Garfield and Friends: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

An animated television series based on the life's work of comic strip artist Jim Davis. It was a very long running Saturday morning cartoon, second to The Smurfs. Garfield & Friends contains Garfield, as well as a bonus adaptation of U.S. Acres, which is another newspaper comic about Jon Arbuckle's family farm that was published for a few years. Garfield also had several television specials made, and produced by the same crew that did Charlie Brown & Snoopy. Garfield & Friends also adapted the non-arc strips into animation, now known as "Quickies". No other Saturday Morning Cartoon has been as successful since then, because in 1993 inflation negatively impacted them. The production staff openly protested against the budget cuts by adding a very bossy U.S. Acres character named Aloysius whose purpose is to get in everybody's way. One of Garfield's theme songs promises plenty of parties and propelling pie projectiles.

Series details

• Title: Garfield and Friends
• Format: Animation
• Language: English
• Genres: Children
• Premiere date: 1988-09-17
• Final broadcast date listed: 1994-12-10
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: CBS
• Network country: United States
• Typical episode runtime: 30 minutes
• TVmaze community rating: 7.9/10
• TVMaze ID: 6452
• IMDb ID: tt0094469
• TVDB ID: 77054

Cast and credited roles

• Lorenzo Music — Garfield

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 1988-09-17; final listed air date 1988-12-10; episode order: 39.
• Season 2: premiered 1989-09-16; final listed air date 1989-12-16; episode order: 78.
• Season 3: premiered 1990-09-15; final listed air date 1990-11-24; episode order: 54.
• Season 4: premiered 1991-09-14; final listed air date 1991-11-09; episode order: 48.
• Season 5: premiered 1992-09-19; final listed air date 1992-11-07; episode order: 51.
• Season 6: premiered 1993-09-18; final listed air date 1993-11-06; episode order: 48.
• Season 7: premiered 1994-09-17; final listed air date 1994-12-10; episode order: 48.

Source and licence

Adapted from Garfield and Friends 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.