The Cosby Show
It's from 1984, before you were born.
- Network
- NBC
- Genre
- Sitcom
- Premiered
- 1984
- Setting
- the Huxtable family
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About
As of 2026, it's 42 years old.
The Cosby Show was a defining sitcom of the 1980s, the most-watched show in America for years, centered on an affluent, loving Black family — a portrayal that was genuinely groundbreaking for network television and reshaped what a sitcom family could look like.
Its cultural impact in the '80s was enormous, helping anchor a whole era of NBC comedy.
Its legacy, however, is now deeply complicated by the serious criminal convictions of its star, Bill Cosby — a fact impossible to separate from how the show is viewed today.
The Cosby Show season by season
The Cosby Show ran for 8 seasons (1984–1991) across 197 episodes. You're older than the seasons in green.
