The Cosby Show is an American sitcom starring Bill Cosby that aired on NBC from 1984 to 1992, centered on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle-class Black family living in Brooklyn, New York, headed by an obstetrician father and an attorney mother. The series was credited at the time with commercially reviving the network sitcom format after a period of declining ratings for the genre, and with presenting a prosperous, professional Black family to a mass American television audience in a way few earlier series had attempted. The Cosby Show's legacy has since been substantially complicated by Bill Cosby's later convictions for sexual assault, and its historical reception is now widely discussed alongside that later record.
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Did The Cosby Show produce a spin-off series?
Yes. A Different World was set at Hillman College. Denise Huxtable left for that college in 1986.
Yes. The spin-off was A Different World, and its link to the parent series ran through the Huxtable character Denise. She left for Hillman College in 1986, and a year later Hillman College became the setting of A Different World.
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The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom created by (along with Ed. Weinberger and Michael J. Leeson) and starring Bill Cosby that originally aired on NBC from September 20, 1984, to April 30, 1992
The Cosby Show, Description, original language
The Cosby Show is an American sitcom starring Bill Cosby that aired on NBC from 1984 to 1992, centered on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle-class Black family living in Brooklyn, New York, headed by an obstetrician father and an attorney mother.
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Category:Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series winners
In Medium: Television, Article lead sentence
The Cosby Show is an American television sitcom created by (along with Ed.
Created By: Bill Cosby, Infobox: creator
Bill Cosby Ed. Weinberger Michael J. Leeson
Created By: Ed. Weinberger, Infobox: creator
Bill Cosby Ed. Weinberger Michael J. Leeson
Created By: Michael J. Leeson, Infobox: creator
Bill Cosby Ed. Weinberger Michael J. Leeson
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