Star Trek: The Original Series (VHS)

Template:Realworld Star Trek: The Original Series has been released on VHS in multiple countries since the technology was developed. [[{{{1}}} (VHS)|{{{1}}}]]

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. In 1981, Paramount Home Entertainment released ten selected episodes on VHS in the United States, in five volumes of two episodes each: "The Menagerie, Part I"/"The Menagerie, Part II", "Amok Time"/"Journey to Babel", "The Enterprise Incident"/"The Immunity Syndrome", "The Trouble with Tribbles"/"Let That Be Your Last Battlefield", and "Balance of Terror"/"The City on the Edge of Forever". A special Paramount VHS release of "Space Seed" occurred in 1982 to tie in with the premiere of Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan. The complete series was finally released over the course of the late 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.

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. The original releases were deleted on 29 March 1996.

Release dates for the original 21 releases are not known. Dates in italics are approximations based on release frequency, where no exact date is available. UK products are normally released on a Monday.

Original release

The original CIC Video release was continuous, and did not separate out seasons. Consequently, the volume containing the final episode of a season will also have the first episode of the next season.

Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3

Vol.	Episodes	Certificate	Release Date	Catalogue Number
1	"The Cage"^[1]	U	unknown	VHR 2207
Season 1
2	"Where No Man Has Gone Before" "The Corbomite Maneuver"	U	unknown	VHR 2210
3	"Mudd's Women" "The Enemy Within"	U/PG^[2]	unknown	VHR 2244
4	"The Man Trap" "The Naked Time"	PG/U^[2]	unknown	VHR 2247
5	"Charlie X" "Balance of Terror"	U	unknown	VHR 2250
6	"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" "Dagger of the Mind"	U/PG^[2]	unknown	VHR 2253
7	"Miri" "The Conscience of the King"	PG	unknown	VHR 2256
8	"The Galileo Seven" "Court Martial"	PG	unknown	VHR 2258
9	"The Menagerie, Part I" "The Menagerie, Part II"	PG	unknown	VHR 2274
10	"Shore Leave" "The Squire of Gothos"	PG	unknown	VHR 2275
11	"Arena" "The Alternative Factor"	PG	unknown	VHR 2295
12	"Tomorrow is Yesterday" "The Return of the Archons"	PG	unknown	VHR 2305
13	"A Taste of Armageddon" "Space Seed"	PG	unknown	VHR 2306
14	"This Side of Paradise" "The Devil in the Dark"	PG	unknown	VHR 2307
15	"Errand of Mercy" "The City on the Edge of Forever"	U	unknown	VHR 2311
Season 2
16	"Operation -- Annihilate!" "Catspaw"	U	unknown	VHR 2328
17	"Metamorphosis" "Friday's Child"	PG	unknown	VHR 2329
18	"Who Mourns for Adonais?" "Amok Time"	PG	unknown	VHR 2343
19	"The Doomsday Machine" "Wolf in the Fold"	PG	unknown	VHR 2352
20	"The Changeling" "The Apple"	U	unknown	VHR 2353
21	"Mirror, Mirror" "The Deadly Years"	U	unknown	VHR 2356
22	"I, Mudd" "The Trouble with Tribbles"	U	2 April 1990	VHR 2357
23	"Bread and Circuses" "Journey to Babel"	PG	2 April 1990	VHR 2358
24	"A Private Little War" "The Gamesters of Triskelion"	PG	2 April 1990	VHR 2359
25	"Obsession" "The Immunity Syndrome"	U	7 May 1990	VHR 2360
26	"A Piece of the Action" "By Any Other Name"	U	4 June 1990	VHR 2361
27	"Return to Tomorrow" "Patterns of Force"	U	2 July 1990	VHR 2379
28	"The Ultimate Computer" "The Omega Glory"	U	6 August 1990	VHR 2380
Season 3
29	"Assignment: Earth" "Spectre of the Gun"	U	3 September 1990	VHR 2381
30	"Elaan of Troyius" "The Paradise Syndrome"	PG	3 September 1990	VHR 2382
31	"The Enterprise Incident" "And the Children Shall Lead"	PG	3 September 1990	VHR 2383
32	"Spock's Brain" "Is There in Truth No Beauty?"	PG	1 October 1990	VHR 2384
33	"The Empath" "The Tholian Web"	PG	1 October 1990	VHR 2385
34	"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" "Day of the Dove"	PG	7 January 1991	VHR 2430
35	"Plato's Stepchildren" "Wink of an Eye"	PG	7 January 1991	VHR 2431
36	"That Which Survives" "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"	U	7 January 1991	VHR 2432
37	"Whom Gods Destroy" "The Mark of Gideon"	PG	4 February 1991	VHR 2433
38	"The Lights of Zetar" "The Cloud Minders"	PG	4 February 1991	VHR 2434
39	"The Way to Eden" "Requiem for Methuselah"	PG	18 March 1991	VHR 2435
40^[3]	"The Savage Curtain" "All Our Yesterdays" "Turnabout Intruder"	PG	18 March 1991	VHR 2436

Re-release

Each episode in the series features an introduction by either James Doohan or George Takei or Walter Koenig.

Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3

Vol.	Episodes	Certificate	Release Date
Season 1
1.1	"The Cage" "Where No Man Has Gone Before" "The Corbomite Maneuver"	U	24 June 1996
1.2	"Mudd's Women" "The Enemy Within" "The Man Trap"	PG	8 July 1996
1.3	"The Naked Time" "Charlie X" "Balance of Terror"	U	8 July 1996
1.4	"What Are Little Girls Made Of?" "Dagger of the Mind" "Miri"	PG	5 August 1996
1.5	"The Conscience of the King" "The Galileo Seven" "Court Martial"	PG	9 September 1996
1.6	"The Menagerie, Part I" "The Menagerie, Part II" "Shore Leave"	PG	7 October 1997
1.7	"The Squire of Gothos" "Arena" "The Alternative Factor"	PG	4 November 1996
1.8	"Tomorrow is Yesterday" "The Return of the Archons" "A Taste of Armageddon"	PG	2 December 1996
1.9	"Space Seed" "This Side of Paradise" "The Devil in the Dark"	PG	30 December 1996
1.10	"Errand of Mercy" "The City on the Edge of Forever" "Operation -- Annihilate!"	U	13 January 1997
Season 2
2.1	"Catspaw" "Metamorphosis" "Friday's Child"	PG	3 February 1997
2.2	"Who Mourns for Adonais?" "Amok Time" "The Doomsday Machine"	PG	24 February 1997
2.3	"Wolf in the Fold" "The Changeling" "The Apple"	PG	10 March 1997
2.4	"Mirror, Mirror" "The Deadly Years" "I, Mudd"	U	7 April 1997
2.5	"The Trouble with Tribbles" "Bread and Circuses" "Journey to Babel"	PG	5 May 1997
2.6	"A Private Little War" "The Gamesters of Triskelion" "Obsession"	PG	2 June 1997
2.7	"The Immunity Syndrome" "A Piece of the Action" "By Any Other Name"	U	23 June 1997
2.8	"Return to Tomorrow" "Patterns of Force" "The Ultimate Computer"	U	21 July 1997
2.9^[4]	"The Omega Glory" "Assignment: Earth"	PG	22 August 1997
Season 3
3.1	"Spectre of the Gun" "Elaan of Troyius" "The Paradise Syndrome"	PG	1 September 1997
3.2	"The Enterprise Incident" "And the Children Shall Lead" "Spock's Brain"	PG	29 September 1997
3.3	"Is There in Truth No Beauty?" "The Empath" "The Tholian Web"	PG	6 October 1997
3.4	"For the World is Hollow and I Have Touched the Sky" "Day of the Dove" "Plato's Stepchildren"	PG	20 October 1997
3.5	"Wink of an Eye" "That Which Survives" "Let That Be Your Last Battlefield"	U	24 November 1997
3.6	"Whom Gods Destroy" "The Mark of Gideon" "The Lights of Zetar"	PG	5 January 1998
3.7	"The Cloud Minders" "The Way to Eden" "Requiem for Methuselah"	PG	2 February 1998
3.8	"The Savage Curtain" "All Our Yesterdays" "Turnabout Intruder"	PG	2 March 1998

Box sets and other releases

Vol./Set	Cover	Episodes	Certificate^[5]	Release Date	Catalogue Number
CIC-Arena Video releases		"Space Seed" "The Changeling"	PG^[6]	April 1983	VHL 2057
CIC-Arena Video releases		"Miri" "The Empath"^[7]	unrated^[8]	December 1983	VHL 2075
CIC Video release - "Double Bill"		"Whom Gods Destroy"^[9] "Plato's Stepchildren"^[10]	PG^[11]	October 1984	VHR 2084
The Cage All Colour Collectors Edition^[12]		"The Cage"	U	2 July 1990	VHR 2374
Star Trek - The Three Beginnings		"Where No Man Has Gone Before" "The Corbomite Maneuver"	PG	31 January 1994	VHR 2827
Star Trek - The Four Beginnings		"Where No Man Has Gone Before" "The Corbomite Maneuver"	PG	unknown
Star Trek - 30th Anniversary Trial Pack	No image yet.	"The Cage"	15^[13]	2 January 1996
Star Trek: The Original Series - Tricorder Pack		"The City on the Edge of Forever" "The Trouble with Tribbles"	PG	3 June 1996	VHR 4373
Star Trek - Greatest Battles		"Balance of Terror" "The Doomsday Machine"	12	16 November 1998	VHR 4732

Footnotes

↑ Mixed colour/black & white picture.
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Curiously, the cover for this volume displays a double certificate, indicating that episodes were rated for releases separately, instead of as a single volume.
↑ A three episode tape to end the series. This was likely more profitable to produce and market than a single episode release.
↑ Two episode tape.
↑ In the case of sets, the certificate is over the set as a whole (unless stated otherwise).
↑ Originally released unrated, the volume received a rating after 1985.
↑ This release was the first time this episode could be seen in the UK - the BBC having banned it from its original airing in 1971 (the episode would not be seen until 5 January 1994).
↑ Released prior to the Video Recordings Act 1984.
↑ This release was the first time this episode could be seen in the UK - the BBC having banned it from its original airing in 1971 (the episode would not be seen until 19 January 1994).
↑ This release was the first time this episode could be seen in the UK - the BBC having banned it from its original airing in 1971 (the episode would not be seen until 22 December 1993).
↑ Originally unrated, the volume received certification after 1985.
↑ Released after an all-colour print of the episode was uncovered.
↑ This rating (provided by Amazon.co.uk) appears anomalous - all four pilot episodes individually are rated no higher than PG.