<Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> ← Previous Season 6 Next → Season 8 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> List of Family Guy episodes </Td> </Tr> <P> Family Guy's seventh season first aired on the Fox network in sixteen episodes from September 28, 2008 to May 17, 2009 before being released as two DVD box sets and syndicated . The animated television series follows the dysfunctional Griffin family (father Peter, mother Lois, daughter Meg, son Chris, baby Stewie and their anthropomorphic dog Brian), who reside in the town of Quahog . The show features the voices of series creator Seth MacFarlane, Alex Borstein, Seth Green, and Mila Kunis in the roles of the Griffin family . The executive producers for the seventh season were MacFarlane, Danny Smith, David Goodman and Chris Sheridan . Goodman and Sheridan served as showrunners for season seven . </P> <P> The season included hold - over episodes from the sixth season, which was cut short due to the 2007--2008 Writers Guild of America strike . It received a mixed reception from critics, the more - negative reviews criticizing the overuse of cutaways and the more positive praising its story - based episodes . The seventh season contains some of the series' most acclaimed episodes (including "Road to Germany" and "Family Gay") and controversial episodes like "420", which caused the Venezuelan government to ban the show from its networks . The seventh season was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Comedy Series, making Family Guy the first animated series to be nominated in this category since The Flintstones in 1961 . </P>

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