Season 1

From the desk

How this season is filed

Filed by Julian Hart · The Binge Brief

Fox’s yellow family is not a sitcom you finish. It is a reference language still adding pages while the country litigates whether the golden age is over.

TV Flash files Season 1 of The Simpsons (1989–present) on Fox as the first listed season of 38 — 13 listed hours, 1989-12-17–1990-05-13 from “Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire” (S01E01) to “Some Enchanted Evening” (S01E13). Broadcast log — titles and dates, not a plot bible.

Desk essentials in this season

1. S01E01 Simpsons Roasting on an Open Fire

   The Christmas premiere as thesis: pathos, panic, and a family already too expensive for the joke that will outlive them.