For Mrs. Garret in "The Facts of Life," NBC CEO Fred Silverman chose to cast Charlotte Rae, who played Mrs. Edna Garrett from "Diff'rent Strokes." Here's why.

Todd Bridges has a lot of complex feelings looking back on his Diff'rent Strokes fame. The actor, 59, appeared on the Allison Interviews podcast, chatting with host Allison Kugel about how becoming ...

SPOILER ALERT: This post contains details about Tuesday’s Live in Front of a Studio Audience, which aired live on the East Coast on ABC. After four decades, cameras rolled once again on the classic ...

The life of Gary Coleman, who died in 2010 at the age of 42, is mostly well-known, and the public pretty much acknowledges that it wasn’t a happy one. He exploded onto our screens at the age of 10, ...

Actor Gary Coleman poses for a portrait with co-stars Dana Plato and Todd Bridges while studying on the set of his show ‘Diff’rent Strokes’ in February 1980 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by ...

"Diff’rent Strokes" debuted on NBC in 1978 and drew most of its laughs from Coleman, then a tiny 10-year-old with sparkling eyes and perfect comic timing. He played the younger of two African-American ...

The sitcom Diff’rent Strokes, like All in the Family and The Jeffersons, was another Norman Lear creation. The show which premiered in 1978 lasted for eight seasons and brought us one of the most ...