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The show was centered around the Huxtable family, an upper-middle-class family living in Brooklyn, New York, USA. Patriarch Heathcliff (an obstetrician/ gynecologist) and his wife Clair (a lawyer) presided over a raucous yet loving household. In every way, they were an utterly typical American sitcom family, with the notable exception that they were African-American. The topics of the show were the usual difficulties of children growing up, a notable example being son Theo's experiences of dealing with dyslexia, based on Cosby's real-life child Ennis who was dyslexic.

The show was extremely well-regarded, winning three Emmys as well as three NAACP Image AwardThe NAACP Image Award is an award presented annually by the NAACP to honor the top African-Americans in film, television, music and literature. Similar to other awards, like the Oscars and the Grammys, the 35 categories of Image Awards are voted on by mems and a Peabody AwardThe George Foster Peabody Awards more commonly known as simply the "Peabody Awards", are annual awards given for excellence in radio and television broadcasting and cable television within the United States. Founded in 1940, the awards are administered by. It was also notable as being highly popular with white viewers and around the world, unlike many other television shows featuring mainly African-American characters. The show has been praised for its portrayal of positive child rearing methods.

At the time of the show's original broadcast, some people criticized the show for presenting a unrealistic portrayal of an African-American family as wealthy and for its lack of addressing black-white relations. Others felt that the show was simply a portrayal of what African-Americans could potentially become. They also felt that portraying an African-American family as a normal family with normal family issues was generally a positive contribution to issues of race in the United States.

The success of the show spawned a spin-offA spin-off in television is a new series which contains either characters or theme elements from an old series. They are particularly common in situation comedy. This phenomenon was already established in radio before the advent of commercial broadcast te series called A Different WorldA Different World (1987-1993) is a American television sitcom. It dealt with the life of students at the fictional Historically Black College, Hillman. It ran for six seasons on NBC. A spin-off series from The Cosby Show it was originally centered around, which dealt with the life of Denise, the second-eldest Huxtable daughter, at Hillman, a Fictional Historically Black College.

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The Cosby Show is one of two television shows, All in the FamilyAll In The Family was a popular and acclaimed American situation comedy which ran on the CBS network from January 12, 1971 until 1979. In the fall of 1979, the show was retooled and given a new name, Archie Bunker's Place''. It would run another four year being the other, that have been number 1 in the Nielsen RatingsWhen ( US) TV viewers or entertainment writers refer to "ratings," they are talking about Nielsen Ratings a system developed by the New York City based Nielsen Media Research, Inc. firm to determine which shows television viewers watch at what times. for 5 consecutive TV seasons.

The ratings for each season, at the end of the season, were: