High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Dexter`s Laboratory (commonly abbreviated as Dexter`s Lab) is an American animated television series created by Genndy Tartakovsky and produced by Cartoon Network Studios (also co-produced with Hanna-Barbera from 1996-2001). The show is about a boy named Dexter who has an enormous secret laboratory filled with an endless collection of his inventions. The series premiered in the United States on Cartoon Network on April 28, 1996 and ended on November 20, 2003. As of 2006, Cartoon Network`s sister channel Boomerang now reruns the show.