LeVar Burton
Television

LeVar Burton

Section Title: Television
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Year	Title	Role	Notes

1976–1979	Rebop	Host

1977	Roots	Kunta Kinte	TV miniseries

1982	Trapper John, M.D.	Luther Peacock	Episode: "A Piece of the Action"

1983	Fantasy Island	Edward Ross Jr.	Episode: "Edward/The Extraordinary Miss Jones"

1983–2006	Reading Rainbow	Host	155 episodes

1984	The Love Boat	Darnell	Episode: "Love is Blind"

1987	Murder, She Wrote	Reporter Dave Robinson	Episode: "Death Take a Dive"

1987	Houston Knights	Jason Evans	Episode: "Bad Girl"

1987–1994	Star Trek: The Next Generation	Geordi La Forge	178 episodes

1990–1996	Captain Planet and the Planeteers	Kwame (voice)	113 episodes

1993	Batman the Animated Series	Hayden Sloane/Hatter Henchman (voice)	Episode: "The Worry Men"

1995	Christy	Daniel Scott	7 episodes

1995	Deadly Games	Mr. Metcalf	Episode: "The Boss"

1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Monk (voice)	Episode: "The Frog Prince"

1996	Gargoyles	Anansi	Episode: "Mark of the Panther"

1997	Pinky and the Brain	Murray	Episode: "The Real Life"

1998	Star Trek: Voyager	Captain Geordi LaForge	Episode: "Timeless"

1998	Mister Rogers' Neighborhood	Himself	Episode: "Giving and Receiving"

2000	Becker	Mr. Haller	Episode: "Beckerethics"

2003	Boomtown	Marvin Lloyd	Episode: "The Hole-in-the-Wall Gang"

2005–2009	Family Guy	Vern / Himself (voice)	Episodes: "Petarded" and "Not All Dogs Go to Heaven"

2009	The Super Hero Squad Show	War Machine (voice)	Episode: "Tales of Suspense"

2010	Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!	Ghost of LeVar Burton	Episode: "Greene Machine"

2010	The Jensen Project	Kendrick James	TV film (brokered programming from Procter & Gamble/Wal-Mart)

2011–2014	Community	Himself	Episodes: "Intermediate Documentary Filmmaking" and "Geothermal Escapism"

2011–2014	The Big Bang Theory	Himself	Episodes: "The Toast Derivation", "The Habitation Configuration" and "The Champagne Reflection"

2012	Face Off	Himself	Episode: "Alien Interpreters"

2012–present	Transformers: Rescue Bots	Doc Greene (voice)	26 episodes

2012–2015	Perception	Paul Haley	30 episodes

2013	Adventure Time	Bubble (voice)	Episode: "BMO Lost"

2014	Hell's Kitchen	Himself	Season 13 Episode 14: "5 Chefs Compete"

2016	Roots	Ephraim	Episode: "1 episode"

2017	OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes	Kwame (voice)	Episode: "The Power Is Yours"

2018	Explained	Himself (narrator)	Episode: "Extraterrestrial Life"

2019	NCIS: New Orleans	Rufus Nero	Episode: "X"

2019	Weird City	Dr. Negari	Episode: "The One"

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LeVar Burton made his acting debut in 1977 when he played Kunta Kinte in the series Roots.

final_sentence: LeVar Burton made his acting debut in 1977 when he played Kunta Kinte in the series Roots.