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4 unusual facts about A Different World


Honda Campus All-Star Challenge

An episode of A Different World entitled "Goodwill Games" revolves around the premise of Dwayne Wayne and Whitley Gilbert competing in Hillman College's Campus All-Star Challenge tournament.

Neema Barnette

Her work includes a mixture of film and television sitcoms, such as A Different World, The Cosby Show, Gilmore Girls, and 7th Heaven.

Showtime Steppers

Stepping has also been featured on TV shows including A Different World, Sister, Sister, BET's 106 & Park, and NBC's America's Got Talent.

Varnette Honeywood

Her paintings also appeared on television on the Cosby Show spin-off A Different World, as well as on the TV series Amen and 227.


Adrienne-Joi Johnson

She has appeared in A Different World, In the Heat of the Night, The Fresh Prince of Bel Air, Amen, the short-lived Sirens, Chicago Hope, The Jamie Foxx Show, and Touched by an Angel.

Caryn Mandabach

Caryn Mandabach produced ground-breaking US hits including The Cosby Show, Roseanne, A Different World (1990–1993), Grace Under Fire (1993–1998), Cybill (1995–1998), 3rd Rock from the Sun (1997–2001), That '80s Show (2002), That '70s Show (1998–2004), and Grounded for Life (2001–2005).

Rob Schiller

Since 1984, Schiller has amassed a number of directorial credits namely A Different World, Living Single, Ellen, Malcolm & Eddie, The King of Queens, Two and a Half Men, 'Til Death, $h*! My Dad Says and other television series.


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Banned from Argo

"The Captain" (James T. Kirk) indulging his sexual appetites with "five partners, each of a different world and sex", requiring an escape by transporter to prevent his arrest by the "shore police".

Yvonne Antrobus

She has made over 100 abridgments and dramatisations for BBC Radio 3 and BBC Radio 4 and for independent audio publishers, including Vernon God Little by DBC Pierre, The British Journalist by Andrew Marr and Days From A Different World by John Simpson.