Garfield and Friends (TV Series)

TV Series (1988-1994). 7 Seasons. 121 Episodes. Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. This show was produced by Film Roman, and ran on CBS Saturday mornings from 1988 to 1994, and on Nickelodeon from 1997 to 2000. The show's seven seasons make it one of the longest running Saturday morning cartoons in history (most only last one or two seasons). Regular segments featured both Garfield and U.S. Acres, a lesser-known comic strip also created by Davis. The latter was retitled Orson's Farm for foreign syndication. 242 Garfield segments and 121 U.S. Acres segments were produced. There were two "Garfield" segments on each show, two "quickie" shorts based on Sunday comic strips, and in between was a U.S. Acres segment. A total of 121 half-hours were produced, and all have been released in the U.S. on five DVD sets by Fox Home Entertainment. The first season aired in a half-hour format. In the second season, it switched to an hour-length format, showing two episodes each week. However, in the show's last season, the second half-hour of the show featured either an episode from the previous season or one of Garfield's TV specials.