The interior of the Huxtables' home features an entirely different living room from subsequent episodes, and different color schemes in the dining room and the master bedroom.
Throughout the remainder of the series, the dining room is reserved for more formal occasions. In the early s, Marcy Carsey and Tom Werner , two former executives at ABC , left the network to start their own production company.
The two decided that in order to get a sitcom to sell for their fledgling company, they needed a big name behind it. Bill Cosby, who, during the s, starred in two failed sitcoms, produced award-winning stand up comedy albums, and had roles in several different films, was relatively quiet during the early s.
Outside of his work on his cartoon series Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids , Cosby was doing little in film or television, but Carsey and Werner were fans of Cosby's stand-up comedy and thought it would be the perfect material for a family sitcom. Cosby originally proposed that the couple should both have blue collar jobs, with the father a limousine driver, [17] who owned his own car, and the mother an electrician.
Cosby wanted the program to be educational, reflecting his own background in education. He also insisted that the program be taped in New York City instead of Los Angeles , where most television programs were taped.
Luke's Place near 7th Avenue in Manhattan 's Greenwich Village although in the show, the residence was the fictional "10 Stigwood Avenue". The brownstone used in The Cosby Show.
Luke's Place. During its original run on NBC, it was one of five successful sitcoms on the network that featured predominantly African-American casts. Although the cast and characters were predominantly African American , [28] the program was unusual in that issues of race were rarely mentioned when compared to other situation comedies of the time, such as The Jeffersons. The show's spin off, A Different World , dealt with issues of race more often.
Rather than write this pregnancy into the character of Claire Huxtable, the producers simply greatly reduced Rashad's scenes or filmed in such a way that her pregnancy was not noticeable.
Another pregnancy of one of the main stars, that of Lisa Bonet , almost caused the actress to be fired, especially coming in the wake of appearing in the film Angel Heart , which contained graphic sexual scenes with actor Mickey Rourke.
Bill Cosby strongly disapproved of Bonet appearing in the film, but she was allowed to retain her role on A Different World until returning to The Cosby Show after her pregnancy. Tensions remained, however, and Bonet was eventually fired from the show in April For season four, the theme song music was performed by musician Bobby McFerrin.
Due to legal complications regarding the background mural, the opening for season seven filmed in August was replaced with the one from the previous season. Phillips appears as Daryl, a potential boyfriend for Sondra in season two episode: "Cliff in Love". The show's portrayal of a successful, stable black family was praised by some for breaking racial stereotypes and showing another part of the African-American experience.
The Cosby Show aired on Thursdays at pm for all eight seasons. The Cosby Show is one of three television programs All in the Family and American Idol being the others that was number one in the Nielsen ratings for five consecutive seasons. Carsey-Werner Distribution handles domestic distribution while CBS Television Distribution handles international distribution of the series, and has done so since In the United States, The Cosby Show began its television syndication run in September in broadcast syndication, shortly before the show's fifth-season premiere, and was at the time distributed by Viacom; many stations that carried the series were Big Three network affiliates, though since the mid s, the show has largely begun airing on independent stations and minor network affiliates.
Fort Worth, Texas based independent station, KTVT , carried the series until , when it ceased operating as a regional cable superstation and became an affiliate of CBS. TBS , then a national cable superstation, carried the series for nearly a decade beginning in Fellow superstation WGN America began carrying the series shortly thereafter, and continued to until September Reruns of The Cosby Show have been pulled as a result of sexual assault allegations against Cosby.
In November , TV Land pulled the series from its lineup. At the same time, barter syndication The Program Exchange ceased distributing the latter show. In May , TV One began airing reruns of the show. The Cosby Show' s producers created a spin off series called A Different World that was built around the "Denise" character portrayed by actress Lisa Bonet , the second of the Huxtables' four daughters.
Initially, the new program dealt with Denise's life at Hillman College, the fictional historically black college from which her father, mother, and paternal grandfather had graduated. Denise was written out of A Different World after its inaugural season, due to Bonet's pregnancy, and the following season was revamped, with the addition of director Debbie Allen Phylicia Rashad's sister and new characters.
Emmy Awards [64]. Golden Globe Awards. Peabody Award People's Choice Awards. Two albums were produced that included various theme and background music from the show. The albums were presented by longtime Cosby collaborator Stu Gardner. They were:. They were dubbed "Cosby sweaters", a term that is used to describe sweaters that are generally deemed garish and unappealing. Ennis, Cosby's only son, was murdered in January Seasons one and two were released by UrbanWorks which was subsequently acquired by First Look Studios , who then released the remaining six seasons.
It contains interviews with cast members, bloopers, deleted scenes and audition footage. As of , these releases have been discontinued, and are now out of print. On November 5, , it was announced that Mill Creek Entertainment had acquired the rights to the series. They have subsequently re released all eight seasons on DVD.
The first two seasons have similar artwork to the North American copies, although season two is red rather than blue. Each Australian cover also features the tagline "In a house full of love, there is always room for more". Note: The Millennium Entertainment release of season one contains the edited versions of the episodes aired in syndication.
However, all subsequent DVD releases including the complete series set contain the original, uncut broadcast versions. In , Millennium quietly released season one uncut in Region 1, which featured the special features from The Complete Series set.
Culture Wikia Explore. Wiki Content. Duke Ellington DJ Shadow!!! Explore Wikis Community Central. Register Don't have an account? Weinberger Television series created by Bill Cosby Television series about families television series debuts television series endings. The Cosby Show. History Talk 0. The character Theo was patterned after Cosby's own son, Ennis, who like the character had dyslexia. Ennis was murdered in Bill Cosby never received an Emmy nod for his acting on the series -- apparently at his own request, because he was opposed to such competition between performers.
He did receive, however, two Golden Globe awards for playing Cliff Huxtable. Whitney Houston was up for the role as the Huxtables' oldest daughter, but the part instead went to year-old Sabrina Le Beauf because she had more acting experience and Houston was intent on becoming a recording artist.
On the show, the Huxtable brownstone was supposedly in Brooklyn, but the facade was actually shot in the West Village at 10 St. Luke's Place in Manhattan. Much of the artwork that hung on the walls of the Huxtable home was by renowned African-American artists Synthia Saint James and by the painter Varnette Honeywood. Phylicia Rashad won the part of Clair, in part, because she spoke fluent Spanish.
The show originally planned to have Clair's character be a Dominican who would go on tirades in Spanish -- ala "I Love Lucy" -- but dropped the idea before the pilot was taped. The show, according to TV Guide, was the biggest hit in the s and almost single-handedly revived the sitcom genre and NBC's fortunes.
Cosby used material about family life from his stand-up routines for episodes of the show. The show frequently promoted African-American and African culture by working into story lines artists and musicians, such as Jacob Lawrence, Miles Davis, B. Bill Cosby, along with his longtime collaborator collaborator Stu Gardner, composed the show's theme music and during season four, it was performed by Bobby McFerrin.
On Saturday, a judge declared a mistrial in the case, after the jury was "hopelessly deadlocked" on its sixth day of deliberations. Cosby Now. But doting dad Cliff Huxtable wasn't on trial. It was Cosby, the year-old television icon, who faced three counts of aggravated indecent assault against former Temple University employee Andrea Constand.
In October , Hannibal Buress' stand-up routine about Cosby's alleged history of sexual assaults went viral. Dozens of women then spoke out about being sexually assaulted by the comedian and actor, with some incidents dating as far back as the mids. One by one, networks began to pull reruns of The Cosby Show off the air. TV Land scrapped the show from its programming in November In December , the Magic Johnson-owned network Aspire cut ties with the wholesome comedy.
The sitcom was completely off the air by July , when the BET-owned Centric, which had recently rebranded as a network geared toward black women, became the last network to pull the show. The Huxtables were no longer on television. That is until December , when Bounce TV started re-airing the show after it announced in November that the landmark '80s sitcom would be "back by popular demand.
On May 19, rather quietly, black-owned cable network TV One began airing reruns of the show, too, just two weeks before Cosby was set to stand trial. In a statement to Mic , the network also cited their audience's ability to "distinguish their feelings regarding Mr. Cosby, the man, from Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, the beloved television character. Over the course of its original run, which spanned from to , The Cosby Show was revered for resurrecting the television sitcom in the s. It is one of two sitcoms that reigned at the top of Nielsen's ratings for five consecutive seasons.
CBS' All in the Family is the other. Cosby, the show's patriarch and executive producer, was often hailed as a media hero, and credited with saving NBC.
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