The Cosby Show

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Episode Guide

Season 1

• Episode 1: Theo's Economic Lesson
  Aired: Sep 20, 1984

  When Theo brings home a poor report card, he claims he does not need good grades to get a job. So Cliff gives him an economics lesson with Monopoly money. Much to Cliff's dismay, Denise goes on a date with Rafael, an older man who is a former merchant marine. Cliff and Clair's plans for a quiet night are ruined when Vanessa and Rudy can't sleep, with Rudy claiming the wolf man was growling in her closet

• Episode 2: Mr. Fish (a.k.a. Goodbye, Mr. Fish)
  Aired: Sep 27, 1984

  When Rudy's goldfish dies, Cliff struggles over how to break the bad news to her. Cliff wants to hold a formal funeral in the bathroom, but the rest of the family has other ideas about the proper site for the "memorial".

• Episode 3: Bad Dreams
  Aired: Oct 4, 1984

  Cliff forbids ten-year-old Vanessa to see a scary movie; though he allows older brother Theo to go. Vanessa sneaks out to see the movie anyway, but soon regrets it when she begins having nightmares. Now she insists on sleeping with Cliff and Clair, but she quickly overstays her welcome.

• Episode 4: Knight to Night
  Aired: Oct 11, 1984

  No summary available.

• Episode 5: Is That My Boy?
  Aired: Oct 18, 1984

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• Episode 6: Breaking With Tradition
  Aired: Oct 25, 1984

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• Episode 7: One More Time
  Aired: Nov 1, 1984

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• Episode 8: A Shirt Story
  Aired: Nov 8, 1984

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• Episode 9: Play It Again, Vanessa
  Aired: Nov 15, 1984

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• Episode 10: How Ugly Is He?
  Aired: Nov 22, 1984

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• Episode 11: Bonjour, Sondra
  Aired: Dec 6, 1984

  Excited that the whole family will be together for Thanksgiving, Cliff anxiously waits for Sondra's arrival home from Princeton. But instead of celebrating, Sondra spends the holiday trying to persuade her parents to let her go to Paris for the summer.

• Episode 12: Father's Day
  Aired: Dec 13, 1984

  No summary available.

• Episode 13: Rudy's Sick
  Aired: Dec 20, 1984

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• Episode 14: Independence Day
  Aired: Jan 10, 1985

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• Episode 15: Physician of the Year
  Aired: Jan 17, 1985

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• Episode 16: Jitterbug Break
  Aired: Jan 31, 1985

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• Episode 17: Theo and the Joint
  Aired: Feb 7, 1985

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• Episode 18: Vanessa's New Class
  Aired: Feb 14, 1985

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• Episode 19: Clair's Case
  Aired: Feb 21, 1985

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• Episode 20: Back to the Track, Jack
  Aired: Feb 28, 1985

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• Episode 21: The Younger Woman
  Aired: Mar 14, 1985

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• Episode 22: Slumber Party
  Aired: Mar 28, 1985

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• Episode 23: Mr. Quiet
  Aired: May 2, 1985

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• Episode 24: Cliff's Birthday
  Aired: May 9, 1985

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Season 2

• Episode 1: First Day of School
  Aired: Sep 26, 1985

  The school season starts again and each one of the children faces it with different emotions. Cliff and Clair, however, are enthusiastic at getting the house back to themselves during the daytime.

• Episode 2: The Juicer
  Aired: Oct 3, 1985

  Kitchen wizard Cliff is like a child with a new toy when he buys a state-of-the-art juicer.

• Episode 3: Happy Anniversary
  Aired: Oct 10, 1985

  It's Russell and Anna Huxtable's 49th anniversary, and the Huxtables observe the occasion with a classic impression of Ray Charles' "Night Time is the Right Time."

• Episode 4: Cliff in Love
  Aired: Oct 17, 1985

  Sondra and Elvin break up, again, and Cliff and Clair tell Sondra to consider calling a boy that her friends say would be a good boyfriend to her. When the boy comes to the house, Cliff interviews him and falls in love with the guy.

• Episode 5: Theo and the Older Woman
  Aired: Oct 24, 1985

  Denise's friend Susanne comes over to write a report on what a large family deals with, but Theo uses the occasion to try and impress her but ends up making a fool of himself.

• Episode 6: Halloween
  Aired: Oct 31, 1985

  Vanessa has a boy/girl Halloween party at home. Cliff takes Rudy and her friends trick or treating.

• Episode 7: Denise Drives
  Aired: Nov 7, 1985

  Denise is determined to spend her savings on the first car she sees, and balks when her father forbids her to buy an expensive lemon. But the bargain-conscious Cliff becomes a wheeler-dealer when the family handyman, Mr. Lucas, offers to sell Denise his aunt's old car. Also, Cliff informs a middle-aged couple that they are going to have a baby, which comes as a shock to them, as they already have a five-year-old grandson! David Langston Smyrl as Mr. Lucas.

• Episode 8: Rudy Suits Up
  Aired: Nov 14, 1985

  Clair goes from overprotective mom to football fanatic when Rudy Sweet Feet Huxtable becomes the star of her pee-wee football team. Cliff is delighted that his daughter will follow in his footsteps on the football field, and cons a wary Clair into going to see her play. Clair is swept off her feet by Rudy's play.

• Episode 9: Clair's Sister
  Aired: Nov 21, 1985

  Clair's sister becomes engaged; Cliff struggles to beat his father-in-law (Joe Williams) at chess.

• Episode 10: Denise's Friend
  Aired: Dec 5, 1985

  Denise's friend, Michelle, thinks she has a medical problem and wants to keep it from her parents, so she asks Cliff for advice. This leads Cliff and Clair to question whether their children would come to them with their problems or seek outside help. They hold a family forum to make sure their children know the lines of communication are always open. But the children pose some hypothetical questions which give their parents pause.

• Episode 11: Clair's Toe
  Aired: Dec 12, 1985

  Clair buys a pair of beautiful new shoes and challenges Cliff to a smooth contest – to decide who has the most style. Unfortunately, when Clair breaks her toe, she cannot fit her bandaged foot into her stylish new shoes. What is more, she refuses any help from Cliff – determined to prove she can function as a lawyer, wife and mother of five, in spite of her broken toe.

• Episode 12: Mrs. Westlake
  Aired: Jan 2, 1986

  Theo's math teacher, Mrs. Westlake, comes to the Huxtable house after Theo takes a math test, so naturally, he thinks he "blew it."

• Episode 13: Vanessa's Bad Grade
  Aired: Jan 9, 1986

  Vanessa, a straight A student, finds that her grades suffer when she studies with Robert, a classmate that she has a crush on. With a big school dance coming up, she is afraid to show her parents a bad test grade fearing they will keep her home. The night of the dance, Vanessa wears Denise's new sweater without her sister's permission, causing an all-out brawl between the two.

• Episode 14: The Auction
  Aired: Jan 16, 1986

  While leafing through a catalog, Clair sees that a painting by her great uncle is for sale at an auction. She remembers her childhood when the painting hung in her grandmother's house, but was later sold to pay medical bills. Although the estimated price for the painting is very high, Clair is determined to bring it back into the family.

• Episode 15: Theo and Cockroach
  Aired: Jan 30, 1986

  Theo and his friend Walter decide to listen to a recording of "Macbeth" instead of reading the actual play. Cliff picks a snowball fight with some neighborhood children.

• Episode 16: The Dentist
  Aired: Feb 6, 1986

  Peter has a toothache but is afraid to go to the dentist so Rudy goes with him. Meanwhile, Cliff tries to hide the newspaper from Clair because she won't let him sleep when she reads it in bed.

• Episode 17: Play It Again, Russell
  Aired: Feb 13, 1986

  After an example of not so great trombone playing at a Jazz club gig, Russell needs to get it together quick because the next time is his career finale.

• Episode 18: A Touch of Wonder
  Aired: Feb 20, 1986

  While driving in her car with Theo, Denise has a fender bender with Motown legend Stevie Wonder's chauffeured limousine.

• Episode 19: Full House
  Aired: Feb 27, 1986

  Cliff finds it almost impossible to have a quiet day off at home with the kids and their friends in almost every room of the house.

• Episode 20: Close to Home
  Aired: Mar 13, 1986

  Cliff's associate Dr. Morgan stops by to help plan a fundraiser but, behind his smile, he is harboring the pain of a serious family issue.

• Episode 21: Theo's Holiday
  Aired: Mar 20, 1986

  A cocky Theo is sure that in a few years he will easily land a job as a fashion model and have a great car, apartment and plenty of spending money. So the Huxtables stage an elaborate scheme to prove to him that living on your own is not what it is cracked up to be. Theo's lesson in reality starts when the Huxtable home is converted into the Real World Apartments with Cliff as the strictly business landlord, Harley Weewax; Clair as the restaurant owner, Millie Farquar; Denise as the shrewd head of a modeling agency; Vanessa as her gum-cracking receptionist, and Rudy as the hard-nosed bank loan officer, Mrs. Griswald.

• Episode 22: An Early Spring
  Aired: Apr 3, 1986

  Mrs. Westlake's plan to give a tough math test to Theo's class is interrupted when the pregnant teacher goes into labor unexpectedly and seeks the services of Dr. Huxtable to deliver the baby. Also, Cliff tries in vain to teach Rudy to ride a bicycle while Vanessa seeks advice from Denise on every teenager's nightmare: pimples.

• Episode 23: Denise's Decision
  Aired: Apr 10, 1986

  Cliff and his father are among the Huxtables who cannot keep their opinions to themselves when Denise is faced with the difficult decision of which college to attend. Although Denise cannot decide if she wants to go away to school, Cliff and Russell try to persuade her to attend their alma mater in North Carolina. Theo is worried about losing out on Denise's car if she goes away, and Vanessa already has plans for her sister's room.

• Episode 24: The Card Game
  Aired: May 8, 1986

  Cliff's pinochle partner becomes ill and cannot play in their monthly match against Russell and his partner, Homer (Bill Gunn). So Cliff teams up with his former English teacher, Professor Bennington Foster (Roscoe Lee Browne), who proves to be a formidable player. Russell tries to stretch the rules to beat his son, unaware that Professor Foster has a few tricks of his own. Meanwhile, love is in the air when Theo sends away for a $19.95 'diamondoid' ring for his new girlfriend, Tanya.

• Episode 25: Off to the Races
  Aired: May 15, 1986

  Cliff 'Combustible' Huxtable is thrilled when his former college track rival, Colonel Sanford B. 'Tailwind' Turner, invites him to run the prestigious anchor leg of a charity relay race in the Penn Relays track meet. He is even more excited to discover that his formerly fleet-footed opponent, Charlie Stevenson, is now fat. But Cliff does not realize he is in for the surprise of a lifetime.

Season 3

• Episode 1: Bring 'em Back Alive
  Aired: Sep 25, 1986

  Rudy sees a snake in the basement. Cliff and Theo cannot capture it, so Clair calls an exterminator. Theo and his friend plan a party with lots of girls attending.

• Episode 2: Food for Thought
  Aired: Oct 2, 1986

  Cliff has to go on a diet. Rudy does not want her own room.

• Episode 3: Golden Anniversary
  Aired: Oct 9, 1986

  Cliff, Clair, and the children plan an elaborate celebration for Cliff's parents 50th wedding anniversary. The Huxtable's perform a musical number for the parents and take them to a club for music and dancing.

• Episode 4: Man Talk
  Aired: Oct 16, 1986

  At school, a classmate starts flirting with Theo. Theo is flattered and interested, but he already has a girlfriend. Rudy wants to have a tea party and since her sisters are busy, she asks Cliff to the tea party.

• Episode 5: Mother, May I?
  Aired: Oct 23, 1986

  Vanessa starts wearing makeup without her parents' permission. Clair talks to Vanessa and reminds her she must wait until she's 15. Meanwhile, Theo is taking a fire-safety class at school and quizzes his parents on procedures.

• Episode 6: The March
  Aired: Oct 30, 1986

  Theo has to rewrite a school paper on the 1963 March on Washington. Cliff & Clair, and Cliff's parents, who were actually there during the march, tell Theo what really happened and how they experienced it. He gets to really feel the event.

• Episode 7: Theo's Flight
  Aired: Nov 6, 1986

  Theo wants to take flying lessons after he is impressed by a guest speaker at his school, a World War II fighter pilot.

• Episode 8: Vanessa's Rich
  Aired: Nov 13, 1986

  Vanessa mentions to the popular cheerleaders the amount of money her mother paid for an art painting. Vanessa is then accepted on the pep squad and starts being picked on for being rich.

• Episode 9: Denise Gets a D
  Aired: Nov 20, 1986

  Clair has a pinched nerve and has to stay in bed. Cliff and the children try to make her day easier by doing chores around the house. At college, Denise gets a D in one of her classes and is afraid to tell her parents.

• Episode 10: A Girl and Her Dog
  Aired: Dec 4, 1986

  Cliff's left alone with the kids for a day before they go on a trip out to Washington. A dog follows Rudy home and she has trouble letting go when the dog's owner comes to get it.

• Episode 11: War Stories
  Aired: Dec 11, 1986

  Russel and his friends visit Cliff to play pinochle. Cliff's father and his friends reminisce about their days in military service.

• Episode 12: Cliff in Charge
  Aired: Dec 18, 1986

  Clair is asked to help plan a celebration that honors the retiring president of Hillman College in Atlanta. While she is gone for ten days, Cliff has to take care of the house and children.

• Episode 13: Monster Man Huxtable
  Aired: Jan 8, 1987

  Sondra comes home from college and brings Elvin along with her. Theo is written up in the school paper about his wrestling skills. Elvin helps him learn a few new moves and shares with Theo that he is going to propose marriage to Sondra.

• Episode 14: Rudy Spends the Night
  Aired: Jan 15, 1987

  Rudy is spending the night with her grandparents. Denise is going with friends to The Village and invites Vanessa to go with her. Theo is waiting for news to go out with a girlfriend. When that falls through, Cliff creates Mens Night.

• Episode 15: Say Hello to a Good Buy
  Aired: Jan 22, 1987

  Cliff buys a new car, but must contend with a tough salesman. Meanwhile, Rudy creates a collage of animals by cutting pictures out of Cliff's encyclopedias.

• Episode 16: Denise Gets an Opinion
  Aired: Feb 5, 1987

  Denise makes a date with a guy she's only talked to on the phone. Robert stops by to get advice from Cliff and others about girls, romance and relationships.

• Episode 17: Calling Doctor Huxtable
  Aired: Feb 12, 1987

  Cliff goes to the hospital to deliver a baby and finds out three patients are ready to deliver. Theo is in charge at home, and Vanessa has a friend over who smokes a cigarette in Vanessa's room.

• Episode 18: You Only Hurt the One You Love
  Aired: Feb 19, 1987

  Theo talks Rudy into playing circus and when he tries to do the tumbling act, accidentally injures her.

• Episode 19: The Shower
  Aired: Feb 26, 1987

  Denise gives her friend Veronica a bridal shower. Denise finds out Veronica and her fiancé planned to get pregnant just so they could get married.

• Episode 20: Cliff's 50th Birthday
  Aired: Mar 12, 1987

  Cliff is turning 50 years old and the family plans a lot of surprises for him. He finds out all the things that are older than him, get a key chain that works for everyone except him, and has a party with some special friends.

• Episode 21: I Know That You Know
  Aired: Mar 19, 1987

  Sondra and Elvin announce their engagement. Since Cliff always says he knows everything that goes on, Clair and the kids decide to play a joke on Cliff about the engagement. He finds out before the joke and turns the tables on the others.

• Episode 22: Andalusian Flu
  Aired: Apr 2, 1987

  Both Cliff and Clair are sick in bed with the flu, leaving Theo in charge; Theo orders Vanessa and Rudy around to clean up the house while he takes the credit for it even though he's planning to go out with a girl.

• Episode 23: Bald and Beautiful
  Aired: Apr 9, 1987

  Cockroach shaves his head to audition for a music video and tries to convince Theo to shave his head also. Cliff's friend from the Navy visits.

• Episode 24: Planning Parenthood
  Aired: Apr 30, 1987

  Cliff takes Rudy & her friends to a fancy restaurant. All dressed up in their best clothes, they go to the restaurant. Chaos ensues despite Cliff's effort to show them elegance. Clair's sister visits and announces she wants to have a baby.

• Episode 25: Hillman
  Aired: May 7, 1987

  Cliff, Clair, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy visit Denise at Hillman College and meet her friends.

Season 4

• Episode 1: Call of the Wild
  Aired: Sep 24, 1987

  Cliff & Clair are excited about Sondra & Elvin's plans for grad school, but when they return from their honeymoon, the newlyweds announce other plans. Elvin & Sondra plan to open a wilderness store.

• Episode 2: Theogate
  Aired: Oct 1, 1987

  Clair is concerned when Theo comes home late after a cross country meet and the principal calls the house. She decides to investigate what happened by holding a mock trial.

• Episode 3: It's Not Easy Being Green
  Aired: Oct 8, 1987

  Cliff has a hard time saying goodbye to his old water heater while Rudy and Clair get into a fight because Clair won't let Rudy wear a summer dress to a winter birthday party.

• Episode 4: Cliff's Mistake
  Aired: Oct 15, 1987

  Cliff loses a very important power drill that he borrowed from his neighbor, Jeffery. The Huxtable kids, along with Kenny and Jeff's daughter, Kelly, make a haunted house in the basement.

• Episode 5: Shakespeare
  Aired: Oct 22, 1987

  Theo & Walter are studying Shakespeare for school but are not enthused. Cliff decides to have barbecue for dinner and invites family and friends. When Russell hears about the Shakespeare situation, he and his friend read part a play.

• Episode 6: That's Not What I Said
  Aired: Oct 29, 1987

  Theo's friend gets into an altercation which gets Theo sent to a police station in Coney Island. The altercation gets Cliff and Clair into a fight, and they completely forget about Theo's punishment.

• Episode 7: Autumn Gifts
  Aired: Nov 5, 1987

  The Huxtables have a problem when they find out the old woman Rudy visits with refuses to take her medication and becomes forgetful; everybody makes several humorous attempts to convince Mrs. Hickson why she needs to take her pills.

• Episode 8: Looking Back (1)
  Aired: Nov 12, 1987

  Sondra & Elvin have their first marital spat, but it is Elvin who runs home to the parents - Sondra's parents! As Elvin gives his side of the story, flashbacks are shown about Sondra's different boyfriends and their first meeting of Elvin.

• Episode 9: Looking Back (2)
  Aired: Nov 12, 1987

  When Elvin drops by the Huxtable home after fighting with Sondra, the family shares some moments in Huxtable history.

• Episode 10: Where's Rudy?
  Aired: Nov 19, 1987

  The Huxtables head to the mall where Clair enters her garden squash in a contest. Theo and Vanessa are in charge of watching Rudy but they lose track of her. Rudy meets a girl her age and they play together.

• Episode 11: Dance Mania
  Aired: Dec 3, 1987

  Theo is upset after his friend, Cockroach, takes the last available spot on the TV show "Dance Mania."

• Episode 12: The Locker Room
  Aired: Dec 10, 1987

  Vanessa dates Theo's friend Lyle, and Theo objects. Cliff wants to find out how Rudy makes milk vanish.

• Episode 13: The Show Must Go On
  Aired: Dec 17, 1987

  Cliff is excited to take Rudy and six of her friends to see a Salute to Vaudeville show. They are the only ones in the audience. The children are not the best audience and are not impressed.

• Episode 14: Bookworm
  Aired: Jan 7, 1988

  Clair's book club invites their spouses to attend a meeting, but Cliff is the only man that shows up. Despite Clair's doubts, Cliff read the book and joins the discussion. Sondra & Elvin have Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy over for a sleepover.

• Episode 15: Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star
  Aired: Jan 14, 1988

  Theo works on his psychic abilities but does not have much success. Rudy thinks her teacher hates her and tells her parents her problems. One of which is a music recital where she has to play the violin instead of a more fun instrument.

• Episode 16: The Visit
  Aired: Jan 21, 1988

  One of Theo's high school friends has cancer and is in the hospital. Theo is hesitant to visit him because it is depressing. Sondra is on a trip without Elvin and he is lonely.

• Episode 17: The Drum Major
  Aired: Feb 4, 1988

  Vanessa tries out for drum major but keeps getting blocked. Theo finds out it is because no girl has ever been drum major and tries to help. A musician friend of Russell's is in town for a show. Russell tries to repay a debt to his friend.

• Episode 18: Waterworks
  Aired: Feb 11, 1988

  One tile falls from the bathroom wall, and as Cliff tries to repair it, the problem gets bigger. Clair asks friends of Sondra & Elvin to repair it before Cliff destroys the house when he tries to repair it.

• Episode 19: Once Upon a Time
  Aired: Feb 18, 1988

  Rudy reads a story she wrote to Cliff and Clair about a happy land where the residents are taken prisoner by the evil king and his men, as acted out in a fantasy sequence by all the characters.

• Episode 20: Petanque
  Aired: Feb 25, 1988

  The Harmons, friends of the Huxtables, come over for a visit. Cliff and Dr. Harmon get into a heated game of petanque while Theo tries to impress their daughter.

• Episode 21: Trust Me
  Aired: Mar 3, 1988

  Cliff has worked straight for 22 days, so he takes a day off. While he rests at home, Theo, Vanessa, and Rudy try to stump each other with constant riddles. Clair's friend has marital problems and asks Clair for advice.

• Episode 22: Home for the Weekend
  Aired: Mar 17, 1988

  Denise comes home from college for the weekend but disappoints her family when she chooses to spend every free moment with her friends instead.

• Episode 23: The Prom
  Aired: Mar 24, 1988

  Theo and his friends and their dates get ready for their prom while Cliff and Clair have their own prom in the living room.

• Episode 24: Gone Fishin'
  Aired: Apr 28, 1988

  Theo goes fishing with Cliff and Russell and hooks onto the body of a dead mobster, becoming the object of a local news story. Rudy and Kenny try to hide the fact from Clair that they're taking care of baby birds that have been abandoned.

Season 5

• Episode 1: Together Again and Again
  Aired: Oct 6, 1988

  Theo is starting college and Denise is to return to Hillman. Cliff and Clair look forward to fewer children at home, but Theo does not have a room at college and has to commute while Denise drops out of college. Sondra announces she is pregnant.

• Episode 2: The Physical
  Aired: Oct 13, 1988

  The children tease Cliff about how much he eats as he prepares for his physical in the morning. Denise talks about the celebrities she meets at the record studio. Turns out she is not a great employee and does not really work with them.

• Episode 3: Rudy's All-Nighter
  Aired: Oct 20, 1988

  Theo gets a "D" on his first freshman English composition and worries that he's not "college material.

• Episode 4: Move It (a.k.a. The Baby Game)
  Aired: Oct 27, 1988

  Cliff & Clair visit Sondra & Elvin's apartment and are surprised and shocked at the cramped space and state of disrepair. Clair does not want her grandchild to grow up there. Sondra & Elvin agree to borrow money to get a better place.

• Episode 5: Out of Brooklyn
  Aired: Nov 3, 1988

  Vanessa is having problems with her boyfriend Roy. Denise announces she quit her job and plans to move to Africa as a photographer's assistant. Despite objections and hardships she will endure, Denise is determined to go.

• Episode 6: The Birth (1)
  Aired: Nov 10, 1988

  Sondra starts contractions; Elvin is nervous and Cliff and Clair are anxious.

• Episode 7: The Birth (2)
  Aired: Nov 10, 1988

  Sondra goes into labor. In his confusion, Elvin drives off to the hospital without her and Sondra is forced to drive the car.

• Episode 8: Cyranoise de Bergington
  Aired: Nov 17, 1988

  Rudy borrows money from Cliff to buy a birthday gift two months in advance for Clair. Theo's friend Howard breaks up with his girlfriend and Theo is interested in asking her out. Theo asks another friend, Denny, to talk to the girl for him.

• Episode 9: How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?
  Aired: Dec 1, 1988

  Vanessa forms the "Lipsticks" singing group; Cliff's dad gets an envelope saying "You are a winner", instead of "You might be a winner".

• Episode 10: If the Dress Fits, Wear It
  Aired: Dec 8, 1988

  Clair goes on a crash diet and endures an exhaustive exercise program to lose enough weight to fit into an old dress to wear for an evening out with Cliff.

• Episode 11: Is There a Hamster in the House?
  Aired: Dec 15, 1988

  Rudy watches a hamster overnight for a friend but it dies. Feeling bad, Cliff and Rudy buy a replacement hamster. Rudy tells her friend what happened and is surprised how her friend takes the news.

• Episode 12: Truth or Consequences
  Aired: Jan 5, 1989

  Vanessa gets caught lying to her parents about staying out past her curfew with her boyfriend, Jeremy.

• Episode 13: Cliff Babysits
  Aired: Jan 12, 1989

  Cliff babysits Winnie and Nelson when the rest of the family goes to see a Michael Jackson concert.

• Episode 14: Mrs. Huxtable Goes to Kindergarten
  Aired: Jan 26, 1989

  Clair wants to replace the living room couch but Cliff is reluctant to let the old couch go. Also, Clair is invited on a television talk show. However, when she finds out she is only asked her thoughts as a black woman, she leaves the show.

• Episode 15: The Lost Weekend
  Aired: Feb 2, 1989

  Everybody's away for the weekend, and Theo has the place to himself. Theo's friends decide it's time to party!

• Episode 16: No Way, Baby
  Aired: Feb 6, 1989

  One of Cliff's patients is a young, unmarried teenager without other known family. Cliff finds the girl's grandfather so someone can be with her when she delivers. When Clair meets the grandfather, she realizes he cannot read or write.

• Episode 17: Can I Say Something, Please?
  Aired: Feb 9, 1989

  Rudy complains to her parents that she doesn't get to do what her friends can and she still has to follow so many rules. So Cliff and Clair allow Rudy to stay up as late as she wants to teach her a lesson.

• Episode 18: The Dead End Kids Meet Dr. Lotus
  Aired: Feb 16, 1989

  Theo's former girlfriend, Justine, is starting to date other men and Theo is upset. Theo consults a voodoo shopkeeper for a spell or potion that will help him win her back.

• Episode 19: The Boys of Winter
  Aired: Feb 23, 1989

  Theo & his friends meet Cliff's former basketball coach. The Huxtables invite Coach Barry & his wife to their house for dinner. They watch a taped old basketball game together where Cliff misses all his shots & the coach sent him to the bench.

• Episode 20: It Comes and It Goes
  Aired: Mar 9, 1989

  Sondra finds it difficult to be a stay-at-home mom with baby twins. When the Tibideaux visit Cliff, Clair and Cliff's parents, Sondra vents with her mother and grandmother who have been there and done that with young children.

• Episode 21: Theo's Women
  Aired: Mar 16, 1989

  Theo helps an acting student with her lines then gets caught kissing her by his girlfriend who dumps him on the spot.

• Episode 22: Birthday Blues
  Aired: Mar 30, 1989

  On Clair's birthday, Cliff & their kids surprise her with an act.

• Episode 23: A Room With No View
  Aired: Apr 13, 1989

  Rudy is constantly bothering her sister Vanessa and they always have a fight but their parents find the perfect way to teach them a lesson.

• Episode 24: What He Did for Love
  Aired: Apr 27, 1989

  Theo and his friends go to the cafeteria to impress a girl with a very expensive watch one of them found on the street. Unfortunately it appears that the watch was reported stolen and his friend gets in trouble.

• Episode 25: Day of the Locusts
  Aired: May 4, 1989

  Strep throat keeps Sondra from taking care of her babies, but she gets paranoid when Clair and Elvin's mom take the babies with them so she can recover.

• Episode 26: 57 Varieties
  Aired: May 11, 1989

  Theo asks his parents to give him fifteen hundred dollars for an educational summer trip to Egypt. The Huxtables are not sure about giving him the money so he invites his teacher to the house to talk to his parents.

Season 6

• Episode 1: Denise: The Saga Continues
  Aired: Sep 21, 1989

  Just as Theo finds a new place to live, Denise returns from her African rainforest trip with startling souvenirs - a husband and a stepdaughter.

• Episode 2: Surf's Up
  Aired: Sep 28, 1989

  When Cliff tells Theo of some of the hi jinx he did when he was younger. Theo decides to try it himself. But he ends up damaging his apartment, which leads to the landlord throwing him out. So Cliff tries to some things with the man so Theo can move out of the house where he has been staying.

• Episode 3: I'm 'In' With the 'In' Crowd
  Aired: Oct 5, 1989

  Everybody loses when Vanessa and friends play a drinking game at an unsupervised get-together.

• Episode 4: Denise Kendall: Navy Wife
  Aired: Oct 12, 1989

  Denise and Martin prepare to check out the house where they will be living on the naval base; Denise admits she forgot to confirm the housing arrangements.

• Episode 5: Theo's Gift
  Aired: Oct 19, 1989

  Theo finds out that he has dyslexia so he changes the way he studies and gets a better grade in history.

• Episode 6: Denise Kendall: Babysitter
  Aired: Oct 26, 1989

  Denise and Olivia babysit Winnie and Nelson when Sondra and Elvin go out for the evening; but shortly after Sondra and Elvin leave, the whole building goes into a blackout.

• Episode 7: Shall We Dance?
  Aired: Nov 2, 1989

  Rudy and Kenny learn good manners at school. Rudy has a crush on a boy named Clarence and tries to show him that she cares but Clarence is too shy to admit it in front of his friends.

• Episode 8: The Day the Spores Landed
  Aired: Nov 9, 1989

  Cliff's ingestion of a sausage hero immediately before bedtime brings on a dream in which spores contaminate the U.S. water supply (except in New Jersey) and impregnate thousands of men, including Cliff, Elvin and Martin. Theo, the only unwed mother-to-be, soon joins them. They commiserate and console each other, but their solace is short-lived. Contractions send them all to the hospital and into the most bizarre delivery room.

• Episode 9: Cliff's Wet Adventure
  Aired: Nov 16, 1989

  Claire sends Cliff to the store to buy some stuff for Thanksgiving dinner on a very rainy day and he returns soaking wet. Unfortunately he keeps forgetting some products and Claire sends him again & again. Meanwhile Denise invites Martin's ex wife to Cliff's house because she's all alone. Finally Cliff arrives home again just in time for Thanksgiving dinner.

• Episode 10: Grampy and Nu-Nu Visit the Huxtables
  Aired: Nov 30, 1989

  When Martin's parents visit, Denise frets about Mrs. Kendall's impression of her.

• Episode 11: Cliff la Dolce
  Aired: Dec 7, 1989

  Claire is going to Washington, and Denise is going to the Caribbean. Cliff stays all alone with Rudy & Olivia. Rudy comes to him with a problem between her & her friends but Cliff's advice makes things worse for Rudy. Meanwhile Theo takes Olivia to the cafeteria and uses her charm to collect other girls' phone numbers. Also Vanessa tries to get her father's permission to go to another girl's party with older boys.

• Episode 12: Getting to Know You
  Aired: Dec 14, 1989

  Theo meets Cliff & Martin at the cafeteria sitting with two willing beautiful girls. Later at the Huxtable residence Martin tries to explain to Cliff the situation on how he & Denise met and got married. Afterwards the family organizes a surprise for Cliff that will make him very happy.

• Episode 13: Elvin Pays for Dinner
  Aired: Jan 4, 1990

  Sondra decides to stay home to work on her law school application.

• Episode 14: Cliff's Nightmare
  Aired: Jan 11, 1990

  Cliff comes back from the hospital at three in the morning and decides to eat a sausage sandwich. Unfortunately that sandwich becomes responsible for the weirdest dream Cliff ever had.

• Episode 15: Denise Kendall: Singles Counselor
  Aired: Jan 18, 1990

  Denise & Vanessa are in the cafeteria when Vanessa sees a boy she seems to like but she's too shy to go to his table; so she asks advice from her big sister.

• Episode 16: The Birthday Party
  Aired: Jan 25, 1990

  It's Olivia's birthday and all she wants is a brand new tricycle, which she has all her friends help her search the entire house for when Cliff, who's supposed to be babysitting her guests, falls asleep.

• Episode 17: Not Everybody Loves the Blues
  Aired: Feb 1, 1990

  Theo is upset his girlfriend might go to graduate school in another town. He and Elvin go to a nightclub; they hear the King of the Blues Riley Jackson. Turns out Cliff and Clair know Riley. He visits the family, helps Theo with his blues.

• Episode 18: Rudy's Walk on the Wild Side
  Aired: Feb 8, 1990

  Rudy wants a sweater with fish that light up that are on sale at the mall, but she doesn't have enough money to buy it and becomes so desperate, she steals $2.30 out of the money Clair left out for the dry cleaning.

• Episode 19: Mr. Sandman
  Aired: Feb 15, 1990

  Mrs. McGee (Rudy's teacher) calls the Huxtables to report that Rudy has not been attending dance lessons, so Cliff takes Rudy to to the dancing lessons and gets a little carried away.

• Episode 20: Isn't It Romantic?
  Aired: Feb 22, 1990

  Cliff, Martin & Elvin place a bet between them on who can buy a romantic present to each of their wife within twenty-five dollars limit. Who ever wins will be called "The Emperor of Romance".

• Episode 21: Theo's Dirty Laundry
  Aired: Mar 15, 1990

  When Cliff finds women's lingerie in Theo's laundry, he and Clair soon realize that their son has moved in with his girlfriend, Justine. Meanwhile, Denise announces her plans to become a special education teacher.

• Episode 22: What's It All About?
  Aired: Mar 22, 1990

  Clair comes home from work exhausted and needs to rest but her family do not understand her so Cliff sends her to a friends combine around the lake far away from home to relax.

• Episode 23: Off to See the Wretched
  Aired: Apr 5, 1990

  Vanessa and her friends plot to go to a concert. They don't tell their parents it's in Baltimore, but they find out in a dramatic way.

• Episode 24: The Moves
  Aired: Apr 19, 1990

  Clair brings her friend and rival attorney, Bernice, home to visit while Cliff's entertaining their recently divorced neighbor, Jeffrey. Despite their physical disparity, Jeffrey and Bernice really hit it off.

• Episode 25: Live and Learn
  Aired: Apr 26, 1990

  Denise gets very excited about wanting to be an instructor to work with children who have learning disabilities but cannot understand that in order to teach she must have a college degree.

• Episode 26: The Storyteller
  Aired: May 3, 1990

  Cliff's great-aunt, Gramtee, comes to visit and everyone is excited - except Olivia. Olivia wants to go to the zoo instead of a planned church visit. Gramtee tells stories of Cliff as a child and of a relative who was a slave years ago.

Season 7

• Episode 1: Same Time Next Year
  Aired: Sep 20, 1990

  Cliff ships Vanessa to Lincoln University in Pennsylvania; Rudy has a "developmental" issue that keeps her from going to school.

• Episode 2: Bird in the Hand
  Aired: Sep 27, 1990

  Cliff is set to go to an auction for a priceless Charlie Parker album, but a slight detour to Olivia's school keeps him from it.

• Episode 3: The Last Barbecue
  Aired: Oct 4, 1990

  Theo hires a stripper for Martin's bachelor party, which upsets Sondra and Denise when neither Martin or Elvin object to the idea; all this goes on as Cliff and Claire prepare a family BBQ. "Bud" gets a great punchline.

• Episode 4: Period of Adjustment
  Aired: Oct 11, 1990

  Cousin Pam is introduced, as she moves in due to her grandmother's illness, her mother goes to California to take care of her.

• Episode 5: It's All in the Game
  Aired: Oct 18, 1990

  Cliff & Clair are away on a weekend vacation. When they return, their home seemed to have self destructed - Olivia and the washing machine, Theo taking multiple items to his place, Vanessa and car damage, etc. Cliff & Clair hold a meeting.

• Episode 6: Getting the Story
  Aired: Oct 25, 1990

  Rudy and Kenny has to follow one of their parents for a school project, but get disappointed when Clair's lawyer job turns out to be far from an Arnold Schwarzenegger movie.

• Episode 7: Just Thinking About It (1)
  Aired: Nov 1, 1990

  Pam still thinks about having sex with Slide. Cliff says she should see a gynecologist for safe sex info. Pam ends up getting condoms and tells Slide he must use them. He refuses and they break up. Slide apologizes but still pressures her.

• Episode 8: Just Thinking About It (2)
  Aired: Nov 1, 1990

  Pam's boyfriend pressures her to take their relationship to the next level until she explodes in indignation. Still, she does not want to lose him to another girl.

• Episode 9: The Infantry Has Landed (And They've Fallen Off the Roof)
  Aired: Nov 8, 1990

  Rudy starts her periods, and Clair wants to have a traditional women's only day to celebrate her womanhood. Rudy wants no part of it and says she understand everything and needs nothing from her mother. Rudy trusts her friends information.

• Episode 10: You Can Go Home Again
  Aired: Nov 15, 1990

  Denise & Martin want to move to their own apartment. They find rents too high and a place too small. Rudy makes plans to move into their bedroom once they move out.

• Episode 11: It's a Boy
  Aired: Nov 29, 1990

  Cliff's friend learns he and his wife are going to have a baby boy. The father worries he is not athletic enough to teach the boy sports when he is older so he asks Cliff to teach him. Theo tells the father sports is not the only thing.

• Episode 12: Clair's Liberation
  Aired: Dec 6, 1990

  Clair has started menopause. The children talk to each other about menopausal women, hot flashes, confusion, crabbiness, etc. Cliff & Claire play a joke on the kids by pretending she is insane. Aaron, Pam's boyfriend, turns on the romance.

• Episode 13: It's Your Move
  Aired: Dec 13, 1990

  Sondra makes plans for she & Elvin to help friends move, but Elvin just wants to join the guys to watch the football playoff game. When they arrive to help with the move, their friends have not even started to pack.

• Episode 14: Theo's Final Final
  Aired: Jan 3, 1991

  Theo has one last final the next day, and he wants to pass so he gets on the dean's list. He has plans for constant study, until he meets Cheryl and is besotted. She is leaving town in the morning. Does he study or go out with Cheryl?

• Episode 15: Attack of the Killer B's
  Aired: Jan 10, 1991

  Pam has to study for tests but is easily distracted. Theo tells her she has to study without dancing and music in order to get good grades. Pam wants to go to college, but does not have the money. Her grades are not enough for scholarships.

• Episode 16: Total Control
  Aired: Jan 31, 1991

  Cliff's patient & her husband are having a baby any day now and tell Cliff they have everything under control as they read books and watched videos to prepare for the birth. Everything is fine until the actual event starts.

• Episode 17: Adventures in Babysitting
  Aired: Feb 7, 1991

  Cliff and Dr Harmon attend a pinochle tournament with their wives. They play a round against each other, and the wives win. Martin & Denise need a babysitter for Olivia and Rudy begs to be the one. Rudy does fine until they watch a scary movie.

• Episode 18: 27 and Still Cooking
  Aired: Feb 14, 1991

  It is Cliff & Clair's 27th wedding anniversary. He plans to recreate the Caribbean restaurant where they dined on their honeymoon, in their home. He hires a band, chef, and decorations for atmosphere. The day arrives - and Cliff is sick.

• Episode 19: The Return of the Clairettes
  Aired: Feb 21, 1991

  Clair gets a visit from a high school friend and her husband.

• Episode 20: No More Mr. Nice Guy
  Aired: Feb 28, 1991

  Theo and Denny's girlfriend Ellen are organizing a surprise party for Denny's birthday, but things get complicated when Ellen gets sick and Denny shows up up unexpectedly believing she's having an affair with another guy.

• Episode 21: Home Remedies
  Aired: Mar 7, 1991

  Olivia is not feeling well, so several people come up with different remedies to help her feel better.

• Episode 22: Nightmare on Stigwood Avenue
  Aired: Mar 21, 1991

  Olivia and Rudy have nightmares about Olivia taking control of the house and nobody listening to Rudy.

• Episode 23: There's Still No Joy in Mudville
  Aired: Apr 4, 1991

  Cliff goes bowling with his father, Elvin, and friends. After the game, with Cliff having a very low score, they go to a bar and make fun of him. The older men reminiscence about the old Negro League. Rudy & Olivia play a joke on Clair.

• Episode 24: Cliff and Jake
  Aired: Apr 11, 1991

  The daughter of an acquaintance asks Cliff to help her father make peace with someone whom he's been having a long standing grudge with over a car accident. Because she's been seeing the man's son and would like to get married.

• Episode 25: Theo and the Kids (1)
  Aired: Apr 25, 1991

  Cliff attempts to fix the kitchen sink. Theo starts a volunteer job as an intern at a community center. He helps children with their homework and craft activities after school. He realizes one student has studying problems just like he had.

• Episode 26: Theo and the Kids (2)
  Aired: May 2, 1991

  At the community center, Theo deals with a student that might have dyslexia, another who has a crush on him, one who has to get a job to support his parents, all the while they test their limits with Theo. Theo does his best to help them.

Season 8

• Episode 1: With This Ring?
  Aired: Sep 19, 1991

  Vanessa brings home a boyfriend she has kept secret from her family.

• Episode 2: There's No Place Like This Home
  Aired: Sep 26, 1991

  Cliff and Claire plan to build and extra room for their house, but there are some unforeseen issues.

• Episode 3: Particles in Motion
  Aired: Oct 3, 1991

  Theo is nervous about his first parent/counselor meetings and student art exhibit. Cliff and family go to the exhibit. Rudy is smitten by one of Theo's students and Theo is smitten by a single mother of a student.

• Episode 4: Pam Applies to College
  Aired: Oct 10, 1991

  Charmaine is applying to colleges and talks to Pam about attending the same one since they are best friends. Pam realizes she has to get better grades in order to get accepted into any college.

• Episode 5: Warning: A Double-Lit Candle Can Cause a Meltdown
  Aired: Oct 17, 1991

  Rudy wants to see a rapper that is performing at a club for older teens. Rudy and her friends lie to their parents in order to get out that evening. When Cliff & Clair find out, they ask Pam to go to the club to keep an eye on Rudy.

• Episode 6: It's Apparent to Everyone
  Aired: Oct 24, 1991

  Sondra & Elvin are excited about finding a home of their own. The twins Nelson and Winnie are getting on Cliff & Clair's nerves.

• Episode 7: The Iceman Bricketh
  Aired: Oct 31, 1991

  Cliff's parents find out that Cliff & Clair are meeting Vanessa's fiancé for dinner and insist of meeting him as well. They want to make sure the guy is good enough for their granddaughter.

• Episode 8: Olivia's Field Trip
  Aired: Nov 7, 1991

  Cliff is a chaperon for Olivia's field trip to a museum and he is not looking forward to it. Theo has a fund-raiser plan for the community center - selling silk screened t-shirts. But the t-shirts are not what he expected.

• Episode 9: For Men Only
  Aired: Nov 14, 1991

  At the community center, Clair gives a legal clinic and Cliff gives a Men's Only clinic. Cliff's clinic teaches etiquette, getting a job, and more. His job session becomes more about being a responsible parent and preventing pregnancies.

• Episode 10: Olivia Comes Out of the Closet
  Aired: Nov 21, 1991

  Olivia is sad because her father has to return to his ship for duty and Denise is going into town as well. Singer Miriam Makeba visits the Huxtable house.

• Episode 11: Two Is a Crowd
  Aired: Dec 5, 1991

  Cliff & Clair plan a day at home alone, but Vanessa returns from college for the weekend, then her fiancé comes to find Vanessa. Rudy's friend Kenny comes to visit Rudy. They all talk to Cliff & Clair about their relationship issues.

• Episode 12: Clair's Place
  Aired: Dec 19, 1991

  Cliff builds a room just for Clair, her own special place for work and retreat. Everyone, except Cliff, is upset that she wants to be alone and not spend time with them. Cliff tries to explain the purpose of a special room.

• Episode 13: Theo's Future
  Aired: Jan 2, 1992

  Even with his job at the community center, making ends meet is still hard for Theo.

• Episode 14: The Price Is Wrong
  Aired: Jan 9, 1992

  Pam and her friends help a group of senior citizens demonstrate against unfair prices at a supermarket.

• Episode 15: Bring Me the Lip Gloss of Deirdre Arpelle
  Aired: Jan 16, 1992

  Pam starts working as an assistant for Cliff. Cliff deals with an impatient pregnant patient who tends to misinterpret the instructions he gives her. Meanwhile, Kenny tries to make Rudy jealous by pretending he is dating someone.

• Episode 16: Eat, Drink and Be Wary
  Aired: Jan 30, 1992

  Clair goes away for the weekend and tells Cliff he has to behave and not eat a lot of food that is not on his diet. No one believes he will stick to his diet. Rudy and her friends want to take the subway to a dance.

• Episode 17: The Getaway
  Aired: Feb 6, 1992

  Sandra and Elvin prepare to move to their own home in New Jersey, but Cliff is still hesitant to believe it will really happen. But the movers arrive and boxes are packed on the truck.

• Episode 18: Cliff Gets Jilted
  Aired: Feb 6, 1992

  Sandra & Elvin hold a house warming party - but it is held at Cliff & Clair's house. Vanessa breaks the news that she and Dabnis have broken their engagement. Cliff is more upset than Vanessa.

• Episode 19: Cliff and Theo Come Clean
  Aired: Feb 13, 1992

  Olivia's school project is to write about an adult when they were a child, and she writes about Cliff. Theo turns down a corporate job in California so he can finish graduate school in New York. One of Theo's students finds $600.

• Episode 20: Clair's Reunion
  Aired: Feb 20, 1992

  Clair and her college friends get together to discuss their school days and to plan an honor for a retiring professor.

• Episode 21: Rudy's Retreat
  Aired: Feb 27, 1992

  Now that Rudy is a teenager, she starts to stretch her rights and independence, wants to be her own person. Sondra & Elvin are writing their wills and need to select guardians for their children.

• Episode 22: You Can't Stop the Music
  Aired: Mar 26, 1992

  Willie Colón and Mario Bauzá, legendary Salsa and Latin music performers, play themselves to perform a concert on a local radio station. Clair, who represents them, and Cliff, a big-time fan, go to the station to watch the performance.

• Episode 23: Some Gifts Aren't Deductible
  Aired: Apr 23, 1992

  As tax day approaches, Cliff tries to get deductions for extended family members, but Claire rebuffs him. Meanwhile, Kenny organizes a surprise birthday party for his girlfriend Deirdre because he's ashamed that he only bought her socks as a gift.

• Episode 24: And So We Commence (1)
  Aired: Apr 30, 1992

  Theo graduates from college, and Cliff thinks back to an earlier time at the ceremony; the series end with Cliff and Claire dancing away off the studio.

• Episode 25: And So We Commence (2)
  Aired: Apr 30, 1992

  After the family attends Theo's graduation and Olivia leaves for Singapore, Cliff and Clair share a quiet moment.