Episodes cast for
"A Different World" (1987) More at IMDbPro »

Season: 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6
Year: 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | unknown

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Season 1

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Season 1, Episode 1: Reconcilable Differences

24 September 1987
Its the first day at Hilmen, and Denise needs to settle with a roommate.

Season 1, Episode 2: Pilot

1 October 1987
Denise finds out that her dorm payment check bounced and that her checking account is overdrawn.

Season 1, Episode 3: Porky de Bergerac

15 October 1987

Season 1, Episode 4: Those Who Can't... Tutor

22 October 1987

Season 1, Episode 5: War of the Words

29 October 1987

Season 1, Episode 6: Rudy and the Snow Queen

5 November 1987
Denise's little sister Rudy visits Hillman and makes Whitley her new role model.

Season 1, Episode 7: Sometimes You Get the Bear, Sometimes the Bear Gets You

19 November 1987

Season 1, Episode 8: If Chosen, I May Not Run

3 December 1987

Season 1, Episode 9: Romancing Mr. Stone

10 December 1987

Season 1, Episode 10: The Gift of the Magi

17 December 1987

Season 1, Episode 11: Does He or Doesn't He?

7 January 1988

Season 1, Episode 12: Advise and Descent

14 January 1988

Season 1, Episode 13: The Prime of Miss Lettie Bostic

21 January 1988

Season 1, Episode 14: Wild Child

4 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 15: Dr. Cupid

11 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 16: The Show Must Go On

18 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 17: Mr. Hillman

25 February 1988

Season 1, Episode 18: Speech Therapy

10 March 1988

Season 1, Episode 19: Clair's Last Stand

24 March 1988

Season 1, Episode 20: If Only for One Night

28 April 1988

Season 1, Episode 21: Come Back, Little Eggby

5 May 1988

Season 1, Episode 22: My Dinner with Theo

7 July 1988

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Season 2

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Season 2, Episode 1: Dr. War Is Hell

6 October 1988

Season 2, Episode 2: Two Gentlemen of Hillman

13 October 1988

Season 2, Episode 3: Some Enchanted Late Afternoon

27 October 1988

Season 2, Episode 4: Dream Lover

3 November 1988

Season 2, Episode 5: Three Girls Three

10 November 1988

Season 2, Episode 6: If You Like Pilgrim Coladas

17 November 1988

Season 2, Episode 7: A Stepping Stone

1 December 1988

Season 2, Episode 8: Life with Father

8 December 1988

Season 2, Episode 9: All's Fair

15 December 1988

Season 2, Episode 10: Radio Free Hillman

5 January 1989

Season 2, Episode 11: It Happened One Night

12 January 1989

Season 2, Episode 12: I've Got the Muse in Me

26 January 1989

Season 2, Episode 13: Risky Business

2 February 1989

Season 2, Episode 14: Breaking Up Is Hard to Do

9 February 1989

Season 2, Episode 15: For She's Only a Bird in a Gilded Cage

23 February 1989

Season 2, Episode 16: It's Greek to Me

2 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 17: The Thing About Women

9 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 18: High Anxiety

16 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 19: Take This Job and Love It

23 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 20: No Means No

30 March 1989

Season 2, Episode 21: Citizen Wayne

27 April 1989

Season 2, Episode 22: There's No Place Like Home

4 May 1989

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Season 3

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Season 3, Episode 1: Strangers on a Plane

21 September 1989
Dwayne and Whitley get to know one another better on an eventful plane ride back to campus while everyone else adapts to the now co-ed dorms.

Season 3, Episode 2: The Heat Is On

12 October 1989

Season 3, Episode 3: The Hat Makes the Man

19 October 1989

Season 3, Episode 4: To Have and Have Not

26 October 1989

Season 3, Episode 5: Forever Hold Your Peace

2 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 6: Delusions of Daddyhood

9 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 7: Wedding Bells from Hell

16 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 8: Great Expectations

30 November 1989

Season 3, Episode 9: Answered Prayers

7 December 1989

Season 3, Episode 10: For Whom the Jingle Bell Tolls

21 December 1989

Season 3, Episode 11: Under One Roof

4 January 1990

Season 3, Episode 12: Here's to Old Friends

11 January 1990

Season 3, Episode 13: The Power of the Pen

18 February 1990

Season 3, Episode 14: Pride and Prejudice

25 January 1990
While shopping for her father's birthday present, a jewelry store clerk discriminates against Whitley. Civilians Dwayne and Walter go on a ROTC weekend trip with Col. Taylor and Cadet Sgt. Ron.

Season 3, Episode 15: Success, Lies and Videotape

8 February 1990

Season 3, Episode 16: A World Alike

15 February 1990
Freddie and transfer student Julian's plans to protest South African apartheid cause Kim to reconsider accepting a need scholarship.

Season 3, Episode 17: That's the Trouble with You All

22 February 1990
Whitley fixes Dewayne up with another girl, but then has trouble dealing with it.

Season 3, Episode 18: A Camp Fire Story

1 March 1990
Dwayne and Walter weave a tall tale about their basketball-recruiting trip, which took some strange turns.

Season 3, Episode 19: Hillman Isn't Through with You Yet

8 March 1990
Whitley has a touch of "senioritis", but it's her job prospects that look a little sickly. Ron's sister, Rachel visits.

Season 3, Episode 20: 21 Candles

26 October 1990
Whitley is Little Miss Lonely when she thinks everyone's forgotten her 21st birthday.

Season 3, Episode 21: Sweet Charity

29 March 1990
Whitley, Jaleesa, and Freddie secretly plan to raise money for Kim; and Dwayne and Ron portray hoopsters in a commercial.

Season 3, Episode 22: Soldier Boy

5 April 1990
Awaiting an ROTC dinner where Col. Taylor is to be roasted, Ron sweats bullets over the choosing of "cadet of the year"

Season 3, Episode 23: Getaway: Part 1

19 April 1990
While on vacation, Dwayne and Ron gain possession of some drug peddlers' cash and drugs. Part 1 of two.

Season 3, Episode 24: Getaway: Part 2

26 April 1990
Conclusion. Dwayne and Ron try to thwart the drug dealers by posing as girls.

Season 3, Episode 25: Perhaps Love

5 May 1990
Dwayne's mom visits when Dwayne is inducted into an honors society. Julian asks Whitley to spend summer with him in DC.

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Season 4

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Season 4, Episode 1: Everything Must Change

20 September 1990

Season 4, Episode 2: How Bittersweet It Is

27 September 1990
Whitley uses Ron as a pawn in her love match with Dwayne; Freddie tries historics and dramatics to get into a history class.

Season 4, Episode 3: Blues for Nobody's Child

4 October 1990
Freddie befriends an orphan and suggests the possibility of adopting the boy to Prof. Randolph.

Season 4, Episode 4: Whitley's Last Supper

11 October 1990
Kim moves into high gear for practice med-school exam, While Whitley downshifts her spending.

Season 4, Episode 5: The Goodwill Games

18 October 1990
Dwayne helps Whitley prepare for an academic competition, but one thing leads to another during a study session.

Season 4, Episode 6: Tales from the Exam Zone

25 October 1990
Dwayne, Whitley, and Freddie find themselves in a different dimension--"The Exam Zone".

Season 4, Episode 7: Good Help Is Hard to Fire

8 November 1990
Dwayne's mother walks in on a squabble between Kinu and the apartment's new maid - Whitley.

Season 4, Episode 8: Love Thy Neighbor

15 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 9: Time Keeps on Slippin'

29 November 1990

Season 4, Episode 10: The Apple Doesn't Fall

6 December 1990
Col. Taylor feels he's made a hole in one when asked to join the once segregated country club.

Season 4, Episode 11: I'm Dreaming of a Wayne Christmas

13 December 1990
Whitley joins Dwayne in Brooklyn for his family's Christmas. However she runs into trouble with a crooked Santa while shopping for a gift for Dwayne's mother.

Season 4, Episode 12: War and Peace

10 January 1991
Blaie Underwood plays a friend of Dwayne's who battles ambivalence on the eve of his reserve unit's departure to Persian Gulf.

Season 4, Episode 13: Ex-Communication

13 January 1991
Julian has a talk with Whitley that takes a toll on her ego--and may cost her Dwayne.

Season 4, Episode 14: Risk Around the Dollar

7 February 1991
Lack of money may make Whitley's world come tumbling down after she blows her rent money.

Season 4, Episode 15: Love, Hillman-Style

14 February 1991
Matthew brings members of the National theater of the Deaf to Walter's outreach center for a performance.

Season 4, Episode 16: Episode #4.16

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Season 4, Episode 17: A Word in Edgewise

21 February 1991

Season 4, Episode 18: Ms. Understanding

28 February 1991

Season 4, Episode 19: The Cash Isn't Always Greener

7 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 20: How Great Thou Art

14 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 21: It's Showtime at Hillman

21 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 22: Sister to Sister, Sister

28 March 1991

Season 4, Episode 23: Monet Is the Root of All Evil

4 April 1991

Season 4, Episode 24: If I Should Die Before I Wake

11 April 1991

Season 4, Episode 25: Never Can Say Goodbye

25 April 1991

Season 4, Episode 26: To Be Continued

2 May 1991

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Season 5

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Season 5, Episode 1: We've Only Just Begun

19 September 1991

Season 5, Episode 2: The Dwayne Mutiny

26 September 1991

Season 5, Episode 3: Home Is Where the Fire Is

3 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 4: Almost Working Girl

10 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 5: In the Eye of the Storm

17 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 6: Rule Number One

24 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 7: Baby, I'm a Star

31 October 1991

Season 5, Episode 8: Liza Who-Little

7 November 1991

Season 5, Episode 9: To Tell the Truth

14 November 1991

Season 5, Episode 10: Do You Take This Woman?

21 November 1991

Season 5, Episode 11: Mammy Dearest

5 December 1991

Season 5, Episode 12: Twelve Steps of Christmas

19 December 1991

Season 5, Episode 13: Just Another Four-Letter Word

2 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 14: The Cat's in the Cradle

16 January 1992
At a hotly contested Hillman-Virginia A&M game, Ron accepts a sucker bet from three white A&M students, then gets into a fight with them when one of them starts to spray a racial epithet on his car in revenge. In a cell, the men proceed to give very different accounts, mediated by a white officer who challenges both groups' assumptions.

Season 5, Episode 15: Prisoner of Love

23 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 16: Bedroom at the Top

30 January 1992

Season 5, Episode 17: May the Best Man Win

13 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 18: Kiss You Back

20 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 19: Conflict of Interest

27 February 1992

Season 5, Episode 20: Sellmates

12 March 1992

Season 5, Episode 21: Do the Write Thing

2 April 1992

Season 5, Episode 22: Love Taps

23 April 1992
Events take a tragic turn at the dorm when Lena suspects a rapper named Dion is abusing Gina.

Season 5, Episode 23: Special Delivery

7 May 1992

Season 5, Episode 24: Save the Best for Last: Part 1

14 May 1992

Season 5, Episode 25: Save the Best for Last: Part 2

21 May 1992

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Season 6

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Season 6, Episode 1: Honeymoon in L.A.: Part 1

24 September 1992

Season 6, Episode 2: Honeymoon in L.A.: Part 2

1 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 3: Interior Desecration

8 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 4: Somebody Say Ho!

15 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 5: Really Gross Anatomy

22 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 6: Don't Count Your Chickens Before They're Axed

29 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 7: The Little Mister

29 October 1992

Season 6, Episode 8: Baby, It's Cold Outside

5 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 9: Faith, Hope, and Charity: Part 1

12 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 10: Faith, Hope, and Charity: Part 2

12 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 11: Original Teacher

19 November 1992

Season 6, Episode 12: Occupational Hazards

3 December 1992

Season 6, Episode 13: White Christmas

17 December 1992

Season 6, Episode 14: To Whit, with Love

7 January 1993

Season 6, Episode 15: Happy Birthday to Moi

14 January 1993

Season 6, Episode 16: Mind Your Own Business

21 January 1993

Season 6, Episode 17: When One Door Closes...: Part 1

8 May 1993

Season 6, Episode 18: When One Door Closes...: Part 2

8 May 1993

Season 6, Episode 19: Episode #6.19

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Season 6, Episode 20: Lean on Me

27 May 1993

Season 6, Episode 21: Dancing Machines

3 June 1993

Season 6, Episode 22: Cabin in the Sky

10 June 1993

Season 6, Episode 23: Great X-Pectations

9 July 1993

Season 6, Episode 24: Homey, Don't Ya Know Me?

1993

Season 6, Episode 25: A Rock, a River, a Lena

1993

Season 6, Episode 26: College Kid

1993