Star Trek: The Original Series (Betamax)

was released on the Betamax format in the US, UK, and Australia throughout the 1980s.
==US releases==
In early 1980, directly pursuant the premiere of , Paramount Home Entertainment (then known as Paramount Home Video) released ten selected episodes on the new VHS and Betamax home media formats in the United States, in five volumes of two episodes each as part of their "Television Classics" collection: /, /, /, /, and /. Released in conjuncture, or rather as appetizers for the in October released The Motion Picture videotape formats, they together are as such the earliest known official (thereby discounting any and all possible previous and illegal so-called "s", Original Series "blooper reels" being a prime example, and including the prior Super 8 releases) Star Trek releases in either format, or in any home media format for that matter. A bit puzzling was, that unlike its Motion Picture releases, Paramount did not endow the Original Series releases with catalog numbers or rating indicators. 
It was these tapes that very shortly thereafter turned up as the first Star Trek productions in the VHS/Betamax rental circuit. In mid-1979, Paramount Home Video hammered out a deal with photo developer/video rental outlet to release thirty-six titles of their backlog catalog on the new home media formats for the rental circuit, who started to do so from December 1979 onward, thereby becoming one of the very first such rental companies. From March 1980 onward, Paramount gradually expanded the original agreement to 131 titles, and it was only after that occasion that all six available Star Trek videotape titles were added to Fotomat's rental catalog. Fotomat had the Paramount introductory logos, disclaimers, and credits on the rental tapes, the ones normally seen prior to the feature presentation, replaced with their own. The tapes were additionally packaged in simple die-cut silver cases with black markings and the Fotomat logo on the case. The labels were black with white text. At the time, a tape could be either be rented for US$12, or, later, for those customers who had missed out on the initial chance to acquire the Paramount tapes, purchased for a price in the US$40-$70 range, both rather steep for that era. Ever since, Star Trek has been a staple in the rental circuit, until Betamax tapes were phased out in the late-1980s and early 1990s, to be followed by the VHS tapes over a decade later.
A further one-off Betamax/VHS release of the episode took place in under the Paramount Gateway Video label, coinciding with the theatrical release of . A complete release of the series eventually followed, starting in . Paramount issued episodes in batches (or Groups as they called them) every few months in broadcast order (though the tapes were numbered in production order). Each tape contained a single episode and each Group had around ten episodes each. Both parts of "The Menagerie" were issued on a single tape. These releases concluded in with the release of Groups 7 and 8, which featured the remaining eighteen episodes. Some of these later episodes were released in both in Betamax-sized boxes and VHS-sized boxes with a "Beta" sticker and appropriate ISBN barcode added.
 was released twice. The first had the black and white scenes from Gene Roddenberry's copy of the original episode and was released in . Following the discovery of the missing color scenes, an "All-Color Collector's Edition" was released in .
Season 1 • Season 2 • Season 3Box sets and other collections
Tape 	Cover 	Episodes	Release Date	Reference
Season 1	Season 1	Season 1	Season 1 	Season 1
1 	 	
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2 	 	
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3 	 	
: 	 	60040-02
4 	 	
: 	 	60040-07
5 	 	
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6 	 	
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7 	 	
: 	 	60040-10
8 	 	
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9 	 	
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10 	 	
: 	 	60040-03
11 	 	
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12 	 	
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13 	 	
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14 	 	
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15 	 	
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16 	 	
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17 	 	
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18 	 	
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19 	 	
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20 	 	
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21 	 	
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22 	 	
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23 	 	
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24 	 	
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25 	 	
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26 	 	
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27 	 	
:"Special Home Video Version"; due to copyright issues the original recording of the music "Goodnight, Sweetheart" was replaced.	 	60040-28
28 	 	
: 	 	60040-29
Season 2	Season 2	Season 2	Season 2 	Season 2
29 	 	
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30 	 	
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31 	 	
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32 	 	
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33 	 	
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34 	 	
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35 	 	
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36 	 	
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37 	 	
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38 	 	
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39 	 	
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40 	 	
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41 	 	
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42 	 	
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43 	 	
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44 	 	
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45 	 	
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46 	 	
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47 	 	
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48 	 	
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49 	 	
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50 	 	
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51 	 	
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:Color/B&W Version	 	60040-01
52 	 	
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53 	 	
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54 	 	
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55 	 	
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Season 3	Season 3	Season 3	Season 3 	Season 3
56 	 	
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57 	 	
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58 	 	
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59 	 	
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60 	 	
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61 	 	
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62 	 	
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63 	 	
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64 	 	
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65 	 	
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66 	 	
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67 	 	
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68 	 	
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69 	 	
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70 	 	
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71 	 	
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72 	 	
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73 	 	
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74 	 	
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75 	 	
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76 	 	
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77 	 	
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78 	 	
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79 	 	
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80 	 	
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:All-Color Collector's Edition	 	60040-99
===Box sets and other collections===
Release 	Reference 	Cover 	Episodes	Release Date
Star Trek - Television Classics	Vol. 1 	No image yet.	
:This release is slightly edited to present the episode in one part, rather than two parts. The credits at the end of the episode and the closing credits are removed from Part I and the opening teaser recounting the events from Part I and the regular opening sequence are removed, instead doing a quick fade-out and cut into the first act of Part II.
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Star Trek - Television Classics	Vol. 2 	No image yet.	
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Star Trek - Television Classics	Vol. 3 	 	
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Star Trek - Television Classics	Vol. 4 	 	
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Star Trek - Television Classics	Vol. 5 	No image yet.	
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Star Trek: Space Seed 	BETA 60040	 	
:This release also included a trailer for .	
 	 	 	
:All episodes	
==UK releases==
A few Betamax tapes were issued in the UK by CIC Video and other labels in the early 1980s. All of these releases used packaging identical to the VHS releases with sometimes only a sticker being placed on the cover and spine to tell them apart. 
Release 	Cover	Episodes	Certificate 	Release Date	Catalog Number
Mountain VideoShore Leave 	 	
: 	N/A 	 	VCF 1/025
EVCWhere No Man Has Gone Before 	 	
: 	N/A 	 	EVC039
EVCThe Menagerie 	 	
:
: 	N/A 	 	EVC199
Mountain VideoTrouble with Tribbles	 	
: 	N/A 	 	VCF 1/081
Mountain VideoAmok Time 	 	
: 	N/A 	 	VCF 1/080
Mountain VideoDagger of the Mind 	 	
: 	N/A 	 	VCF 1/082
VideonTrouble with Tribbles 	 	
: 	N/A 	Unknown 	N2
CIC VideoArena releases 	 	
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: 	PGOriginally released without a certificate, predating the .	 	BEL 2057
CIC VideoArena releases 	 	
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: 	PG 	 	BEL 2075
CIC VideoStar Trek Double Bill! 	 	
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: 	PG 	 	BER 2084
==Australian releases==
At least one rental tape was released in Australia in by CIC-Taft Home Video.
Episodes	Cover	Classification	Release Date	Catalog Number
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: 	 	PG 	 	BEE 60040
==Footnotes==
Category:Betamax releases