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I have never heard of this show.

posted 19 years ago by spacekaboom
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Does anybody remember it? What was it like? I remember 94/95 pretty well (I was 15/16 years old), and I'm surprised this show doesn't ring a bell.

[–] cheezyspam 19 years ago

Well, it's not that odd, if you keep in mind that a lot of shows only make it to 6 or 13 episodes, which is less than one season. '94/'95 was the opening season of both Friends and ER, and lots of other shows got lost in the hype of those two.

[–] charllliee 18 years ago

It's funny cause I know I have never seen the show and I don't remember many short lived dramas, but I distinctly remember seeing adds for this show on CBS or whatever it was on and thinking that it just seemed like such a ridiculous idea, Bill Cosby solving mysteries. However, now that I'm a little bit older I could agree that the show probably could have had some potential, especially after seeing that Mos Def was in it.

[–] Lega 18 years ago

I had seem bits here and there the first time round but now that it showning again. Its not all that. It seems to me that he was kind of hoping for something like The Crosby Show. Never done it for me.

[–] jamoon 17 years ago

If you're a fan of mystery shows, this was a solid hour with a strong cast. It was developed by the minds behind "Columbo" and "Murder, She Wrote," and it had an emphasis on deduction rather than technology. Bill Cosby was great, and he had such good chemistry with his fellow actors. I was hoping for a while they might go a "movie-of-the-week" route with this series, but they didn't.

[–] juanmonge69 17 years ago

I think that it was A&E that showed it a few years ago and there weren't that many episodes .Bill Cosby wins the lottery and becomes a criminolist pre-CSI. The opening always seem to be something comedic. THe few episodes that I saw were very good.

[–] sat-elite 15 years ago

I can see why it is now on at 1am and spliced with adverts for wart freezer and allergy sofa franchises.