A Different World (1987–1993)
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A group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.
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Even after Lisa Bonet had left the series, there was still a certain amount of interplay between this show and The Cosby Show (1984). Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Bonet and Joseph C. Phillips appear on an episode during the 1990-1991 season when Dwayne comes to visit Denise. Rashad is also the sister of frequent episode director Debbie Allen. In the 1987-1988 season, Rudy Huxtable (played by Keshia Knight Pulliam ) came to Hillman College to visit Denise. In 1992, a character from the late years of The Cosby show (Charmaine Brown, played by Karen Malina White ) joined the cast of A Different World, as a new student at Hillman College.
Quotes
Ron Johnson:
You got my butt pinched by some dock worker.
Dwayne Cleophus Wayne:
A butt pinch hurts a lot less then a bullet wound.
Ron Johnson:
At least a bullet is something you can take like a man.
Goofs
Throughout the course of the series, Whitley's talents go back and forth between being an accomplished singer/dancer and having little to no singing/dancing skills at all.
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Release Date:
24 September 1987Language
English
Country of Origin
USAFilming Locations
Universal Studios - 100 Universal City Plaza, Universal City, California, USAContribute to this page
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