Diff'rent Strokes: The Trial

Diff'rent Strokes: The Trial
NBC
December 15, 1978
Sitcom
DVD
B-

This Rosen & Rubin episode is one of the better ones so far.  It takes the sitcom situation of a mock trial, as on, yes, The Brady Bunch (and again the maid presides as judge), but adds the layer of whether justice is as accessible for poor blacks as for rich whites.  (And, yes, there's irony to this episode, knowing what the three child actors would experience with the law in later years.)  Note that at this point Kimberly doesn't really have a personality or interests, beyond being a stereotypical teenage girl.