Episode 11 -The Diff'rent Strokes Curse

Hollywood Crime Scene

Rachel Fisher

True Crime, Comedy

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2017

⏱️ 49 minutes

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We discuss the life and crimes of three child stars from the 1980's hit show Diff'rent Strokes, the effects of child stardom, and society's unfair scrutiny of sufferers of mental illness and alcoholism.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to Hollywood Crime Scene. This is Rachel Fisher.
0:02.8	Hi, this is Desi Jettakin.
0:05.6	Well, this week we are going to talk about,
0:09.1	I don't know if it's exactly a curse, but the curse of the cast of the hit 86
0:14.6	com different strokes.
0:16.0	Oh, Rachel, did you watch different strokes ever?
0:20.2	It might have been a little before you.
0:21.6	It was a little before me. I remember it being on maybe like,
0:27.6	I don't know if they showed it on Nick at night or not.
0:29.8	I don't remember if it was like rerun, but I didn't.
0:32.9	It was just a little before my time, so I actually didn't.
0:36.9	Okay, well, I watched different strokes a bit, and so if you don't know,
0:41.2	the series starred Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges.
0:45.2	They played Arnold and Melissa Jackson, and they were two little black boys who got adopted
0:51.2	by the person their mom worked for.
0:54.4	She died. She was like a housekeeper, I think.
0:57.6	So the mom died, and then the boys who were in Harlem, of course,
1:01.1	they got to move in with this person, this park avenue,
1:05.6	businessman named Philip Drummond, and his daughter, Kimberly.
1:10.8	We had some great bangs.
1:12.1	Yes, and she had some really good 80s jeans too, because I was watching a few things.
1:16.2	Anyways, the other characters, there were three maids during the series run,
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