# Decker
**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.[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker) • [2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/) 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.[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker) • [2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/) 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.[4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker) • [5](https://oncinema.wiki/decker)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Created by | Tim Heidecker and Gregg Turkington; produced by Abso Lutely Productions[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker) • [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) |
| First aired | July 17, 2014, on AdultSwim.com; moved to the Adult Swim TV block June 17, 2016[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker) • [2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/) |
| Premise | CIA special agent Jack Decker, with codebreaker Special Agent Kington, foils terrorist plots against the United States despite a timid President Davidson[2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/) |
| Seasons | Six named seasons from *Decker: Classified* (2014, 5 episodes) to *Decker: Mindwipe* (2017, 6 episodes)[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide) |
| Main cast | Tim Heidecker (Jack Decker), Gregg Turkington (Special Agent Kington), Joe Estevez (President Davidson), Mark Proksch (Abdul), James Mane Jr. (Lanoi Arnold)[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker) |
| Style | Intentionally poor production values, flubbed line readings, and low-rent effects in service of satire of the action genre[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker) • [4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker) |
| Rating | TV-14[8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker) |
## Spoilers
### Seasons
The series is organized into six named seasons, each treated in-universe as a film or "book":[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide) • [13](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/seasons)
1. **Decker: Classified** (2014), 5 episodes, aired weekly from July 17 to August 14, 2014, following Decker's response to a terrorist nuclear threat.[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker) • [14](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3908868/episodes/)
2. **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.[15](https://www.fernsehserien.de/decker/episodenguide) • [11](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/)
3. **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).[16](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker/allseasons/official)
4. **Decker: Unclassified** (2016), 6 episodes, the first season on the Adult Swim television block, premiering June 17, 2016.[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide) • [2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)
5. **Decker: Unsealed** (2017), 6 episodes, in which President Davidson Jr. recounts Jack Decker's adventures to his son and protégé, Jack Decker Jr.[17](https://www.directv.com/guide/tv-shows/Decker%3A-Unsealed-cf690f44-c2f3-8e97-e76e-c9946665cc81)
6. **Decker: Mindwipe** (2017), 6 episodes, ending with the season finale on August 20, 2017.[7](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide) • [18](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker)
Beyond the regular seasons, Adult Swim aired specials including *The Animated Adventures of Jack Decker* pilot on July 4, 2020.[19](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/decker/seasons/official/0)
## Origins in On Cinema
The 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.[9](https://www.avclub.com/tim-heidecker-on-the-world-of-film-criticism-real-and-1798277326) 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.[5](https://oncinema.wiki/decker) The resulting series premiered as a web series on Adult Swim on July 17, 2014.[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)
Heidecker 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.[10](https://www.cbsnews.com/news/tim-heidecker-adult-swim-actually-asks-us-to-get-weirder/)
## Format and style
The series is characterized by intentionally poor production: comedic effects that fail to convince, wooden and flubbed performances, and dense continuity errors played for laughs.[1](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker) • [11](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/) 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.[11](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/)
Episode length varied by era. The first web episodes ran three to four minutes,[12](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/episodeguide) while TheTVDB lists an average runtime of 15 minutes for the series[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker) and [JustWatch](https://www.edgepedia.org/justwatch) lists 8 minutes.[8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker) Common Sense Media notes that beneath the broad comedy the show carries a critique of political extremism and pop culture's glorification of violence.[4](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker)
## Cast
Tim 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.[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker) • [8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker) • [17](https://www.directv.com/guide/tv-shows/Decker%3A-Unsealed-cf690f44-c2f3-8e97-e76e-c9946665cc81) Other performers across the run include Mark Proksch, James Mane Jr., John Aprea, Jimmy McNichol, and Rizi Timane.[3](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker) • [2](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)
## Availability
In 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.[8](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker)
## A different show with a similar name
**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+.[20](https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/streaming/watch-rj-decker-online) • [21](https://www.cinemablend.com/television/scott-speedman-crime-drama-rj-decker-full-murder-critics-describing-it-surprising-ways) It is unrelated to the Adult Swim parody.
## References
1. [Decker, [adult swim] wiki, Fandom](https://adultswim.fandom.com/wiki/Decker)
2. [Decker TV Show on Adult Swim (Cancelled or Renewed?), TV Series Finale](https://tvseriesfinale.com/tv-show/decker/)
3. [Decker, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker)
4. [Decker – Parents' Guide & TV Review, Common Sense Media](https://www.commonsensemedia.org/tv-reviews/decker)
5. [Decker, On Cinema Wiki](https://oncinema.wiki/decker)
6. [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)
7. [Decker Episode Guide, Watchmode](https://www.watchmode.com/tv/decker/episode-guide)
8. [Decker – watch tv show streaming online, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/us/tv-show/decker)
9. [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)
10. [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/)
11. [Bombast: Decker, Film Comment (Nick Pinkerton)](https://www.filmcomment.com/bombast-decker/)
12. [Decker – Episode Guide, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/episodeguide)
13. [Decker – Seasons, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker/seasons)
14. [Decker (TV Series 2014–2017) – Episode list, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3908868/episodes/)
15. [Decker Episodenguide, fernsehserien.de](https://www.fernsehserien.de/decker/episodenguide)
16. [Decker – Aired Order – All Seasons, TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/decker/allseasons/official)
17. [Watch Decker: Unsealed Online, DIRECTV](https://www.directv.com/guide/tv-shows/Decker%3A-Unsealed-cf690f44-c2f3-8e97-e76e-c9946665cc81)
18. [Decker, TVmaze](https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/17137/decker)
19. [Decker – Specials, TheTVDB.com](https://www.thetvdb.com/series/decker/seasons/official/0)
20. [How to watch 'RJ Decker' online from anywhere, Tom's Guide](https://www.tomsguide.com/entertainment/streaming/watch-rj-decker-online)
21. [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)
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