Topher Grace
Filmography -- Television
Table:
Year

Title

Role

Notes

1998–2006

That '70s Show

Eric Forman

179 episodes

2002

What's New, Scooby-Doo?

Guard 1 (voice)

Episode: "Space Ape at the Cape"

2003

King of the Hill

Chris (voice)

Episode: "Megalo Dale"

2005

Saturday Night Live

Himself / Host

Episode: "Topher Grace/The Killers"

2005

Stella

Older Kevin

Episode: "Paper Route"

2005

Robot Chicken

Eric Forman (voice)

Episode: "Gold Dust Gasoline"

2008

The Simpsons

Donny (voice)

Episode: "The Debarted"

2011

Too Big to Fail

Jim Wilkinson

Television film

2012

Comedy Bang! Bang!

Cameraman

Episode: "Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants"

2012

The Beauty Inside

Alex

6 episodes

2013

People in New Jersey

Carl Levin

Unsold pilot

2015

The Muppets

Himself

Episode: "Pilot"

2015

Drunk History

Milton Bradley

Episode: "Games"

2016

TripTank

Leonard (voice)

Episode: "Sick Day"

2017

Workaholics

Noel

Episode: "Weed the People"

2017

Get Shorty

Tyler Mathis

2 episodes

2019

Love, Death & Robots

Rob

Episode: "Ice Age"

2019

The Hot Zone

Dr. Peter Jahrling

6 episodes

2019

Black Mirror

Billy Bauer

Episode: "Smithereens"

Using the following table along with the article excerpts listed at the end.

Provide an answer to this question: How many episodes were in the show in which Topher Grace played Alex in 2012 ? Provide just your answer in a JSON object {"answer": "YOUR ANSWER"}. Use only the information given.

That '70s Show is an American television period sitcom that originally aired on Fox from August 23 , 1998 , to May 18 , 2006 . The series focuses on the lives of a group of six teenage friends living in fictional Point Place , Wisconsin , from May 17 , 1976 , to December 31 , 1979 . The main teenage cast members were Topher Grace , Mila Kunis , Ashton Kutcher , Danny Masterson , Laura Prepon and Wilmer Valderrama . The main adult cast members were Debra Jo Rupp , Kurtwood Smith , Don Stark , Tommy Chong and Tanya Roberts .
Eric Forman is a fictional character in Fox Network 's That '70s Show , portrayed by Topher Grace . Eric is based on the adolescence of show creator Mark Brazill . Most of the show takes place at the Formans ' home , particularly in the basement where he and his five friends hang out .
What 's New , Scooby-Doo ? is an American animated mystery comedy television series produced by Warner Bros . Animation for Kids ' WB ; it is the ninth incarnation of the Scooby-Doo franchise that began with Hanna-Barbera 's Scooby-Doo , Where Are You ! and the first of such since the previous incarnation , A Pup Named Scooby-Doo , ended in 1991 . The series revives the format of Scooby-Doo , Where Are You ! , in which the title character and his companions , Fred Jones ; Daphne Blake ; Velma Dinkley and Shaggy Rogers , travel to varying locations solving mysteries ; this format is modernized for What 's New , Scooby-Doo ? , in which the characters utilize technology that did not exist at the time Scooby-Doo , Where Are You ! first aired . It is the first television series in the franchise in which Frank Welker , Grey DeLisle and Mindy Cohn respectively portrayed the voices of Scooby-Doo , Daphne , and Velma , and where Casey Kasem made his comeback as Shaggy after seven years of not voicing the character and would also be the final Scooby-Doo series where he voices the character before his death in 2014 , though he would still do voice work in the two following incarnations , Shaggy & Scooby-Doo Get a Clue ! and Scooby Doo ! Mystery Incorporated . The series premiered on September 14 , 2002 , and ran for three seasons before ending on July 21 , 2006 . The title song was performed by Canadian band Simple Plan . Reruns of the series have aired on both Cartoon Network and Boomerang in the United States .
King of the Hill is an American adult animated sitcom created by Mike Judge and Greg Daniels for the Fox Broadcasting Company that ran from January 12 , 1997 , to May 6 , 2010 . It centers on the Hills , a middle-class American family in the fictional city of Arlen , Texas . Patriarch and main character Hank Hill , who works as assistant manager at Strickland Propane , is the everyman and general protagonist of the series . His modest conservative views and biases often clash with those of his wife , Peggy ; his son , Bobby ; his father , Cotton ; his niece , Luanne ; his boss , Buck Strickland ; and his neighbor , Kahn . Hank is friends with other residents on his block , especially Bill Dauterive , Dale Gribble , and Jeff Boomhauer , all of whom he has known since elementary school . It attempts to maintain a realistic approach , seeking humor in the conventional and mundane aspects of everyday life . Judge began creating King of the Hill during his time making the MTV series Beavis and Butt-Head , which he also created and voiced . After pitching the pilot to Fox , Judge was paired with Greg Daniels , an experienced writer who previously worked on The Simpsons . The series debuted on the Fox network as a mid-season replacement in 1997 , quickly becoming a hit . The series ' popularity led to worldwide syndication , and reruns aired on Adult Swim from 2009 until 2018 . Since July 24 , 2018 , reruns began airing on Comedy Central until 2019 . The show became one of Fox 's longest-running series .
Saturday Night Live ( known as SNL ) is an American late-night live television sketch comedy and variety show created by Lorne Michaels and developed by Dick Ebersol . The show premiered on NBC on October 11 , 1975 , under the original title NBC 's Saturday Night . The show 's comedy sketches , which often parody contemporary culture and politics , are performed by a large and varying cast of repertory and newer cast members . Each episode is hosted by a celebrity guest , who usually delivers the opening monologue and performs in sketches with the cast as with featured performances by a musical guest . An episode normally begins with a cold open sketch that ends with someone breaking character and proclaiming , Live from New York , it 's Saturday Night ! , properly beginning the show . In 1980 , Michaels left the series to explore other opportunities . He was replaced by Jean Doumanian , who was replaced by Ebersol after a season of bad reviews . Ebersol ran the show until 1985 . Since Michaels ' return he has held the job of show-runner . Many SNL cast members have found national stardom while appearing on the show , and achieved success in film and television , both in front of and behind the camera . Others associated with the show , such as writers , have gone on to successful careers creating , writing , and starring in television and film . Broadcast from Studio 8H at NBC 's headquarters in the Comcast Building at 30 Rockefeller Plaza , SNL has aired 884 episodes since its debut , and began its forty-fifth season on September 28 , 2019 , making it one of the longest-running network television programs in the United States .
Stella is a television series that originally ran from June 28 , 2005 to August 30 , 2005 on the American television channel Comedy Central , created by and starring Michael Ian Black , Michael Showalter , and David Wain , the three members of the sketch comedy troupe of the same name and former cast members of MTV 's The State . Stella , as a comedy troupe , has existed since 1997 . It has a cult following and plays to sold out shows across the United States . The show aired on Tuesdays at 10:30 PM , EST . In September , after 10 episodes , Stella 's timeslot was filled by Mind of Mencia . On March 8 , 2006 , the following message was posted on Stella 's official website : The STELLA series was on Comedy Central last summer . The network has officially decided not to renew it for a second season , thus effectively cancelling the series . The first season DVD was released on September 12 , 2006 . Episodes have also been available on iTunes and Hulu and some episodes on Joost . Stella premiered in Australia on The Comedy Channel on May 3 , 2007 .
Robot Chicken is an American stop motion sketch comedy television series , created and executive produced for Adult Swim by Seth Green and Matthew Senreich along with co-head writers Douglas Goldstein and Tom Root . The writers , especially Green , also provide many of the voices . Senreich , Goldstein , and Root were formerly writers for the popular action figure hobbyist magazine ToyFare . Robot Chicken has won an Annie Award and six Emmy Awards .
The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company . The series is a satirical depiction of working-class life , epitomized by the Simpson family , which consists of Homer , Marge , Bart , Lisa , and Maggie . The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture and society , television , and the human condition . The family was conceived by Groening shortly before a solicitation for a series of animated shorts with producer James L. Brooks . Groening created a dysfunctional family and named the characters after his own family members , substituting Bart for his own name . The shorts became a part of The Tracey Ullman Show on April 19 , 1987 . After three seasons , the sketch was developed into a half-hour prime time show and became Fox 's first series to land in the Top 30 ratings in a season ( 1989-90 ) . Since its debut on December 17 , 1989 , 674 episodes of The Simpsons have been broadcast . It is the longest-running American sitcom , and the longest-running American scripted primetime television series , both in terms of seasons and number of episodes . The Simpsons Movie , a feature-length film , was released in theaters worldwide on July 27 , 2007 , and grossed over $ 527 million . Then on October 30 , 2007 , a video game was released . The Simpsons was renewed on February 6 , 2019 for a thirty-first and thirty-second season .
The Debarted is the thirteenth episode of The Simpsons ' nineteenth season . It first aired on the Fox network in the United States on March 2 , 2008 , and features Topher Grace as guest star and a cameo by radio host Terry Gross . A new troublesome student named Donny arrives at Springfield Elementary School , prompting a gleeful Bart to befriend him as his partner in pranks . Meanwhile , Marge wrecks the family car , and Homer gets a new luxury vehicle as a loaner car , which he grows attached to . The episode is a parody of the 2006 film The Departed .
Too Big to Fail is an American biographical drama television film first broadcast on HBO on May 23 , 2011 based on Andrew Ross Sorkin 's non-fiction book Too Big to Fail : The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System - and Themselves ( 2009 ) . The film was directed by Curtis Hanson . It received 11 nominations at the 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards ; Paul Giamatti 's portrayal of Ben Bernanke earned him the Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie at the 18th Screen Actors Guild Awards .
James Richard Wilkinson was the Chief of Staff to Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson in the George W. Bush administration . He had previously served in the White House as Deputy Communications Director and as an aide to then National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice , and moved to the US State Department on her promotion to Secretary of State . Overall , Wilkinson was a well-traveled utility man for the Bush administration 's PR team . Wilkinson left politics after the global financial crisis , and now works in public relations . He served The Brunswick Group as a Managing Partner from January 2009 to April 2012 , when he joined PepsiCo as Executive Vice President of Communications . In 2011 , he was portrayed in the HBO film Too Big to Fail by actor Topher Grace . Jim Wilkinson currently serves as Chairman and CEO of TrailRunner International , as well as the Chairman of Mountain Lion Aviation , which is an airline based in Tahoe . He previously served as the Senior Vice President and Head of International Corporate Affairs for the Alibaba Group .
Comedy Bang ! Bang ! is a television series created and hosted by Scott Aukerman . The show aired weekly on IFC and was a spin-off of Aukerman 's podcast Comedy Bang ! Bang ! , which airs on the Earwolf network . Like the podcast , the series featured outlandish and farcical humor , often delivered in a deadpan manner . The mock talk show derived most of its comedy from its surreal spoofs of common late night tropes and from its characters ' ineptitude . Reggie Watts left Comedy Bang ! Bang ! halfway through the fourth season to become the bandleader for The Late Late Show with James Corden . Musician Kid Cudi took over bandleader and sidekick duties after Watts ' departure . The season four finale aired on December 10 , 2015 and was Cudi 's final episode .
The Beauty Inside is a 2012 social Internet series developed by Intel and Toshiba , Directed by Drake Doremus , written by Richard Greenberg , and starring Topher Grace , Mary Elizabeth Winstead , and Matthew Gray Gubler . The series is broken up into six filmed episodes interspersed with interactive storytelling that all takes place on the main character 's Facebook timeline . It 's Hollywood 's first social film that gives everyone in the audience a chance to play the lead role throughout the story . The Beauty Inside garnered 70 million views , won a Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approach to an Original Daytime Program or Series , the Grand Prix at the Cannes Lions Festival , two Webby Awards , and the Best Film/TV Award at the SXSW Interactive Awards .
The Muppets ( stylized as the muppets . ) is an American television comedy series that originally aired on ABC from September 22 , 2015 to March 1 , 2016 . Co-created by Bill Prady and Bob Kushell , the series was produced by ABC Studios and The Muppets Studio , with Randall Einhorn and Muppet performer Bill Barretta serving as executive producers alongside Prady and Kushell . On May 12 , 2016 , ABC canceled the series after one season . The series is set in Los Angeles and depicts the everyday personal and professional lives of The Muppets during production of Up Late with Miss Piggy , a fictional late-night talk show starring Miss Piggy airing on ABC after Jimmy Kimmel Live ! The Muppets serves as a parody of other mockumentary-style series , such as The Office , Modern Family , and Parks and Recreation by employing the same single-camera setup filming style with the implication of a documentary crew filming everyone . The series stars Muppet performers Steve Whitmire , Eric Jacobson , Dave Goelz , Bill Barretta , David Rudman , Matt Vogel , and Peter Linz in multiple roles .
Drunk History is an American educational television comedy series produced by Comedy Central , based on the Funny or Die web series created by Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner in 2007 , both of whom , along with Will Ferrell and Adam McKay , are the show 's executive producers . In each episode , an inebriated narrator , joined by host Waters , struggles to recount an event from history , while actors enact the narrator 's anecdotes and also lip sync the dialogue . In addition to Waters and celebrity guest stars , the show 's characters are played by regulars such as Bennie Arthur , Tim Baltz , Mort Burke , Sarah Burns , Maria Blasucci , Craig Cackowski , Michael Cassady , Michael Coleman , Tymberlee Hill , Adam Nee , Jeremy J. Tutson , Greg Tuculescu , J.T . Palmer and Aasha Davis . The series premiered on Comedy Central on July 9 , 2013 . On February 22 , 2018 , Comedy Central renewed the show for a sixth season , which premiered on January 15 , 2019 . A number of international versions have also been produced . On August 26 , 2019 , the series was renewed for a seventh season .
Milton Bradley ( November 8 , 1836 - May 30 , 1911 ) was an American business magnate , game pioneer and publisher , credited by many with launching the board game industry , with the Milton Bradley Company , which was purchased by Hasbro in 1984 .
TripTank is an American adult animated television series which premiered April 2 , 2014 on Comedy Central . The show is made up of various sketches , portrayed by multiple animation styles and writers . Although no direct correlation exists between the different stories , a continued theme of dark satire prevails throughout . Voicing talent includes Carlos Alazraqui , Bill Oakley , Wayne Brady , Bob Odenkirk , Curtis Armstrong , Nat Faxon , Tom Kenny , Rachel Butera , Larry David , Yotam Perel , Rob Yulfo , Zach Galifianakis , Kumail Nanjiani , Brett Gelman , Kyle Kinane , John DiMaggio , Duncan Trussell , Joey Diaz , among others . On July 18 , 2016 , the series was cancelled after two seasons .
Workaholics is an American television sitcom that originally ran on Comedy Central from April 6 , 2011 , to March 15 , 2017 , with a total of 86 episodes spanning seven seasons . The series is co-created and predominantly written by its stars Blake Anderson , Adam DeVine , and Anders Holm , as well as co-creator , most frequent director , and occasional co-star Kyle Newacheck . The series also stars Jillian Bell , Maribeth Monroe , and Erik Griffin . Anderson , DeVine , and Holm play three college dropouts who are roommates , friends and co-workers at a telemarketing company in Rancho Cucamonga , California .
Get Shorty is an American comedy-drama television series , based on the 1990 novel of the same name by Elmore Leonard , that premiered on August 13 , 2017 , on Epix . The series was created by Davey Holmes and stars Chris O'Dowd , Ray Romano , Sean Bridgers , Carolyn Dodd , Lidia Porto , Goya Robles , Megan Stevenson , Lucy Walters and Sarah Stiles . It has aired for three seasons , consisting of twenty seven episodes . In December 2018 it was renewed for a third season , which began airing on October 6 , 2019 . The series is the second adaptation of the novel , following the 1995 film of the same name . Unlike the film , the series does not use the plot or any of the characters from the novel , borrowing only its basic premise of a gangster who attempts to produce a film , as well as its darkly comedic tone . For that reason , the series has been described as more of an homage than an adaptation .
Love , Death & Robots ( stylized as LOVE DEATH + ROBOTS ) is an American adult animated science fiction anthology web television series on Netflix . The 18-episode first season was released on March 15 , 2019 . The series is produced by Joshua Donen , David Fincher , Jennifer Miller , and Tim Miller . Each episode was animated by different crews from a range of countries . The series is a re-imagining of Fincher and Miller 's long in-development reboot of the 1981 animated science fiction film Heavy Metal . The cast includes Mary Elizabeth Winstead , Gary Cole , Chris Parnell , Omid Abtahi , John DiMaggio , Christine Adams , Josh Brener , Jill Talley , Hakeem Kae-Kazim , Nolan North , Elaine Tan , Aaron Himelstein , Samira Wiley , Stefan Kapičić , and Topher Grace , with Grace and Winstead appearing in live-action roles , rather than animated . In June 2019 , Netflix renewed the series for a second season .
The Hot Zone is an American drama television miniseries , based on the 1994 non-fiction book of the same name by Richard Preston . Six episodes aired from May 27 to May 29 , 2019 , on National Geographic . The show is largely set in 1989 , and follows U.S Army scientist Nancy Jaax , DVM , ACVP , trying to stop a deadly outbreak of Ebola . Jaax , a Veterinary Pathologist , first identifies the Ebola virus after it appears in monkeys in a research lab in the suburbs of Washington , D.C . There is no known cure , and Jaax has put her life on the line to head off an outbreak before it spreads to the human population .
Black Mirror is a British science fiction anthology television series created by Charlie Brooker . He and Annabel Jones serve as the programme 's showrunners . It examines modern society , particularly with regard to the unanticipated consequences of new technologies . Episodes are standalone , usually set in an alternative present or the near future , often with a dark and satirical tone , although some are more experimental and lighter . Black Mirror was inspired by older anthology series , such as The Twilight Zone , which Brooker felt were able to deal with controversial , contemporary topics with less fear of censorship than other more realistic programmes . Brooker developed Black Mirror to highlight topics related to humanity 's relationship with technology , creating stories that feature the way we live now - and the way we might be living in 10 minutes ' time if we 're clumsy . The series premiered for two series on the British television channel Channel 4 in December 2011 and February 2013 . After its addition to the catalogue in December 2014 , Netflix purchased the programme in September 2015 . It commissioned a series of 12 episodes later divided into the third and fourth series , each comprising six episodes ; the former was released on 21 October 2016 and the latter on 29 December 2017 . A standalone interactive film titled Black Mirror : Bandersnatch was released on 28 December 2018 . A fifth series , comprising three episodes , was released on 5 June 2019 . The series has garnered positive reception from critics , received many awards and nominations , and seen an increase in interest internationally , particularly in the United States after its addition to Netflix .
Smithereens is the second episode of the fifth series of the anthology series Black Mirror . It was written by Charlie Brooker and directed by James Hawes . The episode was released on Netflix , along with the rest of series 5 , on 5 June 2019 . It stars Andrew Scott , Damson Idris , and Topher Grace . In the episode , a rideshare driver takes an employee of Smithereen , a large social media company , hostage . Unlike most other episodes , Brooker wanted Smithereens to not rely on near-future technology as a reminder that Black Mirror is not solely a science fiction show ; rather , the episode is largely a parable on the overactive usage of social media sites and how they distract society from the real world .