Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids was an animated television
series conceived of, produced, and hosted (in live-action
bookends) by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice
to the title character, Fat Albert. Filmation was the
production company for the series. The series, based upon
Cosby's stories about growing up in the inner city of
Philadelphia, ran on CBS television from 1972 to 1984,
and spent a few more months in first-run syndication in
1984. In 1979 the show was re-titled The New Fat Albert
Show and featured a new segment called The Brown Hornet,
a send-up of superhero cartoons starring a larger-than-life
African-American crime fighter in outer space. In 1984,
the show was syndicated and renamed The Adventures of
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. It ended the same year.
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