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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: Unrated
Binding: DVD
Brand: FIRST LOOK HOME ENTERTAIN
EAN: 0634991253123
Format: Subtitled, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Label: Urban Works
Languages: EnglishOriginal LanguageDolby Digital 2.0
Manufacturer: Urban Works
MPN: D25312-7D
Number Of Items: 4
Publisher: Urban Works
Region Code: 1
Release Date: August 02, 2005
Running Time: 575 minutes
Studio: Urban Works
Theatrical Release Date: September 20, 1984
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Product Description:
Already a presence on television for much of the 1960s and 1970s, in 1984 Bill Cosby debuted his new series THE COSBY SHOW, which went on to become one of the most popular shows on television. Even in its very first year, THE COSBY SHOW was the third highest rated show in America. On the program, Cosby played Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, who along with his wife Claire, an attorney, struggled to balance the challenges of their successful careers with the demands of their five children. The five kids all varied greatly in age and each had their own problems, which lead to a variety of plotlines for the sitcom to utilize. Cosby's goal with the show was to present a positive view of a regular, middle-class, and successful African-American family. SEASON ONE collects the first 24 episodes of the series, with famous guest stars like Dizzy Gillespie and Lena Horne, and others who got their start on the program, like Blair Underwood, Iman, and Alicia Keys. 4 Discs/24 episodes.
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Looking back at season 1 of The Cosby Show, it's easy to forget that momentous history was being made. Not only did this immensely popular sitcom hold the #1 spot among all network TV shows for five consecutive seasons (a record that still stands), but it promoted an evolutionary progression that influenced the entire TV industry from that point forward. African Americans had enjoyed sitcom success in the past (on Julia, The Jeffersons, and Good Times), but the idealized family of Cliff and Clair Huxtable (Bill Cosby and Phylicia Rashad) represented a new and quietly revolutionary perspective; married for 21 years with five children (one in college, a detail unmentioned in the pilot episode), the Huxtables were happy and successful (he's a doctor, she's a lawyer), and issues of race were almost entirely irrelevant to the show's universal appeal. Making their Thursday-night debut on September 20, 1984, they were conceived by Cosby (as "executive consultant Dr. William H. Cosby Jr., Ed.D."), cocreators Ed. Weinberger and Michael Leeson, and executive producers Tom Werner and Marcy Carsey, with a matter-of-fact approach to upgrading the African American image, built upon Cosby's rubber-faced popularity as a stand-up comedian and rooted in the complete and unbiased integration of the black experience into the American mainstream. More to the point, The Cosby Show was eminently respectable family entertainment, perhaps too squeaky-clean for some tastes, but immediately popular at a time when Eddie Murphy (in Beverly Hills Cop) was honing a more profane image that Cosby disapproved of.
The show was also perfectly cast for mass appeal, from the irresistible precociousness of Keshia Knight Pulliam (as the youngest and most charming Huxtable daughter, Rudy) to the stylish adolescence of Lisa Bonet (years before her controversial role in Angel Heart) as 16-year-old Denise; Malcolm-Jamal Warner as outspoken teenager Theo; Tempestt Bledsoe as sensible younger daughter Vanessa; and Sabrina LaBeauf as college student and eventual mother of twins, Sondra. Combined with the effortless chemistry of Cosby and Rashad (credited in Season 1 as Phylicia Ayers Allen), the entire cast forged an easygoing, loosely-rehearsed dynamic that was genuinely familial.
Given The Cosby Show's immense popularity, it's deeply regrettable that the exorbitant cost of original music rights resulted in this DVD release of edited episodes that were shortened, with different music cues added, for perpetual syndication. Fans eager to see the original NBC broadcasts were understandably outraged, and this shortcoming should be addressed in DVD releases of subsequent seasons. In truth, the episodes (including "Goodbye, Mr. Fish," a perfect example of the show's universal appeal) are not significantly diminished by the careful editing; for casual fans, the difference is barely worth mentioning. And while the 90-minute bonus feature "The Cosby Show: A Look Back" (a clip show originally broadcast May 19, 2002) suffers from the conspicuous absence of Bonet (who by then had mostly retreated from show business), it duly conveys the long-term value (and moral values) of the series, which singlehandedly restored the fortunes of NBC while embracing familial togetherness that would inform many of the popular sitcoms that followed its noble example. --Jeff Shannon
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The cosby show what can you say it was a classic enjoyed every minute of it.
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This is good clean, fun tv. It is always good for a laugh and the whole family enjoys it.
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Same great kind of Cosby humor I grew up with listening to his early records (including Wonderfulness, Right, and Started out as a Child) and still see in him on stage.
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The Cosby Show - Season 1 was amazing! The Cosby Show deals with issues that are still topical more than 20 years later! In my opinion the dvd box guarantees 100 % satisfaction! The quality is very good. The Cosby Show provides viewers with great humour and it makes people feel good! It also brings viewers nostalgia. Furthermore this tv series shows african americans in a positive way to its viewers, which I think is wonderful and important! I am very pleased with this product and I highly recommend ... Read More
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The show itself was wonderful. However, the DVDs are marked in the Amazon description has having subtitles, and the box is marked with the "CC" symbol meaning the shows are closed captions for the hearing impaired. I have tried these DVDs on two different DVD players, plus two different television sets, plus my computer. There is no option on the DVDs to turn on subtitles, and no captions are displayed despite having captions always turned on (I am deaf and always have the captions turned on).
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