Do you remember him playing the kindly white adoptive father of two young African-American brothers in the TV sitcom "Diff'rent Strokes"?

Did you watch the other TV sitcom in 1972 to 1978 called "Maude" where he played the Conservative neighbor , Dr. Arthur Harmon?

Did you watch either of these shows?

Did you know that his co-actors in Diff'rent Strokes--Gary Coleman (the one that said "What you talking about Willis" on the show all the time) died in 2010 and Dana Plato who played Bain's teenage daughter, died of an overdose in 1999 at age 34?

This was a show about a white man adopting two African-American boys and the show aired in the late 70's early 80's for eight years. Do you feel this show was ahead of its time regarding race relations?