BROADCAST DATE: Sunday, September 19, 1976, ABC.
DESCRIPTION: "COS" was Bill Cosby's third series, and second variety show, which was mainly aimed to children and young people with celebrity guests, puppets, comedy and music. The show was unsuccessful in the Neilsen ratings and was cancelled by November 1976, less than three months after its debut. Lynda Carter was one of the guest on the premiere episode of this short lived series, in another of her rarest appearances in the 1970s.

	Series Run: Sunday, September 16, 1976 through Sunday, November 7, 1976. Broadcast Network: ABC. Time Slot: Sundays, 7:00 PM. Regulars: BILL COSBY, Jeffrey Altman, Tim Thomerson, Marion Ramsey, Buzzy Linhart, Willie Bobo, Mauricio Jarrin, Rod Hull and his Emu,  and Pat Delaney. Guests: Gabriel Kaplan, Bruce Jenner, Cindy Williams, LYNDA CARTER, Chicago and Jabberjaw. Announcer: John Wilson. Director: Jeff Margolis. Producer: Chris Bearde. Art Direction: Ed LaPorta, Charles Linsaby. Choreographers: Kevin Carslile, Alan Johnson. Stage Manager: James Woodworth. Orchestra: Stu Gardner.
EPISODE SYNOPSIS: Opening night guests were Gabe Kaplan, Cindy Williams; the rock group "Chicago", Olympic swimmer Bruce Jenner, Lynda Carter (talking about the "WONDER WOMAN" series), Saturday morning cartoon character "Jabberjaw", along with a tribute to "Peanuts" and an animated segment about a chocolate bar and a sourball. Musical highlights for the show: Cindy Williams singing "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" while a wind machine blew her clothes off, and Chicago performing "If You leave Me Now".

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			RUNNING TIME:	0:50:00 [1 hour including commercials].
			VHS:	Not available on commercial video.
			DVD:	Not available on commercial video.
			INFO:	This is LYNDA CARTER's first and only appearance on "COS".
ADS: [1]  "COS - TV GUIDE AD". Original TV GUIDE ad.
			TRIVIA:	[•] This is one of LYNDA CARTER's rarest appearance on the 1970s.
				[•] Lynda appeared on the show less than a month before the broadcast of the third episode of the "WONDER WOMAN" series.
				[•] The show  was originally to be titled "THE BILL COSBY COMEDY HOUR".
				[•] The backdrop for the show was an enormous yellow smiley face with an afro, a graphic carried over from his previous series.
				[•] Producer Chirs Bearde (one of the responsibles for "THE SONNY AND CHER SHOW") said at the time, "It's a program the whole family can sit down and watch together. A child will see it one way, a teen-ager another, and an adult another."
				[•] Gerry Nadel, in his review of the show in TV Guide, said: "The television equivalent of going down to the delicatessen to watch them run the bread slicer. If Cher's bellybutton couldn't beat Disney, Cosby's foot in his mouth won't do it either."
				[•] On October 17th a new regular segment with Bill as the owner of a swinging night club was unveiled but, as far as the network was concerned, it was too late for tinkering.

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