EPISODE GUIDE

The Cosby Show
Season 5.

26 episodes in the catalogue. Explore the stories and air dates, then choose an episode to open FRAME’s player.

1. Together Again and Again

Air date: 1988-10-06 · 30 min

Theo is starting college and Denise is to return to Hillman. Cliff and Clair look forward to fewer children at home, but Theo does not have a room at college and has to commute while Denise drops out of college. Sondra announces she is pregnant.

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2. The Physical

Air date: 1988-10-13 · 30 min

The children tease Cliff about how much he eats as he prepares for his physical in the morning. Denise talks about the celebrities she meets at the record studio. Turns out she is not a great employee and does not really work with them.

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3. Rudy's All-Nighter

Air date: 1988-10-20 · 30 min

Theo gets a "D" on his first freshman English composition and worries that he's not "college material.

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4. Move It (a.k.a. The Baby Game)

Air date: 1988-10-27 · 30 min

Cliff & Clair visit Sondra & Elvin's apartment and are surprised and shocked at the cramped space and state of disrepair. Clair does not want her grandchild to grow up there. Sondra & Elvin agree to borrow money to get a better place.

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5. Out of Brooklyn

Air date: 1988-11-03 · 30 min

Vanessa is having problems with her boyfriend Roy. Denise announces she quit her job and plans to move to Africa as a photographer's assistant. Despite objections and hardships she will endure, Denise is determined to go.

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6. The Birth (1)

Air date: 1988-11-10 · 30 min

Sondra starts contractions; Elvin is nervous and Cliff and Clair are anxious.

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7. The Birth (2)

Air date: 1988-11-10 · 30 min

Sondra goes into labor. In his confusion, Elvin drives off to the hospital without her and Sondra is forced to drive the car.

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8. Cyranoise de Bergington

Air date: 1988-11-17 · 30 min

Rudy borrows money from Cliff to buy a birthday gift two months in advance for Clair. Theo's friend Howard breaks up with his girlfriend and Theo is interested in asking her out. Theo asks another friend, Denny, to talk to the girl for him.

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9. How Do You Get to Carnegie Hall?

Air date: 1988-12-01 · 30 min

Vanessa forms the "Lipsticks" singing group; Cliff's dad gets an envelope saying "You are a winner", instead of "You might be a winner".

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10. If the Dress Fits, Wear It

Air date: 1988-12-08 · 30 min

Clair goes on a crash diet and endures an exhaustive exercise program to lose enough weight to fit into an old dress to wear for an evening out with Cliff.

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11. Is There a Hamster in the House?

Air date: 1988-12-15 · 30 min

Rudy watches a hamster overnight for a friend but it dies. Feeling bad, Cliff and Rudy buy a replacement hamster. Rudy tells her friend what happened and is surprised how her friend takes the news.

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12. Truth or Consequences

Air date: 1989-01-05 · 30 min

Vanessa gets caught lying to her parents about staying out past her curfew with her boyfriend, Jeremy.

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13. Cliff Babysits

Air date: 1989-01-12 · 30 min

Cliff babysits Winnie and Nelson when the rest of the family goes to see a Michael Jackson concert.

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14. Mrs. Huxtable Goes to Kindergarten

Air date: 1989-01-26 · 30 min

Clair wants to replace the living room couch but Cliff is reluctant to let the old couch go. Also, Clair is invited on a television talk show. However, when she finds out she is only asked her thoughts as a black woman, she leaves the show.

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15. The Lost Weekend

Air date: 1989-02-02 · 30 min

Everybody's away for the weekend, and Theo has the place to himself. Theo's friends decide it's time to party!

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16. No Way, Baby

Air date: 1989-02-06 · 30 min

One of Cliff's patients is a young, unmarried teenager without other known family. Cliff finds the girl's grandfather so someone can be with her when she delivers. When Clair meets the grandfather, she realizes he cannot read or write.

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17. Can I Say Something, Please?

Air date: 1989-02-09 · 30 min

Rudy complains to her parents that she doesn't get to do what her friends can and she still has to follow so many rules. So Cliff and Clair allow Rudy to stay up as late as she wants to teach her a lesson.

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18. The Dead End Kids Meet Dr. Lotus

Air date: 1989-02-16 · 30 min

Theo's former girlfriend, Justine, is starting to date other men and Theo is upset. Theo consults a voodoo shopkeeper for a spell or potion that will help him win her back.

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19. The Boys of Winter

Air date: 1989-02-23 · 30 min

Theo & his friends meet Cliff's former basketball coach. The Huxtables invite Coach Barry & his wife to their house for dinner. They watch a taped old basketball game together where Cliff misses all his shots & the coach sent him to the bench.

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20. It Comes and It Goes

Air date: 1989-03-09 · 30 min

Sondra finds it difficult to be a stay-at-home mom with baby twins. When the Tibideaux visit Cliff, Clair and Cliff's parents, Sondra vents with her mother and grandmother who have been there and done that with young children.

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21. Theo's Women

Air date: 1989-03-16 · 30 min

Theo helps an acting student with her lines then gets caught kissing her by his girlfriend who dumps him on the spot.

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22. Birthday Blues

Air date: 1989-03-30 · 30 min

On Clair's birthday, Cliff & their kids surprise her with an act.

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23. A Room With No View

Air date: 1989-04-13 · 30 min

Rudy is constantly bothering her sister Vanessa and they always have a fight but their parents find the perfect way to teach them a lesson.

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24. What He Did for Love

Air date: 1989-04-27 · 30 min

Theo and his friends go to the cafeteria to impress a girl with a very expensive watch one of them found on the street. Unfortunately it appears that the watch was reported stolen and his friend gets in trouble.

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25. Day of the Locusts

Air date: 1989-05-04 · 30 min

Strep throat keeps Sondra from taking care of her babies, but she gets paranoid when Clair and Elvin's mom take the babies with them so she can recover.

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26. 57 Varieties

Air date: 1989-05-11 · 30 min

Theo asks his parents to give him fifteen hundred dollars for an educational summer trip to Egypt. The Huxtables are not sure about giving him the money so he invites his teacher to the house to talk to his parents.

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