he first season's 2003 tour visited over 200 North American theaters with occasional appearances from the producers (Mike and Don) and Q&A's with many of the award-winning filmmakers involved. The program included "everything from forgotten classics to the very latest in computer animation". This included many current Academy Award nominees, as well as the restoration of a 5 minute excerpt from Ward Kimball's 1957 Disney film, "Mars and Beyond". The tour concluded with the DVD release of Animation Show, Volume One. A second Animation Show toured throughout 2005, featuring Don Hertzfeldt's The Meaning of Life and new films by animators like Peter Cornwell and Georges Schwizgebel.
The third season of The Animation Show began its nationwide release in January 2007, featuring new work by animators Joanna Quinn, Mike Judge, and Bill Plympton, as well as Don Hertzfeldt's Everything Will Be OK.
The fourth season began April 25 in Austin, Texas and Columbus, Ohio.
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