Last show of the series.
As the ratings for Diff'rent Strokes plummeted during the last 3 seasons, Season 8 moved to ABC, and they didn't improve. ABC canceled the show mid-season and this episode remains the shows final episode.
Conrad Bain (Philip Drummond) and Gary Coleman (Arnold Jackson) would make their final TV appearance together, in the series finale of "The Fresh Prince of Bel Air" in 1996.
Reginald Dorsey would later appear in the pilot episode for 21 Jump Street along side Peter DeLouise.
Peter DeLuise (who guest appears in this episode), would go on to play Doug Penhall on the hit police drama "21 Jump Street" one year later.