Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

May. 28, 1995
Country:
Duration: 30 min/episode
Rated: TV-PG
Status: Ended

Seasons and episodes

6Season 6Jun. 15, 1999
5Season 5Jun. 17, 1998
4Season 4May. 09, 1997
3Season 3Oct. 06, 1996
2Season 2Oct. 15, 1995
1Season 1May. 28, 1995

Creator

Cast

H. Jon Benjamin
Ben Katz (voice)
Jonathan Katz
Dr. Katz (voice)
Laura Silverman
Laura the Receptionist (voice)

Synopsis

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist is an American animated series that originally ran on Comedy Central from May 28, 1995 to December 24, 1999—with a final set of three shelved episodes airing in 2002—starring Jonathan Katz, Jon Benjamin, and Laura Silverman. The show was created by a Burbank, California production company Popular Arts Entertainment, with Jonathan Katz and Tom Snyder, developed and first made by Popular Arts for HBO Downtown Productions. Boston-based Tom Snyder Productions became the hands-on production company, and the episodes were usually produced by Katz and Loren Bouchard. The show was computer animated in a crude, easily recognizable style produced with the software Squigglevision in which all persons and animate objects are colored and have constantly squiggling outlines, while most other inanimate objects are static and usually gray in color. The original challenge Popular Arts faced was how to repurpose recorded stand-up comedy material. To do so they based Dr. Katz's patients on stand-up comics for the first several episodes, simply having them recite their stand-up acts. The secondary challenge was how to affordably animate on cable TV at the time. Snyder had Squigglevision, an inexpensive means of getting animation on cable, which could not afford traditional animation processes. A partnership between Popular Arts, Tom Snyder Productions and Jonathan Katz was formed and Dr. Katz: Professional Therapist was born.

Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Original titleDr. Katz, Professional Therapist
First air dateMay. 28, 1995
Last air dateFeb. 03, 2002
Seasons6
Episodes81
IMDb Rating7.66 172 votes
TMDb Rating7.749 votes

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