The Cosby Show (1984)
The Cosby Show (1984)
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Plot.
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Streaming in:🇺🇸 United States
This TV Show Is About.
Cast & Crew.
![Bill Cosby](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/49085-bill-cosby.webp)
Bill Cosby
Heathcliff Huxtable / Creator / Writer
![Phylicia Rashād](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/3161-phylicia-rashad.webp)
Phylicia Rashād
Clair Huxtable
![Malcolm-Jamal Warner](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/72078-malcolm-jamal-warner.webp)
Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Theo Huxtable / Director
![Tempestt Bledsoe](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/56413-tempestt-bledsoe.webp)
Tempestt Bledsoe
Vanessa Huxtable
![Keshia Knight Pulliam](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/15783-keshia-knight-pulliam.webp)
Keshia Knight Pulliam
Rudy Huxtable
![Sabrina Le Beauf](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/369090-sabrina-le-beauf.webp)
Sabrina Le Beauf
Sondra Huxtable
![Michael J. Leeson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michael J. Leeson
Creator / Writer
![Raven-Symoné](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11803-raven-symone.webp)
Raven-Symoné
Olivia Kendall
![Ed. Weinberger](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/223928-ed-weinberger.webp)
Ed. Weinberger
Creator / Writer
![Erika Alexander](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/31641-erika-alexander.webp)
Erika Alexander
Pam Tucker
![John Markus](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
John Markus
Writer / Producer
![Matt Williams](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/277332-matt-williams.webp)
Matt Williams
Producer / Writer
![Tom Werner](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/173201-tom-werner.webp)
Tom Werner
Executive Producer
![Michael Loman](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Michael Loman
Producer
![Earl Pomerantz](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/285950-earl-pomerantz.webp)
Earl Pomerantz
Producer
![Gary Kott](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Gary Kott
Producer / Writer
![Marcy Carsey](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Marcy Carsey
Executive Producer
![Elliot Shoenman](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Elliot Shoenman
Producer / Writer
![Jerry Ross](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jerry Ross
Producer / Writer
![Caryn Mandabach](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/220491-caryn-mandabach.webp)
Caryn Mandabach
Producer
![Lisa Bonet](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/45752-lisa-bonet.webp)
Lisa Bonet
Denise Huxtable
![Geoffrey Owens](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/72077-geoffrey-owens.webp)
Geoffrey Owens
Elvin Tibideaux
![Jay Sandrich](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Jay Sandrich
Director
![Chuck Vinson](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Chuck Vinson
Director
![Oz Scott](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/18421-oz-scott.webp)
Oz Scott
Director
![Alan Smithee](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Alan Smithee
Director
![Neema Barnette](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/81747-neema-barnette.webp)
Neema Barnette
Director
![Janet Leahy](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Janet Leahy
Writer
![Ehrich Van Lowe](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Ehrich Van Lowe
Writer
![Mark St. Germain](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Mark St. Germain
Writer
![Lore Kimbrough](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Lore Kimbrough
Writer
![Adriana Trigiani](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/183426-adriana-trigiani.webp)
Adriana Trigiani
Writer
![Elaine Arata](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Elaine Arata
Writer
![Thad Mumford](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Thad Mumford
Writer
![Oliver Hailey](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Oliver Hailey
Writer
![Stuart Silverman](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Stuart Silverman
Writer
![Lisa Albert](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Lisa Albert
Writer
![Winifred Hervey](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Winifred Hervey
Writer
![Joseph C. Phillips](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/99014-joseph-c-phillips.webp)
Joseph C. Phillips
Martin Kendall
![Peter Costa](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Peter Costa
Peter Chiara
![Deon Richmond](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/9691-deon-richmond.webp)
Deon Richmond
Kenny
![Danny Kaye](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/44472-danny-kaye.webp)
Danny Kaye
Dr. Burns
![Ann Reinking](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/31698-ann-reinking.webp)
Ann Reinking
Jill Kelly
![Carl Anthony Payne II](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/80791-carl-anthony-payne-ii.webp)
Carl Anthony Payne II
Cockroach
![Gilbert Gottfried](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/4549-gilbert-gottfried.webp)
Gilbert Gottfried
Mr. Babcock
![Alicia Keys](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/53528-alicia-keys.webp)
Alicia Keys
Maria
![Lena Horne](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/24224-lena-horne.webp)
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Lena Horne
![Jeff Pope](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
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Justin
![S. Epatha Merkerson](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/2076-s-epatha-merkerson.webp)
S. Epatha Merkerson
Book Club Member #5
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Mike
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Robert
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Slide
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Gary LeRoi Gray
Nelson Tibideaux
![William Thomas, Jr.](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
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Dabnis Brickey
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Janet
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Kara
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Mr. Thornehill
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![Blair Underwood](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/42284-blair-underwood.webp)
Blair Underwood
![Norman Beaton](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/56673-norman-beaton.webp)
Norman Beaton
![Gabrielle Carmouche](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/224301-gabrielle-carmouche.webp)
Gabrielle Carmouche
![Marcella Lowery](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/54043-marcella-lowery.webp)
Marcella Lowery
![Paulene Myers](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/172091-paulene-myers.webp)
Paulene Myers
![Matt Robinson](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/620622-matt-robinson.webp)
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![Naomi Campbell](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/48798-naomi-campbell.webp)
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![Roscoe Lee Browne](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/48361-roscoe-lee-browne.webp)
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![Sônia Braga](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11294-sonia-braga.webp)
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![Adam Sandler](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/11756-adam-sandler.webp)
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![Sullivan Walker](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/37922-sullivan-walker.webp)
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![Melba Moore](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/15053-melba-moore.webp)
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![Anthony Quinn](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/19310-anthony-quinn.webp)
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![Al Freeman Jr.](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/50350-al-freeman-jr.webp)
Al Freeman Jr.
![Robin Givens](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/16760-robin-givens.webp)
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![Suzzanne Douglas](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/56560-suzzanne-douglas.webp)
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![Ahmad Rashād](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/326727-ahmad-rashad.webp)
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![Dave Goelz](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/8853-dave-goelz.webp)
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![Roger Robinson](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/76185-roger-robinson.webp)
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![David O'Brien](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
David O'Brien
![J. August Richards](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/65687-j-august-richards.webp)
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Mario Van Peebles
![Carmen Finestra](https://images.moviefit.me/default-images/p/s.webp)
Carmen Finestra
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![Michelle Pierce](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/12936-michelle-pierce.webp)
Michelle Pierce
![Elaine Stritch](https://images.moviefit.me/p/s/56412-elaine-stritch.webp)
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Details.
Release DateSeptember 20, 1984
StatusEnded
Seasons8
Episodes201
Running Time24m
Content RatingTV-PG
Genres
Last updated:
Wiki.
The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby. The series aired from September 20, 1984, to April 30, 1992, on NBC. It focuses on the Huxtables, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York; the series was based on comedy routines in Cosby's stand-up comedy act, which in turn were based on his family life. The series was followed by a spin-off, titled A Different World, broadcast from 1987 to 1993 for 144 episodes in six seasons.
TV Guide listed the series as "TV's biggest hit in the 1980s", adding it "almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes", while also ranking it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows; with this list, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television Dad" in 2014. 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.The Cosby Show spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one rated show on television and, along with All in the Family, is the only sitcom in the history of the Nielsen ratings as the number-one show for five seasons, having spent the series in the top 20 ratings. It also remains the only scripted TV show with a predominately African-American cast to top the Nielsen ratings, and to do so more than once. Its spinoff, A Different World', also became a ratings hit, featuring in the top 5 of the ratings for four of its six seasons. It launched the extended cast into stardom and Cosby, having already had a successful career on TV, films and stand-up, became the highest paid actor on television. Eight seasons and 201 episodes were produced.
It was also an international hit, garnering a following from across the world being a regular fixture in markets previously considered unattainable for African-American leads, such as Europe, where the show became a ratings and commercial hit and cemented itself as an international icon of 1980s pop culture. Its effects on Black American portrayal and gender politics on television were a major part of its success. The portrayal of Clair Huxtable, the matriarch of the Huxtable family, by Phylicia Rashad sparked an international wave of working mothers on television dubbed the "Clair Huxtable effect", and Bill Cosby was nicknamed "America's Dad" for his highly celebrated portrayal of Cliff Huxtable. The colourful sweaters he wore as Cliff became a fashion trend for a time which was temporarily revived in the early 2010s. Another sitcom starring Cosby and Rashad, Cosby, aired on CBS from 1996 to 2000, notable for its differences to The Cosby Show, garnering positive reviews.The show and A Different World have been pulled from syndication in many countries, including the U.S., due to sexual assault allegations that have been made against Cosby since 2014.
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