Cosby
Cosby
TV ShowEnded

Cosby

6.1 / 10
1996
4 seasons
97 episodes
ComedyFamily

Cosby is an American situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000, loosely based on the British sitcom One Foot in the Grave. The program stars Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984–1992 NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline, until her death in 1999.

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  • Ep 1

    1.Pilot

    16-09-199630m

    Downsizing at the airport forces Hilton to retire.

  • Ep 2

    2.It's My Party

    23-09-199630m

    Hilton feels cheated that his company laid him off without even a goodbye party, but Ruthie tells him he's being childish. Hilton lands a job interview on Long Island, but when he...

  • Ep 3

    3.Neighborhood Watch

    30-09-199630m

    To wrest control of his block from lowlifes (like the burglars who targeted him), Hilton forms a neighborhood-watch program (of sorts). Now watch the watch commander lose control a...

  • Ep 4

    4.Happily Ever Hilton

    07-10-199630m

    The airline company that dismissed Hilton is now rehiring, and he's fired up to go back to work. But his impatience and confrontational attitude simply won't cut it. When the airli...

  • Ep 5

    5.The Best Little Antique Shop in Astoria

    14-10-199630m

    Hilton is shocked to find out that an antique store where he has a new job is really a front for illegal activity: a brothel the police are planning to raid. When the cops want Hil...

  • Ep 6

    6.One Foot in Your Mouth

    21-10-199630m

    Deceit weaves a tangled web around Hilton, who tells ""one little lie"" and then, to keep up the ruse, finds that he must pretend he's someone else -- and not married to Ruth. In o...

  • Ep 7

    7.Natural Born Debtors

    28-10-199630m

    Griffin is helping Hilton fix the bathroom door when Wendy arrives very upset and looking for Pauline, her godmother. Before she leaves Hilton has given her $45 to help pay her ove...

  • Ep 8

    8.The Two Mr. Lucases

    04-11-199630m

    Hilton's cousin Earl has secretly checked himself into the hospital for a colonoscopy procedure, not telling his wife Lillian because he doesn't want her to worry. Hilton is going...

  • Ep 9

    9.No Nudes is Good Nudes

    11-11-199630m

    Hilton has to keep a naked lady in his bathroom a secret. Hilton was too embarrassed even to look at Monica, the nude model in his art class. But when he tries to help her out by l...

  • Ep 10

    10.Basketball Story

    18-11-199630m

    When Hilton and Griffin attend a Nets/Magic professional basketball game, Hilton has the lucky ticket and gets the chance to win a million dollars if he can make a free-throw from...

  • Ep 11

    11.Guard Almighty

    25-11-199630m

    Although Hilton thinks he's going to fight crime in his new job as a security guard, he ends up as a glorified doorman who gets more than he bargained for. After Hilton graduates...

  • Ep 12

    12.The Broken Reflection

    02-12-199630m

    Due to a hospital mix-up, Hilton gets the colonoscopy that was meant for his cousin. When Hilton's cousin, Earl Lucas, goes to the hospital for a colonoscopy, Hilton decides to be...

  • Ep 13

    13.Tempus Lucas

    16-12-199630m

    After Hilton realizes that his life insurance was affected when his company was downsized, he applies for a different policy -- which requires an intense physical examination. The...

  • Ep 14

    14.Guess Whose President is Coming to Dinner?

    06-01-199730m

    In a White House public relations move, Hilton is chosen as the ideal ""common man"" to dine with the president. When Hilton calls in to a radio talk-show, the president's deputy c...

  • Ep 15

    15.Brave New Hilton

    13-01-199730m

    When Hilton's friend Bradshaw, the down mattress and bedding ""king"", confides to Hilton that his business is in a bit of trouble, Hilton and Griffin brainstorm about ways to help...

  • Ep 16

    16.Lucas Platonicus

    03-02-199730m

    After Griffin and Erica attend their high school reunion, Griffin realizes that their relationship is going nowhere and decides to make a clean break from her. When Griffin's old f...

  • Ep 17

    17.Valentine's Day

    10-02-199730m

    It's Valentine's Day, and when Hilton realizes that he has bought Ruth a scarf that she already has, it's back to the drawing board. When she mentions that she'd love to see singer...

  • Ep 18

    18.Florida

    17-02-199730m

    When Hilton and Ruth return to the blizzard-like conditions of New York City, after visiting friends in sunny Florida, they decide to put their house on the market and move south f...

  • Ep 19

    19.Anniversary Waltz

    24-02-199730m

    Thirty years after their plans for a formal wedding at an elegant hall had to be cancelled, Hilton and Ruth celebrate their wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at ""The Pa...

  • Ep 20

    20.That Darn Cat

    03-03-199730m

    When Ruth and Pauline ""just happen"" to spot a used pregnancy test in Erica's garbage and then ""just happen"" to see the positive results, they assume that Erica is expecting, bu...

  • Ep 21

    21.I'm OK, You're Hilton

    10-03-199730m

    Pressed by Ruth to address his ""unusual behavior,"" Hilton enters group therapy. Bad idea. Now he misbehaves by counseling an old crony, who promptly loses his job.

  • Ep 22

    22.The Return of the Charlites

    28-04-199730m

    When Ruth's high school friend Charlene comes to town for a visit during her worldwide singing tour, she gives Ruth the chance to sing with ""The Charlites"" at a charity function...

  • Ep 23

    23.My Dinner with Methuselah

    05-05-199730m

    A befuddled old gent from the neighborhood stops by Hilton's to borrow a video cassette and, as fate would have it, winds up on a blind date with Pauline.

  • Ep 24

    24.Hilton's Playland

    12-05-199730m

    Erica brings Julius, her boyfriend of three months who stars in a kids' TV show, home to meet Hilton and Ruth; Hilton is unimpressed and gives Julius a hard time. Hilton goes with...

  • Ep 25

    25.Social Insecurity

    19-05-199730m

    Hilton tries to convince the Social Security Administration that he is not dead.

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