在初唐，一位胸怀大爱的智者玄奘似乎找到了解救世人的方法，传说玄奘法师为十世金禅转世，在这十世间玄奘以不同的身份、不同职业不断地寻找解救世人的方法，在经历九世的失败后，玄奘终于悟得济世法门---【治心才能治人】。
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.
大明初起，明太祖朱元璋设锦衣卫亲军指挥使司，后分设南北镇抚司，稽查百官，权势煊赫。锦衣卫沿袭百年，南北镇抚司势如水火，相争不下。朝堂党争激烈，江湖盗匪猖獗，盛世繁华之下，却隐藏着汹涌暗流……
