“The Cosby Show,” starring Cosby as Dr. Heathcliff “Cliff” Huxtable, an obstetrician-gynecologist, and Phylicia Rashad as his wife, Clair, a successful attorney, blazed a historic trail in primetime television with the depiction of an educated, upper-middle-class African American family.

Malcolm-Jamal Warner, the actor perhaps best known for starring in the TV sitcom "The Cosby Show" as son Theodore "Theo" Huxtable, has died at 54. Warner drowned off the coast of Costa Rica on Sunday, Costa Rican National Police told ABC News. Warner's official cause of death was asphyxia, police said.

Kelly Ripa took time out of Tuesday’s episode of Live With Kelly and Mark to honor late actor Malcolm-Jamal Warner. After news broke Monday that The Cosby Show star died the day before at the age of 54 in an accidental drowning,

When audiences met Theo Huxtable, playing a high school freshman in 1984’s pilot episode of "The Cosby Show," his voice was squeaky, his room was a mess, and he was pleading with his dad, Heathcliff,