A Different World is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for six seasons. It is a spin-off of The Cosby Show and was originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional but historically black college in Virginia. After Bonet's departure at the end of the first season, the remainder of the series centered mostly on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and math genius Dwayne Wayne. Members of the big historically black fraternities and sororities were regularly portrayed in the series. Although it was a spin-off of The Cosby Show, A Different World often addressed topics that The Cosby Show writers ignored. One of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic was shown in 1990.
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A Different World is an American sitcom that aired on NBC for six seasons. It is a spin-off of The Cosby Show and was originally centered on Denise Huxtable and the life of students at Hillman College, a fictional but historically black college in Virginia. After Bonet's departure at the end of the first season, the remainder of the series centered mostly on Southern belle Whitley Gilbert and math genius Dwayne Wayne. Members of the big historically black fraternities and sororities were regularly portrayed in the series. Although it was a spin-off of The Cosby Show, A Different World often addressed topics that The Cosby Show writers ignored. One of the first American network television episodes to address the HIV/AIDS epidemic was shown in 1990.
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