Family Guy/Futurama Season One Hits DVD!

[Guest Karnage]

From IGN DVD:

 

The amazingly popular animated series Futurama in on the way to DVD in the US next year from Fox. Arriving on March 25th is the complete first season of the show on three DVDs for a MSRP of $29.95. Here's what you'll find on the three discs:

 

 

Disc One: Audio commentary on all episodes; Animatics for "Space Pilot 3000"; Deleted scenes; Script/storyboards for "Space Pilot 3000".

 

Disc Two: Audio commentary on all episodes; Deleted scenes.

 

Disc Three: Audio commentary on all episodes; Featurette; Deleted scenes; Interactive still gallery.

 

 

 

Coming on April 15th from Fox is the complete first season of the hit, but cancelled, television show Family Guy. The complete first season of the show will arrive on a four-disc set and include commentary on multiple episodes, trailers, and much more for a retail price of $49.98. Here is the complete run-down of each disc:

 

 

Disc One: Audio commentary on "Death Has A Shadow" and "The Son Also Draws"; Fox promos

 

Disc Two: Audio commentary on "Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater" and "Holy Crap"

 

Disc Three: Audio commentary on "Fifteen Minutes Of Shame" and "Let's Go To The Hop"

 

Disc Four: Audio commentary on "He's Too Sexy For His Fat" and "E. Peterbus Unum".

[Guest Kagato Otaku]

Mentioned the rumored box-sets for these over in the Millennium thread, but I had no idea Fox had already set a steetdate.

[Guest Dr. Wrestlingphysics]

*Sits In England looking at his Futurama Season 1 DVD set*

 

Seriously, I had no idea it hadn'd been released in America yet. As it is/was a US show, I assumed it (like most DVDs) was released in the US long before region 2.

[Guest El Satanico]

So i should be able to both at less then $30 each the first week of release. That's a good thing to hear.

[Guest areacode212]

*Sits In England looking at his Futurama Season 1 DVD set*

 

Seriously, I had no idea it hadn'd been released in America yet. As it is/was a US show, I assumed it (like most DVDs) was released in the US long before region 2.

No, you guys get quite a few TV show DVDs before we do (Buffy, Angel, Futurama). There are all kinds of syndication deals that prevent them from releasing them stateside right away.

[Guest Lethargic]

So the first season of Family Guy is a whopping 8 episodes but yet they stretched that out over 4 discs just so they can try to make everybody pay 50 dollars for it. Yet another reason why I hate TV shows on DVD. They could've easily gotten that on 2 discs and been 19.95 like every other 2 disc set.

[Guest El Satanico]

The price isn't going to be $50. It'll be $35 at most at any decent store. It'll be under $30 for it's first week at some of the better stores.

[Guest dreamer420]

YES!!! I can't wait to get the Family Guy DVD's.

[Guest razazteca]

maybe there is a Canadian vs USA Dollar exchange difference. I know that I do not want to pay more than $24.95 for Family Guy but the Futurama set looks good to me.

 

the only shows of Family Guy that I liked was the one with Peter declaring his house a country and the one with him losing weight. The rest of the show is just blah.

[Guest Anorak]

*Sits In England looking at his Futurama Season 1 DVD set*

 

Seriously, I had no idea it hadn'd been released in America yet. As it is/was a US show, I assumed it (like most DVDs) was released in the US long before region 2.

No, you guys get quite a few TV show DVDs before we do (Buffy, Angel, Futurama). There are all kinds of syndication deals that prevent them from releasing them stateside right away.

It sometimes works the other way as well. The complete Series 1 & 2 of Futurama are out in England but shows like 'The Young Ones' and Monty Python's Flying Circus' are only properly avaliable in America. All we have is one of those rubbish 'best of' comp DVD's for Python. I'm not too bitter about that though because the last 6-8 years has been a modern golden age for British comedy shows and most of them are readily avaliable on DVD.

[Guest DJ Jeff]

I just might have to buy the Family Guy DVD. That was a good show, I just wish I knew why they cancelled it.

[Guest El Satanico]

They cancelled it for the same reason any show is cancelled.

 

Ratings.

 

 

Yes, Fox screwed with it's time slot so much they couldn't get an larger following. However all of that is beyond the point as any show that doesn't get ratings that please the station will get cancelled.

[Guest Lethargic]

If it's up to ratings. Will somebody explain Angel to me? Every show that has been cancelled this year gets better ratings than Angel. It's at the bottom every week and it never gets cancelled. Instead of doing one of those save a show campaigns I'm gonna start cancel Angel campaign.

[Guest El Satanico]

It's on UPN/WB and great ratings aren't as important to them, because they know none of their shows will ever get great ratings.

 

UPN/WB are probably happy if one of their shows can just get an consistent following.

[Guest Karnage]

Most UPN shows don't even last a whole season anyways...

[Guest Retro Rob]

This is odd....according to EPguides.com the first season of Family Guy only includes:

1. 1- 1 1ACX01 31 Jan 99 Death Has a Shadow

2. 1- 2 1ACX02 11 Apr 99 I Never Met the Dead Man

3. 1- 3 1ACX04 18 Apr 99 Chitty Chitty Death Bang

4. 1- 4 1ACX03 25 Apr 99 Mind over Murder

5. 1- 5 1ACX05 2 May 99 A Hero Sits Next Door

6. 1- 6 1ACX06 9 May 99 The Son Also Draws

7. 1- 7 1ACX07 16 May 99 Brian: Portrait of a Dog

 

 

Whereas almost all of the episodes that were listed come from the "Second Season":

 

 

8. 2- 1 1ACX08 23 Sep 99 Peter, Peter, Caviar Eater

9. 2- 2 1ACX11 30 Sep 99 Holy Crap

10. 2- 3 2ACX06 26 Dec 99 DaBoom

11. 2- 4 2ACX01 7 Mar 00 Brian in Love

12. 2- 5 1ACX13 14 Mar 00 Love Thy Trophy

13. 2- 6 1ACX14 21 Mar 00 Death Is a Bitch

14. 2- 7 1ACX15 28 Mar 00 The King Is Dead

15. 2- 8 2ACX02 28 Mar 00 I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar

16. 2- 9 1ACX12 4 Apr 00 If I'm Dyin' I'm Lyin'

17. 2-10 1ACX09 11 Apr 00 Running Mates

18. 2-11 2ACX07 18 Apr 00 A Picture Is Worth 1,000 Bucks

19. 2-12 2ACX08 25 Apr 00 Fifteen Minutes of Shame

20. 2-13 2ACX12 30 May 00 Road to Rhode Island

21. 2-14 2ACX04 6 Jun 00 Let's Go to the Hop

22. 2-15 2ACX09 13 Jun 00 Dammit Janet

23. 2-16 1ACX10 27 Jun 00 There's Something About Paulie

24. 2-17 2ACX10 27 Jun 00 He's Too Sexy for His Fat

25. 2-18 2ACX13 12 Jul 00 E. Peterbus Unum

26. 2-19 2ACX14 18 Jul 00 The Story on Page 1

27. 2-20 2ACX15 25 Jul 00 Wasted Talent

28. 2-21 2ACX16 1 Aug 00 Fore, Father

[Guest areacode212]

So the price is probably correct at $50, but it'll contain both seasons (like the Sports Night set).

[Guest Retro Rob]

17.5 hours of Family Guy for $50 is a pretty good deal IMO.

[Guest Lethargic]

Well, it just says First Season and it lists 8 episodes. That doesn't really add up to 17.5 hours does it? Where does it say it has both seasons?

 

The first season was short because it was a mid-season show. It's first show was after the Superbowl one year.

[Guest Retro Rob]

If you look at the commentaries they have listed, majority of the episdoes are from Season 2, thus they probably combined the very short first season with the full second one.

[Guest Lethargic]

I still haven't found a list of the eps on there but I found the running time for the set. The running time is 632 minutes and that WOULD be 28 episodes almost exactly. I guess if I didn't have all these episodes already it might be worth it.

[Guest Retro Rob]

28 eps = Season 1 and 2, so it's all good.

 

I had a few of them on my HD, but deleted them a while ago.

[Guest El Satanico]

The price still won't be $50. That's the retail price and the price consumers pay is always less.

[Guest Lethargic]

The price still won't be $50. That's the retail price and the price consumers pay is always less.

Which is usually about 10 dollars so it'll probably be 40 normally, 30-35 if it goes on sale. But with the lack of respect Family Guy gets I'd suspect that stores wouldn't even recognize it enough to bother putting it on sale and I'd be shocked to walk into our local Best Buy to see more than 2 copies and that's if they get it at all.