Different Strokes: The Death of Dana Plato

History Dweebs - A look at True Crime, Murders, Serial Killers and the Darkside of History

Tim Scott

Comedy Interviews, Comedy

4 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2017

⏱️ 101 minutes

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Dana Plato was known for her career as a child actress in the hit TV series "Diff'rent Strokes" before her life came to a tragic end in 1999.

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0:00.0	Hi and welcome once again to History Dweaves. I am Tim and the, welcome to the podcast where we take a
0:11.9	lighthearted look at the dark side of history. Today, the topic of our podcast is Dana Plato,
0:20.0	who of course was an actress and on the popular TV series
0:24.1	Different Strokes back in the 1970s. She was a child star whose life ended way too soon.
0:31.6	We're going to talk about her life, her career, and her untimely death.
0:41.7	But before we do, I would like to introduce our panel.
0:45.5	I'm joined, as always, by the very lovely and talented,
0:49.1	the queen of mean, the mistress of the macabre, the Empress of Evil,
0:52.7	pill-poppinous-loving, Brandy.
0:54.2	How are you today, Brandy?
0:54.8	I'm good.
0:55.8	Timmy, how are you?
1:01.9	Well, you know, I was so frustrated yesterday because we originally had, you know, we recorded yesterday.
1:02.5	We did, you know, we did our duty.
1:04.2	We did.
1:04.5	We had a podcast yesterday on Wesley Dodd.
1:09.3	And when I got home, I was ready to to load it up the file was corrupted so we're
1:16.4	late with our podcast so I'm feeling a little overwhelmed Brandy I'm sorry to have in here
1:21.1	how are you maybe this will make you feel a little bit better what's that oh I like that
1:27.3	that's our theme song for the day. Were you a big
1:31.1	fan of Dana Plato? I never, I didn't care about her, but I thought Gary Coleman was hilarious.
1:36.6	All right. All right. So what's going on with you? You know, nothing ever.
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