The Cosby Showtv series

The Cosby Show

1984

Bill Cosby (Creator), Ed Weinberger (Creator) ...

Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Malcolm-Jamal Warner ...

6.0

29,749

TV Series. Comedy

TV Series. Comedy

TV Series (1984-1992). 8 Seasons. 197 Episodes. The Huxtable residence is a New York City brownstone where Cliff (an obstetrician) also maintained his office. He and his wife Clair (a legal aid attorney) tried to bring up the kids with a combination of love and parental firmness, while leading their own active professional lives. Sondra, the oldest daughter was a senior at Princeton University during the first season, graduating early ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Variety	"Twenty years on, the clothes may seem loud and hideous, but Cosby's performance remains timeless"
		Richard Zoglin Time	"The best of the comedy crop may turn out to be NBC's 'The Cosby Show' (...) The veteran comic brings his relaxed charm to the familiar domestic problems"
		Tom Shales The Washington Post	"The program looks at family life without preachiness or moralism but with a gently jaundiced eye that balances the absurdities and anxieties of both parents and children"
		Orlando Sentinel	"Yes, it's sweet, but it's snappy, not sappy, and not even the competition of CBS' 'Magnum, P.I.' should get in the way of its becoming a hit"
		Minneapolis Star Tribune	"'The Cosby Show' is refreshingly normal. And it's amazingly funny"
		Miami Herald	"It's great to have Cosby back on TV in any mode other than as huckster in his endless stream of commercials"
		Boston Globe	"This show is so warm, well-written and delightfully funny, and such a contrast to most of what's seen in prime-time, that you wonder how it got on the air"
		David Bianculli Philadelphia Inquirer	"The premise, on its own, is cleverer than most sitcoms; add the contributions by the talented cast, and 'The Cosby Show' becomes a must-see weekly viewing event"
		BBC	"It quietly cracked open the door to change; both the way black people are perceived by others, and how black people view themselves"
		Joshua Alston AV Club	"Of all its legacies, the one most noted when discussing 'The Cosby Show' is its depictions of race and class. Nothing like it had been seen before on television, and nothing has had its level of impact since"
		Priya Elan The Guardian	"The fact that swaths of the population were engaging with an African American family, every week for half an hour, was massively important for popular culture"
		John J. O'Connor The New York Times	"The difference is simply that Mr. Cosby, here at his very best, can take the ordinary and make it seem delightfully fresh"

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