Episode guide
Cosby: Season 1
25 episodes · premiered Sep 16, 1996
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- Episode 1: Pilot Sep 16, 1996 · 30m Downsizing at the airport forces Hilton to retire.
- Episode 2: It's My Party Sep 23, 1996 · 30m Hilton feels cheated that his company laid him off without even a goodbye party, but Ruthie tells him he's being childish. Hilton lands a job interview on Long Island, but when he tries to…
- Episode 3: Neighborhood Watch Sep 30, 1996 · 30m To wrest control of his block from lowlifes (like the burglars who targeted him), Hilton forms a neighborhood-watch program (of sorts). Now watch the watch commander lose control and cause…
- Episode 4: Happily Ever Hilton Oct 7, 1996 · 30m The airline company that dismissed Hilton is now rehiring, and he's fired up to go back to work. But his impatience and confrontational attitude simply won't cut it. When the airline for…
- Episode 5: The Best Little Antique Shop in Astoria Oct 14, 1996 · 30m Hilton is shocked to find out that an antique store where he has a new job is really a front for illegal activity: a brothel the police are planning to raid. When the cops want Hilton to…
- Episode 6: One Foot in Your Mouth Oct 21, 1996 · 30m Deceit weaves a tangled web around Hilton, who tells ""one little lie"" and then, to keep up the ruse, finds that he must pretend he's someone else -- and not married to Ruth. In order to…
- Episode 7: Natural Born Debtors Oct 28, 1996 · 30m Griffin is helping Hilton fix the bathroom door when Wendy arrives very upset and looking for Pauline, her godmother. Before she leaves Hilton has given her $45 to help pay her overdue…
- Episode 8: The Two Mr. Lucases Nov 4, 1996 · 30m Hilton's cousin Earl has secretly checked himself into the hospital for a colonoscopy procedure, not telling his wife Lillian because he doesn't want her to worry. Hilton is going to visit…
- Episode 9: No Nudes is Good Nudes Nov 11, 1996 · 30m Hilton has to keep a naked lady in his bathroom a secret. Hilton was too embarrassed even to look at Monica, the nude model in his art class. But when he tries to help her out by loaning…
- Episode 10: Basketball Story Nov 18, 1996 · 30m When Hilton and Griffin attend a Nets/Magic professional basketball game, Hilton has the lucky ticket and gets the chance to win a million dollars if he can make a free-throw from…
- Episode 11: Guard Almighty Nov 25, 1996 · 30m Although Hilton thinks he's going to fight crime in his new job as a security guard, he ends up as a glorified doorman who gets more than he bargained for. After Hilton graduates at the…
- Episode 12: The Broken Reflection Dec 2, 1996 · 30m Due to a hospital mix-up, Hilton gets the colonoscopy that was meant for his cousin. When Hilton's cousin, Earl Lucas, goes to the hospital for a colonoscopy, Hilton decides to be at his…
- Episode 13: Tempus Lucas Dec 16, 1996 · 30m After Hilton realizes that his life insurance was affected when his company was downsized, he applies for a different policy -- which requires an intense physical examination. The stakes…
- Episode 14: Guess Whose President is Coming to Dinner? Jan 6, 1997 · 30m In a White House public relations move, Hilton is chosen as the ideal ""common man"" to dine with the president. When Hilton calls in to a radio talk-show, the president's deputy…
- Episode 15: Brave New Hilton Jan 13, 1997 · 30m When Hilton's friend Bradshaw, the down mattress and bedding ""king"", confides to Hilton that his business is in a bit of trouble, Hilton and Griffin brainstorm about ways to help him…
- Episode 16: Lucas Platonicus Feb 3, 1997 · 30m After Griffin and Erica attend their high school reunion, Griffin realizes that their relationship is going nowhere and decides to make a clean break from her. When Griffin's old friends…
- Episode 17: Valentine's Day Feb 10, 1997 · 30m It's Valentine's Day, and when Hilton realizes that he has bought Ruth a scarf that she already has, it's back to the drawing board. When she mentions that she'd love to see singer Jeffrey…
- Episode 18: Florida Feb 17, 1997 · 30m When Hilton and Ruth return to the blizzard-like conditions of New York City, after visiting friends in sunny Florida, they decide to put their house on the market and move south for good…
- Episode 19: Anniversary Waltz Feb 24, 1997 · 30m Thirty years after their plans for a formal wedding at an elegant hall had to be cancelled, Hilton and Ruth celebrate their wedding anniversary by renewing their vows at ""The Palace"" in…
- Episode 20: That Darn Cat Mar 3, 1997 · 30m When Ruth and Pauline ""just happen"" to spot a used pregnancy test in Erica's garbage and then ""just happen"" to see the positive results, they assume that Erica is expecting, but Hilton…
- Episode 21: I'm OK, You're Hilton Mar 10, 1997 · 30m Pressed by Ruth to address his ""unusual behavior,"" Hilton enters group therapy. Bad idea. Now he misbehaves by counseling an old crony, who promptly loses his job.
- Episode 22: The Return of the Charlites Apr 28, 1997 · 30m When Ruth's high school friend Charlene comes to town for a visit during her worldwide singing tour, she gives Ruth the chance to sing with ""The Charlites"" at a charity function and…
- Episode 23: My Dinner with Methuselah May 5, 1997 · 30m A befuddled old gent from the neighborhood stops by Hilton's to borrow a video cassette and, as fate would have it, winds up on a blind date with Pauline.
- Episode 24: Hilton's Playland May 12, 1997 · 30m Erica brings Julius, her boyfriend of three months who stars in a kids' TV show, home to meet Hilton and Ruth; Hilton is unimpressed and gives Julius a hard time. Hilton goes with Erica to…
- Episode 25: Social Insecurity May 19, 1997 · 30m Hilton tries to convince the Social Security Administration that he is not dead.