Home Media Releases and Worldwide Airings
In the United Kingdom there were a few video releases from the Video Collection (VCI International, now known as 2 Entertain) covering all of series one (including the unedited opening special) bar the episode Megattack; plus several releases of most (but not all of) Series 1 from Tring International. Also in the UK BMG Video only released one video featuring 4 episodes of series 2.
The first two episodes were originally combined to form the Opening Special which contained extra footage that was edited out from the 22 minute TV broadcast versions of the Opening Special. The first six episodes of this season have been released on DVD in the UK by Abbey Home Media. At the present time there are no plans to release more episodes on DVD, due to poor promotion and distribution of Filmfair's catalog by Abbey.
The videos can still be found on sites like Amazon and eBay's UK sites from time to time, as well as the DVD releases.
There were 6 videos from released by an Australian company called Reel Entertainment featuring the first 12 episodes of series 3 released only in Australia. There was also another video release, presumably of the first 3 episodes of Series 1. In Australia (where the show aired on ABC TV) the episode title "Wottles" was actually spelled "Woitles".
In the USA, Fisher Price released a single video of The Dreamstone. It's likely it only contained the opening pilot special.
The show was aired in the commonwealth countries of Canada (on Showcase) and Australia (on ABC), it was also aired in Germany (on RTL II, KIKA (Kinderkanal)), Austria (on Orf 1) as 'Der Traumstein', and as 'Pedra Dos Sonhos' in Spain and Portugal. It also aired in most of South America such as Brazil and Argentina, but only series 1 and 2 were aired there.
At the start of 2010, series 1 and 2 had been available for free viewing on Cookie Jar Entertainment's 'Jaroo' online service via a scheduled service (see 'External Links' below for the web link). The service will rotate itself within the majority of a few months, allowing people to view up to five episodes at a time, until all the episodes have been shown and the process will start over. Currentily series 3 and 4 have not been shown on Jaroo, this is due to ownership of these series by the company Dreamstone Productions Ltd. At present, there has been no discussions between the two companies in regards to the rights of the remaining two series. It's unknown at this point if there will be, but fans are hopeful that an agreement could be reached in the future.
Read more about this topic: The Dreamstone
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