The Cosby Show

Hard to believe now, but the idea of a TV show featuring a middle class black family was once seen as dangerously radical by TV networks.

What would otherwise have been regarded as a rather pedestrian sit-com became the subject for discussion in learned journals.

Re-runs of The Cosby Show are still on air today, and Mr Cosby himself is doing very well, thankyou.

Read more about this show in the Comedy Guide entry on The Cosby Show.