Tuesday, January 6, 2015

Sitcom Survivors-- Part 2: Diff'rent Strokes

DIFF'RENT STROKES ( 1978-1986)  Not one of my favorites and rarely watched by me.

Gary Coleman and Dana Plato (siblings Arnold and Kimberly) are gone, as is Dixie Carter (the first actor to play their stepmother Maggie McKinney Drummond) and Nedra Voiz (the second of the family's three housekeepers, Adelaide Brubaker).

The fatherly Conrad Bain (Philip Drummond), Todd Bridges (his adopted son Willis), Charlotte Rae and Mary Jo Catlett (the family's first and third housekeepers Edna Garrett and Pearl Gallagher), Mary Ann Mobley (Carter's successor as Mrs. Drummond) and Danny Cooksey (her son Sam McKinney) are still alive.

--Cooter

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