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The Cosby Show

198424m / epComedy · Family

First aired

September 20, 1984

7.0

TMDB Score

70% match · 519 votes

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S01 · E14

Independence Day

Season 1 · Jan 10, 1985 · 22m

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E01▶

Pilot / Theo's Economic Lesson

Sep 20, 1984 · 22m

E02▶

Mr. Fish (a.k.a. Goodbye, Mr. Fish)

Sep 27, 1984 · 22m

E03▶

Bad Dreams

Oct 4, 1984 · 22m

E04▶

Is That My Boy?

Oct 11, 1984 · 22m

E05▶

A Shirt Story

Oct 18, 1984 · 22m

E06▶

Breaking With Tradition

Oct 25, 1984 · 22m

E07▶

One More Time

Nov 1, 1984 · 22m

E08▶

Play It Again, Vanessa

Nov 8, 1984 · 22m

E09▶

How Ugly Is He?

Nov 15, 1984 · 22m

E10▶

Bonjour, Sondra

Nov 22, 1984 · 22m

E11▶

You're Not a Mother Night

Dec 6, 1984 · 22m

E12▶

Rudy's Sick

Dec 13, 1984 · 22m

E13▶

Father's Day

Dec 20, 1984 · 22m

E14Playing

Independence Day

Jan 10, 1985 · 22m

E15▶

Physician of the Year

Jan 17, 1985 · 22m

E16▶

Jitterbug Break

Jan 31, 1985 · 22m

E17▶

Theo and the Joint

Feb 7, 1985 · 22m

E18▶

Vanessa's New Class

Feb 14, 1985 · 22m

E19▶

Clair's Case

Feb 21, 1985 · 22m

E20▶

Back to the Track, Jack

Feb 28, 1985 · 22m

E21▶

The Younger Woman

Mar 14, 1985 · 22m

E22▶

Slumber Party

Mar 28, 1985 · 22m

E23▶

Mr. Quiet

May 2, 1985 · 22m

E24▶

Cliff's Birthday

May 9, 1985 · 22m

Theo gets his ear pierced to impress a girl, but Denise thinks it might be infected. She is correct, and Theo must go to Cliff. Cliff hopes that Grandpa Huxtable will punish Theo, but the old man instead relates the story of how Cliff tried to slick back his hair to impress Clair, but ended up burning it off! Russell brags, and Anna reminds him of the time that he had a tattoo of her name placed on his chest, but ended up with a huge scar on his chest when he tried to remove it after Anna found out he was actually trying to impress another girl! First appearance of Clarice Taylor as Anna Huxtable, Cliff's mother.

About the Series

ComedyFamily

Synopsis

The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until April 30, 1992. The show focuses on the Huxtable family, an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.

CreatorsBill Cosby, Michael J. Leeson, Ed. Weinberger