[9] The show also deals with teenage pregnancy when Denise's friend Veronica (Lela Rochon) becomes pregnant.[10]. Written by However, all subsequent DVD releases (including the complete series set) contain the original, uncut broadcast versions. Although based on comedy, the series also addresses some more serious topics, such as learning disabilities and teen pregnancy. Cosby's character is called "Clifford" in the early episodes of the first season, but his name was later switched to "Heathcliff". “The Cosby Show” is credited with single-handedly rescuing the sitcom form. Fellow superstation WGN America began carrying the series shortly thereafter, and continued to until September 2010. For season four, the theme song music was performed by musician Bobby McFerrin.[39]. A furry alien wiseguy comes to live with the Tanner family after crashing into their garage. The Cosby Show was famous for changing its opening credits sequence every season. The show was an immediate hit, garnering 20 million viewers a night and racing to the number three spot in primetime television. In Region 4, Magna Pacific has released all eight seasons on DVD in Australia and New Zealand. Tony Micelli, a retired baseball player, becomes the housekeeper of Angela Bower, an advertising executive in New York. The career of Bill Cosby, who starred in two failed sitcoms during the 1970s, produced award-winning stand-up comedy albums, and had roles in several different films, was relatively static during the early 1980s. The Cosby Show was famous for changing its opening credits sequence every season. [17], Cosby originally proposed that the couple should both have blue-collar worker jobs, with the father a limousine driver,[18] who owned his own car, and the mother an electrician. Blacks as communicators and interpreters of mass communication Journalism Quarterly, 50, 285-291. "[2] TV Guide also ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows. "The Cosby Show" centers on the lives of the Huxtables: obstetrician Cliff and his lawyer wife Claire, their daughters Sondra, Denise, Vanessa and Rudy, and son Theo. And I still remember that glee in my Dad's eyes in the following scene where Clair, like a good lawyer, confronted Cliff to his own responsibility and he had no other choice than naughtily pleading guilty. [50], The Cosby Show is one of three television programs (All in the Family and American Idol being the others) that were number one in the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive seasons.[51][52][53]. Helpful. [13], Bill Cosby originally wanted Vanessa Williams to play the part of Sondra due to her college education and background in theater arts. Charles, a college student, is a live-in housekeeper in the Powell household. The Cosby Show was the most popular series on American television in the late 1980s. 1 Episode 1992. Fort Worth, Texas-based independent station, KTVT, carried the series until 1995, when it ceased operating as a regional cable superstation and became an affiliate of CBS. Show Details: Start date: Sep 1984 End date: Apr 1992 Status: cancelled/ended Network(s): NBC Run time: 30 min Episodes: 201 eps Genre(s): Comedy. [48], The Cosby Show aired on Thursdays at 8:00 pm for all eight seasons. We never cared for the Huxtables family being Black, they were a regular successful family "happening to be Black"... but it certainly encouraged many Black young people to go to college. The Cosby Show proved to be fierce competition, becoming the number one show … King, Stevie Wonder, Sammy Davis Jr., Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Dizzy Gillespie, and Miriam Makeba. Anne-Louise Wallace. [38] Seven versions of this theme were used during the run of the series, making it one of the few television series to use multiple versions of the same theme song over the course of a series. 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Google Scholar. The humourous adventures of an English housekeeper working for an American family. And when I heard the "Night time" song in the film "Ray", I immediately remembered that hilarious anniversary episode, and "I Just Called" still brings me back to that magnificent episode with Stevie Wonder. The series was also available to stream on Hulu. [23], The earliest episodes of the series were videotaped at NBC's Brooklyn studios (subsequently JC Studios). Can we just ignore a show of such historical magnitude and with so many great messages to the youth?Remember the pilot, Theo confesses, during a heartfelt speech, that he might not be a doctor or a lawyer like his parents but that they should love him as a son anyway. What made The Cosby show different from its competition though, was the family it depicted. *Phylicia Rashad was credited as "Phylicia Ayers-Allen" during season one and the first fourteen episodes of season two. [20][21], Cosby wanted the program to be educational, reflecting his own background in education. The Cosby Show - Full Cast & Crew. Bill Cosby Sings Hooray for the Salvation Army Band! Take a look ahead at some of our most anticipated superhero series arriving in 2021 and beyond. Most of the story in the pilot presentation is taken from Bill Cosby's 1983 comedy film Bill Cosby: Himself. [3] In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television Dad".[4]. In the late 80's, the newborn second channel of Morocco provided some of the best programs we ever saw, yet without the decoder, we could only enjoy a few hours of non-encrypted programs, which was fine… until they aired "The Cosby Show".Indeed, there were those who enjoyed the show, and the others who knew what they missed thanks to a fantastic word-of-mouth. Based on the standup comedy of Bill Cosby, the show focused on his observations of family life. In 2011, Millennium quietly released season one uncut in Region 1, which featured the special features from The Complete Series set. And More Qs, Good news, ‘Ted Lasso’: Emmys love first-year comedies — just ask ‘Mrs. The misadventures of a wealthy Manhattan family who adopted the children of their late African American housekeeper from Harlem. The couple have five children, four girls and one boy, who range in age from elementary school to college. The channel says its decision to re-air the classic sitcom starting Dec. 19 was one “by popular demand.” Jwelch5742. And I still remember my 4-year old brother answering the phone saying "Huxtable Residence", imitating Cosby's groovy moves at the end of the second season's intro or "zerbutting" on my father's cheek… the show affected our life. [74] Bounce TV resumed airing the series in December 2016[75] but pulled the show on April 26, 2018 — the day Cosby was convicted of sexual assault. Should such a positive model be banned from TV?The show was also ahead of its time on another topic: feminism. You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Kassarjian, W. (1973). THE COSBY SHOW The View From the Black Middle Class LESLIE B. INNISS Florida State University JOE R. FEAGIN University of Florida Now that we have seen the final April 30, 1992, episode the television series The Cosby Show, "And So We Commence," we can … Says the exec, "It's a nice piece of nostalgia and nothing more." The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby, which aired in Thursday nights for eight seasons on NBC between September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. [71][72] "(E)pisodes have been pulled immediately for the foreseeable future…TV Land even removed references to The Cosby Show from its website on Wednesday afternoon as the scandal accelerated." The Cosby Show was for the late '80s what Dallas was for the early eighties. Bill Cosby exits the Montgomery County Courthouse after a mistrial was declared in his sexual assault trial.Matt Rourke/AP "The issue is not so much airing The Cosby Show, but … Bill Cosby Is a Very Funny Fellow...Right! Commentary for ", People's Choice Awards for Favorite New TV Comedy, historically black colleges and universities, TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time, TV Guide's 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time, A House Full of Love: Music from The Cosby Show, "What 29 TV Shows Have Been #1 in the Annual Nielsen Rankings? My Father Confused Me... What Must I Do? The interior of the Huxtables' home features an entirely different living room from subsequent episodes, and different color schemes in the dining room and the master bedroom. In the fall of 1984, The Cosby Show premiered on NBC. With all the amazing episodes of the show that exist, it's hard to trust just one person's opinion of what the top Cosby Show episodes of all time are. Where to Watch. Was this review helpful to you? Goldfish).[27][28]. The show led to the spinoff A Different World, which ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993. 445 talking about this. 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In December 2014, the Magic Johnson-owned network Aspire removed the show from its lineup.[73]. [1], According to TV Guide, the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes. Welcome to the OFFICIAL "The Cosby Show" page! Bill Cosby plays Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, who, along with his wife Claire, an attorney, struggles to balance the challenges of their successful careers with the demands of their five children. [76][77] TV One began airing reruns of the show in May 2017. The show focuses on an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York. The Cosby Show and All in the Family are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the number-one show for five seasons. Like it or not, Bounce TV is bringing back “The Cosby Show” next month. The Cosby Show - Full Cast & Crew. The goings-on in the life of a successful African-American family. The Cosby Show's producers created a spin-off series called A Different World that was built around the "Denise" character (portrayed by actress Lisa Bonet), the second of the Huxtables' four daughters. +Prior to joining the cast as a regular, Joseph C. Phillips appears as Daryl, a potential boyfriend for Sondra in season two (episode: "Cliff in Love"). “The Cosby Show” is credited with single-handedly rescuing the sitcom form. The Cosby Show: Race, Class, and Intersectionality. [70], Reruns of The Cosby Show have been pulled from several networks and venues as a result of Bill Cosby sexual assault cases. [49] In its first season, the show was the beginning of a Thursday NBC schedule that was followed by Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, and Hill Street Blues. The two partners decided that to get a sitcom to sell for their fledgling company, they needed a big name behind it. A long version of the show's theme is heard in the first and another episode, but a shortened version with a few bars taken out and with a different, though similar, style is used for the rest of the season. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20. The Winslow family deal with various misadventures, many of them caused by their pesky next-door neighbor, ultra-nerd Steve Urkel. 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Season Five’s opening is unique because it is the only time throughout the … It was even more revealing when my favorite website made a list of the greatest TV dads and overlooked Cliff Huxtable. Although the cast and characters were predominantly African American,[29] the program was unusual in that issues of race were rarely mentioned when compared to other situation comedies of the time, such as The Jeffersons. Favorite Add to 1986 The Cosby Show Scrapbook Hard Cover Book SweetEmotionVintages. The Cosby Show was for the late '80s what Dallas was for the early eighties. Director 19 Credits. The Cosby Show, American television situation comedy that ranked as the most popular family comedy of the 1980s. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an African-American upper class family, living in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York, at 10 Stigwood Avenue. Initially, the new program dealt with Denise's life at Hillman College, the fictional historically black colleges and universities from which her father, mother, and paternal grandfather had graduated. The Cosby Show was the most popular series on American television in the late 1980s. But should all the harm Cosby might have done cancel all the positive things the show provided? Forget "Girls", "Desperate Housewives" or "Sex and the City", "The Cosby Show" was the first feminist show and with four daughters and a mother of such classy strong-mindedness as Clair Huxtable, it was unavoidable although this "battle of the sexes" aspect annoyed me a little when the "woman-always-right" became a pattern for redundant and uninspired episodes (from the "perfect parents with imperfect kids", the series became about a "perfect mother"). This is a crossover Cosby show/Full House story, based on one I read where the Cosbys went to meet the Tanners. [78] It is currently the only American network to offer the series. Cosby was the father of five children, whose names started with 'E' as in Excellency, and his hymn to efforts was not just typical 80's inspirational stuff, it was ahead of its time because it made the 'obvious' race issue look insignificant. 2:48 The Cosby Show: Season 3 & 4 Combo. [36], Another pregnancy of one of the main stars, that of Lisa Bonet, almost caused the actress to be fired, especially coming in the wake of appearing in the film Angel Heart, which contained graphic sexual scenes with actor Mickey Rourke. The couple have five children, four girls and one boy, who range in age from elementary school to college. 445 talking about this. In May 1992, Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows with a predominantly black cast, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air. I was in the process of deleting my Amazon account, however adding "The Cosby Show" has given me a change of mind! They were: All eight seasons of The Cosby Show have been released on DVD in Region 1. Seasons one and two were released by UrbanWorks which was subsequently acquired by First Look Studios, who then released the remaining six seasons. Art Dielhenn. The Carsey-Werner Company handles domestic distribution, while CBS Television Distribution handles international distribution of the series, and has done so since 1997. Groening, Matt; Jean, Al; Kogen, Jay; Reiss, Mike; Wolodarsky, Wallace (2004). [79] Denise later became a recurring character on The Cosby Show for seasons four and five, and a regular again in seasons six and seven. In the pilot, the Huxtables have only four children. [12] Following the pilot, the Huxtables have five children, with the addition of their eldest daughter, Sondra (Sabrina Le Beauf), who is mentioned in episode four and appears first in episode 11. Kassarjian, W. (1973). Blacks as communicators and interpreters of mass communication Journalism Quarterly, 50, 285-291. His wife Clair is played by Phylicia Rashad. [22] The Huxtable home exterior was filmed at 10 St. Luke's Place near 7th Avenue in Manhattan's Greenwich Village (although in the show, the residence was the fictional "10 Stigwood Avenue"). It contains interviews with cast members, bloopers, deleted scenes and audition footage. We enjoyed the "Physican of the Year" then the "First Day of School" episodes but the show won us with "The Juicer". And ignoring this legacy by pulling the show off the air is as harmful to the show as it is to the people it inspired and can inspire in the future. 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And as for funny, Cosby’s reality-based clowning set new standards. The Cosby Show stars Bill Cosby as the witty and often cantankerous Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable. Helpful. Chronicles liberal ex-hippies Steven and Elyse Keaton, their conservative son Alex, daughters Mallory and Jennifer, and later, youngest child Andrew. Denise was written out of A Different World after its inaugural season, due to Bonet's pregnancy, and the following season was revamped, wit… However, Williams had recently been crowned the first black Miss America and pageant officials would not permit her to play the role while she was representing the Miss America pageant. Tensions remained, however, and Bonet was eventually fired from the show in April 1991. Together they raise their kids, Samantha Micelli and Jonathan Bower, with help from Mona Robinson, Angela's man-crazy mother. According to a Chicago Tribune article from July 1985, despite Carsey and Werner's connection to the network, Lewis Erlicht, president of ABC Entertainment, passed on the show, prompting a pitch to rival network, NBC. After "The Cosby Show" ended, Cosby and Phylicia Rashad moved to CBS to star in "Cosby." And as for funny, Cosby’s reality-based clowning set new standards. The other sitcoms were 227 (1985–90), Amen (1986–91), Cosby Show spin-off A Different World (1987–93), and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–96). Although based on comedy, the series also addresses some more serious topics, such as learning disabilities and teen pregnancy. Bill Cosby'nin yer aldığı bir sit-com olan Cosby Ailesi, 1984 tarihinde yayınlanmaya başladı ve 1992 yılına kadar NBC kanalında tam 8 sezon ve 202 bölüm olarak gösterildi. The Cosby Show spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one rated show on television. The long pause, followed by the audiences applauses are instantly swept off by Cliff's iconic answer "that's the dumbest thing I've ever heard"... there's no pride in being an underachiever if you give up before trying. No character rendered a … According to Vulture, The Cosby Show was "a late addition to NBC's [1984] fall schedule" — but whoever made that last-second gamble, clearly won big. He also insisted that the program be taped in New York City instead of Los Angeles, where most television programs were taped. That is to say, at one time, situation comedies contained a wide variety of comedic styles including pathos, physical comedy and satire. Now, I wish I could speak about the best and the worst of the show, how I could pinpoint the start of the decline with Rudy's story episode in Season 4, the attempt to replace her with Olivia not to mention the infamous Muppet nightmare (literally), but the series needs kinder words, reminding how important it was back then, when every 80's/90's sitcom, whether to copy the model ("Growing Pains") or work on a blue-collar level ("Roseanne"), was an answer to "The Cosby Show", starting with its the biggest rival, "The Simpsons", still airing today maybe because, contrarily to "The Cosby Show", kids couldn't age and time was frozen, so the appeal stayed the same. So we subscribed... and I'll never forget that "Hallelujah" feeling when I finally discovered the Huxtables. #4 The Cosby Show Aired on NBC September 20, 1984 – April 30, 1992 According to TV Guide, The Cosby Show was "TV’s biggest hit in the 1980s. The Cosby Show's producers created a spin-off series called A Different World that was built around the "Denise" character (portrayed by actress Lisa Bonet), the second of the Huxtables' four daughters. The show's theme, titled "Kiss Me", was composed by Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby… In November 2014, TV Land pulled the series from its lineup. During its original run on NBC, it was one of five successful sitcoms on the network that featured predominantly African-American casts. Anne-Louise Wallace. The Cosby Show (TV Series 1984–1992) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. The situation comedy, which ran on NBC from September 1984 to April 1992, was based on the stand-up comedy routine of its star, Bill Cosby.The show focused on an affluent black family without presenting racial stereotypes or standard one-line jokes to generate audience loyalty. The new Black middle class. "The brainchild of Bill Cosby, this highly successful sitcom showed the world that Black families can be educated and highly successful breaking various racial stereotypes. [45] As a result of the Bill Cosby sexual assault cases, Malcolm-Jamal Warner has stated that the show's legacy is "tarnished". [7], They have four daughters and one son: Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy. 27 people found this helpful. The series is also available on FilmRise, Prime Video, and Sling TV. The first two seasons have similar artwork to the North American copies, although season two is red rather than blue. [24] The network later sold that building, and production moved to the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens. Based on the standup comedy of Bill Cosby, the show focused on his observations of family life. "The Cosby Show" centers on the lives of the Huxtables: obstetrician Cliff and his lawyer wife Claire, their daughters Sondra, Denise, Vanessa and Rudy, and son Theo. Says the exec, "It's a nice piece of nostalgia and nothing more." Rather than write this pregnancy into the character of Clair Huxtable, the producers simply greatly reduced Rashad's scenes or filmed in such a way that her pregnancy was not noticeable. The character was created when Bill Cosby wanted the show to express the accomplishment of successfully raising a child who had graduated from college. Join A Television Family: 1980-1999 Edition, Everybody Hates Chris: Everybody Hates Homecoming. No character rendered a … Each Australian cover also features the tagline "In a house full of love, there is always room for more". 14 of 18 people found this review helpful. Get a sneak peek of the new version of this page. Google Scholar | SAGE Journals. I was in the process of deleting my Amazon account, however adding "The Cosby Show" has given me a change of mind! With Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Malcolm-Jamal Warner. 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