EPISODE
SEASON
A Different World - Season 1
A group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.
4 February 1957, St. Louis, Missouri, USA
28 November 1968, New London, Connecticut, USA
10 April 1968, Mobile, Alabama, USA
21 August 1949, Houston, Texas, USA
26 September 1961, San Francisco, California, USA
9 July 1965, Houston, Texas, USA
13 February 1944, Safford, Arizona, USA
31 December 1938, Atlantic City, New Jersey, USA
19 October 1946
10 November 1956, Benton Harbor, Michigan, USA
20 March 1951, Detroit, Michigan, USA
1 August 1973, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 September 1972, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
30 June 1934, Zanesville, Ohio, USA
11 November 1958, Havana, Cuba
24 September 1966, North Trenton, New Jersey, USA
1967
21 March 1959, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
15 August 1962, Rome, Lazio, Italy
21 July 1926, Brooklyn, New York City, New York, USA
23 August 1909, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
19 June 1948, Houston, Texas, USA
5 August 1934, Johannesburg, Union of South Africa [now South Africa]
23 March 1937, Flint, Michigan, USA
September 10, 2018
A comedy's first goal is to, y'know, make people laugh.
September 10, 2018
In its first season, A Different World didn't know what it wanted to be. It was supposed to be a slightly more mature extension of The Cosby Show, but it was also completely reliant on its parent show to stay alive.
September 10, 2018
This first season was as weak as Denise's adjustment with corny and dry stories that tried to be as 'everyday' and 'inclusionary' as Cosby but that did not succeed in the setting of an HBCU.
September 10, 2018
This sitcom needs more than positive energy. It needs talent. If A Different World fails -- and it should -- I only hope NBC has the sense to forgive Bonet and welcome her home, where she's always been terrific, on Cosby.
