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In 1978, Diff ' rent Strokes debuted on NBC.

The show concerned Phillip Drummond ( Conrad Bain ), a wealthy white widower in New York City who adopted two young black boys after their parents died.

Plato played Kimberly, the teenage daughter of Drummond and the sister of the two adopted boys, Willis ( Todd Bridges ) and Arnold ( Gary Coleman ).

She was the oldest, Willis was second, and Arnold was the third.

The show was an immediate hit.