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Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

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Overview

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert, and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and in early episodes the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show.

Created by Bill Cosby
Produced by Lou Scheimer, Norm Prescott
NetworksCBS

Top Cast

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

Fat Albert Robertson

Erika Scheimer

Erika Scheimer

Lou Scheimer

Lou Scheimer

Dumb Donald

E

Eric Suter

Rudy Davis

J

Jan Crawford

Russell Cosby

Bill Cosby

Bill Cosby

Mushmouth

J

Jan Crawford

Bucky

G

Gerald Edwards

Weird Harold

About Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids

Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is a animation, comedy series that first aired in 1972. Created by Bill Cosby, it stars Bill Cosby, Bill Cosby, Erika Scheimer. Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert, and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and in early episodes the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show.

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