Family Guy season 7

Family Guy
Season 7
DVD covers for Volumes 7 and 8
Starring
No. of episodes16
Release
Original networkFox
Original releaseSeptember 28, 2008 (2008-09-28) –
May 17, 2009 (2009-05-17)
Season chronology
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List of episodes

The seventh season of Family Guy first aired on the Fox network from September 28, 2008, to May 17, 2009, before being released as two DVD box sets and syndicated. The animated television series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family (father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian), who reside in the fictional town of Quahog, in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Mila Kunis in the roles of the Griffin family.

The season included hold-over episodes from the sixth season, which was cut short due to the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. It received a mixed reception from critics, the more-mixed reviews criticizing the overuse of cutaways and the more positive praising its story-based episodes.[1] The seventh season contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes (including "Road to Germany" and "Family Gay") and controversial episodes like "420", which caused the Venezuelan government to ban the show from its networks.[2] The season was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series,[3] making Family Guy the first animated series to be nominated in this category since The Flintstones in 1961.[3]

The Volume Seven DVD box set was released in Region 1 on June 16, 2009,[4] Region 2 on November 2, 2009[5] and Region 4 on September 29, 2009.[6] Nine of the sixteen episodes are included in this volume. The remaining seven episodes of the season were released on the Volume Eight DVD box set in Region 1 on June 15, 2010,[7] Region 2 on November 1, 2010[8] and Region 4 on June 15, 2011.[9]

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  7. ^ "Family Guy – This Just In: Volume 8 DVD Announced to Retailers, with Complete Details". TVShowsonDVD.com. Archived from the original on March 29, 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
  8. ^ "DVD – Family Guy: Season 9". Play.com. Archived from the original on November 13, 2010. Retrieved September 30, 2012.
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