TNG Season 1 UK VHS
Star Trek: The Next Generation Season 1 was released onVHS in theUK byCIC Video in two different formats: a two-episode-per-tape release in1990-1991, and a three-episode-per-tape release in1998. The original release was deleted on1 January1998.
Releases[]
- Dates in italics are approximations based on release frequency, where no exact date is available. UK products are normally released on a Monday.
Rental releases[]
- New Stars. New Stories. New Worlds to Explore.
A rental release also took place starting from early1988. While it generally followed the original broadcast order there were a few differences. Two episodes of the season, "Too Short A Season" and "Home Soil" for unknown reasons were not released in this run. At least the first two volumes were also released onBetamax.For the initial rental releases, the two episodes on each tape were re-edited to somewhat flow together. The credits for guest stars, writers, etc, for both episodes would all be shown during the first episode after the title sequence with the main cast credits. The first episode would then have no ending credits and would simply fade to black at the end. The next episode would then begin, it would have no title sequence or on-screen guest credits but it would show the episode title on-screen as normal, then at the end it would have credits covering the cast and crew for both episodes. It is unclear why they went to the trouble of editing the episodes like this.
A four-episode-per-tape release also took place in the early 1990s, albeit exclusive toBlockbuster Video (UK) only. This release did not take account of season divisions, and so the volume containing the last episodes of a season would sometimes also include the first episodes of the next.
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From 1988 onward (starting with theNext Generation rentals), the UK CIC Video releases had served as the template for allStar Trek tape releases in the rest of Europe, Australasia (it being aPAL territory as well), and Japan (despite being a NTSC territory), with local branches of CIC Video responsible for eithersubtitling or dubbing in the language of the target market, as well as optionally adapting sleeve cover art to local tastes. The later Netherlands/Flanders video case sleeve cover art for example, was virtually indistinguishable from their UK counterparts, save for the ratings and text imprint language of the episode summaries/disclaimers on the back cover art.
CIC Video had entered into a joint venture with Swedish distributorEsselte Video in the earlyNext Generation rental days for several northern European countries, which included the Netherlands and the Nordics. And while the earliest released rentals were based off CIC's sleeve design, they did sport a somewhat revised redesign. This was especially evident on the covers of the Norwegian and Swedish[1] Volume 4 rentals which featured a photo-shopped image of theUSSEnterprise-D battling theUSSReliant fromStar Trek II: The Wrath of Khan aside from sporting the hyperbolic "Starfight" title. The early Dutch Volume 1 Esselte variant rental also sported a likewise withspace stationRegula I edited sleeve cover, but the cover sleeves of later Dutch rental/retail releases at least became (translated) clones of their UK counterparts.
Along with their 1990-91 counterpart retail issues, CIC Video also re-released VHS tapes for the Blockbuster Video UK rental circuit. These rental reissues differed in this respect from the retail releases by containing four episodes instead of two as what they called "Rental Exclusives". Obviously not intended for retail sale, some copies did turn up in the second hand market after all, among others through the UK Blockbuster Video rental chain itself[1], after the VHS/DVD rental circuit ceased to exist a couple of years later.
| Volume Number | Catalogue Number | Cover | Episodes | Certificate | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VHB 2261 |  |  | 4 January1988 | |
| 2 | VHB 2264 |  |  | ||
| 3 | VHB 2273 |  | |||
| 4 | VHB 2279 |  | 7 November1988 | ||
| 5 | VHB 2284 |  | |||
| 6 | Unknown |  | |||
| 7 | VHB 2298 |  | 3 April1989 | ||
| 8 | VHB 2315 |  | | ||
| 9 | VHB 2327 |  | | ||
| 10 | Unknown |  | Unknown | September 1989[3] | |
| 11 | VHB 2349 |  | | 6 November1989 | |
| 12 | VHB 2371 |  | | ||
| 1 | VHB 2941 |  | | Unknown, but judging from their cover sleeve redesign almost certainly alongside their 1990-91 retail counterparts | |
| 2 | VHB 2942 |  | |||
| 3 | VHB 2943 |  | |||
| 4 | VHB 2944 |  | |||
| 5 | VHB 2945 |  | |||
| 6 | VHB 2946 |  | |||
| 7 | VHB 2947 |  | |||
Original release[]
- New Stars. New Stories. New Worlds to Explore.
| Volume Number | Catalogue Number | Cover | Episodes | Certificate | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VHR 2261 |  ASIN B00004RO8J | | 2 April1990 | |
| 2 | VHR 2264 |  ASIN B0F6NT2ZJX | | 7 May1990 | |
| 3 | VHR 2273 |  ASIN B00004RVJF | 2 July1990 | ||
| 4[5] | VHR 2395 |  ASIN B00008T2AL | 6 August1990 | ||
| 5 | VHR 2396 |  ASIN B00008T2AM | 3 September1990 | ||
| 6 | VHR 2397 |  ASIN B000057N5J | 1 October1990 | ||
| 7 | VHR 2398 |  ASIN B0F7Y8YNXW | 5 November1990 | ||
| 8 | VHR 2437 |  ASIN B00004RVJH | 7 January1991 | ||
| 9 | VHR 2438 |  ASIN B0F6NWYP3P | 4 February1991 | ||
| 10 | VHR 2439 |  ASIN B000057N5L | | 1 April1991 | |
| 11 | VHR 2440 |  | | 8 April1991 | |
| 12 | VHR 2441 |  ASIN B000057N5M | 7 May1991[6] | ||
| 13[7] | VHR 2466 |  ASIN B000057N5N | 7 May1991[6] |
Re-release[]
- Make It So
A format unheard of in the US, where the one-episode per tape was the VHS release standard for "Trekkies", the European three/four-episode per tape retail release was initiated after the favorable reception of the similarly executed 1996-98Original Series multi-episode per tape reissue. As a clear-cut case of "market discrimination", Americans had to wait for the advent of the 2002DVD season box sets to make matters right for them.
| Volume Number | Catalogue Number | Cover | Episodes | Certificate | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1.1 | VHR 4642 |  ASIN B0CVQBG368 | with Sticker Enterprise (grey) | | 20 April1998 |
| 1.2 | VHR 4643 |  ASIN B0CVQHDWW2 | with Sticker Ferengi ship | 4 May1998 | |
| 1.3 | VHR 4644 |  ASIN B0CVQGD96F | with Sticker Romulan Warbird (purple nebula) | 1 June1998 | |
| 1.4 | VHR 4645 |  ASIN B0CVQH9532 | with Sticker Klingon Bird of Prey (with wormhole) | 15 June1998 | |
| 1.5 | VHR 4646 |  ASIN B0CVQ6VBDM | with Sticker Borg ship (green nebula) | 6 July1998 | |
| 1.6 | VHR 4647 |  ASIN B00004CWVI | with Sticker Romulan Warbird (blue nebula) | 10 August1998 | |
| 1.7[8] | VHR 4648 |  ASIN B0CVQP4Z5G | with Sticker Enterprise (green nebula) | 7 September1998 | |
| 1.8[8] | VHR 4649 |  ASIN B0CVQ9V8FC | with Sticker Enterprise (Phaser and Torpedo) | 5 October1998 | |
| 1 | PVS 70661 |  ASIN B0CBRPF3PF | 1997 | ||
Other releases featuring TNG Season 1 episodes[]
| Volume/Set | Catalogue Number | Cover | Episodes | Certificate[10] | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Star Trek - The Three Beginnings | VHR 2827 |  | | 31 January1994 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - Q Continuum, Tape 1 | VHR 2990 |  ASIN B00004CPRI | | 5 December1994 | |
| Star Trek: The Next Generation - The Full Length TV Movies, Volume 1 | VHR 4101 |  ASIN B00004CPTO | 16 January1995 | ||
| Star Trek - The Four Beginnings |  | | 1995 | ||
| Star Trek - 30th Anniversary Trial Pack | No image yet. | 2 January1996 |
External links[]
- Original release VHS sleeve gallery atTrekCore
- Re-release VHS sleeve gallery atTrekCore
- Star Trek VHS: A Trekollections Curveball (Part I) atSome Kind of Star Trek
Footnotes[]
- ↑Rental copies had the distinct advantage over their retail counterparts in that they were much sturdier; confronted with intensive use, the rental copies were manufactured with much thicker tapes than the retail copies were, which improved their longevity substantially.
- ↑2.02.12.22.3This episode was given the British-spelled title of "Code of Honour" on the video sleeve.
- ↑As indicated on inside sleeve
- ↑Also includes "The Child" and "Where Silence Has Lease" fromSeason 2.
- ↑This cover image features rehearsal footage from "Lonely Among Us" and showsLeVar Burton minus hisVISOR.
- ↑6.06.1This volume was released on a Tuesday, as opposed to the usual Monday, due to the UK May Day Bank Holiday.
- ↑Natasha Yar's face is obscured by shadow on the video sleeve, reflecting her death in the previous volume.
- ↑8.08.1Four episode tape. (This was usually done to keep the number of episodes per tape above three towards the end of a season.)
- ↑In Italy, it were seasons 2 through 7 that adhered to the new CIC Video UK cover design/artwork, whereas its first season featured the cover design that had been based off the 1996-97US Season 5 single-episode/tape release run. The latter incidentally, also explains the incongruous inclusion ofGuinan on the Italian first season VHS front covers and the absence of Natasha Yar andWesley Crusher.
- ↑In the case of sets, the certificate is over the set as a whole (unless stated otherwise).
| First UK VHS release in series | Star Trek: The Next GenerationUKVHS TNG Season 1 | Next UK VHS release: TNG Season 2 UK VHS |
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