Family Guy

DVDs

Region 1

• Family Guy Volume 1, Seasons 1 & 2 is a four-disc DVD box set that includes all the episodes from Seasons 1 and 2 of Family Guy. The set contains eight audio commentary tracks.
• Family Guy Volume 2, Season 3 is a three-disc DVD box set that includes all episodes from the third season of Family Guy, including the previously un-aired episode, "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein". The set contains six audio commentary tracks.
• Family Guy—The Freakin' Sweet Collection, released in December 2004, is a five-episode sampler including the episodes "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein," "Road to Rhode Island" (including the restored scene involving Osama Bin Laden), "To Live and Die in Dixie," "I Am Peter, Hear Me Roar," and "Lethal Weapons." The set includes new commentaries and previews for Family Guy Season 4 and American Dad!, another cartoon created by MacFarlane, which premiered after Super Bowl XXXIX on FOX.
• ' was formally released on September 27, 2005. In July of 2005 an advance copy of the film began circulating through Internet circles. The copy is dated "June 29, 2005," and appears to have been leaked from a production facility. The plot is focused around Stewie trying to find his real father after a life-changing incident. The retail version includes commentary and deleted scenes.
• Family Guy Volume 3 is a three-disc DVD box set that includes all episodes from the fourth season of Family Guy. The release date is November 29th, 2005. http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=3829
• A collection of select episodes will be available as a UMD Video for the Sony PlayStation Portable sometime in the near future.

Region 2

• Family Guy Season One contains all fourteen episodes from Season 1, including the seven episodes that were produced in the first season but aired in the second.
• Family Guy Season Two contains all fifteen episodes produced for season 2 (which aired along with some season-one episodes, see above), including the unaired "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein".
• Family Guy Season Three contains all episodes of season 3 in a box set.
• Family Guy Family Sized DVD Collection is a box set containing the above three sets (the Season 3 collection is repackaged in one plastic case) plus a bonus 2-disc set, Family Guy Uncovered, containing special features, including deleted scenes, featurettes, and 14 previously released episodes with added audio commentaries.

Some British critics complained about the omission of the audio commentaries from the Region 2 releases. The Family Size Collection goes some way to address those complaints, although inevitably some buyers complained about having to buy the same discs a second time in order to get the bonus material, which was not released separately.

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Region 4

• Family Guy Season One contains all fourteen episodes produced for season 1, including those that aired during season 2.
• Family Guy Season Two contains all fifteen episodes produced for season 2, including the unaired "When You Wish Upon A Weinstein".
• Family Guy Season Three contains all twenty-one episodes from season 3

Like the Region 2 releases, no special features are contained on the discs, but it is expected that a box set of the first three seasons—like Region 2—will eventually emerge, with extras.

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