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.
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- Seasons
- 8
- Episodes aired
- 197
- Latest aired
- S08E24
- Total runtime
- 3d 1h
Timeline when each season aired
- Season 1 September 1984 – May 1985 24 episodes
- Season 2 September 1985 – May 1986 25 episodes
- Season 3 September 1986 – May 1987 25 episodes
- Season 4 September 1987 – April 1988 23 episodes
- Season 5 October 1988 – May 1989 25 episodes
- Season 6 September 1989 – May 1990 26 episodes
- Season 7 September 1990 – May 1991 25 episodes
- Season 8 September 1991 – April 1992 24 episodes
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S04E01 Call of the Wild
September 24 · 22min find the promo
Show synopsis
The newlywed Sondra and Elvin return from their honeymoon with shocking news for Cliff and Clair.
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S04E02 Theogate
October 1 · 22min find the promo
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Theo and Cockroach come home unusually late from a track meet. They both deny anything out of the ordinary happened, but Clair knows better. A mock trial is held to get to the bottom of the situation.
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S04E03 It's Not Easy Being Green
October 8 · 22min find the promo
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Rudy wants to wear summer clothes in winter to a party, while Cliff tries to get rid of an old water heater.
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S04E04 Cliff's Mistake
October 15 · 22min find the promo
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While setting up the house as a "haunted house" for Halloween, Cliff discovers he's lost a power drill that his neighbor loaned to him.
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S04E05 Shakespeare
October 22 · 22min find the promo
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Theo must read ‘Julius Caesar’ for school, but complains that it is boring. Russell and his friends read scenes from the play aloud, and Theo is enthralled.
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S04E06 That's Not What I Said
October 29 · 22min find the promo
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Cliff and Clair have an argument after Theo gets detained by police for riding in a car with an unlicensed driver.
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S04E07 Autumn Gifts
November 5 · 22min find the promo
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Rudy goes to an older widowed lady's house each afternoon to have tea and play cards, but notices that she refuses to take her daily medication for diabetes.
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S04E08 Looking Back
November 12 · 43min find the promo
Show synopsis
Sondra and Elvin have their first marital fight, and Elvin comes to the Huxtable house for comfort and support. Clair shares about the difficulties in their house as flashbacks are shown.
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S04E09 Where's Rudy?
November 19 · 22min find the promo
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Theo and Vanessa lose track of Rudy in a mall while Clair enters a squash exhibition.
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S04E10 Dance Mania
December 3 · 22min find the promo
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Theo and Cockroach have tickets to appear on television on the dance show "Dance Mania", but are told that only one of them can enter the studio during the filming because of fire laws.
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S04E11 The Locker Room
December 10 · 22min find the promo
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Theo and his classmates brag about their dates with girls in the locker room, but Theo's mood changes when one of the guys goes out with Vanessa and brags about it the next day.
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S04E12 The Show Must Go On
December 17 · 22min find the promo
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Vaudeville is shown to Rudy and her friends, who are unimpressed.
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S04E13 Bookworm
January 7 · 22min find the promo
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Clair drags Cliff to her book club meeting, and he's the lone male there. Much to Clair's surprise, Cliff knows quite a bit about the book in question! Meanwhile, the kids attempt a sleepover at Sondra and Elvin's run-down studio apartment.
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S04E14 Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
January 14 · 22min find the promo
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Rudy has to play the violin in music class at school, but gets jealous because she thinks her classmates' instruments are more fun.
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S04E15 The Visit
January 21 · 22min find the promo
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Theo visits a friend in the hospital who has cancer.
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S04E16 The Drum Major
February 4 · 22min find the promo
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Vanessa tries out for the drum major at school. Meanwhile, Cliff cooks up a batch of extremely spicy chili, and Russell tries to pay off a loan from an old friend.
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S04E17 Waterworks
February 11 · 22min find the promo
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Clair tries to stop Cliff from fixing a leaky pipe by hiring a team of professionals: friends of Sondra and Elvin from Princeton.
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S04E18 Once Upon a Time
February 18 · 22min find the promo
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Rudy writes a fairy tale, and the colorful story is acted out in her fantasy.
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S04E20 Trust Me
March 3 · 22min find the promo
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A friend of Clair's has marital problems; Cliff takes a "mini-vacation" in the house as Theo, Rudy, and Vanessa try to stump each other with riddles.
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S04E21 Home for the Weekend
March 17 · 22min find the promo
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Denise comes home from college, but seems to have more time for her friends than for the family.
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S04E22 The Prom
March 24 · 22min find the promo
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Theo, Denny and Smitty go to great lengths to impress their dates for the senior prom, but fail disastrously; Cliff and Clair relive their own prom.
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S04E23 Gone Fishin'
April 28 · 22min find the promo
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When the Huxtable men go fishing, Theo catches a dead body, and soon attracts attention from the media. This success goes to his head, while Rudy and Kenny find a nest of baby birds, but the mother bird is missing. The two stories eventually cross in a surprising-and rather humiliating-lesson for Theo.