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A Different World

Denise Huxtable enters her sophomore year at Hillman, alma mater of her parents and grandfather, where she moves into Gilbert Hall and shares a dorm room with 26-year-old Jaleesa Vinson and talkative new roommate Maggie Lauten.

Show Info

Network: United States NBC (1987 - 1993)
Schedule: Thursdays at 20:30 (30 min)
Status: Ended
Show Type: Scripted
Genres: Comedy
Episodes ordered: 25 episodes
Created by: Bill Cosby

5.8 (11 votes)

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Great X-Pectations

Episode 6x22; Jul 9, 1993

Terrell (Patrick Y. Malone) is caught with a handgun in the classroom; Spencer (Michael Ralph) proposes to Kim.

Previous Episodes

Episode NameAirdateTrailer
6x22: Great X-PectationsJul 9, 1993
6x21: Cabin in the SkyJun 10, 1993
6x20: Dancing MachinesJun 3, 1993
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ReneeWalker posted 6 years ago

First breakthrough taking on gender neutrality. Finding the black center in higher education in the late eighties was confounded by real competition when nontraditionals turned their back on the practice of scapegoating vulnerables. So the "wild child" a variation of Alice Walker's Spelman memoirs tells the story through the eyes of the statisically poor. OK, but what doesn't resonate here is the 800 pound gorilla & much more interesting dynamic floating around in the eighties ether that made it more likely for denise to be schooled off campus by the indigenous rep whose knowledge of prehistoric America far surpassed anything Hillman had to offer.

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