
#FAMILY GUY STAR WARS INTRO SERIES#
Writer John Viener left the series at the end of the season to also write for The Cleveland Show.

Kirker Butler, who wrote five episodes for the show, left the series before the beginning of the ninth season, in order to write for the Fox animated series The Cleveland Show, a spin-off of Family Guy. Goodman returned as a writer for the series, with Goodman leaving immediately afterward to work on the Fox animated series Allen Gregory. Matt Harrigan, Dave Willis, Anthony Blasucci and Mike Desilets received their first writing credit for the series.


Īs production began, Callaghan, Andrew Goldberg, Mark Hentemann, Patrick Meighan, Brian Scully, Chris Sheridan, Danny Smith, Alec Sulkin, John Viener and Wellesley Wild all stayed on from the previous season.
#FAMILY GUY STAR WARS INTRO 720P#
The showrunners for the ninth season were Hentemann and Callaghan, who oversaw the series's transition into 720p high definition in the premiere of the ninth-season episode "And Then There Were Fewer". The season was executive produced by series regulars Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann and Steve Callaghan, along with series creator Seth MacFarlane. Production for the ninth season began in 2009, during the airing of the eighth season. These repeated the Saturday after, although re-runs of the series continue to be shown on the channel nightly. In the UK, the debut episodes were shown on Sunday nights from May to July 2011 on BBC Three. One other episode, " It's a Trap!", was released independently on DVD. The remaining fourteen episodes were included in the Volume Ten DVD box set, released in Region 2 on November 3, 2011, titled Season 11, Region 4 on February 29, 2012, and finally on Region 1 on September 24, 2012. Three of the eighteen episodes are included in the volume. The Volume Nine DVD box set was released in Region 1 on December 13, 2011, and was released in Region 2 on (titled Season 10) and Region 4 on June 15, 2011. Lyrics and Outstanding Sound Mixing for a Comedy or Drama Series and Animation. It was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Series, Outstanding Original Music and This season marks the first time Family Guy aired in 720p high-definition and widescreen with a remastered title sequence.

The season received a mixed reception from critics, who called it "a mixture of laugh out loud gags, groan inducing puns, and astonishing 'I can’t believe they got away with that' statements." Season nine contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes, including "And Then There Were Fewer", " Road to the North Pole" and " New Kidney in Town", as well as some of the most controversial episodes, including " And I'm Joyce Kinney", " Friends of Peter G.", and " The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair". The season's showrunners were Hentemann and Callaghan. Season nine was the debut of the series' eighth production season, which was executive produced by Chris Sheridan, David Goodman, Danny Smith, Mark Hentemann, Steve Callaghan and series creator Seth MacFarlane. Family Guy follows the dysfunctional Griffin family-father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and dog Brian, all of whom reside in their hometown of Quahog. Family Guy 's ninth season first aired on the Fox network in eighteen episodes from September 26, 2010, to May 22, 2011, before being released as two DVD box sets and in syndication.
