Series Description

The Futurama TV show was a 30 minute animated comedy series on the FOX Network about a pizza delivery guy in 1999 who gets cryogenically frozen for ten centuries and then finds himself in the year 2999.

Futurama Characters

Voices

John DiMaggio .... Bender
Katey Sagal .... Turanga Leela
Billy West .... Philip J. Fry
Lauren Tom .... Amy Wong
Phil LaMarr .... Hermes Conrad
David Herman .... Miscellaneous Voices
Tress MacNeille .... Miscellaneous Voices
Maurice LaMarche .... Miscellaneous Voices

Futurama Trivia:

After the September 11th terrorist attacks in the U.S., the opening scene where a rocket crashes into a huge TV screen was removed. The scene was added back in to episodes beginning the following April.

The name for the series, "Futurama" comes from the General Motors exhibit at the 1939 World's Fair in New York City. Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth comes from real-life inventor Philo T. Farnsworth, the inventor of television, whose invention was shown in public for the first time at the 1939 World's Fair.

In an almost never seen move for a TV series, Futurama is returning with new episodes in mid-2010! Comedy Central bought the rights from FOX to all previous 73 episodes and began re-airing them in January of 2008. They also bought rights to the four feature length Dvds that were produced after the series ended in 2003.