The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom co-created by and starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
The Cosby Show spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one rated show on television. 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. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20.^[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."^[2] TV Guide also ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows.^[3] In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television Dad".^[4]
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.^[5] The Cosby Show was based on comedy routines in Cosby's stand-up comedy act, which in turn were based on his family life. The show led to the spinoff A Different World, which ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993.

The Cosby show was a revolutionary sitcom that ran from 1984 to 1992. It’s actually credited with saving NBC and re popularizing the standard sitcom format. You see at the time, most top shows were action packed like the A-team, but when the Cosbys started rolling, other networks took note and began productions.

The Cosby show was about family, more specifically a wealthy black family. Not fishes out of water like previous depictions of upper class black families but a real bonafide model nuclear family.
We can go on about the social impact of the show but at the end of the day, people didn't watch it for sociology lessons, they watched it because it was HILARIOUS.

I’m Nostalgic Nick and today we’re heading back to Brooklyn to check back in on the Cosbys, and see what the cast, including the kiddos, are up to today. Be sure to give the video a thumbs up, as it really helps us out, and don’t forget to subscribe so you catch all the future cast deep dives!

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