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(Thursday, September 20, 1984, 8:00 p.m. EDT) — The Cosby Show, a sitcom about an upper middle-class African-American family living in Brooklyn, New York, debuted tonight as a regular television series on NBC.

It starred Bill Cosby, Phylicia Rashad, Sabrina Le Beauf, Malcolm-Jamal Warner, Lisa Bonet, Tempestt Bledsoe, Keshia Knight Pulliam, Geoffrey Owens, Raven-Symoné and Erika Alexander.