A Different World
Do the Write Thing
Season 5, Episode 21 · Aired 1992-04-02
Synopsis
Lena is losing her engineering scholarship until she writes a moving story about her father, which later is proven to be fabricated. It earns her a journalism scholarship and brings her closer to her gambler father. Whitley jeopardizes Byron's fund raising when she wears a fur to an event.
In the series
This episode is part of A Different World (1987–1993) on NBC.
HBCU life after Denise left the nest — Cosby spin-off that found its own voice.
Key cast
- Jasmine Guy as Whitley Gilbert
- Kadeem Hardison as Dwayne Wayne
- Dawnn Lewis as Jaleesa Vinson
- Cree Summer as Freddie Brooks
- Darryl M. Bell as Ron Johnson