Cosby: Season 1
Episodes
It's My Party
Sep 23, 1996 · 30 min
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
Neighborhood Watch
Sep 30, 1996 · 30 min
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 a
Happily Ever Hilton
Oct 7, 1996 · 30 min
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 airli
The Best Little Antique Shop in Astoria
Oct 14, 1996 · 30 min
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 Hil
One Foot in Your Mouth
Oct 21, 1996 · 30 min
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 o
Natural Born Debtors
Oct 28, 1996 · 30 min
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 ove
The Two Mr. Lucases
Nov 4, 1996 · 30 min
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
No Nudes is Good Nudes
Nov 11, 1996 · 30 min
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 l
Basketball Story
Nov 18, 1996 · 30 min
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
Guard Almighty
Nov 25, 1996 · 30 min
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
The Broken Reflection
Dec 2, 1996 · 30 min
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
Tempus Lucas
Dec 16, 1996 · 30 min
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
Guess Whose President is Coming to Dinner?
Jan 6, 1997 · 30 min
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 c
Brave New Hilton
Jan 13, 1997 · 30 min
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
Lucas Platonicus
Feb 3, 1997 · 30 min
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 f
Valentine's Day
Feb 10, 1997 · 30 min
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
Florida
Feb 17, 1997 · 30 min
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 f
Anniversary Waltz
Feb 24, 1997 · 30 min
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 Pa
That Darn Cat
Mar 3, 1997 · 30 min
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, bu
I'm OK, You're Hilton
Mar 10, 1997 · 30 min
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.
The Return of the Charlites
Apr 28, 1997 · 30 min
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
My Dinner with Methuselah
May 5, 1997 · 30 min
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.
Hilton's Playland
May 12, 1997 · 30 min
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
Social Insecurity
May 19, 1997 · 30 min
Hilton tries to convince the Social Security Administration that he is not dead.