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Friends
Season 7

Friends season 7 DVD cover

Starring
No. of episodes24
Release
Original networkNBC
Original releaseOctober 12, 2000 –
May 17, 2001
Season chronology

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The seventh season of Friends, an American sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman, premiered on NBC on October 12, 2000. Friends was produced by Bright/Kauffman/Crane Productions, in association with Warner Bros. Television. The season contains 24 episodes and concluded airing on May 17, 2001.

Collider ranked it number 4 on their ranking of the ten Friends seasons, and cited "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding" as its best episode. They also wrote that "The One with the Engagement Picture" and "The One with the Vows" were other highlights.[1]

Cast and characters

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^† denotes a "super-sized" 40-minute episode (with advertisements; actual runtime around 28 minutes).

The seventh season was officially released on DVD in region 1 on April 6, 2004, as a 4-disc DVD Box Set. The release includes the extended versions of every episode with footage not seen on their original NBC broadcast. Special Features include 3 audio commentaries, a video guide to season seven's guest stars, a trivia quiz and Easter Eggs about the next season. For region 2, the release included the original NBC broadcast version of the episodes, and not the extended versions unlike the region 1 release.

Season 7 was released on Blu-ray altogether with the rest of the series on the Complete Series releases; in this releases the episodes are presented in their original NBC broadcast versions and does not include the extra deleted scenes and jokes that were included in the DVD version. Although, the set did include the original "super-sized" broadcast versions of several episodes of seasons 7, 9 & 10 as part of the special features; however, only the episodes of Season 7 are not presented in High Definition and are instead included in Standard Definition. Additional audio & subtitle tracks are also included with this releases.

Friends: The Complete Seventh Season
Set Details Special Features
  • 23 episodes (1 double-length episode)
  • 4-disc set (DVD)/2 Discs (Blu-ray)
  • English (Dolby 5.0 Surround) (DVD)/English (Dolby Digital 5.1) (Blu-ray)
  • English, French & Spanish subtitles
  • Audio Commentaries
  • 576 minutes (DVD)
  • 548 minutes (Blu-ray)
  • Over 51 minutes of Never-Before-Seen footage included on every episode (DVD Only)
  • Producers Commentary on 3 episodes: "The One with the Holiday Armadillo", "The One with Joey's New Brain" and "The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding"
  • Friends of Friends: Video Guestbook
  • Gag Reel
  • Monica's Wedding Book Challenge: Trivia Quiz (DVD Only) [b]
  • Gunther Spills the Beans About Next Season: Season 8 Easter Eggs
  • "The Ones with More Friends" - 4 Original Broadcast "Super Sized" Episodes: "The One Where They All Turn Thirty", "The One Where Rosita Dies", "The One with Joey's New Brain" and "The One with the Truth About London" (Blu-ray only)
Release Dates
Region 1 Region 2 Region 4
April 6, 2004 October 25, 2004 October 4, 2006
  1. ^ These episodes originally aired as a single double-length episode but are sometimes split into two episodes for syndication, reruns and DVD presentation.
  2. ^ Not available on the 2019 re-release of the DVD's
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