Diff'rent Strokes: Goodbye Dolly

Diff'rent Strokes: Goodbye Dolly
NBC
December 8, 1978
Sitcom
DVD
C+

This was written by another Brady Bunch veteran.  (I'm assuming the thinking of the DS producers was that both shows were about kids in blended families.)  It's the first of ten scripts by Albert E. Lewin, who'd done three for the Bunch.  And it's about as corny as the rest of the episodes so far.  Which is a shame, because while it's nice to see Jack Riley in his first of four appearances on the show, here as '40sish detective Miles Monroe, it makes me sad that he's not getting better material to work with in his early post-Bob-Newhart days.  Note that Arnold's doll, one, is actually a stuffed animal, not a doll; and two, looks like a Paddington bear rip-off.