brady braves: set your tivos, dvrs, vhs, and 8-trax ... just read on tvguide.com that BET will air the Diff'rent Strokes episode "burial ground" (originally aired 1/7/82) at 8am and 2pm central time on wed, april 16 ... (of course, air dates/times may vary from place to place) ... how many brady braves have been awaiting this one? an episode in which, as tvguide.com says it, "Arnold goes on a hunger strike to protest construction on one of Drummond's sites, which may be a Native American burial ground" ... guest starring ned romero (as "chief of the oswego indians"), who can be seen as a cool old ind'n in rick stevenson's Expiration Date movie ... couple this Strokes episode with Barney Miller's 4/29/82 episode "Bones" (a museum presses charges when an Indian retrieves his tribe's ancestral bones from an exhibit), and you've got an early '80s "indians in hollywood" brady bravin' bash ...
april 16 update: the bureau staff watched "burial ground" this morning ... it's like brady bunch's grand canyon episodes revisited new york style with white guy (mr. drummond instead of mr. brady this time) as the problem solver ... whole lotta stereotypes, including several enacted by the "chief," and sad attempts at educatin' ...
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