The series was originally aired insyndication in the United States, distributed byThe Program Exchange. The second season aired on Saturday mornings onCBS. Each half-hour series consists of three six- or seven-minute episodes. The show was sponsored byGeneral Mills, who is also credited as the show's copyright owner.[3]
In 1987,CBS/Fox Video (under the Playhouse Video branding) made a 75-minute VHS three-volume series, by combining the stories into direct-to-video movies, and the producers created new transitional segments.[4] The 65 episodes that were planned to be released on videocassette byFamily Home Entertainment via a contract was signed in November 1985, then it was proceeded into a lawsuit by the show's producers,DIC Enterprises.[5] On June 2, 1993,CBS/FOX Video released seven VHS compilations in the United States:
Dennis' Great Adventure – contains the episodesAll the President's Menace,The Abominable Snow Menace,Dennis in Venice andThe Big Candied Apple.
Animal Antics – contains the episodesLean, Green Jumping Machine,Shark Treatment,Jungle Bungle andDinosaur Doozy.
Boys Will Be Boys – contains the episodesDisaster on the Green,Baseball's Best Ballplayer,Soccer it to Me, Dennis andRacetrack Menace.
Spies, Robbers and Ghosts – contains the episodesGhost Blusters,The Monster of Mudville Flats,Young Sherlock Dennis andThe Defective Detector.
Movie Exclusive - The Mitchell's Move (1987) - Dennis' father Henry gets promoted to a new job in his business, only his job is in Alaska, and Dennis and his family have to move in one week. Features the episodesThe Boss Gets Scalped,The Big Candied Apple,Going to the Dogs,Vampire Scare,A Royal Pain,Trembly Assembly, andShock Therapy.
Dennis the Menace: Memory Mayhem (1987) - Features the episodesFuture Fortune,A Good Knight's Work,A Moving Experience,Home Destruction,The Invisible Kid,Tanks for the Memories, andCheer Up.
On March 18, 2008,20th Century Fox Home Entertainment released a select 7-episode DVD entitledDennis the Menace: Trouble, Trouble Everywhere inRegion 1. This compilation includes the episodesDennis in Venice,Mayan Mayhem,The Big Candied Apple,A Royal Pain,Dennis and the Kangaroo Cavalry,Dennis Plasters Pamplona andBlack and Blue Hawaii.
On March 18, 2014, Mill Creek Entertainment (under license fromDHX Media) releasedDennis the Menace – Volume One on DVD in Region 1.[6] The 3-disc set contains the first 33 episodes of the series. On August 5, 2014, Mill Creek releasedDennis the Menace - Lights! Camera! Menace!, which contains the remaining 32 episodes from the first season.[7]
On September 6, 2016, Mill Creek releasedDennis the Menace- The Complete Series 1 & 2 on DVD in Region 1 for the very first time.[8] The 9-disc set contains all 78 episodes of the 1986–1988 series, including the final 13 episodes which were previously unreleased.
^Perlmutter, David (2018).The Encyclopedia of American Animated Television Shows. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 150.ISBN978-1538103739.
^Erickson, Hal (2005).Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. pp. 238–240.ISBN978-1476665993.
^"CBS/Fox To Bow Animated 'Menace'".Variety. November 26, 1986. p. 40.
^"DIC Sues FHE".Variety. February 11, 1987. p. 46.
^The first season was co-produced in France and the United States, while the second season was co-produced in the latter country and Canada.
^The first season was produced byDIC Audiovisuel. After the closure of its studios in France in 1987, the second season was produced byDIC Animation City.
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