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The Bill Cosby Show: Season One, On DVD August 22nd
BILL COSBY ON VARSITY BASKETBALL
BILL COSBY ON ELEVATORS
BILL COSBY BEING BILL COSBY
Many Bill Cosby fans donât realize that the beloved Dr. Cliff Huxtable had an equally endearing predecessor, high school gym teacher Chet Kincaid. After winning two Emmy® awards for his groundbreaking co-starring role in the weekly television drama âI Spy,â Cosby tackled the sitcom with his 1969 self-monikered series, âThe Bill Cosby Show.â Shout! Factory announces the DVD debut of The Bill Cosby Show: Season One as a four disc set, including all 26 fully-restored episodes and a brand new on-camera interview with the star himself.
âThe Bill Cosby Showâ originally aired on NBC from 1969 to 1971. Cosbyâs first situation
comedy placed an emphasis on real-life situations that were enhanced by the comedianâs
trademark sense of humor. Rather than depending on one-liners, the showâs humor resided
in the often absurd developing story, as evidenced by the absence of a laugh track.
âThe Bill Cosby Show: Season Oneâ DVD features the original music by the legendary
Quincy Jones and guest appearances by Henry Fonda (On Golden Pond), Academy
Award®-winner Lou Gossett Jr. (An Officer And A Gentleman), Cicely Tyson
(âRootsâ), Elsa Lanchester (Bride Of Frankenstein) and many others.
Chet Kincaid (Cosby) is a gym teacher and basketball coach at an urban high school in Los Angeles, an all-around good guy and an inspiration to his friends, family and students. Kincaidâs good heart gets him into tons of predicaments, such as losing a one-on-one basketball game to a student he considered too short to make the team, his accidental involvement in a domestic dispute when he answers a pay phone, and escorting a date in a borrowed garbage truck.
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