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Futurama
Original Run	September 22, 1995 to July 11, 1996
No. of Episodes	22
Genre(s)	Sitcom, Animated series
Creator(s)	Matt Groening
Exec. Producer(s)	David X. Cohen Matt Groening
Starring	Katey Sagal Lauren Tom John Di Maggio Billy West Phil LaMarr maurice LaMarche Tress MacNeille Frank Welker
Country of Origin	United States
Original Channel	FOX (1999 – 2003) – Comedy Central (2008 – )

Futurama is a half-hour animated comedy series, which premiered in 1999 after cartoonist Matt Groening, creator of the wildly successful animated show The Simpsons, went back to the drawing table with a vision of rocketships filling his head.

Billy West provides the voices for three of the main characters, Philip J. Fry, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, and Dr. John Zoidberg, as well as for Zapp Brannigan and a host of minor characters. Other cast members include Katey Sagal as Turanga Leela, John DiMaggio as Bender, Lauren Tom as Amy Wong, and Phil LaMarr as Hermes Conrad.

Futurama is set in the year 3000. Fry, a 20th-century pizza delivery guy, is accidentally sealed in a cryogenic tank for a thousand years. On awakening, he hooks up with a cigar-chomping, alcohol-swilling robot named Bender and a cyclopean mutant babe named Leela. The three are hired by Professor Farnsworth to work for his intergalactic delivery service. Over the course of the 72 episodes, Fry develops an unrequited yearning for Leela, who may not be as alien as she seems. Fry and Bender become best buddies. The team faces scads of hilarious villains, including the robot mafia, flying brains, Amazon women, and Santa Claus, who happens to be a maniacal killer robot.

Futurama's collection of critical acclaim includes a Nebula Award nomination for Best Script in 2004; the Writers Guild of America's WGA Award (TV) for Animation in 2003; two of The Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' Emmy Awards, for Outstanding Individual Achievement in Animation in 2000 and 2001, and an Emmy for Outstanding Animated Program in 2002; and Annie Awards in 2000, 2001, and 2003.

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