Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
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Created by | Michael Ouweleen Erik Richter |
Network | Adult Swim (Cartoon Network) |
Production company | Williams Street Allie Art & Science |
Distributor | Warner Bros. Television |
Original release | December 30, 2000-July 22, 2007 |
Run time | 11-12 minutes |
Starring | Gary Cole Stephen Colbert Thomas Allen John Michael Higgins Peter MacNicol |
Producer(s) | Matthew Charde Jeffrey Goldstein Fred Macdonald Franny Reynolds Brandi Young |
Music composed by | Michael Kohler |
Writer(s) | Michael Ouweleen Erik Richter |
Director(s) | Vincent Waller Richard Ferguson-Hull |
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Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law is an adult animated superhero/courtroom drama spoof TV series produced by Williams Street and Allied Art & Science for Cartoon Network's late-night programming block, Adult Swim. It ran from 2000 to 2007, airing 39 episodes.
The series is a spin-off spoof of the more kid-friendly Hanna-Barbera series from the 1950s-80s, with Birdman from Birdman and the Galaxy Trio as a starting point, who has gone from fighting crime as a superhero to serving justice in a courtroom, representing the law firm Sebben & Sebben, with the staff mostly comprised of the heroes of Birdman, and rivals are made up of past villains. Birdman's clientele is made up of usually warped stars from Hanna-Barbera series that either predate or came after Birdman. The primary object of this is to poke fun at the adult innuendos in Hanna-Barbera's many shows that were usually aired in Saturday morning blocks for children.
Eleven years later in 2018, Adult Swim broadcast the special, Harvey Birdman: Attorney General, and then had a spin-off commissioned in the form of Birdgirl.
Production
Development
Music
The music is composed by Michael Kohler at Bluetube.
Episodes
Episode | Number | Air date |
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"Bannon Custody Battle" | 1x01 | December 30, 2000 (preview) September 2, 2001 |
"Very Personal Injury" | 1x02 | September 23, 2001 |
"Shaggy Busted" | 1x03 | July 7, 2002 |
"Death by Chocolate" | 1x04 | July 14, 2002 |
"Shoyu Weenie" | 1x05 | July 21, 2002 |
"The Dabba Don" | 1x06 | July 28, 2002 |
"Deadomutt Part 1" | 1x07 | May 25, 2003 |
"Deadomutt Part 2" | 1x08 | June 1, 2003 |
"X, the Exterminator" | 1x09 | June 8, 2003 |
"SPF" | 2x01 | January 1, 2004 |
"Trio's Company" | 2x02 | April 18, 2004 |
"The Devlin Made Me Do It" | 2x03 | April 25, 2004 |
"High Speed Buggy Chase" | 2x04 | May 2, 2004 |
"Back to the Present" | 2x05 | May 9, 2004 |
"Blackwatch Plaid" | 2x06 | May 16, 2004 |
"Grape Juiced" | 2x07 | May 30, 2004 |
"Peanut Puberty" | 2x08 | June 6, 2004 |
"Gone Efficien...t" | 2x09 | June 13, 2004 |
"Droopy Botox" | 2x10 | July 18, 2004 |
"Guitar Control" | 2x11 | November 2, 2004 |
"Booty Noir" | 3x01 | July 24, 2005 |
"Harvey's Civvy" | 3x02 | July 31, 2005 |
"X Gets the Crest" | 3x03 | August 7, 2005 |
"Bird Girl of Guantanamole" | 3x04 | August 14, 2005 |
"Turner Classic Birdman" | 3x05 | August 21, 2005 |
"Beyond the Valley of the Dinosaurs" | 3x06 | August 28, 2005 |
"Evolutionary War" | 3x07 | September 4, 2005 |
"Free Magilla" | 3x08 | September 11, 2005 |
"Return of Birdgirl" | 3x09 | September 18, 2005 |
"Mindless" | 3x10 | September 25, 2005 |
"Sebben and Sebben Employee Operation" | 3x11 | October 16, 2005 |
"Identity Theft" | 3x12 | October 23, 2005 |
"Shazzan" | 4x01 | October 1, 2006 |
"Incredible Hippo" | 4x02 | October 8, 2006 |
"Babysitter" | 4x03 | October 15, 2006 |
"Birdnapped" | 4x04 | October 22, 2006 |
"Grodin" | 4x05 | October 29, 2006 |
"Juror in Court" | 4x06 | July 15, 2007 |
"The Death of Harvey" | 4x07 | July 22, 2007 |
Cast
- Gary Cole as Harvey Birdman and Judge Mightor
- Stephen Colbert as Phil Ken Sebben and Myron Reducto
- Thomas Allen as Peanut
- John Michael Higgins as Judge Mentok
- Peter MacNicol as X the Eliminator
Harvey Birdman, Junior Associate
For April Fools Day 2021, Adult Swim advertised they would be making regressed versions of their cartoons, such as Harvey Birdman, Junior Associate.