1986 in home video
1986 in home video:
Industry milestones
July
- July 1 - RCA releases the final Capacitance Electronic Disc(CED) VideoDisc: CBS/Fox Video's release of The Jewel of the Nile. Also released at the same time, but only for RCA employees who worked in the CED VideoDisc departments, was a disc entitled Memories of VideoDisc, which was a collection of photos, milestones, and a factory tour. This was not released for consumers and is considered one of the rarest discs of the CED VideoDisc library.
Film releases
The following titles were released on video on the following dates:
| U.S./Canada Release Date | Film Title | Studio | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January–March | |||||
| J A N U A R Y | 8 | The Ages of Humankind | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| The Blue Yonder | |||||
| Disney's Greatest Lullabies, Volume One | |||||
| Disney's Greatest Lullabies, Volume Two | |||||
| The Fabulous Fleischer Folio Volume Four | |||||
| Five Mile Creek Volume 11 | |||||
| Flights of Fancy | |||||
| My Science Project | Touchstone Home Video | ||||
| Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Animal Tales | Walt Disney Home Video | ||||
| Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Fanciful Fables | |||||
| Walt Disney Video-A-Longs: The Disney Classics | |||||
| Walt Disney Video-A-Longs: Mickey's Discovery Series | |||||
| Walt Disney Video-A-Longs: Winnie the Pooh | |||||
| Zorro: Invitation to Death | |||||
| 20 | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 29 | The Hugga Bunch | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| F E B R U A R Y | 24 | National Lampoon's European Vacation | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release | |
| Pee-Wee's Big Adventure | |||||
| 25 | Return of the Jedi | CBS/Fox Video | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release CED release | ||
| Unknown | One Little Indian | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Westward Ho The Wagons | |||||
| M A R C H | 12 | Robotman & Friends | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | |
| 17 | Follow That Bird | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | |||||
| 24 | Banana Monster | Force Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Goonies | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Primal Impulse | Force Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Psychopath (1968) | Betamax release VHS release | ||||
| White Slave | Betamax release VHS release | ||||
| 25 | The Sword in the Stone (1963) | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release | ||
| Unknown | Greyfriars Bobby | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Charley and the Angel | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| April–June | |||||
| A P R I L | 30 | The Ike & Tina Turner Show | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Unknown | American Flyers | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Journey of Natty Gann | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Krush Groove | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Mixed Blood | Media Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Return from Witch Mountain | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| M A Y | 14 | Challenge of the GoBots: The GoBotron Saga | Vestron Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| My Little Pony: Escape from Catrina | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 22 | Back to the Future | MCA Home Video | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release CED release (The last MCA Home Video picture to be released on CED.) | ||
| 28 | The Absent-Minded Professor | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release (Colorized version.) | ||
| Alice in Wonderland (1951) | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release | ||||
| The Importance of Being Donald | Betamax release VHS release | ||||
| Mickey Knows Best | Betamax release VHS release | ||||
| Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | Betamax release VHS release | ||||
| Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree | Betamax release VHS release | ||||
| Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | Betamax release VHS release | ||||
| J U N E | 11 | Dick Clark's Best of Bandstand | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| 16 | Revolution (1985) | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 25 | Gorilla | National Geographic Video Vestron Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Incredible Human Machine | National Geographic Video Vestron Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| My Friend Liberty | Karl-Lorimar Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| So Dear to My Heart | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Toby Tyler | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Yukon Passage | National Geographic Video Vestron Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Unknown | A Nightmare on Elm Street 2: Freddy's Revenge | Media Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Whitney Houston: The #1 Video Hits | MusicVision | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| July–September | |||||
| J U L Y | 1 | The Best of Times (1986) | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |
| The Jewel of the Nile | CBS/Fox Video | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release CED release (The last CED VideoDisc released for consumer use.) | |||
| 2 | The Return of the Living Dead | Thorn EMI HBO Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 3 | White Nights (1985) | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 14 | Spies Like Us | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 16 | The Adventures of the Scrabble People in A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| All-Star Swing Festival | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Moon Pilot | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| One of Our Dinosaurs Is Missing | |||||
| Treasure of Matecumbe | |||||
| 29 | Single Bars, Single Women | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| A U G U S T | 5 | The Flintstones: Little Big League | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Huckleberry Hound | |||||
| Quick Draw McGraw | |||||
| Top Cat's Loves and Fortunes | |||||
| 13 | After Hours | Warner Home Video | VHS release | ||
| Meat Loaf Live! | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Tales of Beatrix Potter | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 19 | King of the Grizzlies | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Light in the Forest | |||||
| Off Beat (1986) | Touchstone Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Savage Sam | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 26 | Bloody Birthday | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Vultures | |||||
| 29 | The Supernaturals | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Unknown | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| S E P T E M B E R | 10 | African Wildlife | National Geographic Video Vestron Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Atocha: Quest for Treasure | National Geographic Video Vestron Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Save the Panda | National Geographic Video Vestron Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 22 | Funny Lady | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Jolson Story | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 23 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Touchstone Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Sex O'Clock News | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| The World's Greatest Athlete | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 24 | Centurions | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 'The Music Man (1962) | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Rad | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Wildcats | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| October–December | |||||
| O C T O B E R | 2 | The Tomb (1986) | Trans World Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |
| 10 | Night of the Living Dead | Hal Roach Studios | Betamax release VHS release (Colorized version.) | ||
| 14 | Canine Commando | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release (Also released in a boxset with repackaged versions of the first 5 Classics releases.) | ||
| Disney's Sing-Along Songs: Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release (Also released in a boxset with repackaged versions of the | |||
| Jiminy Cricket's Christmas | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Sleeping Beauty (1959) | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release (Also released in a boxset with repackaged versions of the first 5 Classics releases.) | |||
| A Tale of Two Chipmunks | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release (Also released in a boxset with repackaged versions of the first 5 Classics releases.) | |||
| The Unsinkable Donald Duck with Huey, Dewey and Louie | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release (Also released in a boxset with repackaged versions of the first 5 Classics releases.)first 5 Classics releases.) | |||
| 16 | The Money Pit | MCA Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 21 | Casper's First Christmas | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Goober and the Ghost Chasers | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Jonny Quest | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Top Cat: 25th Anniversary | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 22 | The Real Ghostbusters: Knock Knock | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Real Ghostbusters: Play Them Ragtime Boos | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 29 | The Best of Dan Aykroyd | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Blood Link | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Police Academy 3: Back in Training | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 31 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount Home Video | Betamax release VHS release Laserdisc release | ||
| N O V E M B E R | 5 | Under the Cherry Moon | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| 16 | Stallone Cobra | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 18 | Ashanti, Land of No Mercy | Trans World Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| The Fabulous Fleischer Folio Volume Five | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| Menace on the Mountain | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| One Magic Christmas | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 19 | Lionel Richie: The Making of Dancing on the Ceiling | Karl-Lorimar Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| 26 | Dreamaniac | Wizard Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| D E C E M B E R | 10 | Tammy Wynette in Concert | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| 16 | Snowballing | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| A Tiger Walks | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 17 | Willie Nelson: Greatest Hits Live | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release | ||
| Wrinkles In Need of Cuddles | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | |||
| 25 | Star Wars | CBS/FOX Video | Betamax release VHS release Japanese widescreen CAV Laserdisc release (Debut of the 1985 home video mix, which adds C-3PO's tractor beam line to the Dolby Stereo mix) | ||
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