The Brown Hornet was a favorite TV program of Fat Albert and the gang, and the kids would race to the television in their junkyard clubhouse whenever the latest installment aired. The self-titled show was about a confident and daring, space-age African-American superhero who patrolled intergalactic space with his trusty assistant Stinger and robotic sidekick Tweeterbell, to search out and fight evildoers. Episodes were presented in the same manner as old movie serials, which ended with Brown Hornet facing some perilous cliffhanger he would be forced to overcome at the beginning of the next episode (which normally took him about two seconds). Apart from being entertaining, the Brown Hornet's exploits served as a moral underpinning to whatever dilemma was confronting the Cosby kids during that week's episode.