Lisa Bonet
Denise Huxtable
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- 1. Reconcilable Differences Sep 24, 1987
- Denise begins her sophomore year at Hillman and requests a room change, ending up with Whitley.
- 2. Pilot Oct 1, 1987
- Denise hopes to solve her latest financial quandary without assistance from home.
- 3. Porky De Bergerac Oct 15, 1987
- As dorm monitor, Jaleesa must enforce penalties on litterbugs -- including Denise.
A Different World: Created by Bill Cosby. With Jasmine Guy, Kadeem Hardison, Darryl M. Bell, Charnele Brown. A group of students at a historically Black university struggle to make it through college.
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- 1987-09-24
- Comedy
- 60
A Different World is an American sitcom television series and a spin-off of The Cosby Show. It aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987 to July 9, 1993. [1] The series originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional historically black college in Virginia. It was inspired by student ...
A Different World. Featuring students adjusting to a new way of life away from home as they attend the fictitious Hillman College. Spin-off of The Cosby Show. Whitley and Dwayne tell new students about their honeymoon in Los Angeles.
At a hotly contested Hillman-Virginia A&M game, Ron accepts a sucker bet from three white A&M students, then gets into a fight with them when one of them starts to spray a racial epithet on his car in revenge. In a cell, the men proceed to give very different accounts, mediated by a white officer who challenges both groups' assumptions. 8.9/10.
- Lisa Bonet (Denise Huxtable) As the lead of the first season of A Different World, Lisa Bonet played the second-born wild child of Cliff Huxtable who enrolls at a fictional HBCU in Virginia called Hillman.
- Jasmine Guy (Whitley Gilbert) Whitley wasn't always going to be the main focus of A Different World; Jasmine Guy's character was a supporting cast member until season 2, when she was promoted to lead after Bonet left the show.
- Kadeem Hardison (Dwayne Wayne) Kadeem Hardison played the flirty math nerd Dwayne Wayne, known for his flip-up sunglasses, who was also upgraded to lead the cast in season 2 along with Guy.
- Darryl M. Bell (Ron Johnson) Darryl M. Bell played goofy musician and ROTC student Ron Johnson for all six seasons of the show. After A Different World ended in 1993, Bell booked a lead role as Morris Clay on the sci-fi comedy series Homeboys in Outer Space; did a three-episode arc on Cosby in 1997; and appeared in two episodes of Insecure in 2018.
May 25, 2021 · In the 34 years since its debut, A Different World has become one of television’s most impactful shows, inspiring everything from dissertations and lectures to Halloween...
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