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This article is from the The Simpsons FAQ, by Ondre Lombard wakkojr@nospam.wcat.com and Andrew Gill superluser@mail.rit.edu with numerous contributions by
others.
02 "The Simpsons" Basic History
"The Simpsons" is an animated television series produced by Gracie Films
for Twentieth Century Fox and the Fox Network. It began as a series of
interstitals (also called bumpers or shorts) for "The Tracey Ullman Show" on
April 19, 1987, and premiered as a series on December 17, 1989 in the 8PM time
slot. Regular broadcasts began on Sundays beginning January 14, 1990. Seasons
Two, Three, Four, and Five were broadcast by Fox on Thursday nights in the 8PM
slot, before returning to Sunday nights beginning with Season Six. For a brief
while, "Classic Simpsons" was running, beginning at 7 pm to lead the failed
block of comedy Fox scheduled for Winter of 1995.
Seasons One, Two, and Three were animated by Klasky-Csupo (pronounced
"CLASS-key CHOOP-oh"), who also worked on "The Tracey Ullman Show" bumpers.
Subsequent seasons have been animated by Film Roman, with in-between work being
done for both animation houses by Akom Production Company, Anivision, and Rough
Draft Studios in Korea.
The Simpson family was created in ~15 minutes while Matt Groening waited
in the foyer to Brooks' office, a long-standing legend confirmed in the Oprah
Winfrey Interview by Groening himself.
Production on The Simpsons as a series began in April 1989.
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