Star Trek: The Original Series (VHS)
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Star Trek: The Original Series has been released on VHS in multiple countries since the technology was developed.
[edit] US Releases
Unofficial releases of episodes in the United States began in the late 1970s, with photo developer/video rental outlet Fotomat among those who issued episodes on VHS and Betamax. It was not until 1985 when Paramount Home Entertainment began releasing episodes on VHS in the United States. The complete series was released by the end of the 1980s, including both versions of "The Cage", first with Gene Roddenberry's workprint version, along with an introduction by Roddenberry produced especially for the VHS release in 1986, and the full-color version of the episode in 1989. The workprint version, complete with Roddenberry intro is available on Volume 40 of the original DVD releases and the TOS Season 3 DVD set. The color version was also released in 1995 on a tape by Paramount with "Where No Man Has Gone Before", as part of a four-tape boxed set featuring the pilots for the first four series.
Paramount reissued the VHS tapes in 1993 with new packaging and collectible Skybox trading cards for each episode.
CBS Video Library/Columbia House also issued tapes of the series in 1986, featuring two episodes per tape. For most of the run of the library releases, the introductory volume was "The Menagerie, Part I" and "The Menagerie, Part II".
Paramount fully phased out releases of the series on VHS by the end of the 1990s-early 2000s.
[edit] UK releases
Specific episodes of The Original Series were first released by CIC-Arena Video in the early 1980s. The series in its entirety was released twice in the UK by CIC Video - a two-episode-per-tape release from 1988-1991, and a three-episode-per-tape release from 1996-1998.
[edit] See also
| VHS releases |
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| The Original Series • The Animated Series • Star Trek movies • The Next Generation • Deep Space Nine • Voyager • Enterprise |
| Releases in the United Kingdom |
