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American Dad! season 7

season of television series

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ3727581 ↗
Source-derived summary

The seventh season of American Dad! originally aired on the Fox Network in nineteen episodes from October 3, 2010, to May 22, 2011, before being released as on a DVD box set and in syndication. Guest stars of this season include Jason Alexander, Sarah Chalke, Hector Elizondo, Anthony Michael Hall, Hayden Panettiere, Lou Diamond Phillips and Burt Reynolds.

Episodes

Home media release

All nineteen episodes of the seventh season were released on DVD by 20th Century Fox in the United States on April 17, 2012, and in the United Kingdom on May 14, 2012.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “American Dad! season 7” as season of television series. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewBest approached as a cultural-object dossier: authorship and date matter, but circulation and reception often explain the wider significance. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2010, 2011, 2012—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where American, season and television can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the arts & letters register because the source frames it as season of television series. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Reception evidence should be dated and situated: later canonical status may differ sharply from the work’s initial circulation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3727581. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2010, 2011 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “American Dad! season 7” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.