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THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF JOE 90 The first commercially available Joe 90 home video, released by Precision Video. Sadly, this is an American-produced compilation feature. Episodes unceremoniously hacked together are #1 The Most Special Agent, #3 Splashdown, #21 Attack Of The Tiger and #14 Arctic Adventure. These four episodes became available to buy uncut for the very first time with the September 2002 DVD and VHS releases in the UK. Running time 90 minutes approx. *Converted from NTSC original |
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THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF JOE 90 Family Home Entertainment (f.h.e.) re-released the same tape in America in 1985, in a nice oversize box. Running time 90 minutes approx. |
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THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF JOE 90 British video company Channel 5 began to re-issue the old Precision Video tapes at a budget price, before going on to release the remaining episodes from the series. Running time 90 minutes approx. *Converted from NTSC original |
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JOE 90 VOLUME 2 Episodes: At last, complete episodes! Unfortunately, transfers from 16mm prints, so not as sharp and bright as they could be. But nice to see the proper opening and closing title sequences. Running time 78 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 VOLUME 3 Episodes: Running time 75 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 VOLUME 4 (NOW! 4 EPISODES) Episodes: For some reason, Most Special Astronaut had the "time elapse zooms" removed, and replaced by video still-frames. No idea why - but the BBC screening in the 1990s had the same problem, so it presumably came from the same source tape. Running time 100 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 VOLUME 5 Episodes: Running time 100 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 VOLUME 6 Episodes: Running time 100 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 VOLUME 7 Episodes: Oh blimey. The Channel 5 label is no more, and the tapes are now branded as "PolyGram Video" - and have had a slight cover re-design. Still, it's not too bad. Kind of matches the rest... Sylvia Anderson gets a mention on the front cover for the first time. Running time 100 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 VOLUME EIGHT Episodes: Just when you thought you could put up with the cover design of Volume 7, PolyGram put a huge spanner in the works and have a complete redesign for the entire set - meaning that if you'd bought the original versions, the last video in the set sticks out like a sore thumb on the shelf. Thanks for that. Sylvia is dropped, and Joe 90 is just "A Gerry Anderson Production" again. Running time 100 mins |
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The re-issues by PolyGram Video were more or less straight re-packages
of the Channel 5 versions, with the same episodes appearing on each
volume. Originally released on May 11th 1992, they were deleted on June
3rd 1994.
 PAL VHS 084 910 3 Certificate PG 90mins approx |
 PAL VHS 084 912 3 Certificate U 78mins approx |
 PAL VHS 084 914 3 Certificate U 75mins |
 PAL VHS 084 916 3 Certificate U 100mins |
 PAL VHS 084 918 3 Certificate U 100mins |
 PAL VHS 084 920 3 Certificate U 100mins |
 PAL VHS 084 922 3 Certificate U 100mins |
PAL VHS 084 828 3 Certificate U 100mins |
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POCKET MONEY VIDEO One of several similar "budget" tapes released in 1993 by PolyGram Video Ltd., this contains Joe 90 episode #29 The Birthday, and the Supercar pilot episode Rescue. The picture of Joe on the cover and spine is so dark you can hardly make the character out. The original "yellow box" version was deleted on February 1st 1995, but was re-released with a different cover design six months later on August 14th 1995 (and deleted on July 16th 1996). With a running time of approximately 60 minutes, this is billed as "An hour or more of magical fun!" This "hour" includes 10 minutes of trailers. PAL VHS 087 568 3 Certificate U. |
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JOE 90 BUMPER VALUE PACK VOLUME 1 To coincide with the BBC screenings in 1994, PolyGram re-issued the entire series on four "bumper" tapes. Sadly, the first volume also featured the The Amazing Adventures Of Joe 90 compilation, and not the individual episodes. Thankfully, these tapes do not feature the "new" Joe 90 logo that blighted the BBC versions - but they do have yet another logo on the boxes! Episodes: Running time 2hrs 48 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 BUMPER VALUE PACK VOLUME 2 Episodes: Running time 2 hrs 55 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 BUMPER VALUE PACK VOLUME 3 Episodes: Running time 3 hrs 20 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 BUMPER VALUE PACK VOLUME 4 Episodes: Running time 3 hrs 20 mins approx. |
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JOE 90 BUMPER VALUE PACK BOX SET The four Bumper Value Packs were also available in a rather uninteresting box set. Hardly a design classic, it is - a yellow box with the four tapes in. Running time 12 hrs 23 mins in total |
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The individual tapes were re-released with almost identical packaging by PolyGram's 4Front Video label on September 16th 1996, to coincide with the series' screenings on the cable and satellite channel Bravo (catalogue numbers 043 630 3, 043 632 3, 043 634 3 and 043 636 3). These tapes were deleted on January 19th 1998.
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GERRY ANDERSON CLASSICS "Two classic series are show-cased from the master of fantasy Gerry Anderson" Released by PolyGram Video in 1995, this tape features the Thunderbirds episode Pit Of Peril and the Joe 90 episode Double Agent. Running time 110 minutes approx. |
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ANOTHER NIGHT IN TV HEAVEN "Classic Nostalgia from the Great British TV Archives" Released on November 13th 1995 by PolyGram Video (deleted March 9th 1998), this tape included the Joe 90 episode Breakout. Running time 172 minutes approx. |
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