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Live action bumpers featuring Bill Cosby were set around animated episodes of Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids, a series about a group of urban adolescents growing up in a Philadelphia neighborhood. The show was based on Cosby's '60s stand up comedy monologues about his childhood. The episodes revolved around the daily life lessons learned by Albert and his friends. Topics ranged from social issues to personal introspection and were blended with humor and music. Among the many great characters that inhabited Fat Albert's world were Rudy, Mushmouth, Donald, Bill, Weird Harold and Russell. In 1979 the show was re-titled The New Fat Albert Show and featured a new segment called The Brown Hornet, a send-up of superhero cartoons starring a larger-than-life African-American crime fighter in outer space. In 1984, the show was syndicated and renamed The Adventures of Fat Albert and the Cosby kids. It ended the same year. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids enjoyed one of the longe
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Series 7 - Episode 20 - Film Follies
Aired - 19 January 1985
Episode summary:
The gang enters a kids film festival where they can make their own movie and submit it for a chance to win a cash prize. They decide to make a film on the Brown Hornet with Rudy directing. A number of mishaps occur during the making of the movie, which gets Rudy frustrated with the rest of the gang. Mudfoot advises him that if he treats them more kindly, he'll get better results. Rudy returns to finish directing, indeed putting on his kinder face. They become suspicious of what he's up to and find out for sure on the night of the film contest. Rudy plans to give a speech putting down the gang's bad efforts, calling them amateurs. Surprisingly, the Brown Hornet film wins and before Rudy goes on stage to accept the trophy, Fat Albert tells him it was a full team effort. Rudy has a change of heart and complements the rest of the gang, apologizing for the way he acted before. They all come out on stage with him as they join in their victory together.
Episode summary:
The gang enters a kids film festival where they can make their own movie and submit it for a chance to win a cash prize. They decide to make a film on the Brown Hornet with Rudy directing. A number of mishaps occur during the making of the movie, which gets Rudy frustrated with the rest of the gang. Mudfoot advises him that if he treats them more kindly, he'll get better results. Rudy returns to finish directing, indeed putting on his kinder face. They become suspicious of what he's up to and find out for sure on the night of the film contest. Rudy plans to give a speech putting down the gang's bad efforts, calling them amateurs. Surprisingly, the Brown Hornet film wins and before Rudy goes on stage to accept the trophy, Fat Albert tells him it was a full team effort. Rudy has a change of heart and complements the rest of the gang, apologizing for the way he acted before. They all come out on stage with him as they join in their victory together.
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+ Series 7
+ Episode - 23 Cosby's Classics
Aired - 29 September 1984
+ Episode - 22 Watch Thy Neighborhood
Aired - 22 September 1984
+ Episode - 21 Water you Waiting For
Aired - Air date unknown.
+ Episode - 20 Film Follies
Aired - 19 January 1985
+ Episode - 19 Teenage Mom
Aired - 12 January 1985
+ Episode - 18 Kiss and Tell
Aired - 05 January 1985
+ Episode - 17 Second Chance
Aired - 29 December 1984
+ Episode - 16 The Joker
Aired - 22 December 1984
+ Episode - 15 Love Live the Queen
Aired - 15 December 1984
+ Episode - 14 You Gotta Have Art
Aired - 08 December 1984
+ Episode - 13 Video Mania
Aired - 01 December 1984
+ Episode - 12 The Runner
Aired - 24 November 1984
+ Episode - 11 Never Say Never
Aired - 17 November 1984
+ Episode - 10 It All Ads Up
Aired - 10 November 1984
+ Episode - 9 Busted
Aired - 03 November 1984
+ Episode - 8 Handwriting on the Wall
Aired - 27 October 1984
+ Episode - 7 Sinister Stranger
Aired - 20 October 1984
+ Episode - 6 Rebop for Bebop
Aired - 13 October 1984
+ Episode - 5 Justice Good as Ever
Aired - 06 October 1984
+ Episode - 4 Watch That First Step
Aired - 15 September 1984
+ Episode - 3 The Double Cross
Aired - Air date unknown.
+ Episode - 2 Two By Two
Aired - Air date unknown.
+ Episode - 1 Water You Waiting For?
Aired - 08 September 1984
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