Product Details

• Actors: Gary Coleman, Conrad Bain, Todd Bridges
• Format: AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Full Screen, NTSC
• Language: English
• Subtitles for the Hearing Impaired: English
• Region: Region 1 encoding (US and Canada only)
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• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: September 29, 2009
• Run Time: 225 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002JH2EHO
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #104,266 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Adoption parts 1 & 2: controversial episodes - the boys are adopted by their new white father.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

32 of 41 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars I'm sorry but the contents of this DVD is ridiculous... September 27, 2009

By Blindbadger

Don't get me wrong I adore Diff'rent Strokes, but I cannnot tell you how long I have been waiting on a release of Season Three onto DVD and instead die-hard fans such as myself are treated to this ridiculous release of episodes you can find on the Season 1 and 2 discs. Absolutely, completely and utterly criminal!

Get your act together Sony and release the following Seasons 3-8 of Diff'rent Strokes and stop fanny-annying about with utter rubbish releases like this one!!! Grrrr!

Sorry, but I wouldn't recommend buying this to anyone. Buy the full seasons. You get better value for your money for one thing.

11 of 15 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars SERIOUSLY???? November 10, 2010

By JOHN J. NOLAN IV

So instead of just releasing season 3 SONY will go to all the trouble to release this new DVD with the same episodes as seasons 1 and 2. WHY???? HELLO-to all you corporate big wigs that make all the decisions start reading the CUSTOMER'S reviews. Maybe you'll learn something. Die hard fans want the rest of this series. So put it out!!!! Guess what-you'll make money and have happy customers. Now you just have pissed off customers that wont buy this dvd that is just a rehash of the first 2 seasons we already own....you suck

5.0 out of 5 stars Old School, Family-Oriented TV Series DVDs December 27, 2012

By Dwranny

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