The Bill Cosby Show

Seasons

1969

USA

6.1

Chet Kincaid, gym teacher at an inner-city Los Angeles high school, deals with students, Principal Langford and counselor Marsha Peterson. He lives with his mother Rose, brother Brian, and sister-in-law Verna, who focus on his social life.

Episode List

S1 • E1

The Fatal Phone Call

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.

S1 • E2

Lullaby and Goodnight

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.

S1 • E3

The Best Hook Shot in the World

A short student with a great hook shot thinks Chet is discriminating against him because he won't put him on the basketball team

S1 • E4

A Girl Named Punkin

An autistic eight-year-old girl nicknamed Punkin unexpectedly shows up on Chet's front doorstep.

S1 • E5

Rules Is Rules

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.

S1 • E6

Let X Equal a Lousy Weekend

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.

S1 • E7

To Kincaid, with Love

A student breaks up with her boyfriend and begins sending gifts to Chet.

S1 • E8

The Killer Instinct

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.

S1 • E9

The Substitute

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.

S1 • E10

Brotherly Love

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.

S1 • E11

Going the Route

Chet reluctantly agrees to deliver the morning papers for his nephew who is sick in bed.

S1 • E12

A Word from Our Sponsor

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.

S1 • E13

A Christmas Ballad

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.

S1 • E14

Home Remedy

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.

S1 • E15

Growing, Growing, Grown

Unfortunate circumstances lead to Chet having to drive his date to the dance in his brother's garbage truck.

S1 • E16

The Elevator Doesn't Stop Here Anymore

Chet must figure out ways to kill time when he is trapped overnight in an elevator with a fellow teacher and a cleaning lady.

S1 • E17

Lover's Quarrel

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.

S1 • E18

The Worst Crook That Ever Lived

Chet counsels a young shoplifter in exchange to get new baseball uniforms for the team he's coaching.

S1 • E19

The Gumball Incident

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.

S1 • E20

Goodbye, Cruel World

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.

S1 • E21

Driven to Distraction

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.

S1 • E22

Blind Date

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.

S1 • E23

How You Play the Game

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.

S1 • E24

The Return of Big Bad Bubba Bronson

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.

S1 • E25

This Mouth Is Rated X

Chet is unsure how to handle one of his basketball players who is constantly letting profanities slip out of his mouth.

S1 • E26

Really Cool

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.