Season 2
Season 2
Season 2
Season 2
- Air date:1979-09-28
- User score:0.0
- Number of episodes:24
List of Episodes
Air date: 1979-09-28
Runtime: 30 min
The Drummond family welcomes the Alders to New York City. As Larry auditions there for a television talk-show. The crossover starts on Diff'rent Strokes S02E03 Feudin' and Fussin' (I).
Air date: 1979-10-05
Runtime: 30 min
Diane, thinking Ruthie is too much of a tomboy, gets Ruthie persuaded to go to a school dance. Then soon enough Ruthie develops a crush, on a boy.
Air date: 1979-10-12
Runtime: 30 min
Larry's ex-wife Marion comes to visit while Larry has to leave town with Morgan on a business trip.
Air date: 1979-10-19
Runtime: 30 min
Ruthie keeps hoping her parents will get back together and tries much persuasion. Larry and Marion go out and have an interesting evening.
Air date: 1979-10-26
Runtime: 30 min
Larry and Marion announce they are getting remarried. However, they run into problems on where they will live and where they will work.
Air date: 1979-11-07
Runtime: 30 min
Larry, in dire need of funds to buy a house for his daughters, is offered big money to be a nude emcee for a nude beauty contest.
Air date: 1979-11-14
Runtime: 30 min
Morgan becomes Larry's boss and Larry is jealous of her new position and promotion.
Air date: 1979-11-21
Runtime: 30 min
Marion's (Shelley Fabares) new fianc'e comes to visit and mentions he and Marion will be seeking shared custody of the girls.
Air date: 1979-11-28
Runtime: 30 min
The Alders go to New York City one more time, as Larry tries to pitch the sale of a television station he wants to manage to Philip Drummond's company. The crossover starts on Diff'rent Strokes S02E10 Thanksgiving Crossover (I).
Air date: 1979-12-05
Runtime: 30 min
Huge trouble arises when Diane develops a big deinking problem.
Air date: 1979-12-12
Runtime: 30 min
Tommy has to temporarily move in with the Alder's while his mother is away.
Air date: 1979-12-19
Runtime: 30 min
Larry's father moves in and against Larry's wishes, he gives Diane money to buy a car.
Air date: 1980-01-09
Runtime: 30 min
Larry's ex-wife Marion sends a sizeable check to help him buy a house for his daughters. And in the process, it challenges Larry's pride.
Air date: 1980-01-16
Runtime: 30 min
Ruthie gets in a fight with her new piano teacher who is very much disliked. He dies after their argument and Ruthie feels responsible for his death.
Air date: 1980-01-23
Runtime: 30 min
Morgan's blind nephew gets a sympathetic Ruthie to be his date.
Air date: 1980-01-30
Runtime: 30 min
Larry meets a female tenant ( who happens to be Tommy's mother) in his building's laundry room and things get very serious.
Air date: 1980-02-13
Runtime: 30 min
Larry uses his radio show to protest destruction of a local hotel housing senior citizens. He then ends up in jail and is fired from his radio job.
Air date: 1980-02-27
Runtime: 30 min
Morgan also finds herself jobless and Larry the confronts the station's boss's son, in order to at least try to get her job at the radio station.
Air date: 1980-03-05
Runtime: 30 min
Diane meets and falls for a rock star and may be leaving the home for the rock star.
Air date: 1980-03-12
Runtime: 30 min
Diane must make a very important choice. She must decide between either her new love (the rock star) and her family.
Air date: 1980-04-02
Runtime: 30 min
Tommy asks Larry for advice on women. Soon, Tommy is in very serious trouble at school for kissing a girl in a broom closet.
Air date: 1980-04-30
Runtime: 30 min
Morgan's new secretary dates Larry's father and we soon find out that marriage is in their plans.
Top Cast

McLean Stevenson
Larry Adler

Joanna Gleason
Morgan Winslow

Kim Richards
Ruthie Alder

Krista Errickson
Diane Alder

Fred Stuthman
Henry Alder

Ruth Brown
Leona Wilson
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