Non-Trope Trivia

  • Diff'rent Strokes was the only new NBC show aired during the 1978-1979 season that survived to the 1979-1980 season, according to The Wrap.

Trivia Tropes

  • Channel Hop: To ABC for the final season.
  • Dueling Shows: ABC's Webster [1983-89], starring Emmanuel Lewis as the Gary Coleman equivalent. It even had its own Channel Hop to syndication for its final two years.
  • The Other Darrin: Mary Ann Mobley replaced Dixie Carter as Maggie McKinney, the woman who marries Mr. Drummond in the show's seventh season, when Carter left to play Julia Sugarbaker on Designing Women.