Garfield and Friends

Garfield and Friends
Promotional picture for Garfield and Friends, showing most of the show's primary characters (clockwise from bottom-left: Sheldon, Wade, Orson, Odie, Garfield, Roy and Booker)
Genre	Comedy Animated sitcom Slapstick
Created by	Jim Davis
Based on	Garfield and U.S. Acres by Jim Davis
Written by	Mark Evanier[1] Sharman DiVono[2]
Directed by	Jeff Hall (1989–1991) Tom Ray (1989–1990) Dave Brain (1992–1994) Vincent Davis (1991–1994) Ron Myrick
Starring	Lorenzo Music as the voice of Garfield
Voices of	Gregg Berger Thom Huge Desirée Goyette Howard Morris Frank Welker Julie Payne
Opening theme	"Friends Are There" (seasons 1–2) "We're Ready to Party" (seasons 3–7)
Composers	Ed Bogas Desirée Goyette
Country of origin	United States
Original language	English
No. of seasons	7
No. of episodes	121 (363 segments) (list of episodes)
Production
Executive producers	Jim Davis (Seasons 4–7) Lee Mendelson (Seasons 4–7) Phil Roman
Producers	George Singer (Seasons 1–2) Mitch Schauer (Season 2) Bob Curtis (Seasons 2–3) Bob Nesler (Seasons 3–4) Vincent Davis (Seasons 4–7)
Production locations	Woodland Hills, California Chicago Muncie, Indiana
Running time	approx. 22 minutes
Production companies	Film Roman United Media Productions Paws, Inc. Lee Mendelson Film Productions
Original release
Network	CBS
Release	September 17, 1988 (1988-09-17) – December 10, 1994 (1994-12-10)
Related
The Garfield Show Garfield Originals
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Garfield and Friends is an American animated television series based on the comic strip Garfield by Jim Davis. The show aired on CBS as part of its Saturday morning children's lineup from September 17, 1988 to December 10, 1994.

The show features animated story lines adapted from the comic strip Garfield and Davis's other comic strip U.S. Acres. Mark Evanier was the show's head writer. Lorenzo Music provided the voice of Garfield the cat, the strip's title character, as he had done since Here Comes Garfield in 1982. Other voices present on the show included Thom Huge as Jon Arbuckle,^[3] Garfield's human owner, and Gregg Berger as Odie the dog. Berger and Huge also respectively voiced Orson Pig and Roy Rooster in the U.S. Acres segments. 121 episodes were made, each consisting of two Garfield segments and one U.S. Acres segment and a "Garfield Quickie" at the end. All episodes have been released in the U.S. on five DVD sets by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment.