From the TV show, A Different World which aired for six seasons on NBC from September 24, 1987, to July 9, 1993, was a spin-off from the popular The Cosby Show. The show, which took place at Hillman College, a fictional historically black college in Virginia, starred Lisa Bonet as “Denise Huxtable,” Jasmine Guy as “Whitney Gilbert,” Cree Summer Franks as “Winifred ‘Freddie’ Brooks,” and Kadeem Hardison as “Dwayne Wayne.”
