The Cosby Show: Season 7

1990 · 25 episodes

What Season 7 of The Cosby Show

Season seven opens with changes at the house on Stigwood Avenue. Denise starts studying at Medgar Evers College, Vanessa enrolls at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania, Rudy reaches sixth grade and little Olivia starts preschool. Conflicts come from several fronts. Denise and Martin look for their own apartment to have some privacy, Clair goes through menopause and her children treat her as if she has lost her mind, and Rudy gets her first period while her mother tries to talk to her. Cliff and Clair dish out advice and scolding, and the children respond with the complaints they have about their parents.

25episodes

Sep 20, 1990premiered

May 2, 1991latest episode

9.5 hrtotal runtime

Season 7 Episodes

7x01 Same Time Next Year
Sep 20, 1990 · 22 min
Denise takes classes locally at Medgar Evers College, while Vanessa enrolls at Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. Rudy starts sixth grade. Olivia starts preschool.
Directing: Jay Sandrich · Writers: Ehrich Van Lowe · Cast: Avanti Taylor
7x02 Bird in the Hand
Sep 27, 1990 · 22 min
Cliff tries to win a classic jazz record at an auction, while filling in for Denise as volunteer parent at Olivia's preschool. Sullivan Walker as Dr. James Harmon.
Directing: Jay Sandrich · Starring: Sullivan Walker, Marge Redmond, Ray DeMattis, L.B. Williams
7x03 The Last Barbecue
Oct 4, 1990 · 22 min
The Huxtable family erupts in a battle of the sexes after Theo suggests having a stripper at Martin's post-wedding bachelor party.
Written by: Janet Leahy · Starring: Deon Richmond, Earle Hyman, Clarice Taylor
7x04 Period of Adjustment
Oct 11, 1990 · 22 min
Clair's teenage second cousin moves in with the family.
Written by: Lore Kimbrough · Starring: Karen Malina White, Allen Payne, Mushond Lee
7x05 It's All in the Game
Oct 18, 1990 · 22 min
After Vanessa gets into a minor car accident and tries to cover it up, Cliff and Clair complain about the various small disasters the children have caused them, and the children fight back by complaining about ways Cliff and Clair have embarrassed them.
Written by: Janet Leahy
7x06 Getting the Story
Oct 25, 1990 · 22 min
Rudy and Kenny do a video project.
Writers: Lore Kimbrough, Janet Leahy · Cast: Deon Richmond, Francisco Rivela, Jodi Long, Richard Woods
7x07 Just Thinking About It
Nov 1, 1990 · 42 min
Under pressure from her boyfriend to become sexually active, Pam considers using birth control.
Directing: Jay Sandrich · Writers: Ehrich Van Lowe · Cast: Karen Malina White, Allen Payne, Eagle-Eye Cherry, Mushond Lee
7x08 The Infantry Has Landed (and They've Fallen Off the Roof)
Nov 8, 1990 · 22 min
Rudy gets her first period. Clair plans "Women's day" where she goes out alone with Rudy and answers any questions she has, but Rudy refuses to talk. Keith Diamond as Danny.
Written by: Lore Kimbrough, Janet Leahy · Starring: Nicole Leach, Keith Diamond
7x09 You Can Go Home Again
Nov 15, 1990 · 22 min
Seeking privacy, Denise and Martin decide to look for their own apartment.
Directed by: Oz Scott · Written by: Lore Kimbrough
7x10 It's a Boy
Nov 29, 1990 · 22 min
The husband of one of Cliff's patients worries that he will be a poor father because he has no athletic ability. After Pam breaks up with Slide, she and the class brain are attracted to each other.
Directing: Chuck Vinson · Writer: Ehrich Van Lowe · Starring: Karen Malina White, Seth Gilliam, Ray DeMattis, Catherine Cox
7x11 Clair's Liberation
Dec 6, 1990 · 22 min
Clair enters menopause. She takes the news fine, but the kids treat her as if she's losing her mind.
Written by: Ehrich Van Lowe · Starring: Karen Malina White, Allen Payne, Seth Gilliam, Maurice Lauchner
7x12 It's Your Move
Dec 13, 1990 · 22 min
Elvin and Sondra help friends move during a football game.
Directing: Jay Sandrich · Starring: Ahmad Rashād, Jackie Roberts
7x13 Theo's Final Final
Jan 3, 1991 · 22 min
Theo will make the dean's list if he gets an A on his final, but a beautiful exchange student planning to leave the next day for Barbados distracts him. Vanessa A. Williams appears (now portraying Cheryl).
Written by: Elaine Arata · Starring: Rachel True, Keith Diamond, Vanessa Williams
7x14 Attack of the Killer B's
Jan 10, 1991 · 22 min
Pam's grades have improved, but she worries that she will not be able to afford college.
Written by: Elaine Arata, Lore Kimbrough · Starring: Karen Malina White, Allen Payne, Mushond Lee, Maurice Lauchner
7x15 Total Control
Jan 31, 1991 · 22 min
Cliff's patient and her husband are convinced that they are prepared for every scenario ... and then labor begins.
Directed by: Jay Sandrich · Written by: Ehrich Van Lowe · Starring: Amy Yasbeck, John Ritter, Maureen Sadusk
7x16 Adventures in Babysitting
Feb 7, 1991 · 22 min
Rudy begs Martin to let her babysit Olivia. Cliff and Dr. Harmon enter a pinochle tournament as partners ... and so do their wives.
Directing: Oz Scott · Starring: Sullivan Walker, Bern Nadette Stanis, Alvin Lum, Michele Shay
7x17 27 and Still Cooking
Feb 14, 1991 · 22 min
To celebrate his 27th wedding anniversary with Clair, Cliff recreates the Callaloo Pot, a Caribbean restaurant where the couple dined on their honeymoon.
Writer: Janet Leahy · Starring: Clebert Ford, Ricardo Alexander, Walter Blanding, Wayne Kirton
7x18 The Return of the Clairettes
Feb 21, 1991 · 22 min
An old friend of Clair visits, along with her husband. Rudy prepares for her first date.
Directed by: Neema Barnette · Written by: Lisa Albert · Starring: Leslie Uggams, Ron Foster, Bemi Faison
7x19 No More Mr. Nice Guy
Feb 28, 1991 · 22 min
Theo's friend Denny thinks his girlfriend is cheating on him.
Directing: Jay Sandrich · Starring: Earle Hyman, Troy Winbush, Clarice Taylor, Troy Byer
7x20 Home Remedies
Mar 7, 1991 · 22 min
When Olivia comes down with a cold, everyone (except Cliff) has a different home remedy to offer as a cure. Russell and Anna celebrate another wedding anniversary. Cliff, Rudy and Olivia perform Koko Taylor's "I'm A Woman".
Directed by: Jay Sandrich · Written by: Mark St. Germain · Starring: Earle Hyman, Karen Malina White, Allen Payne, Clarice Taylor
7x21 Nightmare on Stigwood Avenue
Mar 21, 1991 · 22 min
Rudy has a nightmare about Olivia always getting her way.
Written by: Lore Kimbrough · Starring: Karen Malina White, Carlton Beener
7x22 There's Still No Joy in Mudville
Apr 4, 1991 · 22 min
Cliff goes bowling with his friends.
Starring: Earle Hyman, Sullivan Walker, Norman Beaton, Ahmad Rashād
7x23 Cliff and Jake
Apr 11, 1991 · 22 min
Clair tries to prevent Cliff from buying a new appliance from his friend Jake.
Directing: Jay Sandrich · Written by: Mark St. Germain · Starring: E.G. Marshall, Audrey Landers, Red Buttons, Kenneth Meseroll
7x24 Theo and the Kids (1)
Apr 25, 1991 · 22 min
Theo, who is majoring in pediatric psychology, begins an internship as a junior counselor at the community center; he soon suspects that one of the children there is dyslexic.
Written by: Ehrich Van Lowe · Starring: Merlin Santana, Eugene Byrd, Lynne Thigpen, Lisa Arrindell
7x25 Theo and the Kids (2) Season Finale
May 2, 1991 · 22 min
Theo continues his attempts to help Stanley and the other children at the community center.
Written by: Ehrich Van Lowe · Starring: Merlin Santana, Eugene Byrd, Lynne Thigpen, Carlton Beener