On This Day: September 20, 1984 — The Cosby Show Premieres and Saves NBC
On September 20, 1984, The Cosby Show premiered on NBC after ABC passed on it — and ended up saving a last-place network and reviving the sitcom genre.
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Married with Children: How Al Bundy Broke Every TV Rule
Married with Children premiered on April 5, 1987, as one of FOX’s first primetime shows. Running for 11 seasons and 259 episodes, the series about shoe salesman Al Bundy and his catastrophically average family became Fox’s longest-running live-action sitcom and changed what American television was allowed to look like. No other show in the 1980s…
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The Cosby Show: 8 Seasons That Changed Sitcom TV
The Cosby Show saved NBC, redrew Black middle-class TV, and left a cultural legacy that now lives uneasily alongside Bill Cosby’s conviction. The full Huxtable story.
