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  • TV-14
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  • Jan 19, 1998
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  • Jan 19, 1998
  • 22 m
Cosby

Summary After being one of the ten-thousand people who were downsized at the airport, Hilton Lucas (Bill Cosby) is forced to retire and stay home with his wife Ruth (Phylicia Rashad) and his daughter Erica (T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh). Unfortunately for Hilton, Erica's friend Griffin Vesey (Doug E. Doug) is also staying with the family. At first, Ru...

Directed By: John Bowab

Written By: Dennis Klein, Vanessa Middleton

  • TV-14
  • CBS
  • Jan 19, 1998
  • 22 m
  • TV-14
  • CBS
  • Jan 19, 1998
  • 22 m
Cosby
S2 • Episode 15
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Air Date: Jan 19, 1998
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Summary After being one of the ten-thousand people who were downsized at the airport, Hilton Lucas (Bill Cosby) is forced to retire and stay home with his wife Ruth (Phylicia Rashad) and his daughter Erica (T'Keyah Crystal Keymáh). Unfortunately for Hilton, Erica's friend Griffin Vesey (Doug E. Doug) is also staying with the family. At first, Ru...

Season Episodes

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Episode 1 • Sep 15, 1997 • 22 m
About My Life
Episode 2 • Sep 22, 1997 • 22 m
Wake Up and Smell the Coffeehouse
Episode 3 • Sep 29, 1997 • 22 m
The Rules
When Hilton realizes that Griffin and Erica's friends are taking over his house by watching his television and eating all his food, he decides that if they live in his house, Griffin and Erica will have to live by his rules.
Episode 4 • Oct 6, 1997 • 21 m
Two Cents
Episode 5 • Oct 13, 1997 • 22 m
Older and Out
Episode 6 • Oct 20, 1997 • 22 m
Lucas Smartypantsicus
Episode 7 • Oct 27, 1997 • 21 m
The Last Man Standing
Episode 8 • Nov 3, 1997 • 22 m
Dating Games
When Ruth's snobbish sister-in-law Debra throws an engagement party for her daughter, Hilton and Ruth try to steal some of Debra's thunder by arranging for Erica to bring a handsome date to the party, but they get some unexpected results.
Episode 9 • Nov 10, 1997 • 22 m
The Pilot (Not the Pilot)
When Griffin tries to back out of a lucrative out-of-state concert gig because of a flying phobia, Hilton vows that he will get Griffin on the plane no matter what it takes.
Episode 10 • Nov 17, 1997 • 22 m
Lucas Raymondicus
Episode 11 • Nov 24, 1997 • 22 m
Shall We Dance?
Episode 12 • Dec 15, 1997 • 22 m
The Two Hilton Lucases
Episode 13 • Jan 5, 1998 • 22 m
A Team of His Own
Episode 14 • Jan 12, 1998 • 22 m
Brazil
Episode 15 • Jan 19, 1998 • 22 m
Old Yeller
Episode 16 • Feb 2, 1998 • 21 m
Out to Launch
A wealthy man Hilton once helped at the airport bequeaths him a boat. Despite Ruth's insistence that he doesn't have the stamina or the money to support a boating hobby, Hilton persists.
Episode 17 • Feb 23, 1998 • 21 m
Fifteen Minutes of Fame
While at work at the Coffee Shop, Hilton meets Rob Burnett and Paul Shaffer from the "Late Show with David Letterman". Hilton then inquires about being booked as a guest on the Late Show.
Episode 18 • Mar 2, 1998 • 22 m
Mud
Episode 19 • Mar 9, 1998 • 22 m
Enter Lucas
Pauline tries her hand at playwriting for a course she's taking at the community center. Following Hilton's advice about writing something "real," she turns out a thinly-disguised comedy about the Lucas family.
Episode 20 • Apr 6, 1998 • 21 m
1040 Not-So-EZ
It's April 15th and Hilton hasn't even started working on his taxes, a fact he wants to make sure Ruth doesn't discover.
Episode 21 • Apr 27, 1998 • 22 m
Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Astoria
Erica and her girlfriends, unable to find "Mr. Right," take Ruth's advice about changing their dating habits and set out on "The Great American Manhunt."
Episode 22 • May 4, 1998 • 22 m
On the Rocks
When Ruth and Hilton have a major fight, they assess the changes in their lives.
Episode 23 • May 11, 1998 • 22 m
Love Intervention
The Lucases play Cupid for smitten Griffin.
Episode 24 • May 18, 1998 • 22 m
The First Gentleman
Ruth has been elected the first woman president of the Astoria Businessmen's Roundtable, which automatically makes Hilton the head of the women's auxiliary.

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