The Cosby Show - Season 1 with Bill Cosby: DVD Cover
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The Cosby Show - Season 1 Cast: Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Lisa Bonet

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  • DVD Release Date: 08/02/2005
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  • Sales Rank: 1,090

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Closed Caption; The Cosby Show: A Look Back Special -- 90 minutes of classic Cosby Show footage, deleted scenes, bloopers, audition footage, celebrity guest appearances, Cosby cast member retrospectives

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Scene Index

Side #1 -- Episodes 1-8
1. Opening [:48]
2. Act I [7:34]
3. Act II [12:51]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:53]
2. Act I [11:11]
3. Act II [9:17]
4. End Credits [:35]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [14:14]
3. Act II [6:30]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [10:13]
3. Act II [10:29]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [10:25]
3. Act II [10:19]
4. End Credits [:37]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [15:50]
3. Act II [4:55]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [10:16]
3. Act II [10:27]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [9:51]
3. Act II [10:52]
4. End Credits [:36]
Side #2 -- Episodes 9-16
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [9:08]
3. Act II [11:37]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [12:35]
3. Act II [8:08]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:37]
2. Act I [11:24]
3. Act II [9:19]
4. End Credits [:37]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [12:04]
3. Act II [8:37]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [12:06]
3. Act II [8:38]
4. End Credits [:37]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [11:08]
3. Act II [9:30]
4. End Credits [:41]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [10:11]
3. Act II [10:31]
4. End Credits [:41]
1. Opening [:37]
2. Act I [12:57]
3. Act II [7:46]
4. End Credits [:36]
Side #3 -- Episodes 17-27
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [10:33]
3. Act II [10:11]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [9:20]
3. Act II [11:24]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [8:36]
3. Act II [12:08]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [12:48]
3. Act II [7:57]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [11:56]
3. Act II [8:44]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [12:10]
3. Act II [8:35]
4. End Credits [:36]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [8:42]
3. Act II [11:36]
4. End Credits [1:01]
1. Opening [:36]
2. Act I [12:50]
3. Act II [7:52]
4. End Credits [:36]
Side #4 -- Bonus Material: "A Look Back" Special
1. Main Title [10:35]
2. Starting a Family [12:10]
3. Head of the Household [9:07]
4. Cosby Communication [10:08]
5. Humor and Houseguests [10:50]
6. Parental Expectations [8:21]
7. Everything Huxtable [10:20]
8. Leaving the Nest [11:42]
9. End Credits [3:34]

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Editorial Reviews

Erstwhile stand-up comedian Bill Cosby, who broke racial barriers as the costar of I Spy in the ‘60s, returned to episodic TV in 1984 with this family sitcom, an immediate success that closed out its first year by taking third place in the national ratings. Specifically calculated by its star and his team to give audiences a heretofore unseen take on African-American families, The Cosby Show made its leading man a respected obstetrician and its leading lady a successful attorney. Comfortably upper-middle-class and domiciled in a roomy Brooklyn brownstone, Cliff and Clair Huxtable (Cosby and Phylicia Allen, later Rashad) juggled their careers while attending to their five children: college student Sondra (Sabrina LeBeauf); intelligent but eccentric Denise (Lisa Bonet); underachieving son Theo (Malcolm-Jamal Warner); and irrepressible younger daughters Vanessa (Tempestt Bledsoe) and Rudy (Keisha Knight Pulliam). The Season 1 episodes reflect Cosby's determination to eschew cookie-cutter sitcom situations. The humor derives from realistic situations, and the gags (such as they are) come out of the type of observational comedy that the star made a staple of his stand-up routines. Cosby's character doesn't hog the spotlight; the kids figure prominently in each half-hour story. Eschewing corny one-liners, the writing is exceptionally good, with some laugh-out-loud-funny dialogue that's all the more effective for sounding natural. Although later years found the show more dominant in the ratings -- it was TV’s top-ranked show in the five subsequent seasons -- the episodes in this first group are the most consistently strong ones in the entire run. Ed Hulse, Barnes & Noble

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THE COSBY SHOW!...or is it?by Anonymous

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November 27, 2006: Yes, it's wonderful to finally have The Cosby Show available on DVD, but this is not what you'd expect. Instead of containing the full length versions that originally aired on NBC in the 80's, the idiots supply us with the badly cut versions from Nick-At-Nite. How do you spell G-Y-P? Roseanne (another great sitcom) also got the butcher in the first season. Don't believe me? Borrow it from a library, and her name will be "Roseanne Arnold" in the credits! What should that tell you? WKRP In Cincinnati is also on life support from the same bad editing, mainly because of the music licensing. And as every WKRP, Cosby Show or Roseanne fan should know, we'd rather have the original, full-length versions than the edited, syndicated ones.

Highly Recommended!!!by Anonymous

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August 31, 2005: I am so excited to find that The Cosby Show is on DVD. This is the only television sitcom I would ever buy on DVD. I am anxiously awaiting for season 2 to come out!!!


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