The Bill Cosby Show.
 

Not to be confused with his later series. In this series which was produced from 1969-1971, Bill plays a high school gym teacher named Chet Kinkaid. The show was in the list of top rated shows its first year and perhaps could of gone on for a 3rd inspite the ratings going down some the 2nd year. However as you can see the series didn't use a laugh track in which NBC wanted to have but Bill was against it, and since he only signed a 2 year contract with the network, they decided to axe the BCS after the 2nd year.

Here's a rather interesting episode from it.



Also the theme song Hicky Burr was rleased as a single but didn't chart.

Re: The Bill Cosby Show.
 

I don't recall this show at all. Maybe we didn't get it in our little corner of northern Maine, or maybe we just didn't watch it.

Re: The Bill Cosby Show.
 

Unless you had no NBC affiliate back then I can't see how it couldn't of aired there.

Re: The Bill Cosby Show.
 

We had NBC. Most likely, Dad didn't want to watch it.