"Diff'rent Strokes" was a beloved family sitcom of the late 1970s and 1980s, but it sadly only has a few of its cast members ...
It all started with Charlotte Rae, who played the lovable “Edna Garrett,” the Drummond family’s housekeeper on Diff'rent Strokes. When producers saw the potential for Rae to carry her own show, they ...
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.
Diff’rent Strokes is nearing its 50th anniversary: The NBC-turned-ABC sitcom debuted 47 years ago, on November 3, 1978. The ...
Jimmy Kimmel, Norman Lear and Brent Miller are bringing us another pair of “Live in Front of a Studio Audience” re-creations next week, with “The Facts of Life” and “Diff’rent Strokes” episodes. But ...
Before that Diff'frent Strokes episode, I was ready to write an essay begging Kimmel and ABC to stop doing these projects. The previous one, in which John Amos got a bit lost playing a different ...