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Diff'rent Strokes (1978)
Comedy
Family
Drama
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.
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family relationships
wealthy
orphan
class differences
widower
manhattan, new york city
interracial adoption
adopted child
sitcom
child care
brother brother relationship
african american
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