Family Guy

Family Guy is widely regarded as the funniest animated series since The Simpsons and features the mad antics of the Griffin family.

• Family Guy - Season 4 | DVD | (24/04/2006 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The story of the Griffin family continues with the story of bumbling, well-intentioned father Peter; his sweet but oblivious wife Lois; and their teenagers, dim-witted Chris and awkward Meg.

• Family Guy Presents Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story | DVD | (24/10/2005 from £6.01   |  Saving you £11.24 (236.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Join Stewie Lois Peter Meg Chris and Brian in their most subversive shocking and hysterically funny adventure yet with this full-length adaptation of the cult TV Show. When Stewie everybody's favourite maniacal baby genius has a near-death experience at his first swimming lesson he is temporarily distracted from his plans for world domination. Determined to make the most of his time on the planet Stewie decides to turn his back on his evil ways forever and start anew! With

• Family Guy, Series 2 [1999] | DVD | (29/03/2004 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The second series of Seth MacFarlane's animated sitcom Family Guy continues with its own brand of acerbic pop-culture satire mixed with gleefully tasteless comedy. Even though the chaotic Griffin household bears more than a passing resemblance to The Simpsons, and their neighbours are uncannily like those from King of the Hill, the show's combination of extended flashbacks, surreal fantasy sequences and delightful non sequiturs ("Math, my dear boy, is nothing more than the lesbian sister of biology") refreshes the familiar formula. And any show that features Adam "Batman" West guest starring as the demented Mayor of Quahog must score points for bizarre originality. Highlights of the 15 episodes here include Peter discovering his feminine side ("I Am Peter, Here Me Roar"), Stewie and Brian on an eventful road trip ("Road to Rhode Island"), Peter annexing his neighbour's pool and inviting the world's dictators round for a barbeque ("E Peterbus Unum") and, as a bonus episode, the irreverent "When You Wish Upon a Weinstein", which was deemed "too offensive for TV". It may be lowbrow scatological farce, but unlike its big-screen live-action cousins (think Farrelly Brothers), Family Guy is always warm-hearted and never vicious. On the DVD: Family Guy, Series 2 is spread across two discs that boast Dolby 5.1 sound but standard 4:3 picture. There's no "Play All" facility (something else this release has in common with The Simpsons on DVD) and there are no extras other than the "bonus" episode. --Mark Walker

• Family Guy Seasons 1-9 [DVD] | DVD | (01/11/2010 from £79.99   |  Saving you £90.00 (112.51%)   |  RRP £169.99

  The most hilarious animated sit-com since The Simpsons Family Guy revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures. The Griffin household includes two teenagers a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else and a megalomaniacal mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family but along the way he makes mistakes that are the stuff of legend! The Complete Family Guy Box set features all nine hilarious seasons of this outrageous comedy plus 'Family Guy - Uncovered'! Packaged in a special TV-style Box this is the ultimate collection for any Family Guy fan!

• Family Guy Season 5 | DVD | (30/10/2006 from £8.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (177.98%)   |  RRP £24.99

  This collection features the considerable delights of the Griffin clan's series 5 adventures all under one roof! Episodes Comprise: 1. Peter's Got Woods 2. Perfect Castaway 3. Jungle Love 4. PTV 5. Brian Goes Back to College 6. The Courtship of Stewie's Father 7. Fat Guy Strangler 8. The Father The Son and The Holy Fonz 9. Brian Sings & Swings 10. Patriot Games 11. I Take Thee Quagmire 12. Sibling Rivalry 13. Deep Throats 14. Peterotica 15. You May Now Kiss The...Uh...Guy Who Receives 16. Petergeist 17 Untitled Griffin Family History

• Family Guy, Series 3 [1999] | DVD | (21/07/2003 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The third and final season of Seth MacFarlane's late, lamented Family Guy finds television's most dysfunctional cartoon family even more animated than usual. As MacFarlane himself noted, he was inspired to go for broke, thinking that the series--already juggled like a hot potato in the US TV schedules (at one point, it aired opposite the mighty Friends)--had been cancelled. Just as This Is Spinal Tap walked the fine line between "clever and stupid", so Family Guy gleefully mocks the line between "edgy and offensive". Like The Simpsons, Family Guy lends itself to multiple viewings to catch each densely packed episode's way-inside "one-percenter" gags (so-called by the creators because that is the percent of the audience who will get them), scattershot pop-culture references, surreal leaps and gratuitous pot shots at everyone from, predictably, Oprah, Kevin Costner and Bill Cosby to, unpredictably, Rita Rudner. Also like its Springfield counterpart, this series benefits from a great ensemble voice cast, with surprising contributions from a no-less-stellar roster of guest stars. --Donald Liebenson

• Family Guy - New Hope [2007] | DVD | (21/01/2008 from £4.30   |  Saving you £11.69 (271.86%)   |  RRP £15.99

  "Blue Harvest" finds Peter, Lois, Chris, Stewie, Brian and some of Quahog's finest in the middle of George Lucas' beloved science-fiction epic. Feel the Farce in the most irreverent and hilarious way possible.

• Family Guy, Series 1 [1999] | DVD | (29/03/2004 from £4.99   |  Saving you £20.00 (400.80%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Family Guy shouldn't work at all. Even by the witless standards of modern television, it is breathtakingly derivative: does an animated series about the travails of a boorish, suburban yob with a saintly wife, a hopeless son, a clever daughter and a baby sound familiar at all? Even the house in Family Guy looks like it was built by the same architects who sketched the residence of The Simpsons. However, Family Guy does work, transcending its (occasionally annoyingly) obvious influences with reliably crisp writing and the glorious sight gags contained in the surreal flashbacks which punctuate the episodes. Most importantly, the show's brilliance comes from two absolutely superb characters: Stewie, the baby whose extravagant dreams of tyrannising the world are perpetually thwarted by the prosaic limitations of infanthood, and the urbane family dog Brian--Snoopy after attendance at an obedience class run by Frank Sinatra. Family Guy does not possess the cultural or satirical depth of The Simpsons--very little art in any field does. But it is a genuinely funny and clever programme. --Andrew Mueller

• Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side [DVD] | DVD | (26/12/2009 from £5.96   |  Saving you £10.03 (168.29%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Family Guy: Something Something Something Dark Side

• Family Guy Season 9 [DVD] | DVD | (01/11/2010 from £5.03   |  Saving you £22.96 (456.46%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Follow the Griffin family's hilarious escapades in Season 9 of US animated favourite Family Guy! In Season 9 the Griffin family is back for more hilarious and inappropriate antics! This DVD includes exclusive extended episodes that were too rude for tv! Stewie and Brian travel through alternate universes in an homage to a sci-fi series; spies Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase (guest-voicing as themselves) move into Cleveland's old house Stewie scores tickets to a sold-out concert and Lois lands a job on Fox News. Episodes Comprise: 1. Fox-y Lady 2. Not All Dogs Go To Heaven 3. 420 4. Stew-Roids 5. We Love You Conrad 6. Three Kings 7. Peter's Progress (Season Finale) 8. Road to Multi-verse (Season Premiere) 9. Family Goy 10. Spies Reminiscent of Us 11. Brian's Got A Brand New Bag 12. Hannah Banana 13. Quagmire's Baby 14. Jerome Is The New Black 15. Dog Gone

• Family Guy - Season 8 [DVD] | DVD | (02/11/2009 from £26.98   |  Saving you £1.01 (3.74%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Follow the Griffin family's hilarious escapades in Season 8 of US animated favourite Family Guy!

• Family Guy - Series 7 - Complete | DVD | (10/11/2008 from £5.99   |  Saving you £22.00 (78.60%)   |  RRP £27.99

  Family Guy revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures. The Griffin household includes two teenagers a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else and a megalomaniacal mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family but along the way he makes mistakes that are the stuff of legend...

• Family Guy Season 6 | DVD | (15/10/2007 from £7.23   |  Saving you £20.76 (287.14%)   |  RRP £27.99

  This collection houses the considerable delights of the Griffin clan's season 6 adventures all under one roof!

• Family Guy Seasons 1 - 5 [Box Set] | DVD | (30/10/2006 from £39.99   |  Saving you £60.00 (150.04%)   |  RRP £99.99

  The most hilarious animated sit-com since The Simpsons Family Guy revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures. The Griffin household includes two teenagers a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else and a megalomaniacal mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family but along the way he makes mistakes that are the stuff of legend! Featuring all the episodes from series 1 to 5!

• Family Guy Presents: Something Something Something Dark Side (plus Bonus Digital Copy) [Blu-ray] | Blu Ray | (26/12/2009 from £7.80   |  Saving you £17.19 (220.38%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Griffins reprise their roles as the saga continues in this hilarious Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back spoof that is a DVD and Blu-ray exclusive never before seen on TV!

• The Family Guy Collection (Complete Series 1-3) | DVD | (31/10/2005 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £59.99

  The Family Guy Collection is a nine-disc set containing all 50 episodes from the show's three seasons, plus two bonus discs of additional material including commentaries, deleted scenes and featurettes. Creator Seth MacFarlane drew on his own New England upbringing to create the dysfunctional Griffin family and the other less-than-endearing inhabitants of Quahog, Rhode Island. In addition to animating the original concept, MacFarlane also voices the show's three most indelible characters: recklessly stupid paterfamilias Peter Griffin, sophisticated pooch Brian and Stewie, the one-year-old obsessed with world domination. Though comparisons are inevitable, from the outset Family Guy established itself as no mere Simpsons clone. Quahog is both a more realistic and far less cuddly place than Springfield. The Griffins and their neighbours inhabit a town where both random acts of violence and virulent verbal abuse are doled out on a regular basis; they indulge in copious (albeit mild) swearing; and the mocking of minorities, PC attitudes and pretty much anyone and anything else, is delightfully commonplace. Most joyfully distinctive of all, though, are the flashbacks, surreal episodes and sundry other non sequiturs that continually interrupt the Griffins' daily lives. The show is also characterised by a plethora of pop-culture references, many of which will fall flat for a non-US audience. But the scattershot approach to jokes--they just keep coming and coming--ensures that for every one you don't get, there will be three that will have you in stitches. Rumours abound of a potential fourth season and even a movie; but for now this is the definitive collection. On the DVD: The Family Guy Collection presents the episodes on discs as they appeared in the original three box sets, with no extra features nor anything as useful as a "Play All" facility. Two bonus discs contain all the additional material: here 14 episodes have optional chatty, laid-back commentaries from MacFarlane and other members of the creative team. MacFarlane also appears in the short featurettes, talking about the show's creation and its interminable censorship problems. The rough-and-ready original pilot is also here, as well as animatic storyboards for selected scenes and seven TV promo spots. While the extra features alone are unlikely to tempt anyone who already has the series box sets, those who have only sampled Family Guy so far will not want to miss this opportunity to own every joyous episode. --Mark Walker

• Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest [2007] | DVD | (21/01/2008 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £25.99

  Blue Harvest is the season premiere of the sixth season of Family Guy and features the Griffin family in a retelling of Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope recasting the show's characters into Star Wars roles!

• Family Guy Series 1-6 - Complete Box Set [2007] [1999] | DVD | (19/11/2007 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £129.99

  The most hilarious animated sit-com since The Simpsons Family Guy revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures. The Griffin household includes two teenagers a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else and a megalomaniacal mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family but along the way he makes mistakes that are the stuff of legend.

• Family Guy - Complete Seasons 1-8 [DVD] | DVD | (02/11/2009 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £149.99

  Series 1-8 of hit US animated comedy Family Guy.

• Family Guy - Series 1-7 - Complete | DVD | (10/11/2008 from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £129.99

  The most hilarious animated sit-com since The Simpsons Family Guy revolves around the Griffin family and their madcap adventures. The Griffin household includes two teenagers a cynical dog who is smarter than everyone else and a megalomaniacal mutant baby who makes numerous attempts to eradicate his parents and siblings. Heading up this eclectic household is Peter Griffin. Peter does his best to do what's right for the family but along the way he makes mistakes that are the stuff of legend. Includes every hilarious episode from Seasons 1-7!