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 (38,979 votes)
Seasons: 8
Streaming (US): Philo
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Seasons

Season 1 (1984)

7.39 avg 24 episodes 8.0 → 7.6 25 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Pilot	8.0	405
2	Goodbye, Mr. Fish	7.7	300
3	Bad Dreams	7.2	249
4	Is That My Boy?	7.2	223
5	A Shirt Story	8.2	334
6	Breaking with Tradition	7.5	224
7	One More Time	7.0	211
8	Play It Again, Vanessa	7.2	227
9	How Ugly Is He?	7.7	227
10	Bonjour, Sondra	7.1	209
11	You're Not a Mother Night	7.3	198
12	Rudy's Sick	7.1	199
13	Father's Day	7.3	213
14	Independence Day	7.8	232
15	Physician of the Year	7.4	205
16	Jitterbug Break	7.4	221
17	Theo and the Joint	7.7	244
18	Vanessa's New Class	7.0	208
19	Clair's Case	7.2	201
20	Back to the Track, Jack	7.0	206
21	The Younger Woman	7.3	201
22	Slumber Party	8.0	265
23	Mr. Quiet	6.4	208
24	Cliff's Birthday	7.6	210

Season 2 (1985)

7.47 avg 25 episodes 7.5 → 6.9 24 min avg

Rollercoaster

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	First Day of School	7.5	195
2	The Juicer	7.9	210
3	Happy Anniversary	8.2	276
4	Cliff in Love	7.8	211
5	Theo and the Older Woman	7.6	205
6	Halloween	7.1	197
7	Rudy Suits Up	6.9	174
8	Denise Drives	7.5	188
9	Clair's Sister	6.9	180
10	Clair's Toe	7.1	176
11	Denise's Friend	7.8	192
12	Mrs. Westlake	7.6	188
13	The Auction	7.6	184
14	Vanessa's Bad Grade	7.2	171
15	Theo and Cockroach	7.5	175
16	The Dentist	7.8	222
17	Play It Again, Russell	6.7	182
18	A Touch of Wonder	7.8	238
19	Full House	7.5	187
20	Close to Home	7.1	174
21	An Early Spring	7.3	167
22	Theo's Holiday	8.5	305
23	The Card Game	7.8	185
24	Off to the Races	7.2	163
25	Denise's Decision	6.9	164

Season 3 (1986)

7.13 avg 25 episodes 7.2 → 6.1 23 min avg

Bad finale

Season 3 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Bring 'Em Back Alive	7.2	172
2	Food for Thought	7.3	161
3	Golden Anniversary	7.5	184
4	Man Talk	7.2	167
5	Mother, May I?	7.2	166
6	The March	7.4	171
7	Theo's Flight	7.3	161
8	Vanessa's Rich	7.1	162
9	Denise Gets a 'D'	7.0	164
10	A Girl and Her Dog	7.0	156
11	War Stories	7.0	163
12	Cliff in Charge	6.9	158
13	Monster Man Huxtable	7.0	153
14	Rudy Spends the Night	7.2	159
15	Say Hello to a Good Buy	7.3	166
16	Denise Gets an Opinion	7.0	156
17	Calling Doctor Huxtable	7.1	154
18	You Only Hurt the One You Love	7.0	151
19	The Shower	7.0	154
20	Cliff's 50th Birthday	7.0	159
21	I Know That You Know	8.1	188
22	Andalusian Flu	7.3	157
23	Bald and Beautiful	7.2	169
24	Planning Parenthood	6.9	158
25	Hillman	6.1	212

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	173
2	Theogate	7.6	171
3	It Ain't Easy Being Green	6.5	159
4	Cliff's Mistake	7.2	161
5	Shakespeare	7.4	185
6	That's Not What I Said	7.0	146
7	Autumn Gifts	6.9	143
8	Looking Back	6.8	148
9	Where's Rudy?	6.7	151
10	Dance Mania	6.8	172
11	The Locker Room	6.9	164
12	The Show Must Go On	6.6	156
13	Bookworm	7.1	161
14	Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star	6.9	141
15	The Visit	7.3	164
16	The Drum Major	6.9	149
17	Waterworks	7.4	163
18	Once Upon a Time	5.8	165
19	Petanque	6.9	147
20	Trust Me	6.8	150
21	Home for the Weekend	7.2	142
22	The Prom	7.1	174
23	Gone Fishin'	7.0	138

Season 5 (1988)

7.05 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	149
2	The Physical	7.5	146
3	Rudy's All-Nighter	6.9	151
4	Move It	7.5	153
5	Out of Brooklyn	6.8	144
6	The Birth	7.3	158
7	Cyranoise de Bergington	6.9	137
8	How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?	7.0	160
9	If the Dress Fits, Wear It	7.5	162
10	Is There a Hamster in the House?	6.9	140
11	Truth or Consequences	7.2	152
12	Cliff Babysits	7.1	146
13	Mrs. Huxtable Goes to Kindergarten	7.2	135
14	The Lost Weekend	7.2	151
15	No Way, Baby	7.3	164
16	Can I Say Something, Please?	6.9	138
17	The Dead End Kids Meet Dr. Lotus	6.7	145
18	The Boys of Winter	6.4	134
19	It Comes and It Goes	6.7	135
20	Theo's Women	6.9	147
21	Birthday Blues	6.8	146
22	A Room with No View	7.2	142
23	What He Did for Love	6.6	131
24	Day of the Locusts	7.3	148
25	57 Varieties	7.1	140

Season 6 (1989)

7.07 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	171
2	Surf's Up	7.0	134
3	I'm 'In' with the 'In' Crowd	7.7	178
4	Denise Kendall: Navy Wife	6.9	134
5	Theo's Gift	7.4	141
6	Denise Kendall: Babysitter	7.0	135
7	Shall We Dance?	6.9	140
8	The Day the Spores Landed	5.9	180
9	Cliff's Wet Adventure	8.0	197
10	Grampy and NuNu Visit the Huxtables	7.2	147
11	Cliff la Dolce	7.0	146
12	Getting to Know You	6.6	134
13	Elvin Pays for Dinner	6.8	138
14	Cliff's Nightmare	6.2	176
15	Denise Kendall: Singles Counselor	6.7	134
16	The Birthday Party	7.0	149
17	Not Everybody Loves the Blues	7.2	151
18	Rudy's Walk on the Wild Side	7.1	139
19	Mr. Sandman	6.9	141
20	Isn't It Romantic?	8.0	169
21	Theo's Dirty Laundry	7.5	136
22	What It's All About	7.1	129
23	Off to See the Wretched	8.2	230
24	The Moves	6.7	129
25	Live and Learn	7.0	123
26	The Storyteller	6.1	143

Season 7 (1990)

6.72 avg 25 episodes 6.9 → 7.2 23 min avg

Rebound

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Same Time Next Year	6.9	143
2	Bird in the Hand	7.7	139
3	The Last Barbecue	7.5	161
4	Period of Adjustment	6.6	137
5	It's All in the Game	7.1	132
6	Getting the Story	6.4	122
7	Just Thinking About It	6.6	133
8	The Infantry Has Landed (and They've Fallen Off the Roof)	6.9	134
9	You Can Go Home Again	6.6	122
10	It's a Boy	6.2	121
11	Clair's Liberation	7.1	127
12	It's Your Move	6.7	127
13	Theo's Final Final	6.5	123
14	Attack of the Killer B's	6.6	125
15	Total Control	6.9	148
16	Adventures in Babysitting	6.6	124
17	27 and Still Cooking	6.7	129
18	The Return of the Clairettes	6.6	129
19	No More Mr. Nice Guy	6.4	123
20	Home Remedies	6.5	126
21	Nightmare on Stigwood Avenue	6.0	137
22	There's Still No Joy in Mudville	6.0	134
23	Cliff and Jake	6.5	129
24	Theo and the Kids: Part 1	7.1	137
25	Theo and the Kids: Part 2	7.2	129

Season 8 (1991)

6.40 avg 24 episodes 7.3 → 7.5 25 min avg

Big finale
Rebound

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	With This Ring?	7.3	161
2	There's No Place Like This Home	6.8	137
3	Particles in Motion	6.5	129
4	Pam Applies to College	6.0	130
5	Warning: A Double-Lit Candle Can Cause a Meltdown	6.5	150
6	It's Apparent to Everyone	6.4	131
7	The Iceman Bricketh	6.5	135
8	Olivia's Field Trip	6.3	126
9	For Men Only	6.5	131
10	Olivia Comes Out of the Closet	6.3	126
11	Two Is a Crowd	6.4	124
12	Clair's Place	6.4	125
13	Theo's Future	5.8	127
14	The Price Is Wrong	5.8	129
15	Bring Me the Lip Gloss of Deirdre Arpelle	6.1	125
16	Eat, Drink and Be Wary	6.8	125
17	The Getaway	6.5	129
18	Cliff Gets Jilted	6.6	123
19	Cliff and Theo Come Clean	6.3	127
20	Clair's Reunion	6.5	129
21	Rudy's Retreat	6.4	123
22	You Can't Stop the Music	5.6	134
23	Some Gifts Aren't Deductible	5.9	122
24	And So, We Commence	7.5	184