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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

197230m / epAnimation · Comedy

First aired

September 9, 1972

6.7

TMDB Score

67% match · 37 votes

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S01 · E04

Creativity

Season 1 · Sep 30, 1972 · 30m

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E01▶

Lying

Sep 9, 1972 · 30m

E02▶

The Runt

Sep 16, 1972 · 30m

E03▶

The Stranger

Sep 23, 1972 · 30m

E04Playing

Creativity

Sep 30, 1972 · 30m

E05▶

Fish Out Of Water

Oct 7, 1972 · 30m

E06▶

Moving

Oct 14, 1972 · 30m

E07▶

Playing Hookey

Oct 21, 1972 · 30m

E08▶

The Hospital

Oct 28, 1972 · 30m

E09▶

Begging Benny

Nov 4, 1972 · 30m

E10▶

The Hero

Nov 11, 1972 · 30m

E11▶

The Prankster

Nov 18, 1972 · 30m

E12▶

Four Eyes

Nov 25, 1972 · 30m

E13▶

The Tomboy

Dec 2, 1972 · 30m

E14▶

Stagefright

Dec 9, 1972 · 30m

The origin of the Junkyard Band. The gang tries doing odd jobs for money but they only made enough money to buy a broken drumstick but then they realize they could make their own instruments. Fat Albert makes an instrument out of an old radiator, a funnel, and a big potato bag. Bill makes a set of drums out of trash cans as well as turning old tin cans into chimes for Russell. Weird Harold turns a bed frame into a harp. Dumb Donald creates a trombone out of pipes and a horn from a grammaphone. Mushmouth takes an old bird cage and makes his own guitar. Bucky puts big pipes together to make an organ.

About the Series

AnimationComedy

Synopsis

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert, and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and in early episodes the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show.

CreatorsBill Cosby, Ken Mundie