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Steven: youre a young man, you shouldnt be worried about success. you should be thinking about hopping on a tramp steamer and going around the world. alex: the 60s are over, dad. steven: thanks for the tip. gerrad hall: family ties is a reversal in many ways of all in the family, except now you have the liberal parents and the conservative child. elyse: this morning i found a copy of the wall street journal under his bed. steven: you think maybe he was switched at birth and the rockefellers have...

I am and love me anyway. malcolm-jamal warner: you know, in any other sitcom, that would be the moment where the music would start and the father would embrace the son and say something, you know, really encouraging. cliff: theo... thats the dumbest thing ive ever heard in my life! tom werner: and you could hear the audience gasp because like, this is a strong father who is going to say to his son, as he said, you know, i - cliff: i brought you in this world, and ill take you out. tom werner: al...

>> they just seemed a little yellow. >> yes, they are yellow towels. >> we all come into a family. we need a family, love them or hate them, thats who, you know, we were given. >> the success of "cosby" resurrected the sitcom. because of that, ushered in a lot of other great story telling. when "the cosby show" went off the air, we did have other black family sitcoms to fill that void. and one of them was the "fresh prince," which was another version of aspirational black family wealth. >> i did...

Else. >> "fresh off the boat" made a major impact in proving to the industry that a show like this can be successful. >> still to this day i get people on the street who come up to me in tears saying how meaningful it was seeing themselves represented and feeling like you are a part of america. >> its a part of a progression of representation in tv. ♪ >> okay. so im just your standard regular old incredibly handsome unbelievably charismatic black dude. this mixed race woman is my wife. >> "bla...

>> "family ties" pumped a little bit of life into the family sitcom. but the sitcom in general had been pronounced dead. there were very few on the air. and then all of a sudden comes "the cosby show" in 84. >> dad, can i have an advance on my allowance? >> son, youre already backed up until your 50th birthday. >> "the cosby show" was a game changer to me. this was just a family i adored. present history has tainted that a little bit. it didnt stop the fact that that was a ground-breaking experi...

The house. >> i just want you to do the best you can. thats all. >> there was such a love and camaraderie in the huxtable family that i think you had a universal audience. >> we got super bowl ratings every single week and theyre tuning in because everyone wants to be a huxtable. >> "the cosby show" revitalized the sitcom. >> all right. then lets put "cosby" at 8:00. lets put "family ties" at 8:30. and "family ties" went up in a huge way. that great thursday night lineup, "cosby," "family ties,"...

Mara brock akil: the success of cosby resurrected the sitcom and because of that ushered in a lot of great storytelling. jacqueline coley: when the cosby show went off the air, we did have other black family sit-coms to fill that void, and one of them was the fresh prince, which was another version of aspirational black family wealth. will: i didnt know there were so many brothers living in this neighbourhood. we doing alright, huh? jacqueline coley: but fox was one of the first networks that re...

Popular among the big three networks. gerrad hall: there was this incredible resurgence. jesse: this is great, we should be mothers. joey: ah yeah! ethan alter: families tuned into these tv shows to see an aspirational version of what family life could be. urkel: did i do that? jennifer keishin armstrong: shows like silver spoons and growing pains and all that. its constant hugging and learning, right? [audience clapping] ethan alter: with the family sitcom at the height of its popularity, fox s...

>> "fresh off the boat" made a major impact in proving to the industry that it could be successful. >> i get people on the street who come up to me in tears, saying how meaningful it was, seeing themselves representative and feeling like you are part of america. >> a part of a progression, representation in tv. >> okay. im your standard, incredibly handsome, unbelievably charismatic black dude. >> "black-ish" is a sitcom that is interested in topics of racial identity, that ways that television ...

Was a great character. henry: im henry evans ... norman lear: her husband made an appearance. henry: i am proud of you florida ...its just i dont want you to be a maid no more. florida: your mother was a maid. thats how your brothers got through school and you got to be a fireman. norman lear: when john amos and esther rolle finished their scene, we thought, lets fill out that family. ♪ good times! ♪ ♪ good times! jay moriarty: thats the first time you ever saw a black family on television...