What had been you doing within the fall of 1985 … and what had been you watching? There was one present that dominated the Nielsen rankings in 1985: The Cosby Present. The household sitcom, which centered on the Huxtable household in Brooklyn, led by comic Invoice Cosby because the patriarch debuted the earlier fall. By the premiere of its second season, on September 26, 1985, the sequence was unstoppable, utterly reshaping Thursday nights.
