Twenty-five years ago this week, history was made when NBC premiered 'The Cosby Show.' It was a much-deserved departure from what television audiences grew to know as the black family experience, with shows such as 'Good Times,' 'The Jeffersons,' 'What's Happening' and 'That's My Mama.'
Starring television pioneer Bill Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff Huxtable, an obstetrician who was the patriarch of an upper-middle class African-American family living in Brooklyn, NY, 'The Cosby Show' represented the first time that middle-class black life was depicted on prime time television.
