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While the series was dubbed in Mexico, the first country to air the dubbed version of Fat Albert was chile, it aired in Channel 13 of the Catholic University of Chile between the 80s and 90s, it was then broadcasted in Cartoon Network latin american signal between 1994 and 2000, then, on Boomerang between 2005 and 2007, it was also broadcasted in some point on Tooncast and MTV, but the dates are unknown.
Regardless of current affairs surrounding Cosby, his comedy routines in the sixties and comedy albums (I had them all) were some of the best comedy ever created. Clean, but absolutely the funniest material you ever heard. My family laughed over and over again with all the Fat Albert stories. I still remember the hernia bit. Its so sad that Cosby the legend is now Cosby the letcher.
I love Bill cosby for the wonderful things he did and shows he created. Gotta give him his due, his flowers he contributed some good stuff to the world. Especially Black folk. Thank you Mr. Cosby. Ioved the Fat Albert Show.
They went over the Gang episode and even touched on the Child abuse episode But the No no episodes to go over were the Computer hacking Cancer STD’s Teen drug use/drug pusher episodes also The prison episode Teen drinking episodes
I never thought about them being inner city black kids except that I was jealous they got to hang out in a junkyard. Grass is always greener. Every kid loved Mush-mouth. We would all try to mimic his way of talking.
What Bill emphasized, which set him apart from other activists in the industry past and present was that he never pushed 'by any means necessary', but instead pushed the ideology yjat there has to be a better way, let's find one. A profound statement that still holds up today.
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids reruns was on USA Network's USA Cartoon Express from Monday September 19, 1988 until February 1989 and moved to NBC Saturday Mornings replacing The Completely Mental Misadventures Of Ed Grimley, which moved to 12:30p.m.
They left out the part (of his stand-up bit) where they stole all the baby buggy wheels in the neighborhood & they had an odd number of wheels because Weird Harold had to have a Continental (and if you notice, his go-kart DOES have the extra wheel. They just don't address it, but it's there). The next day, I woke up to all three of my younger sisters going around imitating Mushmouth from this - "A-bwoodin-budden!"
Growing up in the South as a white kid in rural Appalachia, this and other tv shows in the 70’s was my first exposure to Black culture. Now, mind you, there was a lot of stereotypes that I had to learn my way out of later as I became more learned and more worldly, but to this day, regardless of what may have happened, I have separated art from artist and still enjoy the work that Dr Cosby and others have helped us as a culture to grow.
God grant that none of the self-righteous here and in so many other places ever have someone from their past step forward and decide that now's the time to settle an old score, get back at them for something real or imagined, and accuse them of having done something so long ago that no one could possibly defend themselves against it in a "your word against mine" situation. You may rather suddenly realize that it's not nearly so comfortable a position as sitting back and judging someone else as so many feel they can do with Bill Cosby.
If but for a twist of fate, Bill Cosby could have stayed at NBC with Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids. However, the network wasn't interested at the time in a show that had the goal of educating its audience at its core. Originally produced in 1971, but aired in May 4, 1973 at 7:30 PM, 8 months after Fat Albert launched on CBS, the gang moved over to NBC for 1 night, as NBC had the rights to The Weird Harold Special, or, as it was known on the screen Bill Cosby vs. Fat Albert: The Great Go-Cart Race!. As it was, it was not shown again on network television, due to the simple fact that with the show itself airing on CBS, it was bad form for the gang to suddenly appear on a rival network, even it was for 1 night, coming as it did 4 years after the Ken Mundie-produced Hey, Hey, Hey, It's Fat Albert had aired on NBC. NBC continued to hold the rights to this episode after CBS began airing the regular series in September 1972. For all intents and purposes, it was simply an episode of the already popular Fat Albert and The Cosby Kids animated series, which premiered in September of 1972. It thus featured the regular animation and voices of those characters. It's said this episode ultimately surfaced when the series moved to syndication to 1984. Today, however, is the first I've seen it.
The Weird Harold Special and the Fat Albert Holiday Specials for Christmas, Halloween, and Easter made by Filmation Studios were not a part in the 1984 syndication rerun package (50 new episodes plus the 60 CBS Saturday AM rerun episodes for weekday broadcast) nor were they included in the complete series DVD set. The Holiday Specials were released as separate DVDs
I know this USA Network, NBC, Odyssey Network, Retro Television Network (RTV), TheCoolTV, Bounce TV,the now-defunct Sky Angel services Angel Two and Kids & Teens TV, and World Harvest Television was the last to Fat Albert only without those bumpers. It only re-aired reruns on USA Network from 1988 to 1989 and on syndicated on NBC Saturday Mornings in 1989 for only a year.
On September 19, in 1988, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids reruns began rebroadcasting on the USA Network as part of USA Cartoon Express 3 years, until 1991, still remaining justifable source for Bill Cosby, Filmation, and TV monitor groups such as Action For Children's Television. At the same time while airing on USA, NBC airs the show as a midseason replacement series filler (The New Archies) on late in the day on their Saturday morning lineup for a 8-month run from January 21 until September 2, 1989 at 12:00 p.m. for at least a year, while Bill Cosby's prime time sitcom The Cosby Show was still at the height of popularity, was then the #1 attraction.
In the fall of 1988, Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids reruns began rebroadcasting on the USA Network as part of USA Cartoon Express 3 years, until 1991. At the same time while airing on USA, NBC airs the show as a midseason replacement series filler (The New Archies) on late in the day on their Saturday morning lineup for a 8-month run from January 21 until September 2, 1989 at 12:00 p.m. for at least a year, while The Cosby Show was still at the height of popularity.
Oh wow. What a clever comment - I hope you didn't work a long time on that one because you wasted your time. God grant you're never accused by someone of something you supposedly did 40+ years past and suddenly are crucified for it.
