mjshegog This was not just one of the few shows that depicted college life, It was the only show that showed life at a Black College. From exam craziness, relationships, and finding part-time jobs to interracial dating, Step shows, and hate crimes, This show handled it all and with style. Even difficult topics (HIV/AIDS, going to war, ex-prisoners)were addressed in the way would make you laugh and think. An amazing number of famous Black Actors and Actresses passed through Hillman halls (even Whoopi Goldberg was a professor on an episode). What was originally just a Cosby spin-off proved to be truly a force of it's own. (Although you didn't really see them study after Junior Year)

supermans_girl This show was very popular when it originally aired, due in large part to the fact that it was a "spin-off" of The Cosby Show and followed it in NBC's Thursday night line up. A Different World, like The Cosby Show, portrayed Black Americans as upwardly mobile and intelligent. It offered a slice of life peek into what it's like to attend a historically black university, the fictional Hillman College. This show solidified its stars' places in pop culture history -- from Dwayne Wayne's trademark flip up glasses, to Whitley Gilbert's annoying southern belle twang. Always intelligent, relevant and most importantly funny, A Different World will be remembered as a positive portrayal of Black college life and Black people, minus the buffoonery.

lilc_28677 I miss the show so much, i loved to watch it everyday, even though i was born three years before it happened, i grew up to love the crazy Dwayne Wayne and miss beautiful Whitley gilbert, i loved to see those to flirt with each other and act like they did not like each other. i was happy when those to got married, and i loved Ron Johnson, especially when him and Freddie got together in the long run, but at first he fell for Kimberly Reese and was in a love triangle. i wish the show was still on or would have a reunion or do a remake of the show but with different characters on there, having the same personalities as the ones that were on there before. i would love to play Kimberly Reese because she is smart and pretty with a good head on her shoulders, i think i would like to play her because i am going into the medical field, i think they should bring the show back with a reunion. please ms. Allen you have got to make it happen. this show was great and i hate that it ended, but i enjoy watching the show even today, watching all the re-runs of the show it's awesome, especially when Dwayne falls for Whitley and she gets ready to marry Byron and Kim tries to stop her and Dwayne comes to the rescue, that's me favorite show.

krazy982 I love this series; I grew up on it. I actually wanted to go to Hillman College until I was told that it was just a made up college based on the great Morehouse and Spelman. I have to agree that I didn't like Season One hardly at all. Lisa Bonet may be a good actress, however, she didn't/couldn't bring out the best of ADW. Jasmine Guy is incredible; she brings that Whitley Gilbert character to life each time the camera rolls. ADW raised issues on school pressures, peer pressures, drugs, abuse, rape, and racial discrimination. To sit here and read that it was a tired attempt at humor just astonishes me. This was the first sitcom (African-American at that) that actually based actual facts on the college life. What people seem to forget is that when they were in college, it just wasn't all about studies (although it should have been.). Yet, they had fun and they had tears as well-don't "hate" A Different World just because you live in one...