Episode
Futurama: Roswell That Ends Well
Overview
A spacetime accident leaves the Planet Express crew stranded in Roswell, New Mexico in the year 1947, where a shattered Bender is mistaken for UFO debris and Zoidberg is captured as an alien specimen. Leela and the professor work to get everybody home, while Fry tries to keep his accident-prone grandfather alive.
Details
- Series
- Futurama
- Season
- Season 4
- Episode
- Episode 1
- Air date
- 2001-12-09
- Runtime
- 22 min
Episode context
Roswell That Ends Well is Episode 1 in Season 4 of Futurama. It aired on 2001-12-09. The runtime is 22 min.
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