Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Fat Albert and the Cosby kids. The complete series, Fat Albert and the Cosby kids (1972-1976) [videorecording] / [created, produced and hosted by Bill Cosby].

Publisher, Date:

Los Angeles, CA : Shout! Factory, c2013.

Description:

5 videodiscs (ca. 12 hrs.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Premiering in 1972 on CBS, this classic animated series was created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, focused on the lovable, oversized Albert and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song.

Target Audience Note:

Rating: Not rated.

Subjects:

African American teenagers -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile films.

Friendship -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- Juvenile films.

Conduct of life -- Juvenile films.

Animated television programs.

Television comedies.

Children's television programs.

Fiction television programs.

Other Author:

Cosby, Bill, 1937-

CBS Television Network.

Shout! Factory (Firm)

Other Title:

Fat Albert and the Cosby kids.

Fat Albert and the Cosby kids (Television program)

Notes:

Title from container.

Originally broadcast on CBS as individual episodes during the 1972-1976 season.

Bill Cosby.

DVD; NTSC.

Contents:

Lying ; The runt ; The stranger ; Creativity ; Fish out of water ; Moving ; Playing hookey -- The hospital ; Beggin' Benny ; The hero ; The prankster ; Four eyes ; The Tomboy ; Stagefright -- The bully ; Smart kid ; Mister Big Timer ; The newcomer ; What does dad do? ; Mom or pop ; How the West was lost ; Sign off -- The fuzz ; An ounce of prevention ; Fat Albert meets Dan Cupid ; Take two they are small ; The animal lover ; Little tough guy -- Smoke gets in your hair ; What say? ; Readin', ritin' and Rudy ; Suede Simpson ; Little business ; TV or not TV ; The shuttered window ; Junk food.

ISBN:

9781603998031

1603998039

Publisher Number:

SF 13364

DVD 13365

DVD 13366

DVD 13367

DVD 13368

DVD 13369

Other Number:

849617442

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

360499

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD TV Fat Albe

Medium:

[videorecording]