Stars: Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt Le Blanc, Matthew Perry, David Schwimmer

Director: Peter Bonerz

Summary: Featuring the episodes: 'The One Where The Underdog Gets Away', 'The One With The Monkey', 'The One With Mrs Bing', 'The One With The Dozen Lasagnes', 'The One With The Boobies', 'The One With The Candy Hearts', 'The One With The Stoned Guy' and 'The One With The Two Parts - Part 1'.

FRIENDS, the popular American TV series, first appeared in 1994, to little fanfare. However,Monica (Courteney Cox), Rachel (Jennifer Aniston), Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow), Joey (Matt LeBlanc), Ross (David Schwimmer), and Chandler (Matthew Perry) caught the popular imagination of the US and subsequently became one of the most successful TV shows in US history and amassed a huge international following as well. This set contains episodes 9-16 of the first season of the series: "The One Where Underdog Gets Away," "The One with the Monkey," "The One with Mrs. Bing," "The One with the Dozen Lasagnas," "The One with the Boobies," "The One with the Candy Hearts," "The One with the Stoned Guy," and "The One with Two Parts - Part 1."

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Season 1: When the first series of Friends debuted in September 1994, it was immediately obvious there would be no need for the show to find its feet. "The One Where Monica Gets a Roommate" was a confident introduction to the six lead characters, opening in the middle of an everyday conversation with the soon-to-be uncharacteristic line: "There's nothing to tell". In fact, the soap opera-style plot got complicated pretty quickly, with spoiled brat Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) moving on from her failed wedding to feelings toward nerdy/heartthrob Ross (David Schwimmer). However, no love life was more complicated than Joey's (Matt LeBlanc), with an endless stream of girlfriends that annoyed the hell out of wisecracking roommate Chandler (Matthew Perry), who only seemed to be able to connect with Janice (Maggie Wheeler), the shrillest voice in the city. Bouncing all manner of neuroses around them were Ross' obsessive sister Monica (Courteney Cox) and endearingly ditzy Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow). Premise established, Series 1 matured the characters by providing a monkey and a son for Ross. We met also meet Ross and Monica's parents Jack (Elliott Gould) and Judy (Christina Pickles), Chandler's mother (Morgan Fairchild) and Phoebe's twin sister Ursula (Kudrow, naturally). Fans loved cameos from George Clooney, Jay Leno and show creators Kevin Bright, Marta Kauffman and David Crane. But really the focus was on building to "T.O.W. Rachel Finds Out" that Ross is in love with her. --Paul Tonks

Aspect Ratio:	1.33 Full Screen
Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Interactive Menus, Scene Access, The Rembrandts Music Video, Web Enabled
Subtitles:	Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish
Year:	1994
Release Date:	May 29, 2000
Runtime:	174 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	D 017995
Keywords:	Friends, Comedy, General, Series, Tv, Closed Captioned, Episodes, Vols
Genre:	Comedy