--- title: "Family Guy season 9 episode guide | familyguy.co.uk" canonical: "https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-9/" updatedDate: 2026-09-06 author: Alex Moss description: "All 18 episodes of Family Guy season 9, first broadcast 26 September 2010 to 22 May 2011, with air dates, writers and directors." --- # Family Guy season 9 18 episodes, first broadcast 26 September 2010 to 22 May 2011. Titles, air dates, writers and directors for each, in broadcast order. ## Episodes | No. | Code | Title | First aired | Written by | Directed by | Story | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | S09E01 | [And Then There Were Fewer](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e01-and-then-there-were-fewer/) | 26 Sept 2010 | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong | Dominic Polcino | James Woods invites the people of Quahog to a dinner at his island mansion, saying his girlfriend Priscilla has brought him to religion and he wants to atone. | | 2 | S09E02 | [Excellence in Broadcasting](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e02-excellence-in-broadcasting/) | 3 Oct 2010 | Patrick Meighan | John Holmquist | A news bulletin confirms that Diane Simmons was the killer at James Woods's mansion, clearing Tom Tucker, who introduces her replacement, Joyce Kinney. | | 3 | S09E03 | [Welcome Back, Carter](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e03-welcome-back-carter/) | 10 Oct 2010 | Wellesley Wild | Cyndi Tang | Lois and Peter visit her parents, and while fetching Carter Pewterschmidt for dinner Peter finds him having sex with another woman aboard his yacht. | | 4 | S09E04 | [Halloween on Spooner Street](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e04-halloween-on-spooner-street/) | 7 Nov 2010 | Andrew Goldberg | Jerry Langford | Peter and Joe spend Halloween playing tricks on Quagmire, pelting him with eggs, having Joe seduce him in disguise and infecting him with a mosquito-borne illness. | | 5 | S09E05 | [Baby, You Knock Me Out](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e05-baby-you-knock-me-out/) | 14 Nov 2010 | Alex Carter | Julius Wu | For Peter's birthday Quagmire hands him tickets to a women's boxing club, where Lois is put forward for a bout and flattens her opponent at once. | | 6 | S09E06 | [Brian Writes a Bestseller](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e06-brian-writes-a-bestseller/) | 21 Nov 2010 | Gary Janetti | Joseph Lee | Crates of unsold copies of Brian's novel Faster Than the Speed of Love arrive in the post and he gives up writing, until he notices a self-help title at the top of... | | 7 | S09E07 | [Road to the North Pole](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e07-road-to-the-north-pole/) | 12 Dec 2010 | Chris Sheridan and Danny Smith | Greg Colton | The mall Santa brushes Stewie off on Christmas Eve, so Stewie sets out to kill him and Brian follows. | | 8 | S09E08 | [New Kidney in Town](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e08-new-kidney-in-town/) | 9 Jan 2011 | Matt Harrigan and Dave Willis | Pete Michels | Quagmire gives Peter his first Red Bull at the Drunken Clam, and Peter is soon drinking it by the pack and doing everything at speed. | | 9 | S09E09 | [And I'm Joyce Kinney](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e09-and-im-joyce-kinney/) | 16 Jan 2011 | Alec Sulkin | Dominic Bianchi | Lois takes a liking to the new co-anchor Joyce Kinney and runs into her while buying ingredients for a church bake sale. | | 10 | S09E10 | [Friends of Peter G.](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e10-friends-of-peter-g/) | 13 Feb 2011 | Brian Scully | John Holmquist | Peter smuggles spirits into a screening of The Sound of Music, and Joe arrests him and Brian for the disturbance. | | 11 | S09E11 | [German Guy](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e11-german-guy/) | 20 Feb 2011 | Patrick Meighan | Cyndi Tang | Told to find a hobby, Chris tries stamp collecting and drinking with Peter before wandering into a new puppet shop and befriending its owner, Franz Gutentag. | | 12 | S09E12 | [The Hand That Rocks the Wheelchair](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e12-the-hand-that-rocks-the-wheelchair/) | 6 Mar 2011 | Tom Devanney | Brian Iles | Bonnie needs someone to mind Joe and Susie while she is away, and Lois hands the job to Meg. | | 13 | S09E13 | [Trading Places](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e13-trading-places/) | 20 Mar 2011 | Steve Callaghan | Joseph Lee | Peter wins a dirt bike in a televised contest by keeping a hand on it for nine hours, seeing off Mayor West with a text message that makes him let go. | | 14 | S09E14 | [Tiegs for Two](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e14-tiegs-for-two/) | 10 Apr 2011 | John Viener | Jerry Langford | Brian takes a new acquaintance, Denise, on a date that comes to nothing, and rather than give up he signs on for a class Quagmire is running on picking up women. | | 15 | S09E15 | [Brothers & Sisters](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e15-brothers-and-sisters/) | 17 Apr 2011 | Alex Carter | Julius Wu | Carol Pewterschmidt arrives at the Griffin house in low spirits after her ninth husband leaves her, and Lois takes her in. | | 16 | S09E16 | [The Big Bang Theory](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e16-the-big-bang-theory/) | 8 May 2011 | David A. Goodman | Dominic Polcino | Stewie works out that his own travels in time caused the Big Bang and so brought the universe into being. | | 17 | S09E17 | [Foreign Affairs](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e17-foreign-affairs/) | 15 May 2011 | Anthony Blasucci and Mike Desilets | Pete Michels | Lois and Bonnie go to Paris together, and once there Lois learns that Bonnie has made the trip to have an affair. | | 18 | S09E18 | [It's a Trap!](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/s09e18-its-a-trap/) | 22 May 2011 | Cherry Chevapravatdumrong and David A. Goodman | Peter Shin | Another power cut sends Peter into a retelling of Return of the Jedi. | ## Navigation - Previous season: [Season 8](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-8/) - Next season: [Season 10](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/season-10/) - All episodes: [Family Guy episode guide](https://familyguy.co.uk/episodes/) --- Unofficial fan resource. 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