Subject(s): "Diff'rent Strokes" Cast featuring Todd Bridges, Conrad Bain, Gary Coleman and Dana Plato Format: 9 x 7.25 Black White Glossy Photograph. Origin: Authentic photograph provided to television stations and other media outlets for promotional use from "NBC Station Advertising". Program Title: Diff'rent Strokes Category: Television Release Date: Circa late 1970s Condition: Excellent Comments: Diff'rent Strokes is an American sitcom that aired on NBC from November 3, 1978, to May 4, 1985, and on ABC from September 27, 1985, to March 7, 1986. The series stars Gary Coleman and Todd Bridges as Arnold and Willis Jackson, two black boys from Harlem who are taken in by a rich white Park Avenue businessman and widower named Phillip Drummond (Conrad Bain) and his daughter Kimberly (Dana Plato), for whom their deceased mother previously worked.