In this season, the show went back to airing one new episode a week, but stayed in the hourlength format, filling up the second halfhour with episodes from previous seasons and some of the primetime specials from the 1980s This entire season, along with the second half of season 6, is available on Garfield and Friends Volume 5 DVD版 set Also worth noting is that here, a new theme song was added that was written by JR Johnston and Neil Panton The theme was sung by JR Johnston This theme song was not shown internationally, and as a result, it does not appear on the DVD版s although Garfield's quotations are kept intact This new introduction sequence used most clips from Seasons 57 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
