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The Bill Cosby Show Season 1 Episodes
Season 1 Episode Guide
26 Episodes 1969 - 1970
Episode 1
The Fatal Phone Call
Sun, Sep 14, 196930 mins
Chet gets himself into a jam when he answers a pay phone and then tries to locate a guy who doesn't want to be found.
Episode 2
Lullaby and Goodnight
Sun, Sep 21, 196930 mins
Chet tries a number of remedies, including a set of earplugs that painfully don't work, to deal with a neighbor's barking dog that's continually robbing him of sleep.
Episode 3
The Best Hook Shot in the World
Sun, Sep 28, 196930 mins
A short student with a great hook shot thinks Chet is discriminating against him because he won't put him on the basketball team
Episode 4
A Girl Named Punkin
Sun, Oct 5, 196925 mins
An autistic eight-year-old girl nicknamed Punkin unexpectedly shows up on Chet's front doorstep.
Episode 5
Rules Is Rules
Sun, Oct 12, 196930 mins
Chet gets more than he bargained for when he makes a bet with Marsha that he can get a purchase order for a new piece of equipment by the end of the day.
Episode 6
Let X Equal a Lousy Weekend
Sun, Oct 26, 196930 mins
When Chet is forced to fill in as a substitute algebra teacher, he comes across a word problem that he is unable to solve for the class. So, he spends most of his weekend trying to find the solution.
Episode 7
To Kincaid, with Love
Sun, Nov 2, 196925 mins
A student breaks up with her boyfriend and begins sending gifts to Chet.
Episode 8
The Killer Instinct
Sun, Nov 9, 196925 mins
As an assistant football coach, Chet finds himself in a tough situation when he is "asked" by a suspected mobster to make sure that his hardly athletic son makes the team.
Episode 9
The Substitute
Sun, Nov 16, 196925 mins
Chet substitute teaches for a sex education class and also baby sits his brothers children while trying to get a date with a pretty substitute teacher.
Episode 10
Brotherly Love
Sun, Nov 23, 196930 mins
Chet's brother and his sister-in-law are having some marital difficulties, leading his brother to move in with Chet -- straining his relationship with Chet, too.
Episode 11
Going the Route
Sun, Nov 30, 196930 mins
Chet reluctantly agrees to deliver the morning papers for his nephew who is sick in bed.
Episode 12
A Word from Our Sponsor
Sun, Dec 7, 196930 mins
A chance encounter on the street leads Chet to try out, and eventually to get hired, for a job playing an athletic coach in a breakfast cereal television commercial. Chet discovers, however, that shooting 30 seconds of film isn't as simple as it appears when the final product is seen on television.
Episode 13
A Christmas Ballad
Sun, Dec 21, 196930 mins
Needing someone to play Santa Claus for the community center, Chet bribes a surly old man who was recently fired from his job selling Christmas trees.
Episode 14
Home Remedy
Sun, Dec 28, 196925 mins
Chet is at home sick with a cold but he can't get any rest with his friends and relatives bringing him their various remedies.
Episode 15
Growing, Growing, Grown
Sun, Jan 4, 197025 mins
Unfortunate circumstances lead to Chet having to drive his date to the dance in his brother's garbage truck.
Episode 16
The Elevator Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
Sun, Jan 11, 197030 mins
Chet must figure out ways to kill time when he is trapped overnight in an elevator with a fellow teacher and a cleaning lady.
Episode 17
Lover's Quarrel
Sun, Jan 18, 197025 mins
Chet intervenes in the relationship between his perpetually bickering aunt and uncle. Meanwhile, at school, he copes with a student who refuses to participate in gym class.
Episode 18
The Worst Crook That Ever Lived
Sun, Jan 25, 197025 mins
Chet counsels a young shoplifter in exchange to get new baseball uniforms for the team he's coaching.
Episode 19
The Gumball Incident
Sun, Feb 1, 197030 mins
A gum-ball machine is knocked over by a kid who runs off before Chet can catch up to him. The store owner, seeing that Chet is the only person in the vicinity, takes him to court.
Episode 20
Goodbye, Cruel World
Sun, Feb 8, 197025 mins
Chet convinces a shy cafeteria worker to get up the nerve and ask a waitress out on a date. When he is turned down, Chet must find a way to talk him out of committing suicide.
Episode 21
Driven to Distraction
Sun, Feb 15, 197025 mins
Chets gets more than he bargained for when he agrees to teach a driver's ed course and encounters a self-deprecating student who is a danger on the road.
Episode 22
Blind Date
Sun, Mar 1, 197025 mins
Chet complains bitterly when his sister-in-law Verna sets him up on a blind date with Mildred, an employee of an airline who is in town for a few days. He discovers, however, that she's an attractive, intelligent woman who shares many of his interests -- so that confirmed bachelor Chet is surprised to find himself falling in love.
Episode 23
How You Play the Game
Sun, Mar 8, 197030 mins
After he encounters a competitive player who exhibits a disregard for sportsmanship, Chet tries to teach him a lesson by inviting him to his handball game and observe proper sportsmanship.
Episode 24
The Return of Big Bad Bubba Bronson
Sun, Mar 22, 197030 mins
Chet gets word that a former classmate, "Big Bad Bubba" Bronson, whom Chet recalls has a grudge against him, is coming to town to even the score. Chet's solution is to seek boxing lessons for self-defense -- by hiring a down-on-his-luck boxer named Hurricane Smith. But the solution soon seems worse than the cure when Smith not only talks Chet into paying him for his time, but also moves in with him.
Episode 25
This Mouth Is Rated X
Sun, Mar 29, 197030 mins
Chet is unsure how to handle one of his basketball players who is constantly letting profanities slip out of his mouth.
Episode 26
Really Cool
Sun, Apr 5, 197025 mins
Chet is approached by a student who is profiling Holmes High School's teachers for the school newspaper, and wants to make Chet the subject of his next article. Chet writes up a summary of his past exploits as an athlete, but begins to embellish it as he and the student review Chet's recollections, so that he soon portrays himself as a star at baseball, football, basketball, boxing, and track.