The Cosby Show Play It Again Vanessa
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 Cosby Bear witness logo | ||||
| Created by: | Ed. Weinberger | |||
| Starring | Pecker Cosby | |||
| Executive_producers | Marcy Carsey | |||
| Product company | Carsey-Werner Productions | |||
| Distributor | Viacom Enterprises (1988–1995) | |||
| Land/Network | Usa/NBC-Television receiver | |||
| Original Network Run: | September xx, 1984 - Apr 30, 1992 | |||
| Picture format | 480i (NTSC) | |||
| Seasons/Episodes aired | 8 seasons, 201 episodes (including four hour-long episodes) | |||
| Related shows | A Different World | |||
The Cosby Show is an American tv set situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC-Boob tube from September twenty, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The bear witness focuses on the Huxtable family, an flush African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
According to Idiot box Guide, the bear witness "was Idiot box's biggest striking in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes".[1] Originally, the prove had been pitched to ABC, which rejected it.[1] Entertainment Weekly stated that The Cosby Show helped to make possible a larger variety of shows based on people of African descent, from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.[two] The Cosby Show was based on comedy routines in Cosby'due south standup act, which were based on his family life. Other sitcoms, such as Home Improvement and Everybody Loves Raymond, would later on follow that design. The bear witness spawned the spin-off A Different Earth, which ran for six seasons from 1987 to 1993.
Contents
- 1 Premise
- 1.1 Episodes
- ane.1.1 Airplane pilot
- 1.2 Conception and development
- i.3 Production notes
- 1.1 Episodes
- 2 Cast
- iii Opening credits
- 4 Reception
- four.1 Broadcast history and ratings
- 5 Reruns/syndication
- 5.i Pulling out the broadcasting
- 6 Spin-off
- 7 Awards and honors
- 7.i Awards won
- 7.2 Nominations
- 7.three Other honors
- 8 Albums
- 9 In popular culture
- 10 DVD releases
- xi References
- 12 External links
Premise [ ]
The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an affluent African-American family living in a brownstone in Brooklyn Heights, New York, at 10 Stigwood Avenue.[3] The patriarch is Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable, an obstetrician, son of a prominent jazz trombonist. The matriarch is his wife, attorney Clair Huxtable née Hanks. The two characters are and so followed past their five children, four daughters and one son; Sondra, Denise, Theodore (Theo for short), Vanessa and Rudy. Despite its comedic tone, the show sometimes involves serious subjects, such as son Theo'south experiences dealing with dyslexia, inspired by Cosby's son Ennis, who was too dyslexic. Teen pregnancy is also a topic when Denise'south friend, Veronica, played by Lela Rochon, becomes pregnant.
The cast of The Cosby Show in 1989
Episodes [ ]
- Main article: List of The Cosby Show episodes
Airplane pilot [ ]
- Primary article: Airplane pilot (The Cosby Show)
The Cosby Evidence pilot episode uses the aforementioned championship sequence as the rest of the start season, and is widely regarded as the 'first episode'. However, information technology is notable for a number of differences from the residue of the series.
In the pilot, the Huxtables have but four children. Post-obit the pilot, the Huxtables have five children, with the addition of their eldest girl, Sondra (Sabrina Le Beauf), who is mentioned in episode six and appears first in episode ten. The character was created when Bill Cosby wanted the testify to limited the accomplishment of successfully raising a kid (i.due east., a college graduate). Whitney Houston was considered for the role of Sondra Huxtable.[4] Sabrina LeBeauf near missed out on the role because she is merely 10 years younger (b. 1958) than Phylicia Rashād (b. 1948), who played her mother.
Beak Cosby'south character is called "Clifford" in the early episodes of the first season (as evidenced by his name plate on the outside of the Huxtable home). His proper name was later switched to "Heathcliff". Additionally, Vanessa refers to Theo every bit "Teddy" twice in the dining room scene.
The interior of the Huxtables' domicile features an entirely different living room from subsequent episodes, and different color schemes in the dining room and the main bedroom. Throughout the remainder of the series, the dining room is reserved for more than formal occasions.
Conception and evolution [ ]
In the early 1980s, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner, two former executives at ABC, left the network to start their ain product company. At ABC, they had overseen sitcoms such equally Mork & Mindy , Iii's Visitor and Welcome Back, Kotter . The two decided in order to go a sitcom to sell for their fledgling company, they needed a big name behind information technology. Pecker Cosby, who during the 1970s starred in 2 failed sitcoms, produced award-winning stand-upwardly one-act albums, and had roles in several different films, was relatively tranquility during the early 1980s.
Outside of his piece of work on his cartoon serial Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, he was doing lilliputian in the fields of film and television receiver. The ii watched his stand-up comedy film, Nib Cosby: Himself. They loved the routine and decided they wanted to build a television series around a comedian'south subject material which, with Cosby, was observations of life and family.
Later on meeting with them, Cosby returned to Carsey and Werner with his ain ideas: the family unit would be blue-collared, with a stay-at-dwelling house mother and a limousine driving father with two sons and 2 daughters.
Carsey and Werner were convinced by Cosby later on, as a alter of center to make the family well-off financially, past making the mother a lawyer and the father a doc.
Cosby wanted the plan to exist educational, reflecting his own groundwork in instruction. He also insisted that the program exist taped in New York City instead of Los Angeles, where most telly programs were taped. The Huxtable habitation exterior was filmed at x St. Luke's Place[5] near seventh Avenue in Manhattan's Greenwich Hamlet.
Production notes [ ]
The earliest episodes of the serial were videotaped at NBC's Brooklyn studios (now owned by JC Studios). The network after sold that building, and product moved to the Kaufman Astoria Studios in Queens.
During its original run at NBC, it was one of five successful sitcoms on the network that featured predominately African-American casts. The other sitcoms were 227 (1985–1990), Amen (1986–1991), Cosby Show spin-off A Unlike World (1987–1993), and The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air (1990–1996).
Although the cast and characters were predominantly African-American, 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 . However, The Cosby Prove had African-American themes, such every bit the Civil Rights Motility, and it oft promoted African-American and African culture represented past artists and musicians such as Jacob Lawrence, Miles Davis, James Brown, Stevie Wonder, Michael Jackson, Lena Horne, Duke Ellington, Lightheaded Gillespie, and Miriam Makeba. The show's spin-off, A Different Earth dealt with bug of race more often.
The series finale aired during the ethnic-related 1992 Los Angeles riots, with Cosby quoted in media at the time pleading for peace.[6]
Bandage [ ]
- Primary article: List of The Cosby Show characters
- Bill Cosby equally Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable, OB-GYN
- Phylicia Rashād (credited as Phylicia Ayers-Allen in the offset flavour as Clair Huxtable)
- Malcolm-Jamal Warner as Theodore Aloysius "Theo" Huxtable
- Keshia Knight Pulliam as Rudith Lillian "Rudy" Huxtable
- Tempestt Bledsoe as Vanessa Huxtable
- Lisa Bonet as Denise Huxtable Kendall (seasons 1–3 and seasons half-dozen–7; recurring in seasons 4 and v)
- Sabrina Le Beauf as Sondra Huxtable-Tibideaux (seasons 2–8; recurring in flavour 1)
- Geoffrey Owens equally Dr. Elvin Tibideaux, M.D. (seasons 4–8; recurring in seasons 2 and iii)
- Raven-Symoné every bit Olivia Kendall (seasons 6–8)
- Joseph C. Phillips as LT Martin Kendell, USN (seasons 6 and 7, recurring in season 8)
- Erika Alexander every bit Pamela "Pam" Tucker (seasons 7 and viii)
- Elijah Ray Sanders Seasons 1 And ii three Or 4 5 6
Opening credits [ ]
The show'southward theme music, "Buss Me", was composed by Stu Gardner and Bill Cosby. 7 versions of this theme were used during the run of the serial, making it one of the few television series to utilise multiple versions of the same theme song over the form of a series.
Due to legal complications regarding the groundwork landscape, the season vii opening was replaced with the one from the previous season.[7] The original season seven opening, with slight modifications, was used in the 8th and final season.
To open the serial' concluding episode (which was lx minutes in length), an entirely new version of "Osculation Me" was used, while the credits featured clips from the openings from the previous seasons (excluding flavor one).
Reception [ ]
The show was noted for portraying only a certain portion of the African-American population.[8] Conversely, it was praised for breaking traditional racial stereotypes, portraying African Americans who were educated and successful.
Broadcast history and ratings [ ]
The Cosby Show aired on Thursdays at eight:00pm for all eight seasons.
The Cosby Bear witness is i of three tv programs ( All in the Family and American Idol being the others) that was #1 in the Nielsen ratings for 5 consecutive seasons.[ix]
| Season | Season Premiere | Season Finale | TV Season | Ranking | Households (in millions) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | September 20, 1984 | May 9, 1985 | 1984–1985 | #3[10] | twenty.546 (24.2 rating)[10] |
| 2nd | September 26, 1985 | May 15, 1986 | 1985–1986 | #ane[11] | 28.948 (33.7 rating)[11] |
| 3rd | September 25, 1986 | May 7, 1987 | 1986–1987 | #1[12] | 30.503 (34.nine rating)[12] |
| 4th | September 24, 1987 | April 28, 1988 | 1987–1988 | #1[thirteen] | xxx.503 (34.4 rating)[13] |
| 5th | October 6, 1988 | May xi, 1989 | 1988–1989 | #one[14] | 23.14 (25.6 rating)[fourteen] |
| 6th | September 24, 1989 | May iii, 1990 | 1989–1990 | #1 (tie with Roseanne)[15] | 21.27 (23.one rating)[15] |
| 7th | September 20, 1990 | May two, 1991 | 1990–1991 | #v[sixteen] | 15.92 (17.i rating)[16] |
| 8th | September nineteen, 1991 | April 30, 1992 | 1991–1992 | #18[17] | 13.81 (16.13 rating)[17] |
Reruns/syndication [ ]
Carsey-Werner Distribution handles domestic and international distribution of the series, and has washed so since 1997. In the United states of america, The Cosby Evidence began its television receiver syndication run in September 1988 in broadcast syndication, shortly before the testify'due south fifth season premiere, and was at the time distributed past Viacom; many stations that carried the serial were Big Three network affiliates, though since the mid-1990s, the show has largely begun airing on independent stations and pocket-sized network affiliates.
Dallas-based KTVT (now a CBS endemic-and-operated station), carried the series during the early 1990s, until that station dropped its status as an contained station and regional cablevision superstation in 1995. TBS, then a national cablevision superstation at the fourth dimension information technology debuted on the channel, began conveying the series in 1999 and ran it for most a decade. Beau superstation WGN America began carrying the series before long later on, and connected to until September 2010. Nick at Nite began ambulation reruns of the series in March 2002. Sister network TV State began airing reruns in 2004, even so, dissimilar most series that have aired on sis channel Nick at Nite before moving to TV Country in the past and since so, upward until September 2010, The Cosby Bear witness was carried on both Nick at Nite and Goggle box Country.
Every bit of September 27, 2010, Centric arrogance the series. Malaysia's national TV broadcast aqueduct RTM TV2 likewise airs the serial, as does Canada's CTS In 2011, Netflix added the entire series to instant stream, and in 2012 the series was pulled off the air. In September 2012, Television receiver Land once once again began to air The Cosby Show.
Tv I began airing reruns of the evidence in May 2017, and continues to do so.
Pulling out the broadcasting [ ]
In November 2014, for the awake of Cosby'due south controversial comments on sexual allegations and misconduct, all four television set networks (Axial, TV Land, Aspire and Bounce Boob tube) will no longer syndicate the serial.
- List of network pulling out the reruns
- Telly Land (2006 - 2010, 2012 - November 2014)
- Aspire (December 2014)
- Axial (at present BET Her) (Jan 2015)
- Bounce (December 2016 - April 26, 2018)
Spin-off [ ]
The Cosby Testify's producers created a spin-off series chosen A Different World that was built around the "Denise" grapheme (portrayed by extra Lisa Bonet), the second of the Huxtables' four daughters. Initially, the new programme dealt with Denise'southward life at Hillman College, the fictional historically blackness college from which her begetter, mother, and paternal grandad had graduated. Denise was written out of A Dissimilar Earth after its inaugural flavor, due to Bonet's pregnancy, and the following flavor was revamped, with the addition of Phylicia Rashād's sis and manager Debbie Allen and new characters. Denise later became a recurring character on The Cosby Show for seasons 4 and five, and a regular once more in seasons half dozen and vii.
Awards and honors [ ]
Awards won [ ]
Emmy Awards
- Outstanding Comedy Series (1985)
- Outstanding Writing in a Comedy Series (1985) – Michael Leeson and Ed. Weinberger for the pilot episode
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series (1985) – Jay Sandrich for "The Younger Woman"
- Outstanding Directing in a Comedy Series (1986) – Jay Sandrich for "Denise's Friend"
- Outstanding Invitee Performer in a Comedy Series (1986) – Roscoe Lee Browne for "The Card Game"
- Outstanding Editing for a Series - Multi-Camera Production (1986) – Henry Chan for "Full House"
Golden Globe Awards
- Best Telly Serial – Comedy (1985)
- Best Functioning by an Actor in a TV Series – Comedy – Neb Cosby (1985, 1986) 2 wins
NAACP Image Awards
- Outstanding Comedy Serial (1988)
- Outstanding Actress in a Comedy Series – Phylicia Rashād (1988, 1989) 2 wins
- Outstanding Actor in a Comedy Serial – Bill Cosby (1989, 1993) 2 wins
Peabody Award (1986)
People's Choice Awards
- Favorite New TV Comedy Plan (1985)
- Favorite Male person Program in a New TV Program – Bill Cosby (1985)
- Favorite Female Plan in a New Television Programme – Phylicia Rashād (1985)
- Favorite Television Comedy Plan (1985–89) 5 wins
- Favorite Male person Telly Performer – Bill Cosby (1986–92) seven wins
- Favorite All-Effectually Male Entertainer – Bill Cosby (1986–88, 1990–91) 5 wins
- Favorite Immature TV Performer – Keshia Knight Pulliam (1988)
- All-time Favorite TV Program (1989)
- Favorite Female person TV Performer – Phylicia Rashād (1989)
- Favorite All-around Male person Star – Bill Cosby (1989)
- Favorite Telly Comedy Series (1990, 1992) 2 wins
Nominations [ ]
Emmy Awards
- Outstanding One-act Serial (1986–87) two nominations
- Outstanding Pb Actress in a Comedy Series – Phylicia Rashād (1985–86) 2 nominations
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Lisa Bonet (1986)
- Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series – Keshia Knight Pulliam (1986)
- Outstanding Supporting Role player in a Comedy Series – Malcolm-Jamal Warner (1986)
Golden Earth Awards
- Best Television receiver Series-Comedy (1986–87) two nominations
- All-time Operation by an Actor in a TV Series – Comedy – Pecker Cosby (1987)
Other honors [ ]
- 1993: Television Guide named The Cosby Show the All-Time All-time Family unit Show in its issue celebrating 40 years of television receiver.[18]
- 1997: Tv Guide] ranked the episode "Happy Ceremony" #54 on their listing of the 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time [nineteen]
- 1999: Amusement Weekly placed show's debut at #24 in its listing of the "100 Greatest Moments in Television"[20]
- 2002: TV Guide placed The Cosby Show at #28 in its list of the 50 Greatest Television receiver Shows of All Time [21]
- 2004: TV Guide ranked Cliff Huxtable number 1 on its 50 Greatest TV Dads of All Time list[22]
- 2007: Fourth dimension mag placed the testify on its unranked list of "100 Best TV Shows of All-Fourth dimension"[23]
- 2007: USA Today's'web site ranked the show every bit #8 in its listing of the "pinnacle 25 Telly moments of the by quarter century"[24]
- 2008: Entertainment Weeklyselected Cliff Huxtable every bit the Dad for "The Perfect Television Family"[25]
- 2010: Bravo (US Tv set channel) ranked Cliff Huxtable #44 on its listing of the 100 Greatest TV Characters[26]
Albums [ ]
Two albums were produced that included diverse theme and background music from the bear witness. The albums were presented past longtime Cosby collaborator Stu Gardner. They were:
- A Firm Full of Honey: Music from The Cosby Show (1986)
- Total Happiness (Music from the Bill Cosby Bear witness, Vol. Two) (1987)
In popular culture [ ]
- During the series' run, Cliff Huxtable oft wore an assortment of knit sweaters that were often brightly colored and featured abstract, asymmetrical patterns or themes. The sweaters were designed and manufactured by Australian clothing company Coogi.[27] They were dubbed "Cosby sweaters", a term that is used to describe sweaters that are generally deemed garish and unappealing.[28] [29] In 2008, Cosby'south daughter Evin auctioned a batch of the sweaters that her father had kept on eBay. The proceeds of the sales went to the How-do-you-do Friend/Ennis William Cosby Foundation, a non-profit charity named for Ennis Cosby. Ennis, Cosby'southward only son, was murdered in 1997.[thirty]
- The grapheme of Dr. Hibbert, who is featured on the long-running animated sitcom The Simpsons, is modeled later Dr. Cliff Huxtable. The Simpsons writing staff decided to make Dr. Hibbert a parody of Cliff Huxtable, after Pull a fast one on moved The Simpsons to prime fourth dimension on Thursdays confronting the peak-rated The Cosby Prove.[31]
DVD releases [ ]
All viii seasons of The Cosby Show have been released on DVD in Region 1. Seasons one and ii were released past UrbanWorks which was subsequently caused by Commencement Look Studios, who so released the remaining half-dozen seasons. Seasons ane and two contain special features including the 90-minute retrospective documentary entitled "The Cosby Evidence: A Look Back" which aired on NBC in 2002. It contains interviews with bandage members, bloopers, deleted scenes and audition footage. In 2010, Start Wait Studios filed defalcation and all its assets were afterwards acquired by Millennium Entertainment who also took over distribution of The Cosby Evidence DVD releases.
In Region 4, Magna Pacific has released all eight seasons on DVD in Commonwealth of australia and New Zealand. The beginning two seasons accept similar artwork to the North American copies, although flavor 2 is red rather than blue. Each Australian cover also features the tagline "In a house full of love, there is always room for more".
Universal Pictures UK has released seasons 1–iv in Region 2 (Great britain).
| DVD title | Ep # | Release dates | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Region ane | Region 2 | Region four | ||
| Season 1 | 24 | August 2, 2005 | May 19, 2008 | October four, 2006 |
| Season 2 | 25 | March 7, 2006 | Aug 25, 2008 | Feb 7, 2007 |
| Season 3 | 25 | June 5, 2007 | Oct 13, 2008 | April 4, 2007 |
| Season four | 24 | June 5, 2007 | Feb ix, 2009 | November 7, 2007 |
| Season 5 | 26 | November 6, 2007 | March 5, 2008 | |
| Season 6 | 26 | Nov 6, 2007 | July ix, 2008< | |
| Season 7 | 26 | April 8, 2008 | Jan 13, 2010 | |
| Flavor 8 | 25 | April 8, 2008 | Jan xiii, 2010 | |
| 25th Anniversary Commemorative Edition | 202 | Nov 11, 2008 | ||
Note: The Region ane release of season one contains the edited versions of the episodes aired in syndication. However, all subsequent DVD releases (including the complete series set) contain the original, uncut broadcast versions.
References [ ]
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- ↑ Schwarzbaum, Lisa. "The Cosby Show's Terminal Laugh", Entertainment Weekly's EW.com, Time, Inc., May 1, 1992. Retrieved on 2007-10-28. "The testify that changed forever the way black families are portrayed on goggle box, the show that paved the way for a rainbow of African-American sensibilities on Tv from In Living Color to The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air is getting razzed these days by The Simpsons."
- ↑ Meyers, Kate. "Cosby's Last 'Evidence'", Entertainment Weekly's EW.com, Time, Inc., May 3, 1996. Retrieved on 2009-04-02.
- ↑ The Cosby Show: 1984–1992. People (June 26, 2000). Retrieved on 2010-11-19.
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- ↑ "Television set'due south Black World Turns—Just Stays Unreal", The New York Times, November 12, 1989. Retrieved on 2010-11-09.
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- ↑ xiii.0 13.1 TV Ratings: 1986–1987. ClassicTVHits.com. Retrieved on 02-12-2010.
- ↑ 14.0 xiv.1 TV Ratings: 1988–1989. ClassicTVHits.com. Retrieved on 02-12-2010.
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- ↑ 16.0 16.1 TV Ratings: 1990–1991. ClassicTVHits.com. Retrieved on 02-12-2010.
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- ↑ Simakis, Andrea (2010-12-xv). Ugly Christmas sweaters are suddenly all the rage. cleveland.com.
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