The Simpsons season 9

The Simpsons
Season 9
DVD cover featuring The Simpson family attending a showing of the 200th episode.
ShowrunnersBill Oakley
Josh Weinstein (3 episodes)
Al Jean & Mike Reiss (2 episodes)
Mike Scully (20 episodes)
No. of episodes25
Release
Original networkFox
Original releaseSeptember 21, 1997 (1997-09-21) –
May 17, 1998 (1998-05-17)
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The ninth season of the American animated television series The Simpsons originally aired on the Fox network between September 21, 1997 and May 17, 1998, beginning on Sunday, September 21, 1997, with "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson". Mike Scully served as showrunner for the ninth production season.[1] The ninth broadcast season contained three episodes with 4F-series production codes, indicating that they were hold-over episodes from production season eight, and two episodes with 3G-series production codes, which are not explicitly confirmed to be part of any production season but are speculated to be relabeled 3F-series (seventh production season) episodes.[2][3][4][5][6][7][8] This makes it the first broadcast season to include holdover episodes from two previous production seasons.

Season nine won three Emmy Awards: "Trash of the Titans" for Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming Less Than One Hour) in 1998,[9] Hank Azaria won "Outstanding Voice-Over Performance" for the voice of Apu Nahasapeemapetilon,[10] and Alf Clausen and Ken Keeler won the "Outstanding Music and Lyrics" award.[11] Clausen was also nominated for "Outstanding Music Direction" and "Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)" for "Treehouse of Horror VIII".[9] Season nine was also nominated for a "Best Network Television Series" award by the Saturn Awards and "Best Sound Editing" for a Golden Reel Award.[11]

The Simpsons 9th Season DVD was released on December 19, 2006, in Region 1, January 29, 2007, in Region 2 and March 21, 2007, in Region 4. The DVD was released in two different forms: a Lisa-shaped head, to match the Maggie, Homer and Marge shaped heads from the three previous DVD sets, and also a standard rectangular shaped box. Like the previous DVD sets, both versions are available for sale separately.

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  9. ^ a b "1997-1998 Emmy Awards". infoplease.com. Retrieved September 25, 2006.
  10. ^ "1997-1998 Emmy Awards". emmy.org. Archived from the original on April 3, 2009. Retrieved September 25, 2006.
  11. ^ a b "Every show, every winner, every nominee". The Envelope. Retrieved September 25, 2006.