Episode 1: The Birth of Astro Boy
The 1963 Black & White series of Astroboy was the first anime series ever and a milestone in the production of anime. It was broadcast from January 1st 1963 to December 31st 1966 in Japan. The English dub also began broadcasting in 1963.
The English dub was done by NBC and only 104 episodes were ever translated and dubbed. They roughly ran from the beginning, although several episodes were skipped altogether due to violence, religion and sexual themes.
After NBC's licence to broadcast the episodes expired, they were required to send the dubs back to Mushi Productions in Japan. Unfortunately, by that time Mushi Productions had gone bankrupt and so NBC were required to destroy the English dubs and send a certificate of destruction.
In the late 90s, Shawne Kleckner collected together as many taped copies of the broadcast as he could find, cleaned them up, and acquired a licence to distribute them through The Right Stuf on VHS. Only 36 episodes were made available. It is not known how many of the remaining 68 dubbed episodes exist today in the hands of fans and traders. So far there has been no concerted effort to gather and recover every missing episode (or at least the audio tracks).
As for the Japanese version, by the 1980's at least half a dozen episode masters were missing. As the birthdate of Astroboy approached, storage vaults and archives were searched in an effort to restore the entire collection.
From 2001 to 2003, the entire series was released in Japan on 36 DVDs.
Madman Entertainment plan to release the English episodes on DVD in 2005.
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