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Overview

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.

  1. Jonathan Katz

    Creator

Series Cast

  1. Jonathan Katz as Dr. Katz (voice)

    Jonathan Katz

    Dr. Katz (voice)

    81 Episodes

  2. H. Jon Benjamin as Ben Katz (voice)

    H. Jon Benjamin

    Ben Katz (voice)

    81 Episodes

  3. Laura Silverman as Laura the Receptionist (voice)

    Laura Silverman

    Laura the Receptionist (voice)

    81 Episodes

  4. Julianne Bond

    Julie the Bartender (voice)

    81 Episodes

  5. Will LeBow

    Stanley (voice)

    81 Episodes

  6. Ray Romano as

    Ray Romano

    7 Episodes

  7. Dom Irrera as

    Dom Irrera

    3 Episodes

  8. Mitch Hedberg as

    Mitch Hedberg

    2 Episodes

  9. Kathy Griffin as

    Kathy Griffin

    2 Episodes

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Last Season

Season 6

1999 • 18 Episodes

Season 6 of Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist premiered on June 15, 1999.

Lerapy

(6x18, February 3, 2002) Season Finale

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Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist
Dr. Katz, Professional Therapist

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Status Ended

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Type Scripted

Original Language English

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