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

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, mother

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, daughter

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, son

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, baby Stewie, and the family dog

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, 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, writer, producer, director, comedian, and singer. He is best known as the creator and star of the television series ''Family Guy'' (since 1999) and ''The Orvill ...

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 with Craig Kilb ...

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

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 ...

, Danny Smith,

Kara Vallow Kara Vallow is an American television producer and animator. She has worked on four television series by Seth MacFarlane's Fuzzy Door Productions: ''Family Guy'', ''American Dad!'', ''The Cleveland Show'', and ''Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey''. Fu ...

Mark Hentemann Mark Henry Hentemann is an American screenwriter, creator and producer for television and film. He is a writer, executive producer and former showrunner of the animated series ''Family Guy'', where he started as a writer in its first season. In ...

Tom Devanney Thomas Devanney is an American writer and producer. He has written several episodes of the animated series ''Family Guy''. Devanney also wrote briefly for ''The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air'', and was a producer on ''Perfect Strangers (U.S. TV serie ...

, Patrick Meighan and

Cherry Chevapravatdumrong Cherry Chevapravatdumrong (; born 1977) also known as Cherry Cheva, is an American author, screenwriter, comedian and producer. She was an executive producer of ''Family Guy'' (at one time, its only female writer) and a co-executive producer of ...

. 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

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'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 is to date, the final Family Guy season to be released on

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, and the first time to be produced by

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References

External links

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