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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On This Day: September 16, 1993 — Frasier Landed on NBC and Nobody Saw It Coming
On September 16, 1993, Frasier made its NBC debut — a Cheers spin-off that Kelsey Grammer didn’t want to make, built around a concept Paramount had already rejected, with a cast assembled partly by accident. It ran 11 seasons, produced 264 episodes, and collected 37 Primetime Emmy Awards. Nobody saw any of that coming. The…
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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.
