Diff'rent Strokes· Season 1
Diff'rent Strokes — Season 1
All 24 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.
- 01
In the series' first episode, millionaire Phillip Drummond takes in two Harlem orphans.
- 02
A social worker checks up on the adoptees in the Drummond home.
- 03
Drummond is paid a surprise visit by his status-conscious mother.
- 04
Drummond wants to send the kids to his boyhood prep school.
- 05
Drummond must decide how to discipline Arnold for tossing water bombs off the balcony.
- 06
The ratty doll Arnold sleeps with is accidentally sold.
- 07
Drummond's teachings about justice backfire when he must give Arnold a fair trial for his misdeeds.
- 08
Clips from early episodes are featured as the Drummonds spend Christmas reminiscing about humorous incidents.
- 09
Life in the household is recalled in clips from early episodes.
- 10
A bully's after Arnold and Willis wants him to fight back, while Drummond wants peace talks.
- 11
The boys show off their new home to their old friends.
- 12
Arnold, Willis and Kimberly are out to foil Drummond's plan to marry a widow
- 13
Feeling ignored, Arnold feigns bed-wetting to attract attention.
- 14
The boys' cousin Muriel arrives, and she's as broke as she is likable.
- 15
Basketball-team captain Willis gets some bad news: get better grades or quit the team.
- 16
The new landlord decides to evict families with preteens.
- 17
Willis's demand for privacy sparks a feud with Arnold
- 18
A reunion with successful friends convinces Mrs. Garrett of her own failure.
- 19
A frantic Willis keeps up pretenses after he's fired the first day on a job.
- 20
Drummond and his brood journey to Oregon to see his latest acquisition---the radio station where an old Army buddy holds forth. The Trip was a backdoor pilot for TV series "Hello Larry".
- 21
Drummond and his brood visit his newly purchased radio station and an old Army buddy. The Trip was a backdoor pilot for TV series "Hello Larry".
- 22
Arnold perseveres in an uphill struggle to bring a holdup man to justice.
- 23
Willis has a special birthday request: a party back in his Harlem neighborhood with his old buddies.
- 24
Mrs. Garrett finds teen pandemonium when she visits Kimberly's school in a backdoor pilot for TV series "The Facts of Life".
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