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Cosby is an Emmy- and PCA-winning situation comedy television series broadcast on CBS from September 16, 1996 to April 28, 2000. The television program starred Emmy Award winner Bill Cosby, Golden Globe winner Phylicia Rashād, who previously worked with Cosby in the 1984-1992 sitcom The Cosby Show and Madeline Kahn portrayed their neighbor, Pauline until her death in 1999, the following year, the cast hosted a retrospective centering on her and her character.

Synopsis

Cosby portrays grumpy Hilton Lucas, a man forced into early (and unwanted) retirement. His wife Ruth is played by Phylicia Rashād. Initially, Telma Hopkins was cast as Ruth Lucas; however, she was recast after she didn't react well to Cosby's tendency to ad lib. The couple had one daughter, Erica Lucas, portrayed by T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh. Doug E. Doug, who played Griffin Vesey, a friend of the Lucas family who tried occasionally to win Erica's affections, but they decided just to remain friends when in the fourth and final season, Darien Sills-Evans portrayed Darien Evans, Erica's fiancé/husband. Jurnee Smollett also joined the cast as 11-year-old Jurnee, who Hilton adored.