Product Description
Premiering in 1972 on CBS this classic animated series was created, produced and hosted by comedian Bill Cosby, who also lent his voice to a number of characters, including Fat Albert himself. The show, based on Cosby`s remembrances of his childhood gang, focused on the lovable, oversized Albert and his friends. The show always had an educational lesson emphasized by Cosby's live-action segments, and the gang would usually gather in their North Philadelphia junkyard to play a rock song on their cobbled-together instruments at the end of the show. Includes Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids (36 episodes), The New Fat Albert Show (24 episodes) and The Adventures of Fat Albert and Cosby Kids (50 episodes).
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Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #46832 in DVD
- Released on: 2013-06-25
- Rating: Unrated
- Number of discs: 15
- Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
- Original language: English
- Running time: 2340 minutes
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23 of 26 people found the following review helpful.
By Stuart B. Shankland
At last we can own the complete series, which includes the best original 36 1972-75 Episodes, all 24 1979-81 episodes and all 50 1984 episodes.
IGNORE THE OTHER REVIEW WHO ADMITS AT COMPARING MY REVIEW: He Is Jelous & Goes By Repeated Synication Dates, Not Just Original Premiere Dates, Because they for a fact didn't premiere new episodes of Fat Albert Every Year Between 1972-1989, Only A Few years out of them all featured New Episodes, Including 1972/1973/1975/1979/1980/1981/1984.
Unfortunately in past DVD Releases, only episode 1-24 In Two Volumes have been released seperately in the original fan favourite series, which are still easy to buy now at cheap overstock prices from third party sellers, MEANING I Want The whole series anyway - But for anyone who only wants the original 36 episodes, there is a catch out of you having to buy the whole series, specially for the last 12 episodes of the original series which never quite made it to Region 1 DVD Separately, inclduing the 11 out of the missing 12 which were released exclusively somewhere in the USA, but is now very hard to find.
This DVD Set Is meant for adult fans who want to own the full series of every Fat Albert Cartoon ever made.
The running time suggests it doesn't have the TV Specials because it only just makes enough time for the series to be complete.
Shout Factory tend to always include DVD Extras on complete series box sets, so hopefully this will have loads of extras which might include the TV Specials.
Like with G.I.Joe, Jem & M.A.S.K. Etc. I think shout factory know that if they release them in small sellections - fans will just fear them self's wasting their money like they did in the past through old releases by different DVD Companies of the same titles that never completed the series, which is why they just release single complete box sets to such series that mainly only older audiences born in the early 1980's or before will buy, but not many young people will buy them, meaning they have to please the adult fans.
FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS SEASON 1 1972
1 Lying
2 The Runt
3 The Stranger
4 Creativity
5 Fish Out of Water
6 Moving
7 Playing Hookey
8 The Hospital
9 Begging Benny
10 The Hero
11 The Prankster
12 Four Eyes .
13 The Tomboy
14 Stagefright
15 The Bully
16 Smart Kids
FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS SEASON 2 1973
1 Mister Big Timer
2 The Newcomer
3 What Does Dad Do?
4 Mom or Pop
5 How the West Was Lost
FAT ALBERT AND THE COSBY KIDS SEASON 3 1975
1 Sign Off
2 The Fuzz
3 Ounce of Prevention
4 Fat Albert Meets Dan Cupid
5 Take Two, They're Small
6 The Animal Lover
7 Little Tough Guy
8 Smoke Gets in Your Hair
9 What Say?
10 Readin' Ritin', and Rudy
11 Suede Simpson
12 Little Business
13 TV or Not TV
14 The Shuttered Window
15 Junk Food
THE NEW FAT ALBERT SHOW SEASON 1 1979
1 In My Merry Busmobile
2 The Dancer
3 Spare the Rod Bucky, Weird Harold....
4 Sweet Sorror
5 Poll Time
6 The Mainstream
7 Free Ride
8 Soft Core
THE NEW FAT ALBERT SHOW SEASON 2 1980
1 Pain, Pain Go Away
2 The Rainbow
3 The Secret
4 Easy Pickins
5 Good Ol' Dudes
6 Heads Or Trails
7 Pot Of Gold
8 The Gunslinger
THE NEW FAT ALBERT SHOW SEASON 3 1981
1 Habla Espanol
2 Two By Two
3 Barking Dog
4 Water Are You Waiting For?
5 The Father
6 Double Cross
7 Little Girl Found
8 Watch That First Step
BILL COSBY'S FAT ALBERT 1984
1 Have a Heart
2 Watch Thy Neighborhood
3 Cosby's Classics
4 Justice Good as Ever
5 Rebop For Bebop
6 Sinister Stranger
7 Handwriting On the Wall
8 Busted
9 It All Ads Up
10 Never Say Never
11 Don't Call Us
12 The Runner
13 Video Mania
14 You Gotta Have Art
15 Long Live the Queen
16 The Joker
17 Second Chance
18 Kiss and Tell
19 Teenage Mom
20 Film Follies
21 Harvest Moon
22 Read Baby Read
23 The Whisky Kid
24 Millionaire Madness
25 Call of the Wild
26 Funny Business
27 Three Strikes and You're In
28 What's the ID?
29 Rules Is Cool
30 The Birds, the Bees, and Dumb Donald
31 Double Or Nothing
32 Hot Wheels
33 No Place Like Home
34 Not So Loud
35 The Jinx
36 You Don't Say
37 Amiss With Amish
38 Gang Wars
39 Computer Caper
40 We All Scream For Ice Cream
41 Superdudes
42 Painting the Town
43 Rudy and the Beast
44 Wheeler
45 Faking the Grade
46 Write On
47 Cable Caper
48 Say Uncle
49 No News Is Good News
50 Attitude of Gratitude
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
By John Panagopoulos
Dr. Bill Cosby is many things - an incisive comedian, a successful sitcom star, a civil rights advocate, and occasionally, in my opinion, a sanctimonious egotist. Nevertheless, we should be thankful for Dr. Cosby for his unconventional, trailblazing '70s-'80s cartoon series "Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids", hereafter "Fat Albert". Not only did "Fat Albert" manage to be as entertaining and interesting as the usual animation stew being served up at the time, but it transcended those popcorn cartoons by covering, illustrating, and commenting upon important, relevant, even controversial topics (including racism, sexism, sibling rivalry, being different, drug use, worshipping false human idols, schoolwork, vandalism, and softcore pornography). Produced by Filmation, known for its penchant for moralistic if somewhat static cartoons, "Fat Albert" still towers over most, if not all, TV cartoon series.
In each episode, we follow the antics and adventures of several African-American kids (Albert, Weird Harold, Bill, his brother Russell, Dumb Donald, Mushmouth, and Bucky) in their Philadelphia suburb (These quirky, appealing characters are based on Dr. Cosby and some of his childhood friends; Cosby voiced Albert and Bill and some other characters like the old, homeless, tall-tale-teller Mudfoot). As the gang encountered and dealt with the social topic of the week, the animation was interspersed with live action shots of Cosby commenting on the action. At the end of each episode, the gang would sing a song reinforcing the social topic and play instruments improvised out of junkyard parts. In the later series, the parallel adventures of The Brown Hornet and his sidekick Stinger superseded the junkyard band.
While each member of the group was endearing in his own way, as the series progressed, Albert evolved from being just "one of the guys" to also being the moral, logical core of the group. Increasingly, even if it meant going against the gang, Albert stood for and tried to do the right thing. One obvious example is Albert's support of the undersized Peewee, who with the big guy's help learned some of the advantages of being short. From time to time, Albert was a bit preachy and goody-goody, but his noble intentions eventually carried the day and inspired his buddies, as well.
Again, each of the group members appear as typical teenagers, never condescendingly, but as well-rounded, believable kids with their own individual assets and liabilities. Like any group of kids, they had fun, played, teased each other, helped each other out, hung out in their clubhouse and other areas, and learned from each other. They were often funny, too, and fond of using one-liners, like "You're like wallpaper - all stuck up", or the classic "No class" riffs like "You're like a teacher during summer break - no class". The humor, however, was always gentle and never truly derogatory.
Some have wondered whether a contemporary "Fat Albert" animated series might succeed. I think so; even the current ones would be fun and relevant, I think, to a new generation of teenagers, even in our profane and jaded times. Until we get a re-make, I would recommend the entire "Fat Albert" series to fans, parents and their kids, to those eager to learn how to live a better life in a positive way. Hey, hey, hey! (Sorry, had to type it! :))
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
By Mena$e
Have they finally decided a release date for this? Definitely something I want to get, but only if it shows a release date.
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