The BEST episodes directed by Herbert Kenwith
#1 - Florida Flips
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 1
Florida's strange behavior has everyone wondering what the problem might be.
#2 - J.J. Becomes a Man (1)
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 2
After his birthday party, J.J. is arrested on suspicion of robbing a liquor store.
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#4 - Thelma's Scholarship
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 23
Thelma has a chance at winning a scholarship to an exclusive boarding school in Michigan. However, even before she knows she won, a snobby girl from a fraternity comes around wanting Thelma to join and quickly discovers they just want her because she's black.
#5 - The I.Q. Test
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 7
Michael, one of the brightest boys in his class, comes home with the news that he scored the lowest out of his whole class on an I.Q. test.
#6 - The Encyclopedia Hustle
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 8
An encyclopedia salesman is the last person James wants to see when he comes home from work. However, he softens when he learns the man is blind. This leads James to sign a contract and reads the fine print only after the man leaves.
#7 - Crosstown Buses Run All Day, Doodah, Doodah
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 4
To avoid being bused to a white neighborhood, Michael forges his parents' names on a questionnaire.
#8 - Michael Gets Suspended
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 5
Michael is suspended from school after proclaiming that George Washington was a racist.
#9 - Springtime in the Ghetto
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 10
When Michael brings a local wino home, Florida's chances of being named as having the cleanest apartment in the projects are dimmed.
#10 - The Visitor
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 9
Michael's angry letter about the conditions in the ghetto prompts a visit from the city housing commission.
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#11 - A Little Extra Security
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 13
After Grady receives an extra Social Security check, he gambles the money away in Las Vegas.
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#12 - Fred's Treasure Garden
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 11
With Fred in St. Louis, Grady unwittingly serves a salad to Smitty and Hoppy that may contain marijuana leaves.
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#13 - The Lunch Money Ripoff
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 24
A bully has been stealing Michael's lunches which prompts James to give him some tips on how to handle the situation. However, Michael surprises everyone with his own tactic, he invites the bully home for the weekend.
#14 - Willona's Dilemma
Good Times - Season 3 - Episode 10
Willona fears her new relationship with a deaf man is moving too fast.
#15 - Florida Goes to School
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 15
Florida is going to night school hoping to achieve a High School Equivalency diploma, but her working in the daytime and going to school at night puts a strain on her relationship with James.
#16 - Junior Gets a Patron
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 7
J.J.'s new art sponsor is a criminal whose patronage is unwelcome by James.
#17 - The Club Meeting
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 11
Willis invites his neighborhood club from Harlem to visit, but things get out of hand when he tries to impress them with his new wealth.
#18 - J.J. Becomes a Man (2)
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 3
Desperate to raise bail to free J.J., the family considers taking money from a loan shark.
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#19 - The Windfall
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 12
James finds a bag of robbery loot adding up to $27,000. After some coaxing from Florida, James decides to turn it in. However, what Florida doesn't know is that there was $29,000 in the bag and James kept the other $2000.
#20 - The Mural
Good Times - Season 3 - Episode 12
J.J. is commissioned by a bank to paint a mural depicting ghetto life.
#21 - The Family Business
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 17
Realizing his mechanical skills, Florida suggests that James open a fix-it shop but when they go to the bank, they're turned down for a loan. This leads James to set up shop right in the apartment, despite a clause in the lease.
#22 - The Houseguest
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 20
A childhood friend of James' arrives for a visit and quickly his gambling problem becomes an Evans family problem when two hoods show up looking for him to pay off a $5000 debt.
#23 - Operation Florida
Good Times - Season 3 - Episode 3
James insists on a level of care he can't afford when Florida needs a gallbladder operation.
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#24 - My Girl Henrietta
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 21
The Evans family's joy at finally getting to meet J.J.'s girl Henrietta is shrouded by J.J.'s declaration that his immediate future could include Henrietta and matrimony.
#25 - The Enlistment
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 22
The Evans' family is hit with a double dose of unemployment blues after both James and J.J. lose their jobs. Wanting to support his family, J.J. decides to join the U.S. army.
#26 - Florida's Protest
Good Times - Season 3 - Episode 11
After serving the family meat that makes them sick, Florida organizes a protest against the market and winds up in jail.
#27 - The Check Up
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 12
The Evanses become concerned about James's possible hypertension.
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Here's Lucy - Season 2 - Episode 18
Lucy brags to Viv, who's visiting, that she knows Lawrence Welk personally, and then schemes to introduce her to the band leader, whom she has actually never met. She and Mary Jane then attempt to foot Vivian with a wax dummy, but the kids get the real Lawrence Welk instead.
#29 - Lucy and Viv Visit Tijuana
Here's Lucy - Season 2 - Episode 19
Lucy and Viv talk Harry into taking them to Tijuana for the day. After shopping in a tourist shop, they stopped at the border because a stuffed toy has thousands of dollars worth of jewels inside.
#30 - The Debutante Ball
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 18
J.J. is enchanted with his new girlfriend, Clarissa, and is all set to take her to a ritzy debutante ball. However, Clarissa has come to the Evans' apartment with some bad news, her parents won't let her go with J.J., citing that they think she's too good for him.
#31 - The Gang (1)
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 9
J.J. secretly has become a member of the Satan's Knights, a gang who are in the midst of a gang war with the Warlords. Two members and the leader of the Satan's Knights arrive at the Evan's home to escort a scared J.J. to a meeting place where the two gangs are to tangle. However, on the way there they run into James and Florida and a scuffle ensues leaving J.J. shot.
#32 - The 45-Year-Old Man
The Mary Tyler Moore Show - Season 1 - Episode 24
When Lou is fired, Mary goes to confront the station owner, Wild Jack Munroe.
#33 - The Spanking
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 5
Arnold ignores warnings and continues to drop water balloons from the balcony. Mr. Drummond's decision to punish Arnold for the prank with a spanking becomes a learning lesson for Willis too, when he insists that he be the one to spank Arnold -- but where's Arnold?
#34 - Mother's Last Visit
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 3
Mr. Drummond's socialite and rather snobbish mother arrives and finds there's a lot she doesn't like about her son's new sons, but she soon learns a valuable lesson about what's really important in a person.
#35 - Prep School
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 4
When Mr. Drummond tries to get Arnold and Willis into an exclusive prep school, it turns out to be just a little too exclusive for everyone's tastes.
#36 - Once a Thief
Sanford and Son - Season 4 - Episode 15
Lamont's visiting ex-con friend has Grady on high alert.
#37 - Loathe Thy Neighbor
Bosom Buddies - Season 1 - Episode 3
A fight between Sonny and Amy sparks a fight between Kip and Henry, and a swap of roommates.
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#38 - Old Scrapmouth
The Partridge Family - Season 1 - Episode 16
Laurie gets the bad news that she needs braces just as she thinks Jerry, the boy across the street, might finally get up the nerve to ask her to go steady. However, if that wasn't bad enough, Reuben informs the Partridges that they have been booked to appear on a high profile talk show. Things then go from bad to worse when Laurie's braces somehow pick up radio signals during rehearsals and causes her to play a different tune than what the band is. Who knew braces could be so complicated? The next day, Wink Burgess and his entire crew arrive for the taping. When Burgess tells Laurie to smile for the camera, she storms out of the house in tears and hides in the bus.
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#39 - Florida's Big Gig
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 14
James is sure he's going to get a sales position at a department store but when he brings Florida along on the interview he is in for a big surprise, the supervisor would rather hire Florida rather than him.
#40 - My Son the Lover
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 13
A popular girl wants J.J. to paint her portrait, but Florida and Thelma smell a rat.
#41 - The Nude
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 16
A woman aks J.J. to paint a nude portrait of her as a birthday gift for her husband. However, Florida has a hard time understanding why a woman would pose in the nude and why she has to pose in the Evans' apartment.
#42 - The TV Commercial
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 11
Florida is offered a role in a TV commercial but has second thoughts when she learns more about the product.
#43 - Movin' In
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 1
Multi-millionaire Phillip Drummond, who has agreed to the death-bed wish of his housekeeper to raise her two small sons as his own, welcomes 8-year-old Arnold and 12-year-old Willis into his lavish penthouse. Anxious to make them feel at home, he showers them with gifts and love -- and is puzzled when he learns that the boys are planning to sneak from the lap of luxury back to Harlem. Aiding Drummond in his effort to make the street-wise, ghetto youngsters feel welcome in the affluent white world are Drummond's new housekeeper Mrs. Garrett and his 13-year-old daughter Kimberly.
#44 - The Social Worker
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 2
Arnold's eavesdropping leads to trouble when a misunderstanding causes Willis and him to think that Mr. Drummond no longer wants them around; he has heard Drummond tell a social worker that "black children belong with black families."
#45 - The Dinner Party
Good Times - Season 2 - Episode 19
An elderly resident of the projects appears to be living on pet food after Michael takes out her garbage. The Evans family's attempt to do something for her is complicated when she brings a meat loaf to dinner and the kids suspect it is made from dog food.
#46 - Junior the Senior
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 8
Florida and James try to get to the bottom of J.J.'s poor performance in school.
#47 - Goodbye Dolly
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 6
When Arnold loses his favorite doll, he makes sure that his misery is shared equally by the various members of his household, who soon try everything to get it back.
#48 - Sex and the Evans Family
Good Times - Season 1 - Episode 6
Florida tries to discover the owner of a dirty article that belongs to Thelma's boyfriend.
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#49 - The Trial
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 7
When Arnold is in trouble for putting his goldfish in Mr. Drummond's hot tub, Willis insists that it is wrong to convict him without a trial. The whole family, with Mrs. Garrett as judge, comes up with an important verdict.
#50 - Retrospective (2)
Diff'rent Strokes - Season 1 - Episode 9
Life in the household is recalled in clips from early episodes.