The BEST episodes of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids
Every episode of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids!
A group of urban adolescents who stick together through thick and thin, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids show us that if you put your imagination to work you can achieve anything!
#1 - The Rainbow
Season 6 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1980
Elisa has trouble accepting mixed-race children, especially when Kim, the gang's other classmate is the son of an interracial couple. She avoids interacting with him and runs off rather than play games with the group. She wanders into the old garment factory, which is condemned and winds up in danger. Kim and Fat Albert are able to enact a rescue and Elisa is able to learn a valuable lesson.
#2 - Pot of Gold
Season 6 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/18/1980
The gang's classmate Patty was a straight-A student until she fell into the drug scene and now gets regularly high on marijuana. When the gang meets her drug pusher, Rudy is tempted to try it himself, but has a change of heart when he sees Patty in danger. He and Fat Albert are able to save her. They and a police officer meet with Patty's parents about her problem and she agrees to help get the pusher arrested, which is the first step on her road to recovery.
#3 - Four Eyes
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/25/1972
Heywood is the clumsiest person who can't see anything. Once Heywood got his glasses, the gang wanted to be just like him.
#4 - Mom or Pop
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1973
Flora's parents get a divorce.
#5 - Ounce of Prevention
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/13/1975
The gang tries to help Lucius, who has a problem with alcohol.
#6 - In My Merry Busmobile
Season 5 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1979
The gang is bussed to an integrated school, finding it difficult to make new friends.
#7 - Creativity
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/30/1972
The origin of the Junkyard Band. The gang tries doing odd jobs for money but they only made enough money to buy a broken drumstick but then they realize they could make their own instruments. Fat Albert makes an instrument out of an old radiator, a funnel, and a big potato bag. Bill makes a set of drums out of trash cans as well as turning old tin cans into chimes for Russell. Weird Harold turns a bed frame into a harp. Dumb Donald creates a trombone out of pipes and a horn from a grammaphone. Mushmouth takes an old bird cage and makes his own guitar. Bucky puts big pipes together to make an organ.
#8 - The Mainstream
Season 5 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1979
A young boy named Dennis, who has a mild form of autism, teaches the gang that he can rise above his disability with plenty of abilities of his own, using the school art show as his showcase.
#9 - Lying
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/9/1972
Edward tells stories about wrestling with alligators. Fat Albert and the gang realize that Edward has been lying to them about everything and gets caught at the end.
#10 - The Runt
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/16/1972
Fat Albert and the Gang meet a guy named Pee Wee who's very small that he feels left out of everything. The Gang and Pee Wee learned that It's not your size that matters but being who you are that counts.
#11 - The Stranger
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/23/1972
Fat Albert and the gang meet a new girl from the south.
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#12 - Moving
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/14/1972
Fat Albert recieves news that he's moving away and the gang kicked him out of the club. The Cosby Kids missed Fat Albert so much that all they wanted was their friend back. Fat Albert moved around the corner in his neighborhood.
#13 - Readin', Ritin' and Rudy
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/25/1976
Rudy can't stand school and his teacher so he drops out.Then Mudfoot talks to him about how Important it is to be in school and thanks him.
#14 - The Fuzz
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/6/1975
A guy named Parker has no respect for people in a uniform.
#15 - The Hero
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/11/1972
The Gang looks up to Scrap Iron because he's cool then gets them busted and realize he's not a hero.
#16 - The Hospital
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/28/1972
Russell has a physical with the school doctor and learns he needs to have a tonsilectomy. In the process, it is discovered that Bill needs one, too. Thinking the operation will take their lives away, they give all their favorite posessions to their friends, only to find that they will pull through. They also find out that they will get ice cream afterwards and learn that it won't be so bad after all.
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#17 - The Tomboy
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/2/1972
A new Girl named Penny comes to town and tags along with Fat Albert and the Gang playing sports with them.
#18 - Begging Benny
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/4/1972
Fat Albert's Cousin Benny comes to visit and mistreats all his friends. In the long run he learns what a real friend is all about.
#19 - No News is Good News
Season 8 - Episode 49 - Aired 8/3/1985
The Cosby Kids learn about the responsibilities of the press when Rudy submits a false story to the school newspaper.
#20 - Never Say Never
Season 8 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/3/1984
Weird Harold's young cousin Robin is staying with his family for a while. He tells the gang she has kidney disease and must undergo dialysis three times a week. Robin's been waiting so long for a kidney donation that she's giving up hope in ever getting one. The gang takes her to a carnival to help get her mind off her predicament. After they take her home, the gang go to the local clinic where they learn about organ donation. Robin goes back to the carnival to have fun rather than spending more time in the hospital. With efforts from the gang and the kidney foundation, a donor kidney is found. The group must act quickly to find Robin so she can be prepared for surgery to get the new kidney. They narrowly make it in the nick of time and with after some post-operation monitoring, Robin will likely be able to live a normal life.
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Season 8 - Episode 48 - Aired 7/27/1985
When Weird Harold's Uncle Marcus moves in with his family, space gets tight especially in Weird Harold's room.
#22 - Cable Caper
Season 8 - Episode 47 - Aired 7/20/1985
When the Cosby Kids find out that Mr. and Mrs. Gibson may lose their home, they hit the airwaves to tell their neighbors' story.
#23 - Write On
Season 8 - Episode 46 - Aired 7/13/1985
Fat Albert gives his classmate Richard the encouragement he needs to write a blue ribbon poem for the school writing contest.
#24 - Faking the Grade
Season 8 - Episode 45 - Aired 7/6/1985
Dumb Donald's schoolwork needs to improve or he may not be able to advance to the next grade. This catches the attention of a teenager who previously had Dumb Donald's teacher, and offers to sell him the answers to future tests. Donald is conflicted amongst himself about the meaning of academic success and facing the stigma of being held back.
#25 - Wheeler
Season 8 - Episode 44 - Aired 6/29/1985
Fat Albert and the boys try to help their new friend Chuy, a.k.a. the Wheeler, feel welcome at school.
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