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Chet Kincaid, gym teacher at an inner-city Los Angeles high school, deals with students, Principal Langford and counselor Marsha Peterson. He lives with his mother Rose, brother Brian, and sister-in-law Verna, who focus on his social life.

A concert film in which Bill Cosby discusses weekends, raising children, dentists, and many other situations.

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Bill Cosby hosted a brief prime-time variety show for kids featuring skits, blackouts, and appearances by celebrities, athletes, musicians, and puppets alongside his regular cast.

An airport redcap works hard to get his family out of the ghetto, only to discover that his son has sickle-cell anemia.

Needing someone to play Santa Claus for the community center, Chet bribes a surly old man who was recently fired from his job selling Christmas trees.

Students at the high school organize a lockout of the teachers' cafeteria, requesting that they have input over what foods go on the student menu. Chet helps the students and cafeteria manager reach a compromise. But when the same students have a grievance with Chet's gym class, Chet is not as willing to cooperate.

Chet convinces a shy cafeteria worker to get up the nerve and ask a waitress out on a date. When he is turned down, Chet must find a way to talk him out of committing suicide.

After he encounters a competitive player who exhibits a disregard for sportsmanship, Chet tries to teach him a lesson by inviting him to his handball game and observe proper sportsmanship.

When Chet is forced to fill in as a substitute algebra teacher, he comes across a word problem that he is unable to solve for the class. So, he spends most of his weekend trying to find the solution.

Chet intervenes in the relationship between his perpetually bickering aunt and uncle. Meanwhile, at school, he copes with a student who refuses to participate in gym class.

For a children's party, Chet hires a magician named "The Miraculous Martin". Too bad Martin is also a drunkard.

A repossessor is intent on snatching Chet's TV set.

Chet learns that being honored as Teacher Of The Year isn't all that's it's cracked up to be.

While Chet visits the local barber shop for a haircut, he gets involved in a dispute with the barber and another patron over baseball. The three of them end up going to a high rise hotel, where the barberclaims he can catch a baseball dropped from a window of the hotel's top floor.

Chet must figure out ways to kill time when he is trapped overnight in an elevator with a fellow teacher and a cleaning lady.

Chet gets himself into a jam when he answers a pay phone and then tries to locate a guy who doesn't want to be found.

Chet's father stays with him, while his mother is out-of-town.

Chet inherits his great-aunt's estate including a prized letter from Abraham Lincoln, and it brings him lots of unwanted attention and headaches.

John Marley guest stars in this episode as a wealthy, eccentric man who wants to relive his childhood. He seeks Chet's help to make his wish come true.

Chet's life is turned upside down by a pesky neighbor, who is an insufferable bore.

Chet gets in a bind when he is mistaken as the author of a poem he copied in his youth, and the poem is scheduled to be published in the school newspaper.