Futurama (season 4)
The fourth production season of Futurama, an American science fiction animated television series consists of 18 episodes, which were shown for the first time from 10 February 2002 at the American broadcaster Fox. Fox not beamed the consequences but as a cohesive squadron, but distributed the episodes on the fourth and fifth broadcast season.
Individual episodes of this season were for three Emmys, two Annie Awards, a WGA Award and a Nebula Award nominated without winning one of the prizes.
Episodes
Overall, there is in this episode strong allusions to the double episode Starship Enterprise, Spock kidnapped in the Enterprise to bring Captain Pike by Talos IV.
Guest appearances
- Roseanne Barr Herself thick in Three hundred things
- Dan Castellaneta as the Robot Devil in the hands of the devil
- Jonathan Frakes Himself in The Last Trekki
- Al Gore Himself in The smelly Medal of pollution
- Lucy Liu Herself in Love and Rockets
- Nichelle Nichols Herself in The Last Trekki
- Leonard Nimoy Himself in The Last Trekki
- Bob Odenkirk as Chaz in Philip J. Fry: V.I.P.
- William Shatner Himself in The Last Trekki
- George Takei Himself in The Last Trekki
- Sigourney Weaver as the Planet Express ship in Love and Rockets
Publication
TV
On 10 February 2002 an episode of the third production season of Futurama ran with love and rockets for the first time on television. The U.S. network Fox, however, released the 18 episodes of this season are not contiguous. Three of them, he moved into the fourth broadcast season, otherwise composed of the episodes of the third production season. The remaining 15 episodes form the fifth broadcast season with an episode of the third production season. The first broadcast on Fox was irregular, the station showed the 16 episodes of the fifth broadcast season in a period of nine months.
Home Cinema
Futurama was released in the order and disposition of the production season on DVD and other storage media. The fourth production season was as Futurama: Volume Four available from 24 August, 2004 in the United States. She appeared in a box set of four DVDs, alternatively, from four VHS tapes. In later publications, the spelling changed in Futurama: Volume 4
Awards
Three episodes of this season were nominated for an Emmy, two of them in the category of Outstanding Animated Program ( For Programming Less Than One Hour ): 2003, the follow barking from the Stone Age, the year after the episode The stitch. In addition, Ken Keeler was proposed for 2004 The hands of the devil for an Emmy for Outstanding Music and Lyrics for the song I Want My Hands Back from the episode.
Two Annie Award nominations for episodes of this season also had no award result. Patric Verrone were nominated in the category of Writing in Animated Television Production for the script to the episode The stitch and again Ken Keeler in the category Music at in Animated Television Production for the music for the episode The hands of the devil. Keeler won the award though, but together with Alf Clausen and Ian Maxtone-Graham for the Simpsons episode on the family ranch.
The screenplay for The stitch Patric Verrone brought next to the Annie Award nomination and a nomination for the WGA Award in the Animation category one, also was David A. Goodman with the script for the last episode Trekki 2004 for the Nebula Award for Best Script category nominated.