Futurama: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Futurama follows pizza guy Philip J. Fry, who reawakens in 31st century New New York after a cryonics lab accident. Now part of the Planet Express delivery crew, Fry travels to the farthest reaches of the universe with his robot buddy Bender and cyclopsian love interest Leela, discovering freaky mutants, intergalactic conspiracies and other strange stuff.

Series details

• Title: Futurama
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Comedy, Adventure, Science-Fiction
• Premiere date: 1999-03-28
• Status in TVmaze: Running
• Web channel listed by TVmaze: Hulu
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 29 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 8.6/10
• TVMaze ID: 538

Cast and credited roles

• Billy West — Fry
• John DiMaggio — Bender
• Katey Sagal — Leela
• Billy West — Professor Farnsworth
• Billy West — Zoidberg
• Phil LaMarr — Hermes Conrad
• Lauren Tom — Amy Wong-Kroker
• David Herman — Scruffy
• Billy West — Scruffy
• Maurice LaMarche — Morbo
• Tress MacNeille — Linda
• Maurice LaMarche — Kif Kroker

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1999-03-28; final listed air date 1999-05-18; episode order: 9.
• Season 2: premiered 1999-09-26; final listed air date 2000-05-21; episode order: 20.
• Season 3: premiered 2000-11-05; final listed air date 2001-05-13; episode order: 15.
• Season 4: premiered 2001-12-09; final listed air date 2002-04-21; episode order: 12.
• Season 5: premiered 2002-11-10; final listed air date 2009-08-30; episode order: 16.
• Season 6: premiered 2010-06-24; final listed air date 2011-09-08; episode order: 26.
• Season 7: premiered 2012-06-20; final listed air date 2013-09-04; episode order: 26.
• Season 11: premiered 2023-07-24; final listed air date 2023-09-25; episode order: 10.
• Season 12: premiered 2024-07-29; final listed air date 2024-09-30; episode order: 10.
• Season 13: premiered 2025-09-15; final listed air date 2025-09-15; episode order: 10.
• Season 14: premiered 2026-08-03; final listed air date 2026-09-28; episode order: 10.
• Season 15: episode order: 3.

Source and licence

Adapted from Futurama on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.