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julietx · 04-15-2022, 11:40 PM

if she grew up to be a racist like her father. She was so innocent and sweet as a child. Hopefully she stayed that way. But, her father would have influenced her. People change when they grow up. I wish they had done a follow-up episode with Alice.

TVFactFan · 04-24-2022, 01:44 AM

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Originally Posted by julietx

if she grew up to be a racist like her father. She was so innocent and sweet as a child. Hopefully she stayed that way. But, her father would have influenced her. People change when they grow up. I wish they had done a follow-up episode with Alice.

Probably not because she already experienced being around a black person who she actually liked as a person. Most whites who are racist never experience being around black person at all

EccentricGenius · 06-20-2022, 07:02 PM

That's a very good question, julietx. I've also wondered if Alice Tanner (Rachel Jacobs) would've eventually discovered how bigoted her father, Fred (Dabney Coleman), really was and ultimately decided to live with her mother as she reached her teen years, or ended up emancipating herself from her obnoxious father prior to reaching the age of eighteen.

And it's equally unfortunate that Alice--or her racist father--never appeared on "Strokes" in a follow-up episode during its long, eight-season run (1978-86) on both NBC and ABC...it would've been interesting to see a now-teenaged Alice visiting the Drummonds' penthouse, having a better understanding of racism, as well as Arnold and Willis' disadvantaged backgrounds growing up in the slums of Harlem prior to being adopted by Mr. Drummond.

Alice, however, was mentioned in the Valentine's Day-themed flashback episode "Valentine's Day Retrospective," which aired during the second season. While Arnold and Willis are both accidentially locked in the storage room (located in the basement of their penthouse), Arnold reminisced about meeting Alice at Dr. Padnick's office and both Arnold and Alice were overjoyed at the excitement of sharing a hospital room with each other--Arnold was suffering from appendicitis, while Alice was having her tonsils removed--and laments that because he's locked in the storage room with Willis, he'll never see her again.

04-15-2022, 11:40 PM	#1
julietx Member Occasional Poster Join Date: May 03, 2015 Posts: 90	I wonder if Alice (little girl in the hospital) stayed nice, or........... if she grew up to be a racist like her father. She was so innocent and sweet as a child. Hopefully she stayed that way. But, her father would have influenced her. People change when they grow up. I wish they had done a follow-up episode with Alice.

06-20-2022, 07:02 PM	#3
EccentricGenius Member Forum Regular Join Date: Dec 30, 2015 Posts: 767	That's a very good question, julietx. I've also wondered if Alice Tanner (Rachel Jacobs) would've eventually discovered how bigoted her father, Fred (Dabney Coleman), really was and ultimately decided to live with her mother as she reached her teen years, or ended up emancipating herself from her obnoxious father prior to reaching the age of eighteen. And it's equally unfortunate that Alice--or her racist father--never appeared on "Strokes" in a follow-up episode during its long, eight-season run (1978-86) on both NBC and ABC...it would've been interesting to see a now-teenaged Alice visiting the Drummonds' penthouse, having a better understanding of racism, as well as Arnold and Willis' disadvantaged backgrounds growing up in the slums of Harlem prior to being adopted by Mr. Drummond. Alice, however, was mentioned in the Valentine's Day-themed flashback episode "Valentine's Day Retrospective," which aired during the second season. While Arnold and Willis are both accidentially locked in the storage room (located in the basement of their penthouse), Arnold reminisced about meeting Alice at Dr. Padnick's office and both Arnold and Alice were overjoyed at the excitement of sharing a hospital room with each other--Arnold was suffering from appendicitis, while Alice was having her tonsils removed--and laments that because he's locked in the storage room with Willis, he'll never see her again.