Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #25 in DVD
• Released on: 2009-09-28
• Rating: Suitable for 12 years and over
• Formats: Box set, PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: Dutch
• Number of discs: 40
• Running time: 5273 minutes

DVD Description
Celebrate the 15 year anniversary of one of TV's most successful show ever with this Friends Season 1 -10 box set, featuring more extras than you can shake a smelly cat at.

Popular American sitcom Friends first appeared on our screens back in 1994, to little fanfare. The show followed the lives of six twenty-something singles--Monica (Courtney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Ross (David Schwimmer), and Chandler (Matthew Perry)--who occupied a trendy New York loft apartment. These were essentially six beautiful people who had probably never known a hard day's work in their lives, and whose every utterance was a well-crafted witticism. But despite their idealized lifestyles and perfectly coiffed hairdos, there was something annoyingly endearing about them. Viewers could easily relate to their struggles with work, sex, and relationships because these were universal struggles - albeit heightened for comedic effect. From early on it was clear that Friends had successfully tapped into the zeitgeist of its time, and now, 10 series down the line, the show's broad appeal continues to live on in popular culture. This box set contains every episode from season 1 to 10.

Special Features
Season 1:
- The One Where Monica Gets a New Flatmate includes commentary
- Season 1's Friends of Friends (AKA Guest Book)
- A Peek at Central Park (Interactive Map)
- How Well Do You Know Your Friends? - Interactive Trivia Pack
- Trailer of Season 2

Season 2:
- The One with the List includes commentary
- The One With the Prom Video includes commentary
- Season 2's Open House at Monica & Rachel's Place
- Season 2's Friends of Friends (AKA Guest Book)
- What's Up With Your Friends? Gunther introduces each of the characters and then it allows you to select one to see more about.
- How Well Do You Know Your Friends? - Interactive Trivia Pack

Season 3:
- The One Where No One Is Ready includes commentary
- The One With the Football includes commentary
- The One with the Morning After includes commentary
- Tour of Chandler and Joey's Bachelor Pad (Interactive Map)
- Season 3's Friends of Friends?
- Ross and Rachel: On A Break? - Interactive Trivia Pack: Answer questions related to Ross and Rachel and if the answer is incorrect then they stay on a break.
- What's Up With Your Friends? Continuation of the previous introduction with Gunther. Season clip without the ability to click and see more.

Season 4:
- The One With Chandler in a Box includes commentary
- The One With the Embryos includes commentary
- The One With Ross' Wedding Part I and II includes commentary
- Friends Around the World: Sweeden Germany and Japan translations and opinions of Friends.
- Season 4's Friends of Friends
- Who Know Whom Best?: Ross's Ultimate Challenge (Interactive Media Pack)
- What's Up With Your Friends? Overview of friends moments related to relationships and work.

Season 5:
- The One With the One Hundreth includes commentary
- The One With The ThanksGiving Flashbacks includes commentary
- Gunther Spills the Beans: Gunther talks about the main aspects of gossip for the season.
- The One That Goes Behind the Scenes: Documentary behind the set of Friends, the crew talk about the program and various scenes.
- Friends: On Location in London - Interviews with the characters and opinions on London and the impact Friends have in the UK.

Season 6:
- The One Where Ross Got High includes commentary
- The One That Could Have Been - DBL Episode includes commentary
- The One With the Proposal includes commentary
- Gunther Spills the Beans: Gunther talks about the main aspects of gossip for the season.
- Season 6's Friends of Friends
- Casino challenge (Interactive Trivia Pack)
- Season 6's Gag Reel

Season 7:
- The One With the Holiday Armadillo includes commentary)
- The One With Monica and Chandler's Wedding includes commentary
- Season 7's Gag Reel
- Gunther Spills the Beans
- Monica's Wedding Book Challenge: After answering the question the clip is shown with the correct answer.
- Season 7's Friends of Friends

Season 8:
- The One Where Rachel Tells Ross includes commentary
- The One With the Videotape includes commentary
- The One Where Rachel Has a Baby includes commentary
- Gunther Spills the Beans
- Season 8's Friends of Friends
- Season 8's Gag Reel
- Joeys Game Show Challenge Bamboozled

Season 9:
- The One With the Male Nanny includes commentary
- The One With Rachel's Other Sister includes commentary
- The One in Barbados Part I and II includes commentary
- Behind the Style : The Look of Friends
- Season 9's Gag Reel
- Phoebe Battles the Pink Robots: Phoebe's music video which includes a collection of favortie Phoebe moments
- Gunther Spills the Beans
- Who's Your Best Friend: Game to test how well you know each character including clips from the show

Season 10:
- The One With the Late ThanksGiving includes commentary
- The One Where the Stripper Cries includes commentary
- The Last One includes commentary
- Final Thoughts
- Joey Joey (Music Video)
- Season 10 Gags
- Friends of Friends

Customer Reviews

Received mine and its a MUST HAVE!!!!
I have owned the single DVDs for each series and collected as I went but decided to splash out on this 15th Anniversary Box Set. I received it yesterday and can honestly say it is money well spent. Not only does it come in a lovely presentation box but there are bundles of extras.

1) All episodes are the extended US versions which means some people who have the single DVD versions won't have this.

2) Each Series box contains 4 single sided DVDs which is a major plus. Previously the series was put on double sided DVDs and the labelling wasn't very clear. Now you get 4 discs per series.

3) In addition to the episodes for each series you get extras on every single disc. I won't describe each one as they are listed on the Amazon product page. However, die hard Friends fans will be pleased to see that you get some great extras such as my favourites which are:-
Gag Reels from series 1-4 and 6-10 (not sure what happened to series 5)
Interactive Trivia game
An hour long behind the scenes documentary
The Friends stars thoughts as the final series comes to a close.

4) You also receive a nice Episode guide book. The book details each episode with a description and pictures. You also get an additional few pages at the back detailing some of the more famous props.

5) The DVDS come with Dutch and English subtitles.

6) They are shown in 16:9 Widescreen format (so now black lines appear down the sides of the screen)

My overall opinion is that this box set is well priced and an absolute must have. The box set isn't too bulky so fits nicely in with other DVDs and also looks particularly nice in its presentation box.

If you are a fan then order yourself one today....you won't regret it!

Simply the best Friends boxset
I previously had a "red box" edition of Friends, but decided to replace the well worn-out discs with this new boxset - and surprisingly it is a HUGE improvement!

1) (the most important) Full versions of all episodes - the pilot seems to be the same (probably it wasn't cut for older boxsets), but starting from the episode #2 you will get at least 2-3 minutes of new material for every episode (and more than 5-6 minutes on some episodes in later seasons!)
It is amazing how many cuts my older boxset had - now I can see a dialogue between two characters and apparently they could cut out 2-3 phrases in the middle (for example the scene of Chandler breaking up with Janice for the first time lost several very funny bits). The final effect that the extended versions in the new boxset flow much better and there are no strange cuts anymore.

2) Commentaries on many episodes from the show creators.

3) Gag reels (except for season 5).

4) Single side discs with 6-7 episodes on each! And in normal plastic boxes, not in paper wrap.

5) Improved navigation - all discs and disc boxes have lists of episodes printed on them (it is an essential feature but my old boxset did not have that!).

6) Episodes split into 10 individual boxes, one per season ("red box" boxset unhelpfully split them into 6 paper packs, one per character).

In the end, I love this edition of "Friends". Good work WB!

The only F.R.I.E.N.D.S you'll ever need
I have the black box edition of this. I was impressed by that but unimpressed by the special features. I bought this for the additional features and am going to sell the Black box edition.
This edition of the Friends Box Set is brilliant. It's the best way of watching Friends. The extra features are brilliant for Friendsaholics.
This isn't much of a review. More me saying that this IS the best Friends box set out there. The Seasons are are inn better cases, single side disks, smaller all season box. In my opinion better box art. Full episodes the ones aired in America. Unseen parts in UK.
If you don't have the 10 season box set and are thinking of getting it. This is the best of the three money will buy you.