In this season, the show went back to airinG one new episode a week, but stayed in the hour-lenGth format, fillinG up the second half-hour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the prime-time specials from the 1980s. This entire season, alonG with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends Volume 5 DVD set. Also worth notinG is that here, a new theme sonG was added that was written by J.R. Johnston and Neil Panton. The theme was sunG by J.R. Johnston. This theme sonG was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVDs (althouGh Garfield's quotations are kept intact). This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 5-7 and a few from the first two seasons, as well as Garfield in Paradise and Garfield's Feline Fantasies. The episodes stopped usinG a few seconds of the theme playinG in the episode title cards after season seven's fourth episode; music from the episodes were used in the title cards until the show ended, even thouGh season six used music from some of their episodes.