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The Bill Cosby Show

The Bill Cosby Show is Bill Cosby's first sitcom. It centered around Los Angeles high school gym teacher, Chet Kincaid (Bill Cosby), whose good heart gets him into hillarious predicaments. Guest stars include Lou Gossett Jr., Henry Fonda, Cicely Tyson, Elsa Lanchester, Wally Cox and more. The music is by Quincy Jones.

A Different World

A Different World is the spinoff show of The Cosby Show. It centers around life at Hillman College, an HBCU and the alma mater of Russell Huxtable, Heathcliff Huxtable and Claire Hanks Huxtable of The Cosby Show. Denise Huxtable goes to college at Hillman and a host of characters are introduced to fans of The Cosby Show who fall in love with Hillman. Why? "Because its Hillman!"

I Spy

I Spy is a 1960s award-winning television drama and the first tv show to star both a white (Robert Culp) and a black (Bill Cosby) actor as equals. The show was produced and financed by Sheldon Leonard, whose risked of using a racially incorporated cast was called "Sheldon's Folley". Many questioned whether NBC affiliates in the South would even air the show. Bill Cosby earned an Emmy as leading actor and the show became the template for "buddy shows". I Spy was also the first tv sow to shoot episodes around the world.

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