In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-length format, filling up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends: Volume
5 DVD set. Als
o worth n
oting is t
hat here,
a new theme
song was
added t
hat was
written by J.R.
Johnston
and Neil P
anton. The
theme was s
ung by J.R. J
ohnston.
This theme son
g was not
shown int
ernation
ally, and
as a result,
it does not
appear on the D
VDs (although
Garfield&#
39;s quo
tations ar
e kept intact)
. This new
introducti
on sequence
used mos
t clips
from Seasons
5-7 and
a few from
the fir
st two seasons,
as well a
s Garfield i
n Paradise and
Garfield&amp
;#39;s Felin
e Fanta
sies. The epis
odes stopp
ed using a few
seconds
of the theme p
laying
in the episo
de title ca
rds after
season
seven&amp
;#39;s fourt
h episode; m
usic from th
e episodes
were used
in the t
itle ca
rds until the s
how ended,
even though se
ason six used
music from so
me of thei
r episodes.　
　In this se
ason, the
show we
nt back to
airing one new
episode a wee
k, but s
tayed in
the hour-le
ngth