In this spin-off from the popular sitcom The Cosby Show, Denise Huxtable enters her sophomore year at Hillman, alma mater of her parents and grandfather, where she moves into Gilbert Hall and shares a dorm room with 26-year-old Jaleesa Vinson and talkative new roommate Maggie Lauten. A show that follows the ups and downs of college students lives.
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06x22 Great X-Pectations Aired: Jul. 09, 1993Dean Davenport gives her students an assignment to write a dialogue detailing what might have been said during the only meeting between Dr. Martin … [continue reading]
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Directors
- Debbie Allen (83 episodes)
- Ellen Falcon (15 episodes)
- Neema Barnette (7 episodes)
Writers
- Bill Cosby (147 episodes)
- Susan Fales-Hill (23 episodes)
- Yvette Lee Bowser (17 episodes)
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- Dawnn Lewis, who played Jaleesa on the show, was one of the songwriters of the show's theme.
- Spin-off of The Cosby Show, the original premise of the series was abandoned after the first season due to Lisa Bonet's exiting the show.
- The nickname of the Hillman athletic teams was The Falcons.
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