When was fat albert on tv

The series follows the adventures of an group of African American kids living in the ghettos of South Philadelphia in the early 70s. In pretty much every episode they deal with the challenges of life and many times make mistakes but learn from them and correct the mistake though sometimes there were lasting repercussions from that mistake. All and all it was a fun show that portrayed urban ghetto kids in a positive light. Add content advisory. Did you know Edit. Trivia The characters are based on Bill Cosby and his childhood friends growing up in North Philadelphia.

Cosby talked about his childhood experiences in his stand-up comedy albums. Goofs In episode 7, "Playing Hooky", Dumb Donald refuses to play hooky with the gang and goes to school. However, as the gang plays hooky, in one scene Dumb Donald is seen skateboarding with the gang and in another, when they are going to use their homemade box-slide ride, he is seen in the box waiting for the ride. Quotes Bill Cosby : This is Bill Cosby coming at you with music and fun, and if you're not careful, you may learn something before it's done.

Connections Featured in I Love the '70s: User reviews 22 Review. Top review. This is one of the iconic Saturday morning cartoons of the 70's. Based on Bill Cosby's stand-up routines about characters in his old neighborhood, the show featured a group of inner city African-American kids hanging out, singing a song, and learning a thing or two. The comedy was good and the show lively. I didn't get to see it often, as it was broadcast on a channel that we couldn't tune in well this is in the stone age before cable , so I had trouble keeping up with who was who.

It was Filmation, which meant lots of stock footage, but they were creative within their limitations. And unlike the 30 minute commercial cartoons of the 80's, they had real educational value. With the Cartoon Network and Boomerang showcasing the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons, we could really use an outlet for some of Filmation's old work. The problem is, so many of their shows featured licensed characters that I don't think they owned much of their work. Details Edit.

Release date September 9, United States. United States. The New Fat Albert Show. Filmation Associates Bill Cosby. Technical specs Edit. Runtime 30 minutes.

Related news. Sep 25 Indiewire. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. During an impassioned discussion with Bill Cosby on Monday about school lunches "What is juice? The year-old comedian has recently become a vocal advocate of nutrition education, but he was portraying obesity progressively and conscientiously even 45 years ago -- well before it was a mainstream subject. It's an extremely fine line , but he walked it well.

Cosby saw an opportunity to break with that. The idea of portraying obese character at all was further out of the box at the time. The character first appeared on Cosby's comedy album Revenge, where he tells a story that similarly lauds Fat Albert as the kid who saves the day. Cosby recounts how, growing up in Philly, he and his buddies would play a game called "buck buck.

And they'd keep going until they collapsed the horse. Cosby's group of friends were the best buck-buckers around. Then one day "some kids come down from the rough part of town, and they're really tough -- they've got toothpicks in the sides of their mouths and hats on sideways and pants on backwards [ Cosby said this as a joke, long before Kris Kross did it for real in ]" and challenged them to the Buck Buck Championship of the World.

It was a close game until Cosby's buddies brought out their last man. His first description of Fat Albert is as "the baddest buck buck breaker in the world That first iconic "Hey, hey, hey! Cosby describes trees falling over, buildings losing bricks, and terror instilled in the opposing buck buck team: "'What's the ground doing shaking?

He ads in those details to paint what's clearly a hyperbolic picture, but there's a fine distinction in that he doesn't make Fat Albert's stature the punch line.