Forty years have passed since The Cosby Show first aired. The beloved sitcom was once hailed as a groundbreaking sitcom, but in the decades since, it’s been haunted by a string of tragedies and scandals.
Tens of millions of Americans once tuned in to watch the Huxtables, an upper-middle-class Black family living, as they navigated the dynamics of daily family life within their Brooklyn brownstone. The show revolved around Cliff Huxtable, an obstetrician and the family patriarch, his attorney wife, Clair and their five children: Sondra, Denise, Theo, Vanessa and Rudy.
