Episode
The Cosby Show: Theogate
Overview
Theo and Cockroach come home unusually late from a track meet, and the Huxtables got a phone message earlier from the track coach. They both deny anything out of the ordinary happened, but attorney Clair knows better. A mock trial is held for Theo and Cockroach at the Huxtables' for Clair to get to the bottom of the situation.
Details
- Series
- The Cosby Show
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 2
- Air date
- 1987-10-01
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Theogate is Episode 2 in Season 4 of The Cosby Show. It aired on 1987-10-01. The runtime is 22 min.
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Episode 1: Call of the Wild
The newlywed Sondra and Elvin return from their honeymoon with shocking news for Cliff and Clair: they want to abandon their dreams of being a lawyer and doctor and open an outdoorsman's "wilderness store." Geoffrey Owens (Elvin) becoms a regular cast member.
Episode 3: It's Not Easy Being Green
Rudy wants to wear summer clothes in winter to a party, while Cliff tries to get rid of an old water heater.
More episodes from this season
Episode 4: Cliff's Mistake
While setting up the house as a "haunted house" for Halloween, Cliff discover's he's lost a power drill that his neighbor loaned to him. First appearance of Wallace Shawn as Jeffrey Ingalls.
Episode 5: Shakespeare
Christopher Plummer and Roscoe Lee Browne appear. Theo must read Julius Caesar for school, but complains that it is boring. Russel and his friends read scenes from the play aloud, and Theo is enthralled. Later, the men read from a different work of literature-a story Rudy wrote!
Episode 6: That's Not What I Said
Cliff and Clair have a marital argument after Theo gets detained by police for riding in a car with an unlicensed driver.
Episode 7: Autumn Gifts
Rudy goes to an older widowed lady's house each afternoon to have tea and play cards, but notices that she refuses to take her daily medication for diabetes. She tells Cliff, who devises a plan to try to convince her that she needs the meds to live. Eileen Heckart appearance.
Keshia Knight Pulliam appears on the episode of A Different World which airs later that evening.
Episode 8: Looking Back
Sondra and Elvin have their first marital fight, and Elvin comes to the Huxtable house for comfort and support. Clair shares about the difficulties in their house as flashbacks are shown.
Episode 9: Where's Rudy?
Theo and Vanessa lose track of Rudy in a mall while Clair enters a squash exhibition.
Earle Hyman (Russell) appears on the episode of A Different World which airs later that evening.
Episode 10: Dance Mania
Theo and Cockroach have tickets to appear on television on the dance show "Dance Mania", but are told that only one of them can enter the studio during the filming because of fire laws. Theo miscalculates by offering to let Cockroach go in (thinking he'll refuse) and gets angry when Cockroach takes him up on the offer.
Episode 11: The Locker Room
Theo and his classmates brag about their dates with girls in the locker room, but Theo's mood changes when one of the guys goes out with Vanessa and brags about it the next day. Troy Winbush as Denny. Adam Sandler as Smitty.
Episode 12: The Show Must Go On
Vaudeville is shown to Rudy and her friends, who are unimpressed.
Episode 13: Bookworm
Clair drags Cliff to her book club meeting, and he's the lone male there. Much to Clair's surprise, Cliff knows quite a bit about the book in question! Meanwhile, the kids attempt a sleepover at Sondra and Elvin's run-down studio apartment, but are overwhelmed by the noise and lack of utilities. Appearances by Angela Bassett and S. Epatha Merkerson.