In real life, conrad bain held some really deep dark secrets. The way he treated those kids on the set of different strokes was like no other. Quite shocking, actually. They didn't call it different strokes for nothing Haha 😄
@@actuary33 People who are addicts don't like to be preached to. And they will tell you, you don't understand. But since they are addicted to drugs, they don't understand either.
I am grateful. This is my 1,236th day of sobriety. Some of us addicts find help and find a path away from substance abuse. Dana Plato didn't make it. God rest her beautiful soul
@@dboy2462, I know someone who inexplicably nearly died from substance abuse but found a way to use less without totally quitting. So maybe you're right. But sustained sobriety could have saved Dana Plato.
@@youtubesketches110 Nice of you to be open minded. Yes, sobriety can save people, but I said it's not the only way to recovery because there are many people who can't quit doing drugs and thus can't achieve sobrety. For those, maintenance programs can be life changing. Search on UA-cam for a video called "legal heroin for addicts in Liverpool 1990s". It's about a doctor who prescribed controlled doses of pharmaceutical-grade heroin and cocaine for addicts. His program reduced the overdose rate of his patients to zero and there was a 93 per cent drop in adiction related crime.
@@dboy2462, indeed. In fact, on my way to abstinence I did 2.4 yrs methadone treatment. Now 44 months without methadone. I cannot count the number of lives saved by medication-assisted treatment. I know people who survived many years with methadone and led productive lives. Blessings, YTS
If she didn't... she would had crushed it in Hollywood, if only Hollywood gave her a chance. Dana was such a wonderful actor. She was just... misunderstood. Now... she's missed. RIP Dana.
@Ronan The Accuser: Well, Drew Barrymore went the same way with her youth too. I bet that messed with Dana's head a lot. What makes Berrymore valuable than Plato? Nothing really. It's just really sad, My Dude.
RIP to Dana Plato, Conrad Bain, and Gary Coleman AKA, Kimberly Drummond, Phillip Drummond,&: Arnold Jackson,you will be missed 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 💔😇🎉💔😇🎉😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💔💔💔💔💔💔
I miss Dana Plato so much. I don't think the show was the same without her. There were very good episodes in the later seasons but the first 3 seasons I thought were the best. I was so devastated when Dana died and very upset about the circumstances. It still breaks my heart today. RIP Dana and never forget you were loved.💔😭♀️🤗
Really? I think the golden age of TV were the last few years before streaming ruined it. These old shows that go setup-punchline-applause are incredibly boring and unfunny. People don't talk like this in real life, everybody moves to face the camera because they were all shot multi-camera. Just terrible, horrible TV.
You guys are doing the right thing you’re keeping Kimberly safe and that’s all that matters getting Kimberly the help that she needs will keep her safe and everybody else safe keep watching this episode you will see
You know your comment makes no sense, right? “Kimberly” is a character, not a real person🙄 The actress who played her is deceased after years of substance abuse/addiction issues. Her name was Dana Plato, not Kimberly.
There's been alot of suicides in my town like never before. It's not unbelievable that I don't believe it,.. It's making me wonder what is going on with people to do that.
Ironic. "You can't use looks to make the whole world love you." Interesting line coming from a industry that is based on youth and beauty. Old Hollywood actresses became drug addicts, because of the "prescription" drugs they were told to take to "help" them lose weight, sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. They were expected to look flawless before setting foot outside their door on a daily basis.
Stacy Lyon..So true. I remember seeing an article on one old Hollywood star who said they wanted her to smoke and smoke a lot. She ended up with cancer, she smoked so heavily till the end of her life. .The actress was Gene Tierney
Hollywood just eats you up and spits you out! It's not all sunshine and roses and unfortunately Dana Plato is just another child actress that got swallowed up by Hollywood it's so sad that we've lost so many talented actors and actresses .Dana Plato was a beautiful young woman who will be missed.
This was a 'Very Special Episode' but the 'Bike Salesman' episode with the 'European Cartoons and funny juice and camera' that I watched once on an afternoon rerun (this was at its Prime in the early to mid 80s just slightly before my time but just slightly) haunts me to this day. I believe I was 8 by
During the mid to late 80's in the area I use to live, they were showing reruns of Diff'rent Strokes starting at 5 p.m Monday through Friday, right after the weekday cartoon blocks ended (EX: Thundercats would air at 4:30 p.m and then reruns of Diff'rent Strokes would air at 5 p.m. Seasons 7 and 8 were added into the reruns a year and two later once those seasons finished airing). Anyway, the Bicycle Man two parter was season 5. What made those episodes terrifying was how accurate it was to real life crime cases. I was somewhere between age 6 to 8 when I first that two parter and remember being weirded out and confused the first time I saw them and continued to be weirded out the few times it would air after they started rotating through the episodes again. I SLOWLY began to understand it more and more each time I saw it and the more I understood, the more screwed up it was. The other two shows I would watch right after Diff'rent Strokes were Three's Company (which was also in reruns... I think that aired around 5:30 p.m or so during the mid to late 80's) and Too Close for Comfort during 6:30 p.m during the mid to late 80's (I think it was showing new episodes during 1986 but then it went into reruns around 1987). From 7:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m I didn't watch TV (that was homework time for me, but I didn't mind since 7 to 8 was just boring news stuff like "A Current Affair"). Then at 8:00 p.m the prime time brand new shows would start. For example, Mondays at 8:00 p.m was ALF (from 1986 till early 1990 on NBC).
Things would have gone better for Dana Plato if the creators of both DS and FOL cased her on both shows regularly. Her character was on both shows just not enough on Facts of Life...she was the cross over character that linked both shows so there was no real reason for her character to not be featured more on Facts of Life.
Dana needed a Mr. Drummond so much in real life💔 someone who would give her a hug like that, who would help her take care of her mental health and defend her from so many bad people
I had bulmia it’s a horrible disease I remember would get up in the middle of night eat a big thing of ice cream a glass milk and 2 peanut butter sandwiches and throw up You don’t have to eat and throw up to stay thin
Oh! Dana realmente no estabas actuando, estabas viviendo el infierno de la adicción por eso es que está escena fue tan real. Oh! Mi dulce princesa siempre te recordaré.
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Wikipedia - Maggie McKinney-Drummond was portrayed by Dixie Carter for seasons 6-7, and when the show moved from NBC to ABC for season 8, Mary Ann Mobley took over the role. Carter and Mobley would star opposite each other in the season 5 premiere of Designing Women, "A Blast From The Past."
I don't like how kimberly changed. She was such a happy girl welcoming her brothers. She wasn't even fat. She really needed her mother, something was going on
This episode is so important and represents what Dana Plato and demi Lovato went through with eating disorders and bulimia and drug addiction and drug abuse and I mean like 👍 heavy drugs and both Dana Plato died and demi Lovato died and her demi Lovato’s heart stopped 3 times and they had to revive her 3 times and give her narcaine 3 times to restart her heart and give her CPR 3 times and give her 3 chest compressions
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This was such a great show. They were able to touch on some very serious subjects while still being a comedy for not just adults, but for kids too.
I know Diff'Rent Strokes was a sitcom...but boy did they tackle some tough issues in their day.
And I would have been a happier person if I never knew about these things that didn't exist in my life at the time.
A lot of shows did that back then. Family Matters Fresh Prince Full House just to name a few .
We used to call it A Very Special Episode.
So did Facts of Life.
@@Jason-cn5vo Stupid
In real life, Conrad Bain loved those kids like his own. Todd Bridges said he was more of a father than his own.
Yeah I Heard that Too
When Arnold got blamed for the food was it Arnold that said it was kimebey?
Did she have a problem in real life
@@angieyauger295 Her problems are now over
In real life, conrad bain held some really deep dark secrets. The way he treated those kids on the set of different strokes was like no other. Quite shocking, actually. They didn't call it different strokes for nothing Haha 😄
We need more episodes like this today. This is why I used to love ❤️ watching TV 📺
NO we dont/
Dana Plato was a beautiful young woman and a very talented actress! Just gone too soon!
She did it to herself
Preach it! Explain their disease to a little girl w a brain tumor who never hurt anyone.
@@actuary33
People who are addicts don't like to be preached to.
And they will tell you, you don't understand.
But since they are addicted to drugs, they don't understand either.
@@eyemnew2991 truth
@@actuary33
Thank you
I love the truth
R.I.P Gary Coleman
"looks are something you just can't use to make the whole world love you"
So many today should remember that
I am grateful. This is my 1,236th day of sobriety. Some of us addicts find help and find a path away from substance abuse. Dana Plato didn't make it. God rest her beautiful soul
and food can be an addiction also and I'm glad they showed this.
Sobriety is not the only way to recovery.
@@dboy2462, I know someone who inexplicably nearly died from substance abuse but found a way to use less without totally quitting. So maybe you're right. But sustained sobriety could have saved Dana Plato.
@@youtubesketches110 Nice of you to be open minded. Yes, sobriety can save people, but I said it's not the only way to recovery because there are many people who can't quit doing drugs and thus can't achieve sobrety. For those, maintenance programs can be life changing. Search on UA-cam for a video called "legal heroin for addicts in Liverpool 1990s". It's about a doctor who prescribed controlled doses of pharmaceutical-grade heroin and cocaine for addicts. His program reduced the overdose rate of his patients to zero and there was a 93 per cent drop in adiction related crime.
@@dboy2462, indeed. In fact, on my way to abstinence I did 2.4 yrs methadone treatment. Now 44 months without methadone. I cannot count the number of lives saved by medication-assisted treatment. I know people who survived many years with methadone and led productive lives. Blessings, YTS
R.I.P Dana Plato
If she didn't... she would had crushed it in Hollywood, if only Hollywood gave her a chance. Dana was such a wonderful actor. She was just... misunderstood. Now... she's missed. RIP Dana.
@Ronan The Accuser: Well, Drew Barrymore went the same way with her youth too. I bet that messed with Dana's head a lot. What makes Berrymore valuable than Plato? Nothing really. It's just really sad, My Dude.
God Bless Dana Plato, but she was a terrible actress here. And where's Willis?
The acting in this clip was pretty bad.
Oh please. Such a dramatic scene and she couldn't even squeeze a tear out? Her acting was garbage.
She was a great actress More then these dry comments of those think that they done acting before.🙄
I remember this episode, such a powerful scene. Rest in peace, Dana Plato, you were taken from us far too soon! 😇😭
Rest in peace dana you are the beautiful woman in heavan
This episode was her last appearance.
Sad & Tragic
She did it to herself.
@@eyemnew2991 Buzz off!
RIP to Dana Plato, Conrad Bain, and Gary Coleman AKA, Kimberly Drummond, Phillip Drummond,&: Arnold Jackson,you will be missed 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 💔😇🎉💔😇🎉😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇😇🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉💔💔💔💔💔💔
Wow! Just wow! Never seen this episode. So ahead of its time...RIP Dana!
This was in the final season on ABC.
ALL IN THE FAMILY tackled stuff like this 15 years earlier. HAHA.
I met her once Dana
R.I.P Conrad Dana Gary and Mary
Very sad story. Dana was so beautiful the way she was. Gone far too soon.
I miss Dana Plato so much. I don't think the show was the same without her. There were very good episodes in the later seasons but the first 3 seasons I thought were the best. I was so devastated when Dana died and very upset about the circumstances. It still breaks my heart today. RIP Dana and never forget you were loved.💔😭♀️🤗
Poor Dana, she’s was an incredible actress
I will always say this Dana deserves so much better
THIS is what TV was like back when TV was worth watching!
Really? I think the golden age of TV were the last few years before streaming ruined it. These old shows that go setup-punchline-applause are incredibly boring and unfunny. People don't talk like this in real life, everybody moves to face the camera because they were all shot multi-camera. Just terrible, horrible TV.
@@User0000000000000004 Then why are you watching this? LOL
Yep phaxx
@@User0000000000000004 I'd rather watch old stuff then this god forsaken reality show were people are humping each other under the sheets
so true
How sad….it went from bad to worse.
You guys are doing the right thing you’re keeping Kimberly safe and that’s all that matters getting Kimberly the help that she needs will keep her safe and everybody else safe keep watching this episode you will see
Who are you talking to? Freak.
Thought eating disorders are a rich white girl disease
@@actuary33 I thought the same thing
@@anniewall5883 glad I'm not alone
You know your comment makes no sense, right? “Kimberly” is a character, not a real person🙄 The actress who played her is deceased after years of substance abuse/addiction issues. Her name was Dana Plato, not Kimberly.
RIP Conrad Bain and Gary Coleman and Dana Plato and Dixie Carter and many more who passed away.
How prophetic. Dana ended up in such a suicidal way.
There's been alot of suicides in my town like never before.
It's not unbelievable that I don't believe it,..
It's making me wonder what is going on with people to do that.
Well she did off herself so...
She was struggling deep down .
Some great acting right there.
Ironic. "You can't use looks to make the whole world love you." Interesting line coming from a industry that is based on youth and beauty. Old Hollywood actresses became drug addicts, because of the "prescription" drugs they were told to take to "help" them lose weight, sleep at night, and stay awake during the day. They were expected to look flawless before setting foot outside their door on a daily basis.
Stacy Lyon..So true. I remember seeing an article on one old Hollywood star who said they wanted her to smoke and smoke a lot. She ended up with cancer, she smoked so heavily till the end of her life. .The actress was Gene Tierney
Poor Dana Plato. Her life took a tragic turn after Diff'rent Strokes ended.
All three kids had issues, which is sad.
R.I.P. 🪦 Conrad Bain, Gary Coleman, Dana Plato and Mary Ann Mobley
Dixie Carter
So sweet they want to help her .
That’s how it’s supposed to be
Poor Dana she really needed love ❤ in real life
I know it’s tragic
Such a sad life She had….
She was so beautiful, Kimberly was
This episode hits a bit too close to home considering Dana Plato’s own problems with addiction. Very sad.
Pearl and Sam were the only 2 in this episode that’s still alive today. Todd Bridges wasn’t in this episode.
He was in a drug house getting high.
Sad that this was her last appearance.
😭😭💔
Even Willis wasn’t in the final episode.
I miss her so much . R.I.P. Dana
@@CatMasterCharlieTheCat Wills wasn't even in the last episode
@@a.k.a.theruggedmanchild9685 A bunch of them weren't in the last episode.
She mentioned Donahue and now they’re BOTH resting in peace‼️🥺😢
Dana Plato never caught a break nor did her son. People made her the butt of jokes. She deserved better.
Who is to say what anyone deserves ? Life in Hollywood is running with the devil
She did I agree
Right. I definitely agree.
Nowdays we know better. Back then her & Lauren Tewes the list goes on & on got made fun of instead of empathy. People suck tho, always have.
Phillip getting married was the jump the shark moment for Different Strokes. The network change was the final nail in the coffin.
I remember the episode with his wife more from when I was a child. I thought they were good I of course since went on to watching the full series.
I didn’t like Maggie (both actresses) and Sam. The show went downhill once they introduced them.
What networks was it on?
@@anwartalia812 Jumped from NBC to ABC.
The moment it became the Arnold and Sam show, it was over.
RIP Dana Plato. Very powerful episode.
That's the Bulimia talking, anger is just part of the denial.
Oh wow
And being hungry.
Hollywood just eats you up and spits you out! It's not all sunshine and roses and unfortunately Dana Plato is just another child actress that got swallowed up by Hollywood it's so sad that we've lost so many talented actors and actresses .Dana Plato was a beautiful young woman who will be missed.
I love Diff'rent Strokes
This was a 'Very Special Episode' but the 'Bike Salesman' episode with the 'European Cartoons and funny juice and camera' that I watched once on an afternoon rerun (this was at its Prime in the early to mid 80s just slightly before my time but just slightly) haunts me to this day. I believe I was 8 by
During the mid to late 80's in the area I use to live, they were showing reruns of Diff'rent Strokes starting at 5 p.m Monday through Friday, right after the weekday cartoon blocks ended (EX: Thundercats would air at 4:30 p.m and then reruns of Diff'rent Strokes would air at 5 p.m. Seasons 7 and 8 were added into the reruns a year and two later once those seasons finished airing). Anyway, the Bicycle Man two parter was season 5. What made those episodes terrifying was how accurate it was to real life crime cases. I was somewhere between age 6 to 8 when I first that two parter and remember being weirded out and confused the first time I saw them and continued to be weirded out the few times it would air after they started rotating through the episodes again. I SLOWLY began to understand it more and more each time I saw it and the more I understood, the more screwed up it was.
The other two shows I would watch right after Diff'rent Strokes were Three's Company (which was also in reruns... I think that aired around 5:30 p.m or so during the mid to late 80's) and Too Close for Comfort during 6:30 p.m during the mid to late 80's (I think it was showing new episodes during 1986 but then it went into reruns around 1987). From 7:00 p.m to 8:00 p.m I didn't watch TV (that was homework time for me, but I didn't mind since 7 to 8 was just boring news stuff like "A Current Affair"). Then at 8:00 p.m the prime time brand new shows would start. For example, Mondays at 8:00 p.m was ALF (from 1986 till early 1990 on NBC).
Whooooaaah , I can see the anger in Kimberly’s eyes because her parents had discovered her secret .
My grandfather turned 80 the day this episode aired!
One of the best serious scenes of the entire series. Long live Dana Plato.
TV in those days taught good values.
For real nowadays is gender nonsense
Things would have gone better for Dana Plato if the creators of both DS and FOL cased her on both shows regularly. Her character was on both shows just not enough on Facts of Life...she was the cross over character that linked both shows so there was no real reason for her character to not be featured more on Facts of Life.
That was the plan at one point but foL cast thought she would get all of the attention
So you want her to be on 2 shows and get physically exhausted
This was beautiful
"Tonight...on a very special episode of Diff'rent Strokes..."
I did a report on Bulimia in middle school.
Kimberly looks so pretty in this scene
Dana needed a Mr. Drummond so much in real life💔 someone who would give her a hug like that, who would help her take care of her mental health and defend her from so many bad people
Food is delicious! I can’t give it up. That’s why I workout. However, Dana Plato was a great actress. F Hollywood for shortchanging her. RIP
Dana Plato was so beautiful. I wish she had gone on to a successful Hollywood career.
Kimberly’s final appearance on the show.
R.I.P.: Gary Coleman and Dana Plato.
And Conrad Bain
@@Mark-xl1zeand Bonar Bain
Dana Plato was a great actress
Am I the only one who cried doing this clip😢
This was her last episode.
I wish she got the help she needed because she would have been alive today
Ahhh. That explains the loose fitting sweaters and jacket concealing her not yet obvious baby-bump.
She left in season 6 because of her pregnancy you can definitely tell in the wedding episode.
Yeah, sad. But at least the character did get help here. Unlike real life.
Why?
Guaranteed those tears were real. The message sent out to women is very messed up to this day.
One of my favorite shows!
Yep.
Kimberly had to learn how to eat sensibly and exercise.
I’m so excited! And I just can’t hide it!!
Lmao
Dana was so talented.
Dana Plato. Rip 🙏❤
I learned a lot from these episodes
Cheer up Kimberly it'll get better
She was so beautiful
Stay safe yall
And?😒
This is so corny yet a real topic and I like it! Simple acting.
I can't believe almost everyone passed away leaving us in this messed up world
It will be fixed one day. This global state of affairs is only temporary. There is hope. Christ will return.
I had bulmia it’s a horrible disease
I remember would get up in the middle of night eat a big thing of ice cream a glass milk and 2 peanut butter sandwiches and throw up
You don’t have to eat and throw up to stay thin
Kimberly looks nice in this episode
The Drums of Drummond Strikes Again!
Dana was so cute here.
This sad episode different strokes 😢😢😢
Oh! Dana realmente no estabas actuando, estabas viviendo el infierno de la adicción por eso es que está escena fue tan real. Oh! Mi dulce princesa siempre te recordaré.
Hola perdón es que no se inglés pero que es lo que le dice su papa a ella? Por que se enfada?
I remember when she ate the cake and vomited it right back out.
Sad to watch this moment and another sad thing about this is that only Sam is the only one still alive
It was toxic Howard Stern show that caused Dana Plato to die
Toxic you got that right
How do you know that ? I heard it was her Valume addiction
@1:29 anyone notice the kids didn't seem ready for the scene to start?
Whatever Happened 2 Accepting & Loving Ppl Who & What They Are? Not 4 Something They Once Was Or What We Want Them To Be! The Problem With This Country Is That We Judge Ppl Either By Their W8t Or Credit Score! It’s A Sad State Of Affairs(IMPO)!
This is the first time I actually got emotional over a show
Dana Plato's life took a tragic turn. Sad
I know I feel so bad for her
Different Strokes dealt with a lot of issues. At times, they overdid it, but they were very instrumental in the development of many kids and adults
She was beautiful just the way she was! I wish I was thinner too sometimes I use to be beautiful but not anymore! So I know how her character felt!
Dana …. 🌹💔
She reminds me of Elizabeth Sue
Dana was my twin in the 80s😊
Dana Plato was snorting coke by this point.
The same thing happened to Tracey from growing pains. What happened to the first Maggie?
Wikipedia - Maggie McKinney-Drummond was portrayed by Dixie Carter for seasons 6-7, and when the show moved from NBC to ABC for season 8, Mary Ann Mobley took over the role. Carter and Mobley would star opposite each other in the season 5 premiere of Designing Women, "A Blast From The Past."
Funny, I thought Dixie Carter was in this episode.
She is here thank God
Dixie Carter got fed up with Gary Coleman and quit.
@@robertclark6349 Really?
I don't like how kimberly changed. She was such a happy girl welcoming her brothers. She wasn't even fat. She really needed her mother, something was going on
Dana looked so good here too...
All 3 of those kids had tragic lives. Dana and Gary are both dead.
Sam had issues later in life, too. But still alive like Todd Bridges.
This episode is so important and represents what Dana Plato and demi Lovato went through with eating disorders and bulimia and drug addiction and drug abuse and I mean like 👍 heavy drugs and both Dana Plato died and demi Lovato died and her demi Lovato’s heart stopped 3 times and they had to revive her 3 times and give her narcaine 3 times to restart her heart and give her CPR 3 times and give her 3 chest compressions
She was possibly my first crush
When innocence was celebrated
I love this!
Dang this episode was subliminal like they knew what was going to happen her