Season 7

The seventh season began airing on September 17, 1995 with the first episode, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" and ended on May 19, 1996 with "Summer of 4ft. 2", which the season premiere is also the concluding part of the only two part episode from the first part which aired as the season finale of the previous season. David Mirkin executive produced four holdover episodes, "Who Shot Mr. Burns? (Part Two)" and "Radioactive Man", the latter which is the series first episode to be digitally coloured (A technique that would not be repeated until Season 12's "Tennis the Menace" and permanently with and after Season 14's "The Great Louse Detective") before Bill Oakley and Josh Weinstein would executive produced the remaining 21 episodes and the following season and its holdovers. Season 7 is also the first season to use CGI as the third segment of "Treehouse of Horror VI" had Homer computer animated as well as Bart.

The season was nominated for two Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Animated Program and had won an Annie Award for Best Animated Television Program.

All 25 episodes of Season 7 including extras were released on DVD on December 13, 2005 in Region 1, January 30, 2006 in Region 2 and March 22, 2006 in Region 4. Like the previous season, two versions of the DVD boxset was produced. One being a regular boxset and the other being encased completely by a Simpsons character's head. In this season being Marge.

DVD Release
Season 6 was released on DVD in its entirety as The Complete Sixth Season Boxset on December 21, 2004 in region 1, March 21, 2005 in Region 2 and March 23, 2005 in Region by 20th Century Fox. While primarily containing the original 22 episodes, the boxset also consists on bonus features such as storyboards.

Awards
The sixth season won one Emmy Award, and received three other nominations. "Lisa's Wedding" won the Emmy for "Outstanding Animated Program (for Programming One Hour or Less). Alf Clausen was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Composition for a Series (Dramatic Underscore)" for "Treehouse of Horror V", while he and John Swartzwelder were nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics" for the Stonecutters' song "We Do" in the episode "Homer the Great". Finally, "Bart vs. Australia" was nominated for "Outstanding Individual Achievement in Sound Mixing for a Comedy Series or a Special".