Since then, Cosby has stayed out of the public eye, only making the occasional remark, including when his former costar Malcolm-Jamal Warner died on July 20. After Warner drowned in Costa Rica, Cosby's spokesperson Andrew Wyatt told PEOPLE that the actors kept in touch.

The inconvenient problem is that "The Cosby Show" was the record of '80s TV, to a large degree, and to think of '90s TV, or the aughts, or TV right up to this day without "Cosby" somewhere in the ...