Editing Garfield and Friends (section)

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''[[Garfield]]'' is an American comic strip created by [[Jim Davis (cartoonist)|Jim Davis]] and started in 1978. The comic strip was first adapted into animated form in 1980 for the special ''The Fantastic Funnies'', but reached a wider audience in 1982 with the television movie ''[[Here Comes Garfield]]'' on [[CBS]].<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Hoffmann |first1=Frank |title=Fashion & Merchandising Fads |last2=Ramirez |first2=Beulah B |date=1994 |publisher=Routledge |page=96}}</ref> ''Garfield'' was adapted into eleven more television movies for the network, ending with ''[[Garfield Gets a Life]]'' in 1991. ''Garfield and Friends'' was also made for CBS, and debuted on the network in 1988. The network first announced in April 1988 that the show would be joining the network's [[Saturday morning cartoon]] lineup alongside ''[[The Adventures of Raggedy Ann and Andy]]'' and ''[[Superman (TV series)|Superman]]''.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Kubasik |first=Ben |date=April 23, 1988 |title=TV Spots |url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/277980465 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230301181355/https://www.proquest.com/docview/277980465 |archive-date=2023-03-01 |access-date=2022-05-29 |publisher=[[Newsday]] |id={{ProQuest|277980465}}}}</ref>

For most of its original run, ''Garfield and Friends'' was broadcast in a full-hour block.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989%E2%80%9390_United_States_network_television_schedule_(daytime) | title=1989–90 United States network television schedule (Daytime) - Wikipedia }}</ref>{{Circular reference|date=February 2025}} These episodes were later split into half-hour blocks for reruns, syndication, and home video. Each half-hour episode of the show typically consists of two segments adapted from ''Garfield'' and one adapted from ''[[U.S. Acres]]'', a comic strip also created by Davis which began in 1986.<ref name="Perlmutter">{{Cite book |last=Perlmutter |first=David |title=The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows |date=2018 |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield |isbn=978-1538103739 |pages=228–230}}</ref> These segments featured original story lines written using the characters from each strip, although both segments featured original characters not present in the source material as well. Nearly every episode of the show was written or co-written by [[Mark Evanier]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Doup |first=Liz |date=June 17, 1998 |title=Fat Cat Garfield Celebrates 20 Years of Feline Follies |pages=1D, 2D |work=[[The Miami Herald]] |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/642236006/ |url-status=live |access-date=2022-05-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529220306/https://www.newspapers.com/image/642236006/ |archive-date=2022-05-29 |via=[[Newspapers.com]]}}</ref>