According to www.tvshowsondvd.com Married...With Children: The Complete 1st Season is set to be released Oct. 7th! This is great news! :)

http://tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=612

Our release listing (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/releaseinfo.cfm?ReleaseID=3018) and our previous news (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=567) for Married... with Children - The Complete 1st Season has been 100% confirmed with Columbia Home Entertainment's announcement for the set this week, which was quietly included in their overall DVD release plans for October.

The October 28th date has been confirmed, as has the $29.95 price in the USA for the 2-disc set (Canadians can expect a list price of CAN$41.95, according to our sources).

Additionally, Columbia has announced that there will be supplements included besides the already-known bonus trailers. The info can be found in their short blurb about the release:

The dysfunctional fun continues with the complete first season of "Married.with Children," the off-beat comedy that changed the face of TV family sitcoms forever, available on DVD for the first time!

Nominated for 7 Golden Globe Awards between 1991 and 1994!
2-disc set with all 13 episodes!
Stars Christina Applegate!
Reunion special was watched by a record 20 million viewers!
Bonus material and trailers!
The exact nature of the bonus material is still under wraps, but it's exciting that it will be there. The cover art provided is identical to the one in our previous news release, so the only other thing we don't have is an official running time (figure it will fall in at around 300-ish minutes, since it was a short first season).

Getting Married...with Children (along with Battlestar Galactica and The Incredible Hulk) on DVD is the reason why I'm here helping Gord every day, and will continue to be: I joined TVShowsOnDVD to help get releases just like this one. I hope you're as excited as I am to finally be getting this hilarious show in season sets. "Thank your studio, kids". "THANKS, COLUMBIA!!" - David

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=617

In our last news item (http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=612) about Married...with Children - Season 1, we talked about how bonus material would be on this release, but that "the exact nature of the bonus material is still under wraps".

Now, can I have a "Whoa, Bundy"? Because I just dug up an ad that Columbia will be using to promote their upcoming TV-on-DVD releases to retailers. It shows that the "Bonus Material" is none other than the Married With Children Reunion Special that aired in Feb. 2003, to celebrate and promote the then-just-recently-released "Most Outrageous Episodes Volume 1" best-of disc.

I really must give Columbia some credit for including this; it was a very fun and enjoyable 42-minute special look back at the Bundy gang. It's not commentary tracks or gag reels or behind-the-scenes featurettes, but it's a nice supplement from a company that doesn't often provide extras on their TV sets at all.

You may notice that the release date says "10/21/03" here, whereas everywhere else the date is shown as 10/28/03. I personally think that this is a typo in the ad, as too many other places (including in Columbia's information network) are showing the 28th. However, there COULD have been a date change. We'll check with Columbia on that and post a follow-up.

You'll also notice that this cover art is different than that previously shown. Columbia has changed it a bit, and are indicating (with that asterisk in the lower right) that it's STILL not necessarily final. When final art is made available, we'll post it at TVShowsOnDVD. In the meantime, here's the part of the ad that matters:

http://tvshowsondvd.com/graphics/news/ACF8148.jpg

http://www.tvshowsondvd.com/newsitem.cfm?NewsID=631

Our friends at Columbia/TriStar have just provided the final cover art for Married...with Children: The Complete 1st Season. Enjoy!

http://tvshowsondvd.com/graphics/news/MwC_S1_FinalCoverArt.jpg