The Cosby Show (1984)

Comedy · Romance

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.

IMDb rating: 7.4 (39,197 votes)
Seasons: 8
Streaming (US): Philo
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Cast

Seasons

Season 1 (1984)

7.40 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 7.6 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	8.0	395
2	Goodbye, Mr. Fish	7.7	293
3	Bad Dreams	7.2	244
4	Is That My Boy?	7.2	218
5	A Shirt Story	8.2	322
6	Breaking with Tradition	7.5	218
7	One More Time	7.0	207
8	Play It Again, Vanessa	7.2	222
9	How Ugly Is He?	7.7	223
10	Bonjour, Sondra	7.1	206
11	You're Not a Mother Night	7.3	195
12	Rudy's Sick	7.1	196
13	Father's Day	7.3	210
14	Independence Day	7.8	225
15	Physician of the Year	7.4	201
16	Jitterbug Break	7.4	215
17	Theo and the Joint	7.7	239
18	Vanessa's New Class	7.0	205
19	Clair's Case	7.3	196
20	Back to the Track, Jack	7.0	202
21	The Younger Woman	7.4	197
22	Slumber Party	8.0	253
23	Mr. Quiet	6.4	205
24	Cliff's Birthday	7.6	203

Season 2 (1985)

7.48 avg 25 episodes 7.5 → 7.0 24 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	First Day of School	7.5	189
2	The Juicer	7.9	204
3	Happy Anniversary	8.2	265
4	Cliff in Love	7.8	203
5	Theo and the Older Woman	7.6	198
6	Halloween	7.1	193
7	Rudy Suits Up	6.9	171
8	Denise Drives	7.5	185
9	Clair's Sister	7.0	176
10	Clair's Toe	7.1	172
11	Denise's Friend	7.8	185
12	Mrs. Westlake	7.6	186
13	The Auction	7.6	182
14	Vanessa's Bad Grade	7.3	168
15	Theo and Cockroach	7.5	169
16	The Dentist	7.8	216
17	Play It Again, Russell	6.7	180
18	A Touch of Wonder	7.8	231
19	Full House	7.5	184
20	Close to Home	7.1	172
21	An Early Spring	7.3	166
22	Theo's Holiday	8.5	297
23	The Card Game	7.8	182
24	Off to the Races	7.2	159
25	Denise's Decision	7.0	161

Season 3 (1986)

7.14 avg 25 episodes 7.3 → 6.2 23 min avg

Bad finale

Season 3 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bring 'Em Back Alive	7.3	169
2	Food for Thought	7.3	158
3	Golden Anniversary	7.5	181
4	Man Talk	7.2	165
5	Mother, May I?	7.2	164
6	The March	7.4	169
7	Theo's Flight	7.3	159
8	Vanessa's Rich	7.1	160
9	Denise Gets a 'D'	7.0	162
10	A Girl and Her Dog	7.0	154
11	War Stories	7.0	161
12	Cliff in Charge	6.9	155
13	Monster Man Huxtable	7.0	151
14	Rudy Spends the Night	7.2	158
15	Say Hello to a Good Buy	7.3	164
16	Denise Gets an Opinion	7.0	154
17	Calling Doctor Huxtable	7.1	152
18	You Only Hurt the One You Love	7.0	149
19	The Shower	7.0	152
20	Cliff's 50th Birthday	7.0	157
21	I Know That You Know	8.1	182
22	Andalusian Flu	7.3	156
23	Bald and Beautiful	7.2	167
24	Planning Parenthood	6.9	158
25	Hillman	6.2	210

Season 4 (1987)

6.97 avg 23 episodes 7.5 → 7.0 25 min avg

Season 4 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Call of the Wild	7.5	169
2	Theogate	7.6	168
3	It Ain't Easy Being Green	6.5	158
4	Cliff's Mistake	7.2	160
5	Shakespeare	7.4	181
6	That's Not What I Said	7.0	144
7	Autumn Gifts	6.9	141
8	Looking Back	6.8	146
9	Where's Rudy?	6.7	149
10	Dance Mania	6.8	169
11	The Locker Room	6.9	162
12	The Show Must Go On	6.6	154
13	Bookworm	7.1	158
14	Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star	7.0	138
15	The Visit	7.3	159
16	The Drum Major	6.9	145
17	Waterworks	7.4	159
18	Once Upon a Time	5.8	162
19	Petanque	6.9	145
20	Trust Me	6.8	147
21	Home for the Weekend	7.2	140
22	The Prom	7.1	173
23	Gone Fishin'	7.0	136

Season 5 (1988)

7.06 avg 25 episodes 7.4 → 7.1 24 min avg

Season 5 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Together Again and Again	7.4	145
2	The Physical	7.5	142
3	Rudy's All-Nighter	6.9	147
4	Move It	7.5	149
5	Out of Brooklyn	6.8	140
6	The Birth	7.3	154
7	Cyranoise de Bergington	6.9	133
8	How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?	7.0	158
9	If the Dress Fits, Wear It	7.5	156
10	Is There a Hamster in the House?	6.9	136
11	Truth or Consequences	7.2	148
12	Cliff Babysits	7.1	143
13	Mrs. Huxtable Goes to Kindergarten	7.0	134
14	The Lost Weekend	7.3	149
15	No Way, Baby	7.3	160
16	Can I Say Something, Please?	7.0	136
17	The Dead End Kids Meet Dr. Lotus	6.7	142
18	The Boys of Winter	6.5	132
19	It Comes and It Goes	6.7	132
20	Theo's Women	6.9	145
21	Birthday Blues	6.8	143
22	A Room with No View	7.2	139
23	What He Did for Love	6.7	129
24	Day of the Locusts	7.3	144
25	57 Varieties	7.1	137

Season 6 (1989)

7.08 avg 26 episodes 7.8 → 6.1 26 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 6 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Denise: The Saga Continues	7.8	166
2	Surf's Up	7.1	130
3	I'm 'In' with the 'In' Crowd	7.7	172
4	Denise Kendall: Navy Wife	7.0	131
5	Theo's Gift	7.4	139
6	Denise Kendall: Babysitter	7.1	132
7	Shall We Dance?	6.9	137
8	The Day the Spores Landed	5.9	178
9	Cliff's Wet Adventure	8.0	190
10	Grampy and NuNu Visit the Huxtables	7.2	144
11	Cliff la Dolce	7.0	143
12	Getting to Know You	6.5	131
13	Elvin Pays for Dinner	6.8	135
14	Cliff's Nightmare	6.2	173
15	Denise Kendall: Singles Counselor	6.7	131
16	The Birthday Party	7.0	146
17	Not Everybody Loves the Blues	7.2	146
18	Rudy's Walk on the Wild Side	7.1	137
19	Mr. Sandman	6.9	138
20	Isn't It Romantic?	8.0	162
21	Theo's Dirty Laundry	7.5	132
22	What It's All About	7.1	125
23	Off to See the Wretched	8.2	224
24	The Moves	6.8	126
25	Live and Learn	7.0	120
26	The Storyteller	6.1	140

Season 7 (1990)

6.74 avg 25 episodes 7.0 → 7.3 23 min avg

Rebound

Season 7 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Same Time Next Year	7.0	140
2	Bird in the Hand	7.6	135
3	The Last Barbecue	7.5	157
4	Period of Adjustment	6.6	134
5	It's All in the Game	7.1	128
6	Getting the Story	6.5	119
7	Just Thinking About It	6.6	130
8	The Infantry Has Landed (and They've Fallen Off the Roof)	6.8	131
9	You Can Go Home Again	6.6	119
10	It's a Boy	6.2	118
11	Clair's Liberation	7.1	124
12	It's Your Move	6.7	124
13	Theo's Final Final	6.5	119
14	Attack of the Killer B's	6.6	121
15	Total Control	6.9	145
16	Adventures in Babysitting	6.7	121
17	27 and Still Cooking	6.7	126
18	The Return of the Clairettes	6.6	126
19	No More Mr. Nice Guy	6.5	119
20	Home Remedies	6.6	123
21	Nightmare on Stigwood Avenue	6.0	134
22	There's Still No Joy in Mudville	6.0	131
23	Cliff and Jake	6.6	125
24	Theo and the Kids: Part 1	7.1	134
25	Theo and the Kids: Part 2	7.3	126

Season 8 (1991)

6.44 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 7.5 25 min avg

Season 8 episodes - IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	With This Ring?	7.3	159
2	There's No Place Like This Home	6.8	134
3	Particles in Motion	6.6	126
4	Pam Applies to College	6.1	127
5	Warning: A Double-Lit Candle Can Cause a Meltdown	6.6	148
6	It's Apparent to Everyone	6.4	128
7	The Iceman Bricketh	6.5	132
8	Olivia's Field Trip	6.4	123
9	For Men Only	6.5	128
10	Olivia Comes Out of the Closet	6.3	123
11	Two Is a Crowd	6.5	122
12	Clair's Place	6.5	122
13	Theo's Future	5.9	125
14	The Price Is Wrong	5.9	127
15	Bring Me the Lip Gloss of Deirdre Arpelle	6.2	122
16	Eat, Drink and Be Wary	6.8	122
17	The Getaway	6.5	126
18	Cliff Gets Jilted	6.6	120
19	Cliff and Theo Come Clean	6.3	124
20	Clair's Reunion	6.5	126
21	Rudy's Retreat	6.5	120
22	You Can't Stop the Music	5.4	132
23	Some Gifts Aren't Deductible	6.0	120
24	And So, We Commence	7.5	179

The Cosby Show (1984)

Cast

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