The seventeenth season of ''

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'' aired on Fox in the United States from September 30, 2018, to May 12, 2019. The series follows the dysfunctional

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, consisting of father Peter, mother

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, daughter

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, son Chris, baby Stewie, and the family dog Brian, who reside in their hometown of Quahog. The season's executive producers are

Seth MacFarlane Seth Woodbury MacFarlane (; born October 26, 1973) is an American actor, animator, filmmaker, comedian, and singer. He is the creator and star of the television series ''Family Guy'' (since 1999) and ''The Orville'' (since 2017), and co-creator ...

Alec Sulkin Alexander Matthew Sulkin (born February 14, 1973) is an American screenwriter, producer, and voice actor known for his work on ''Family Guy'' and ''The Cleveland Show''. Career Sulkin began as a writer for ''The Late Late Show (CBS TV series)#C ...

Richard Appel Richard James Appel (born May 21, 1963) is an American writer, producer and former Attorney at law, attorney. Since 2012, he has served as an executive producer and co-showrunner of ''Family Guy'' on Fox. He attended Harvard University and Harvar ...

Steve Callaghan Steve Callaghan is an American screenwriter, producer and voice actor, best known for his work on ''Family Guy''. He is a graduate of the Department of Public Policy at the UCLA School of Public Affairs. Callaghan started his career in 1999 as a ...

, Danny Smith, Kara Vallow, Mark Hentemann,

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, Patrick Meighan and

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. The season's showrunners are Sulkin and Appel. This season sees Brian trapped in a marriage with a dying woman (played by

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) in a two-part arc ("Married... with Cancer", "Dead Dog Walking"), another two-part arc focused on Peter becoming a scaremongering news anchor, which lands him a job as President Trump's press secretary ("Hefty Shades of Gray", "Trump Guy"), Quagmire once again bonding with an estranged child who's biologically his ("No Giggity, No Doubt"), Meg qualifying for the Winter Olympics in Korea ("The Griffin Winter Games"), Brian and Stewie shrinking to microscopic size ("Big Trouble in Little Quahog"), Peter and Brian competing to become the next Pawtucket Brewery mascot (“Pawtucket Pete”), Meg becoming an Internet influencer ("Girl, Internetted"), Peter identifying as transgender ("Trans-Fat"), a meta episode where the Griffins record DVD commentary ("You Can't Handle the Booth!"), and Quagmire running against Brian for mayor ("Adam West High"). __TOC__

Episodes

Home media

This was the first Family Guy DVD to be released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.

References

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