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''
American Dad!'' is an American
animated sitcom
An animated sitcom is a subgenre of the sitcom that is animated instead of live action and is generally made or created for adult audiences in most cases. ''SpongeBob SquarePants'', ''The Simpsons'', ''South Park'', and ''Family Guy'' are four of ...
created by
Seth MacFarlane,
Mike Barker, and
Matt Weitzman
Matt Weitzman (born November 13, 1967)
is an American producer and writer. He was one of the creators of '' American Dad!'' along with Seth MacFarlane and Mike Barker. Barker and Weitzman were originally writers for '' Family Guy''.
Weitzman ...
that debuted on February 6, 2005 for the
Fox Broadcasting Company
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. Set in the fictional town of Langley Falls, Virginia, the series centers on the eccentric Smith family. The Smith family consists of title character
Stan,
Francine
:''This is a disambiguation page for the common name Francine.''
Francine is a female given name. The name is of French origin. The name Francine was most popular in France itself during the 1940s (Besnard & Desplanques 2003), and was well used i ...
,
Hayley
Hayley (pronounced ) is an English given name.
It is derived from the English surname Haley (surname), Haley, which in turn was based on an Old English toponym, a compound of ''heg'' "hay" and ''leah'' "clearing or meadow".Katie Martin-Doyle, '' ...
,
Steve,
Roger
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(an
alien
Alien primarily refers to:
* Alien (law), a person in a country who is not a national of that country
** Enemy alien, the above in times of war
* Extraterrestrial life, life which does not originate from Earth
** Specifically, intelligent extrater ...
whom Stan has rescued from government capture and harbors in the family's attic),
Jeff Fischer Jeff Fischer may refer to:
*Jeff Fischer (baseball)
Jeffrey Thomas Fischer (born August 17, 1963) is a former pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in 6 games for the Montreal Expos and Los Angeles Dodgers in the 1987 and 1989 seasons.
F ...
(Hayley's boyfriend, now husband), and
Klaus
Klaus is a German, Dutch and Scandinavian given name and surname. It originated as a short form of Nikolaus, a German form of the Greek given name Nicholas.
Notable persons whose family name is Klaus
* Billy Klaus (1928–2006), American base ...
(the family's pet who is really an
East German
East Germany, officially the German Democratic Republic (GDR; german: Deutsche Demokratische Republik, , DDR, ), was a country that existed from its creation on 7 October 1949 until its dissolution on 3 October 1990. In these years the state ...
man trapped by the CIA in a fish's body).
The series'
11th season was its final season to air on Fox. The show moved to the cable network
TBS beginning with the 12th season. On January 15, 2020, the show was renewed for seasons 18 and 19. The 19th season premiered on January 24, 2022. On December 16, 2021, the series was renewed for seasons 20 and 21. The 20th season is scheduled to premiere on March 27, 2023.
Some sources disagree with the season numbering given here on Wikipedia. For details, see
Season number discrepancies.
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Series overview
Episode list
Season 1 (2005)
Season 2 (2005–06)
Season 3 (2006–07)
Season 4 (2007–08)
Season 5 (2008–09)
Season 6 (2009–10)
This is the first season of ''American Dad!'' to be broadcast in High Definition starting with the 5AJNxx production line (Episode 10) in midseason 2010.
Season 7 (2010–11)
Season 8 (2011–12)
Season 9 (2012–13)
Season 10 (2013–14)
Season 11 (2014)
Season 12 (2014–15)
Season 13 (2016)
Season 14 (2016–17)
Season 15 (2017–19)
Season 16 (2019–20)
Season 17 (2020)
Season 18 (2021)
Season 19 (2022)
Season 20 (2023)
Notes
References
;General references
*
External links
''American Dad!''at TBS.com
*
' at AdultSwim.com
*
epguides.com American Dad! list of episodes
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