Friends season 9

The ninth season of the American television sitcom Friends aired on NBC from September 26, 2002 to May 15, 2003.

The website Collider ranked the season #10 on their ranking of the ten Friends seasons. They wrote that the best episode of the season was "The One with Rachel's Other Sister".

Main cast

 * Jennifer Aniston as Rachel Green
 * Courteney Cox-Arquette 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

 * Paul Rudd as Mike Hannigan
 * Hank Azaria as David
 * Aisha Tyler as Charlie Wheeler
 * Dermot Mulroney as Gavin Mitchell
 * Phill Lewis as Steve
 * Melissa George as Molly
 * James Michael Tyler as Gunther

Guest stars

 * Maggie Wheeler as Janice Litman-Goralnik
 * Elliott Gould as Jack Geller
 * Christina Pickles as Judy Geller
 * Christina Applegate as Amy Green
 * Freddie Prinze Jr. as Sandy
 * Selma Blair as Wendy
 * John Stamos as Zack
 * Jeff Goldblum as Leonard Hayes
 * Cleo King as Nurse Kitty
 * Janet Hubert as Ms. McKenna
 * Kyle Gass as Lowell the Mugger
 * Dedee Pfeiffer as Mary Ellen
 * Elaine Hendrix as Sally

Episodes
denotes a "super-sized" episode, with a running time of 31:56 (excluding advertisement breaks).

United States ratings
Season 9 averaged 21.6 million viewers and finished as the second most watched show in the 2002–03 television season.

Home media
The ninth season was officially released on DVD in region 1 on March 8, 2005, as a 4-disc DVD Box Set. The release includes the extended versions of every episode, 3 audio commentaries, a closer look at the style of the series, a gag reel, a music video, a trivia challenge and Easter Eggs about the final season.

Season 9 was released on Blu-ray altogether with the rest of the series on the Complete Series releases; and as part of the special features the set include the original "super-sized" broadcast versions of several episodes from seasons 7, 9 & 10 apart from the original broadcast versions of every episode; the episodes from seasons 9 & 10 are presented in High Definition, while the ones from season 7 are presented in Standard Definition.