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oojason
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The Original Trilogy box set releases on home video tape: 1988 to 2000…
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12-Apr-2021, 6:51 PM

Some basic info for the many various box set releases of the Original Trilogy on video tape from 1988 to 2000…

 

 
Hopefully this thread will be of some help for anyone who has a box set copy of the Original Trilogy on VHS (or Betamax!) and wants to know a little more about it - or is a little unsure of the origins of the release - and may require a little assistance in identifying it.

Also, that this thread may come up with a few unknown / rare variants of the Original Trilogy box sets out there - as most of the releases in here are likely to be from the US or UK. It’d be great to have some input and info included from some of the Australian & New Zealand, Dutch, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Japanese, and Czech releases - and any other box set releases from countries around the world too.
 

1988 saw the the very first 3-film ‘set’ release for the Original Trilogy - though technically not a ‘box set’; as it was simply the three individual films wrapped together by a piece of card - and marketed as a ‘Trilogy 3-Pack’.

1995 saw an Original Trilogy box set release in Mexico - on the Betamax format.

2000 was the year the last home video tape box set release for the Original Trilogy (which contained the 1997 Special Editions).

Surprisingly, it would be another four years before a DVD set of the Original Trilogy would be released - with yet another bout of changes made to all three classic OT films for the 2004 DVD box set release (and with even more changes still to come in 2011 for the blu ray box set, and yet further alterations in 2019 for the 4K / UHD / Disney+ release)…
 

The Index:

1988 & 1989 - link
1990 - link
1992 - link
1995 - link
1997 - link
2000 - link
Miscellaneous - link
An Index for ‘Original Trilogy Box Sets from around the world’ posts in this thread - link
 
 

Just for clarity, this is a thread for ‘3-in-1’ box sets releases around the world - and won’t contain any information on the ‘single film’ releases of the Original Trilogy on home video tape - or the laserdisc box set releases (of which althor1138’s superb ‘Star Wars Laserdisc Preservations’ thread is a must-read for anyone interested in those).

More information on the many Original Trilogy releases for various other ‘older’ formats can be found in the…

The Home Releases and Formats of the differing versions of the OT films

section of An Index & Help Thread for Original Trilogy Discussion (Video8, Super8, CED, VHD, V2000, Beta, VHS, LD, VCD, & DVD etc).

 

As ever, if you see any mistakes or broken links please let us know - or have anything for inclusion to the above info too. 👍