7
- Production country: United States of America
- Creator: Bernie Kukoff , Jeff Harris
- Production companies: Norman Lear/Tandem Productions, Embassy Television, Embassy Pictures Corporation, Tandem Productions
- Genre: Comedy, Family, Drama
- Release date: 11/3/1978
- Release date of last episode: 3/7/1986
- Series status: Ended
- Seasons count: 8 ( List of episodes )
- Episodes count: 189
- Run time: 30, 24 min.
Series description
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.
