Last month we
had the scoop about the
Feb. 7th release date of
Grounded For Life - Season 1, a 4-DVD set which will retail for $39.98 SRP. Distributor Anchor Bay has provided a tentative list of extras (subject to change) along with an episode list, broken down by each disc. Take a look:
- Disc 1:
- Episode 1: Lily B. Goode
- Episode 2: In My Room
- Episode 3: I Wanna Be Suspended
- Episode 4: Devil With A Plaid Skirt
- Episode 5: Action Mountain High
- Episode 6: You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Disc 2:
- Episode 7: Like A Virgin
- Episode 8: Devil's Haircut
- Episode 9: Eddie's Dead
- Episode 10: Catch Us If You Can
- Episode 11: Jimmy's Got A Gun
- Episode 12: Jimmy Was Kung Fu Fighting
- Disc 3:
- Episode 13: Loser
- Episode 14: Mrs. Finnerty, You've Got A Lovely Daughter
- Episode 15: Love Child
- Episode 16: Baby You Can't Drive My Car
- Episode 17: Dream On
- Episode 18: Rubber Sold
- Disc 4:
- Episode 19: Let's Talk About Sex, Henry
- Episode 20: Is She Really Going Out With Walt?
- Extras:
- Interview with Creators Mike Schiff & Bill Martin
- Donal Logue: Meet The Finnertys
- Lynsey Bartilson: Life As Lily
- Claudia: Not The Sitcom Mom
- Season One Highlights
- Bloopers
Now, if you compare the list of included episodes to the
TV.com episode guide for
Grounded For Life, you'll see that the producers of this DVD have done something very tricky. This series produced 20 episodes for the first season, but only aired 15 of them during that first season, and aired them wildly out of order from production. When the second season started to broadcast, they aired the remaining 5 "season one" episodes, but again aired them in no particular order (episode production #120 was followed by #117, followed by second-production-season episode #204, then #119, etc.).
So what the DVD producers seem to have decided on is the plan of including all 20 "first production season" episodes, but using airdate order for them instead of production order. The result will be that the second season, when it hits DVD, will have 17 episodes instead of the 22 "second broadcast season" episodes that you would recall from the Fox Network broadcasts.
We're still waiting on cover art and other information for this release, so stay tuned and we'll let you know when we have it.
