The Cosby Show
TV (1984-1992) | TV Show
The Cosby Show was a television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
The Cosby Show spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one-rated show on television. The Cosby Show and All in the Family are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the number-one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20.
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MoreThe Cosby Show was a television sitcom starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984, until April 30, 1992. The show focused on the Huxtable family, an upper-middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York.
The Cosby Show spent five consecutive seasons as the number-one-rated show on television. The Cosby Show and All in the Family are the only sitcoms in the history of the Nielsen ratings to be the number-one show for five seasons. It spent all eight of its seasons in the top 20.
According to TV Guide, the show "was TV's biggest hit in the 1980s, and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's ratings fortunes." TV Guide also ranked it 28th on their list of 50 Greatest Shows. In addition, Cliff Huxtable was named as the "Greatest Television Dad".
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