Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids is an animated series created, produced, and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. Filmation was the production company for the series. The show premiered in 1972 and ran until 1985. The show, based on Cosby's remembrances of his childhood gang, centered on Albert, and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and in early episodes the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show.
| Title | Air Date | Duration | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | Episode 1 | Lying | 1972-09-09 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 2 | The Runt | 1972-09-16 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 3 | The Stranger | 1972-09-23 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 4 | Creativity | 1972-09-30 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 5 | Fish Out of Water | 1972-10-07 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 6 | Moving | 1972-10-14 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 7 | Playing Hookey | 1972-10-21 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 8 | The Hospital | 1972-10-28 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 9 | Begging Benny | 1972-11-04 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 10 | The Hero | 1972-11-11 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 11 | The Prankster | 1972-11-18 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 12 | Four Eyes | 1972-11-25 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 13 | The Tomboy | 1972-12-02 | min |
| Season 1 | Episode 14 | Stagefright | 1972-12-09 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 1 | The Bully | 1973-09-08 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 2 | Smart Kid | 1973-09-15 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 3 | Mister Big Time | 1973-09-22 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 4 | The Newcomer | 1973-09-29 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 5 | What Does Dad Do? | 1973-10-06 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 6 | Mom or Pop | 1973-10-13 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 7 | How the West Was Lost | 1973-10-20 | min |
| Season 2 | Episode 8 | Sign Off | 1973-10-27 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 1 | The Fuzz | 1975-09-06 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 2 | Ounce of Prevention | 1975-09-13 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 3 | Fat Albert Meets Dan Cupid | 1975-09-20 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 4 | Take Two, They're Small | 1975-09-27 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 5 | The Animal Lover | 1975-10-04 | min |
| Season 3 | Episode 6 | Little Tough Guy | 1975-10-11 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 1 | Smoke Gets in Your Hair | 1976-09-11 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 2 | What Say? | 1976-09-18 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 3 | Readin', Ritin' and Rudy | 1976-09-25 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 4 | Suede Simpson | 1976-10-02 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 5 | Little Business | 1976-10-09 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 6 | TV or Not TV | 1976-10-16 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 7 | The Shuttered Window | 1976-10-23 | min |
| Season 4 | Episode 8 | Junk Food | 1976-10-30 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 1 | In My Merry Busmobile | 1979-09-08 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 2 | The Dancer | 1979-09-15 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 3 | Spare the Rod | 1979-09-22 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 4 | Sweet Sorrow | 1979-09-29 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 5 | Poll Time | 1979-10-06 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 6 | The Mainstream | 1979-10-13 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 7 | Free Ride | 1979-10-20 | min |
| Season 5 | Episode 8 | Soft Core | 1979-10-27 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 1 | Pain, Pain, Go Away | 1980-09-07 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 2 | The Rainbow | 1980-09-14 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 3 | The Secret | 1980-09-21 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 4 | Easy Pickin's | 1980-09-28 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 5 | Good Ol' Dudes | 1980-10-05 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 6 | Heads or Trails | 1980-10-12 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 7 | Pot of Gold | 1980-10-19 | min |
| Season 6 | Episode 8 | The Gunslinger | 1980-10-26 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 1 | Habla Español | 1981-09-06 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 2 | Two by Two | 1981-09-07 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 3 | Parking Dog | 1981-09-08 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 4 | Water Are You Waiting For? | 1981-09-09 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 5 | The Father | 1981-09-13 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 6 | The Double Cross | 1981-09-14 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 7 | Little Girl Found | 1981-09-15 | min |
| Season 7 | Episode 8 | Watch That First Step | 1981-09-16 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 1 | Have a Heart | 1984-09-01 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 2 | Watch Thy Neightborhood | 1984-09-08 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 3 | Cosby's Classics | 1984-09-15 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 4 | Justice Good as Ever | 1984-09-22 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 5 | Rebop for Bebop | 1984-09-29 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 6 | Sinister Stranger | 1984-10-06 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 7 | Handwriting on the Wall | 1984-10-13 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 8 | Busted | 1984-10-20 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 9 | It All Ads Up | 1984-10-27 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 10 | Never Say Never | 1984-11-03 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 11 | Don't Call Us | 1984-11-10 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 12 | The Runner | 1984-11-17 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 13 | Video Mania | 1984-12-01 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 14 | You Gotta Have Art | 1984-12-01 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 15 | Love Live the Queen | 1984-12-15 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 16 | The Joker | 1984-12-15 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 17 | Second Chance | 1984-12-29 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 18 | Kiss and Tell | 1985-12-29 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 19 | Teenage Mom | 1985-01-12 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 20 | Film Follies | 1985-01-12 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 21 | Harvest Moon | 1985-01-19 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 22 | Read Baby Read | 1985-01-26 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 23 | The Whiskey Kid | 1985-02-02 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 24 | Millionaire Madness | 1985-02-09 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 25 | Call of the Wild | 1985-02-16 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 26 | Funny Business | 1985-02-23 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 27 | Three Strikes and You're In | 1985-03-02 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 28 | What's the ID? | 1985-03-09 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 29 | Rules is Cool | 1985-03-16 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 30 | The Birds, the Bees and Dumb Donald | 1985-03-23 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 31 | Double or Nothing | 1985-03-30 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 32 | Hot Wheels | 1985-04-06 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 33 | No Place Like Home | 1985-04-13 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 34 | Not So Loud | 1985-04-20 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 35 | The Jinx | 1985-04-27 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 36 | You Don't Say | 1985-05-04 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 37 | Amiss with Amish | 1985-05-11 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 38 | Gang Wars | 1985-05-18 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 39 | Computer Caper | 1985-05-25 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 40 | We All Scream for Ice Cream | 1985-06-01 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 41 | Superdudes | 1985-06-08 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 42 | Painting the Town | 1985-06-15 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 43 | Rudy and the Beast | 1985-06-22 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 44 | Wheeler | 1985-06-29 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 45 | Faking the Grade | 1985-07-06 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 46 | Write On | 1985-07-13 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 47 | Cable Caper | 1985-07-20 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 48 | Say Uncle | 1985-07-27 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 49 | No News is Good News | 1985-08-03 | min |
| Season 8 | Episode 50 | Attitude of Gratitude | 1985-08-10 | min |
| Production | Lou Scheimer | Producer |
| Production | Bill Cosby | Executive Producer |
| Production | Norm Prescott | Producer |
