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 "markdown": "# Decker\n\n**Decker** is an American live-action comedy series created by [Tim Heidecker](https://www.edgepedia.org/tim-heidecker) and Gregg Turkington for Adult Swim, a parody of action films and spy dramas built around Special Agent Jack Decker, who defends the United States from terrorist plots while an ineffectual president looks on.<sup>[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)</sup> It began as a web series on AdultSwim.com on July 17, 2014, ran for three seasons online, and moved to the [Adult Swim](https://www.edgepedia.org/adult-swim) television block on June 17, 2016.<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)</sup> The show is an offshoot of the movie-review satire *On Cinema at the Cinema*, in which Heidecker's host character announces, produces, and stars in the Decker films as an in-universe project.<sup>[4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[5](https://oncinema.wiki/decker)</sup>\n\n| Key fact | Detail |\n|---|---|\n| Created by | Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington; produced by Abso Lutely Productions<sup>[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[6](https://toonamisquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Turner-Adult-Swim-Continues-to-Capture-Millennial-Audiences-With-Multi-Platform-Programming-Slate-2016-05-12.pdf)</sup> |\n| First aired | July 17, 2014, on AdultSwim.com; moved to the Adult Swim TV block June 17, 2016<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)</sup> |\n| Premise | CIA special agent Jack Decker, with codebreaker Special Agent Kington, foils terrorist plots against the United States despite a timid President Davidson<sup>[2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)</sup> |\n| Seasons | Six named seasons from *Decker: Classified* (2014, 5 episodes) to *Decker: Mindwipe* (2017, 6 episodes)<sup>[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide)</sup> |\n| Main cast | Tim Heidecker (Jack Decker), Gregg Turkington (Special Agent Kington), Joe Estevez (President Davidson), Mark Proksch (Abdul), James Mane Jr. (Lanoi Arnold)<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup> |\n| Style | Intentionally poor production values, flubbed line readings, and low-rent effects in service of satire of the action genre<sup>[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker)</sup> |\n| Rating | TV-14<sup>[8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker)</sup> |\n\n## Spoilers\n\n### Seasons\n\nThe series is organized into six named seasons, each treated in-universe as a film or \"book\":<sup>[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[13](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/seasons)</sup>\n\n1. **Decker: Classified** (2014), 5 episodes, aired weekly from July 17 to August 14, 2014, following Decker's response to a terrorist nuclear threat.<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[14](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3908868/episodes/)</sup>\n2. **Decker: Port of Call: Hawaii** (2015), 20 episodes, aired nearly daily from March 9 to April 3, 2015, catching up with Decker on a Hawaiian vacation interrupted by a Taliban takeover of the islands.<sup>[15](https://www.fernsehserien.de/decker/episodenguide)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[11](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/)</sup>\n3. **Gregg Turkington's Decker vs. Dracula** (2015), 4 episodes, aired October 12 to 15, 2015, in which Decker confronts Dracula and Kington travels to [Transylvania](https://www.edgepedia.org/transylvania).<sup>[16](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker/allseasons/official)</sup>\n4. **Decker: Unclassified** (2016), 6 episodes, the first season on the Adult Swim television block, premiering June 17, 2016.<sup>[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)</sup>\n5. **Decker: Unsealed** (2017), 6 episodes, in which President Davidson Jr. recounts Jack Decker's adventures to his son and protégé, Jack Decker Jr.<sup>[17](https://www.directv.com/guide/tv-shows/Decker%3A-Unsealed-cf690f44-c2f3-8e97-e76e-c9946665cc81)</sup>\n6. **Decker: Mindwipe** (2017), 6 episodes, ending with the season finale on August 20, 2017.<sup>[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[18](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker)</sup>\n\nBeyond the regular seasons, Adult Swim aired specials including *The Animated Adventures of Jack Decker* pilot on July 4, 2020.<sup>[19](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/decker/seasons/official/0)</sup>\n\n## Origins in On Cinema\n\nThe character grew out of *On Cinema at the Cinema*, the web series Heidecker and Turkington launched in 2012, in which Heidecker plays a hypocritical, right-wing film buff and Turkington an earnest one.<sup>[9](https://www.avclub.com/tim-heidecker-on-the-world-of-film-criticism-real-and-1798277326)</sup> Within that show, Heidecker's character announced during its fourth season that he was producing, writing, directing, and financing his own action film, titled *Decker*, shooting in late 2013 and early 2014.<sup>[5](https://oncinema.wiki/decker)</sup> The resulting series premiered as a web series on Adult Swim on July 17, 2014.<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup>\n\nHeidecker has described the character as a [Jack Bauer](https://www.edgepedia.org/jack-bauer)-like super-spy with little depth, \"pretty much a 'what you see is what you get' kind of guy,\" and said the first television season, *Decker: Unclassified*, had more budget and production behind it than the web episodes.<sup>[10](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-heidecker-adult-swim-actually-asks-us-to-get-weirder/)</sup>\n\n## Format and style\n\nThe series is characterized by intentionally poor production: comedic effects that fail to convince, wooden and flubbed performances, and dense continuity errors played for laughs.<sup>[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[11](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/)</sup> Writing in *Film Comment*, critic Nick Pinkerton described the first-season finale, in which Decker overpowers a suicide bomber named Abdul (played by [Mark Proksch](https://www.edgepedia.org/mark-proksch)) and throws the explosive into the sky, where it explodes into the pattern of an American flag firework superimposed over a stock aerial photo of [Central Park](https://www.edgepedia.org/central-park) bearing a prominent watermark.<sup>[11](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/)</sup>\n\nEpisode length varied by era. The first web episodes ran three to four minutes,<sup>[12](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/episodeguide)</sup> while TheTVDB lists an average runtime of 15 minutes for the series<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup> and [JustWatch](https://www.edgepedia.org/justwatch) lists 8 minutes.<sup>[8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker)</sup> Common Sense Media notes that beneath the broad comedy the show carries a critique of political extremism and pop culture's glorification of violence.<sup>[4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker)</sup>\n\n## Cast\n\nTim Heidecker stars as Special Agent Jack Decker and [Gregg Turkington](https://www.edgepedia.org/gregg-turkington) as Special Agent Jonathan Kington, a master code breaker; [Joe Estevez](https://www.edgepedia.org/joe-estevez) plays President Davidson (and later President Davidson Jr.), with [Sally Kellerman](https://www.edgepedia.org/sally-kellerman) as First Lady Janet Davidson and Ralph Lucas as James Dean / Dracula.<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[17](https://www.directv.com/guide/tv-shows/Decker%3A-Unsealed-cf690f44-c2f3-8e97-e76e-c9946665cc81)</sup> Other performers across the run include Mark Proksch, James Mane Jr., John Aprea, Jimmy McNichol, and Rizi Timane.<sup>[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)</sup>\n\n## Availability\n\nIn the United States the series streams on [YouTube TV](https://www.edgepedia.org/youtube-tv) and free with ads on Adult Swim, and can be purchased digitally on Amazon Video, the Apple TV Store, and Fandango At Home.<sup>[8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker)</sup>\n\n## A different show with a similar name\n\n**R.J. Decker** is a separate ABC crime drama starring [Scott Speedman](https://www.edgepedia.org/scott-speedman) as an ex-con newspaper photographer turned private investigator in [South Florida](https://www.edgepedia.org/south-florida), adapted from [Carl Hiaasen](https://www.edgepedia.org/carl-hiaasen)'s 1987 novel *Double Whammy*. It premiered March 3, 2026, at 10 p.m. ET on ABC, with next-day streaming on Hulu and Hulu on Disney+.<sup>[20](https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/streaming/watch-rj-decker-online)</sup><sup> • </sup><sup>[21](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/scott-speedman-crime-drama-rj-decker-full-murder-critics-describing-it-surprising-ways)</sup> It is unrelated to the Adult Swim parody.\n\n## References\n\n1. [Decker, [adult swim] wiki, Fandom](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker)\n2. [Decker TV Show on Adult Swim (Cancelled or Renewed?), TV Series Finale](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)\n3. [Decker, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)\n4. [Decker – Parents' Guide & TV Review, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker)\n5. [Decker, On Cinema Wiki](https://oncinema.wiki/decker)\n6. [Turner/Adult Swim multi-platform programming slate press release, May 12, 2016](https://toonamisquad.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Turner-Adult-Swim-Continues-to-Capture-Millennial-Audiences-With-Multi-Platform-Programming-Slate-2016-05-12.pdf)\n7. [Decker Episode Guide, Watchmode](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide)\n8. [Decker – watch tv show streaming online, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker)\n9. [Tim Heidecker on the world of film criticism, real and satirical, The A.V. Club](https://www.avclub.com/tim-heidecker-on-the-world-of-film-criticism-real-and-1798277326)\n10. [Tim Heidecker: Adult Swim actually asks us to get weirder, CBS News](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-heidecker-adult-swim-actually-asks-us-to-get-weirder/)\n11. [Bombast: Decker, Film Comment (Nick Pinkerton)](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/)\n12. [Decker – Episode Guide, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/episodeguide)\n13. [Decker – Seasons, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/seasons)\n14. [Decker (TV Series 2014–2017) – Episode list, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3908868/episodes/)\n15. [Decker Episodenguide, fernsehserien.de](https://www.fernsehserien.de/decker/episodenguide)\n16. [Decker – Aired Order – All Seasons, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker/allseasons/official)\n17. [Watch Decker: Unsealed Online, DIRECTV](https://www.directv.com/guide/tv-shows/Decker%3A-Unsealed-cf690f44-c2f3-8e97-e76e-c9946665cc81)\n18. [Decker, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker)\n19. [Decker – Specials, TheTVDB.com](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/decker/seasons/official/0)\n20. [How to watch 'RJ Decker' online from anywhere, Tom's Guide](https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/streaming/watch-rj-decker-online)\n21. [Scott Speedman's New Crime Drama RJ Decker, CinemaBlend](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/scott-speedman-crime-drama-rj-decker-full-murder-critics-describing-it-surprising-ways)\n\n---\n*Topic: Encyclopedia › Arts and culture › Screen and stage › Film and television › Series and fictional screen worlds › Unscripted, reality, and web-native series › Web-native and streaming-original series › Comedy, drama, and general-genre web series › Premiered 1999 to 2016*\n\n*Initially written Oct 3, 2026 · Reviewed: Oct 25, 2026 · Edited: Oct 15, 2026; Oct 25, 2026; Nov 1, 2026 · Last review: Oct 25, 2026*\n\n*Copyright 2026 EdgeChat AI, a subsidiary of Biostate AI.*\n\nLicense: Edgepedia Community License 1.0, https://www.edgepedia.org/edgepedia/license\n",
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