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Broadcast wise, the first 9 episodes are considered part of broadcast season 1, while the remaining episodes of the production season are considered part of broadcast season 2, along with episodes from [[season 2]].
Broadcast wise, the first 9 episodes are considered part of broadcast season 1, while the remaining episodes of the production season are considered part of broadcast season 2, along with episodes from [[season 2]].
There are numerous references to [[starwars:Star Wars|Star Wars]] in this season listed [[Star_Wars_connections#Season_1|here]].


== Plot development ==
== Plot development ==

Revision as of 06:19, 1 February 2009

Season 1
Original run28 March, 1999 —
15 November, 1999
No. of episodes13
Special guestsSee here
On DVD(s)Volume One
Season 2 →
Episode listing
Seasons
  1. Season 1
  2. Season 2
  3. Season 3
  4. Season 4
  5. Season 5 (films)
  6. Season 6
  7. Season 7
  8. Season 8

Production Season 1 was the first season of Futurama during the original run. It consisted of 13 episodes, making it the shortest production season so far. It is also the only season to be aired exclusively before the year 2000.

Broadcast wise, the first 9 episodes are considered part of broadcast season 1, while the remaining episodes of the production season are considered part of broadcast season 2, along with episodes from season 2.

There are numerous references to Star Wars in this season listed here.

Plot development

Production season 1 deals with perhaps the most important plot development in entirety of Futurama, yet it only takes place during the cold opening of Space Pilot 3000. Philip J. Fry being frozen and waking up a thousand years later in 2999 sets the setting for the entire show.

Fry meets the people who are to become his closest friends, even if their friendship are largely complicated, Turanga Leela and Bender Bending Rodríguez. Luckily, he has a distant relative in the future, Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth, who owns a package delivery company, Planet Express. He gets a job there along with his newly found friends. And the setting for the rest of the show is placed.

In the following episode, we meet the rest of the regular cast, Amy Wong, Dr. John A. Zoidberg and Hermes Conrad.

Leela makes the mistake of sleeping with the famed captain Zapp Brannigan, but on a cruise on the Titanic, Amy manages to start a communication with Kif Kroker, something season 3 would later deal with. In addition to that, season 3 also picks up on Bender's dreams.

Production

Episodes

Title Original airdate
FOX
Production code TV Broadcast #
Space Pilot 3000 28 March, 1999 1ACV01 S01E01 1
The Series Has Landed 4 April, 1999 1ACV02 S01E02 2
I, Roommate 6 April, 1999 1ACV03 S01E03 3
Love's Labours Lost in Space 13 April, 1999 1ACV04 S01E04 4
Fear of a Bot Planet 20 April, 1999 1ACV05 S01E05 5
A Fishful of Dollars 27 April, 1999 1ACV06 S01E06 6
My Three Suns 4 May, 1999 1ACV07 S01E07 7
A Big Piece of Garbage 11 May, 1999 1ACV08 S01E08 8
Hell Is Other Robots 18 May, 1999 1ACV09 S01E09 9
A Flight to Remember 26 September, 1999 1ACV10 S02E01 10
Mars University 3 October, 1999 1ACV11 S02E02 11
When Aliens Attack 7 November, 1999 1ACV12 S02E03 12
Fry and the Slurm Factory 14 November, 1999 1ACV13 S02E04 13