Friends season 4 explained

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Next Season:	Season 5
Episode List:	List of Friends episodes
Season Number:	4

The fourth season of the American television sitcom Friends aired on NBC from September 25, 1997 to May 7, 1998.

The website Collider ranked the season #8 on their ranking of the ten Friends seasons.^[1] They wrote that the best episode of the season was "The One with the Embryos".

Cast and characters

See main article: article and List of Friends characters.

Main cast

• Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green
• Courteney Cox as Monica Geller
• Lisa Kudrow as Phoebe Buffay
• Matt LeBlanc as Joey Tribbiani
• Matthew Perry as Chandler Bing
• David Schwimmer as Ross Geller

Recurring cast

• Helen Baxendale as Emily Waltham
• Tate Donovan as Joshua Burgin
• Giovanni Ribisi as Frank Buffay, Jr.
• Debra Jo Rupp as Alice Knight
• Alison La Placa as Joanna
• Michael G. Hagerty as Mr. Treeger
• James Michael Tyler as Gunther
• Teri Garr as Phoebe Abbott
• Laura Dean as Sophie
• Paget Brewster as Kathy

Guest stars

• Maggie Wheeler as Janice Litman
• Elliott Gould as Jack Geller
• Christina Pickles as Judy Geller
• Jane Sibbett as Carol Willick
• Jessica Hecht as Susan Bunch
• Penn Jillette as Encyclopedia Salesman
• Jason Brooks as Rick
• Michael Vartan as Tim Burke
• Dan Gauthier as Chip Matthews
• Rebecca Romijn as Cheryl
• Taylor Negron as Alessandro
• Sherri Shepherd as Rhonda, the tour guide
• Tom Conti as Steven Waltham
• Jennifer Saunders as Andrea Waltham
• June Whitfield as the housekeeper
• Olivia Williams as Felicity
• Jane Carr as the ticket agent
• Sarah Ferguson as herself
• Charlton Heston as himself
• Christina Moore as Marjorie
• Hugh Laurie as The Gentleman on the Plane
• Richard Branson as souvenir seller

Episodes

See also: List of Friends episodes.

Home media

The fourth season was officially released on DVD in region 1 on July 15, 2003, as a 4-disc DVD Box Set. The release includes the extended versions of every episode with footage not seen on their original NBC broadcast. Special Features include 3 audio commentaries with executive producers Kevin S. Bright, Marta Kaufmann and David Crane, a video guide to season four's guest stars, a full-length documentary exploring the Friends phenomenon in other countries, a trivia quiz and video character bios.For region 2, the release included the original NBC broadcast version of the episodes, and not the extended versions unlike the region 1 release.

Season 4 was released on Blu-ray altogether with the rest of the series on the Complete Series releases; in this releases the episodes are presented in their original NBC broadcast versions and does not include the extra deleted scenes and jokes that were included in the DVD version. Additional audio & subtitle tracks are also included with this releases.

Friends: The Complete Fourth Season
Set Details			Special Features
23 episodes (1 double-length episode) 4-disc set (DVD) 2 discs (Blu-ray) English (Dolby 5.0 Surround) (DVD) English (Dolby Digital 5.1) (Blu-ray) English, French, Spanish, Chinese & Korean subtitles Audio Commentaries 561 minutes (DVD) 535 minutes (Blu-ray)			Over 30 minutes of Never-Before-Seen footage included on every episode (DVD Only) Producers Commentary on 3 episodes: "The One With Chandler in a Box", "The One with the Embryos" and "The One with Ross's Wedding" Friends Around the World: An All-New Documentary Friends of Friends: Video Guestbook What's Up With Your Friends: Video Character Bios Who Knows Whom Best?: Trivia Quiz (DVD Only)
Release Dates
Region 1		Region 2		Region 4
July 15, 2003		May 29, 2000		October 4, 2006

Notes and References

1. Web site: 'Friends' Seasons Ranked from Worst to Best. Adam. Chitwood. . December 26, 2019.