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.
Movie releases
The following titles were released on video on the following dates:
| U.S./Canada Release Date | Movie Title | Studio | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| January 29 | The Hugga Bunch | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release |
| January 8 | The Ages of Humankind | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| The Blue Yonder | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Disney's Greatest Lullabies, Volume One | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Disney's Greatest Lullabies, Volume Two | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| The Fabulous Fleischer Folio Volume Four | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Five Mile Creek Volume 11 | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Flights of Fancy | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| My Science Project | Touchstone Pictures | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Animal Tales | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Walt Disney Cartoon Classics: Fanciful Fables | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Walt Disney Video-A-Longs: The Disney Classics | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Walt Disney Video-A-Longs: Mickey's Discovery Series | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Walt Disney Video-A-Longs: Winnie the Pooh | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Zorro: Invitation to Death | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| January 20 | Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| February 25 | Star Wars : Episode IV - A New Hope | CBS/Fox Video | Betamax release VHS release (Letterboxed Special Collection CAV Laserdisc release. The VHS, Betamax, CED and CLV Laserdisc versions are Pan and Scan.) |
| Star Wars : Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back | CBS/Fox Video | Betamax release VHS release (Letterboxed Special Collection CAV Laserdisc release. The VHS, Betamax, CED and CLV Laserdisc versions are Pan and Scan.) | |
| Star Wars : Episode VI - The Return Of The Jedi | CBS/Fox Video | Betamax release VHS release (Letterboxed Special Collection CAV Laserdisc release. The VHS, Betamax, CED and CLV Laserdisc versions are Pan and Scan.) | |
| February | One Little Indian (film) | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| February | Westward Ho The Wagons | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| February 24 | National Lampoon's European Vacation | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| February 24 | Pee-Wee's Big Adventure | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| March 12 | Robotman & Friends | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release |
| March 24 | The Goonies | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| March 17 | Follow That Bird | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| March 17 | Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| March | Greyfriars Bobby (film) | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| March | Charley and the Angel | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| March 24 | Banana Monster | Force Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| Primal Impulse | Force Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Psychopath | Force Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| White Slave | Force Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| March 25 | The Sword in the Stone | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| April | The Journey of Natty Gann | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| American Flyers | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Krush Groove | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Return from Witch Mountain | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Mixed Blood | Media Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |
| April 30 | The Ike and Tina Turner Show | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| May 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 | |
| May 22 | Back to the Future | MCA Home Video | Betamax release VHS release (The last major motion picture to be released on CED.) |
| May 28 | The Absent-Minded Professor | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release (Colorized version.) |
| Alice in Wonderland | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| The Importance of Being Donald | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Mickey Knows Best | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Winnie the Pooh and the Blustery Day | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Winnie the Pooh and the Honey Tree | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Winnie the Pooh and Tigger Too | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| June 11 | Dick Clark's Best of Bandstand | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| June 16 | Revolution (1985 film) | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| June 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 | |
| Yukon Passage | National Geographic Video Vestron 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 | |
| June | 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 1 | The Best of Times | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release |
| The Jewel of the Nile | CBS/Fox Video | Betamax release VHS release (The last CED VideoDisc released for consumer use.) | |
| July 2 | The Return of the Living Dead | Thorn EMI/HBO Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| July 3 | White Nights | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| July 16 | All-Star Swing Festival | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| The Adventures of the Scrabble People in A Pumpkin Full of Nonsense | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Moon Pilot | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| July 29 | Single Bars, Single Women | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release |
| August 5 | The Flintstones: Little Big League | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| Huckleberry Hound | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Quick Draw McGraw | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Top Cat's Loves and Fortunes | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| August 13 | Meat Loaf Live! | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| Tales of Beatrix Potter | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release | |
| After Hours | Warner Home Video | VHS release | |
| August 19 | Off Beat (1986 film) | Touchstone Pictures | Betamax release VHS release |
| King of the Grizzlies | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Treasure of Matecumbe | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| The Light in the Forest (film) | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| August 26 | Bloody Birthday | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release |
| Vultures | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |
| August 29 | The Supernaturals | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release |
| August | Care Bears Movie II: A New Generation | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| September | Wildcats (film) | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| September | The Music Man (1962 film) | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| September 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 | |
| September 22 | Funny Lady | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| The Jolson Story | RCA/Columbia Pictures Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| September 23 | Down and Out in Beverly Hills | Touchstone Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| The World's Greatest Athlete | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| The Sex O'Clock News | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |
| September 24 | Centurions | Children's Video Library | Betamax release VHS release |
| Rad | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |
| October 2 | The Tomb | Trans World Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release |
| October 10 | Night of the Living Dead | Hal Roach Studios | Betamax release VHS release (Colorized version.) |
| October 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.) |
| Sleeping Beauty | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS 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.) | |
| 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 first 5 Classics releases.) | |
| Jiminy Cricket's Christmas | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| October 16 | The Money Pit | MCA Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| October 21 | Jonny Quest | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| Goober and the Ghost Chasers | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Casper's First Christmas | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Top Cat: 25th Anniversary | Worldvision Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| October 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 | |
| October 29 | The Best of Dan Aykroyd | Warner Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| Blood Link | Embassy Home Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release | |
| October 31 | Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom | Paramount Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| November 18 | Ashanti, Land of No Mercy | Trans World Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release |
| One Magic Christmas | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| Menace on the Mountain | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| The Fabulous Fleischer Folio Volume Five | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| November 19 | Lionel Richie: The Making of Dancing on the Ceiling | Karl-Lorimar Home Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| November 26 | Dreamaniac | Wizard Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| December 10 | Tammy Wynette in Concert | Vestron Music Video | Betamax release VHS release |
| December 16 | Snowballing | Prism Entertainment | Betamax release VHS release |
| A Tiger Walks | Walt Disney Home Video | Betamax release VHS release | |
| December 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 |
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