ABC Promo The Charmings vs The Cosby Show

ABC puts The Charmings up against NBC's Cosby... Charmings should have been on TGIF !

[@good03boy]

The only show that really gave The Cosby Show competition was The Simpsons in the fall of 1990. I was 14 years old then. The Simpsons was in its' 2nd season and was coming off its' successful 1st season on Fox, which was still really a new network at the time. While The Cosby Show was heading into its' 7th season and was really starting to decline. The first 6 seasons(1984-90) of The Cosby Show, it was untouchable in the ratings. I agree that The Charmings should have been on the TGIF lineup. I bet the actors on The Charmings knew that Cosby was going to crush them in the ratings.

[@zt1053]

Sabrina was a hit on Fridays

[@BrianHAlexander]

I loved this TV show! I hope it comes out on DVD someday, because I will be the first one in line to buy it. R.I.P. Paul Winfield! He was the best!

[@sbe79]

Yup. I admit it. When I was 7, this was my FAVORITE show. I cried when it got cancelled. No wonder I don't watch TV as an adult and have abandonment issues!!! :)

[@GenXorcist1976]

I had not even RECALLED this show until this very moment, that's how much of an indellible impression it made on me.

[@JhomasE]

THANK YOU! PREACH TO THAT CHOIR!

[@childofthe80s1981]

I'm sorry but I never cared for The Cosby Show have no idea why it was so popular

[@Dibrini]

I remember that show, especially the one where they bought the bad car. The boy kid said that his dad said "fiddlesticks" and the mom gasped and said, "He said the F word!"

[@NTK2A]

People tend to forget that there was some serious Thursday Night 8pm competition before Friends ever came along!

[@BrianHAlexander]

Put them both together and that's the best of both worlds; just like Paul Winfield (the Magic Mirror!)

[@jsrosa1282]

Seriously, if I were an ABC exec during the time period of The Charmings I would've recommended bringing back Batman in a new version (which did air on Thursday nights in its original run) to air against Cosby! Although it would've been strange (yet funny) to see Adam West and Burt Ward try to fit into their costumes 20 years later!

[@thejyav]

i dont even remember this show but hey good work ABC advertising another networks show in a 10 second ad

[@ClaudeLv250]

The end should have said "who's the charmings" because I've honestly never heard of this show until now! And I used to watch ABC all the time...must have been just before my time?

[@dena81]

I very very very vaguely remember it and the only thing that seems familiar is the mirror.

[@zt1053]

This promo was really predicting what was going to happen. They should’ve put Webster up against the Cosby show because it was nearing the end of its run and kept the charmings on Fridays

[@NTK2A]

I never said it was a bad thing to which to aspire, but the Cosby Show didn't show the work involved in becoming an upper middle class black family. TCS only represented the fruits of their labor -- not the labor itself. I agree with perseverance, but the show rarely addressed it. The only truth I ever saw in the Cosby Show's early seasons was the battle between parents & children. Even Cosby said that was the core. It could've been done more believably in an honest working class family.

[@NTK2A]

You have no idea about me. I am a 6'1, 200 pound, dreadlocked, goateed African American homosexual male. How can two parents put themselves through graduate school, raise five children AND have thriving successful careers? How in the world was Clair able to become a partner in a law firm when she was having children one after the other for 20 years?! The format changed at the last minute. Clair was going to be a housewife and Cliff a plumber. Cosby's wife suggested the change in careers.

[@BrianHAlexander]

Cosby was another show that was a fantasy

[@TM56]

Wow, obviously we know who won out on Cosby v. Charmings

[@WillieMeetsWorld]

Well that was a bad idea!

[@BrianHAlexander]

Well us fairies can work magic you know!

[@cityhawk]

I only saw the first ten minutes of an episode and just found it to be stupid at best. ABC put this show up against the Cosby Show? No wonder they got the quick axe. It was trying to hard to come up with a completely different concept.

[@wizard55]

@disgrl4 Check out the first episodes up on youtube now :)

[@wwejohncena]

the show was crap, last for barley 2 season, i wouldnt call it 2 seasons , cause they had 6 episodes in the 1987, cosby was the #1 show for 6 years