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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Robo4900 » Mon Jun 26, 2017 11:33 pm

AloversGaming wrote:CNX was a cool channel, gone too soon.
As was Toonami.

Man, I'd really love a UK revival of Toonami. It could be awesome.
Hell, even if it sucked, if they could get the license to rebroadcast any of the Westwood or Blue Water runs of any of the Dragon Ball shows, even if it's just one episode as a one-off special event, I wouldn't even care if the entire rest of the lineup was utter crap.

Failing that, having a UK broadcast of Super (Or Ocean Kai, as unlikely as that is at this point. But man would it be awesome if they could pull that off) would be really cool to see, as Dragon Ball had always been pretty popular here in the UK during its original run, from what I understand.
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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Dragon Ball Ireland » Tue Jun 27, 2017 7:00 am

Robo4900 wrote:
AloversGaming wrote:CNX was a cool channel, gone too soon.
As was Toonami.

Man, I'd really love a UK revival of Toonami. It could be awesome.
Hell, even if it sucked, if they could get the license to rebroadcast any of the Westwood or Blue Water runs of any of the Dragon Ball shows, even if it's just one episode as a one-off special event, I wouldn't even care if the entire rest of the lineup was utter crap.

Failing that, having a UK broadcast of Super (Or Ocean Kai, as unlikely as that is at this point. But man would it be awesome if they could pull that off) would be really cool to see, as Dragon Ball had always been pretty popular here in the UK during its original run, from what I understand.
If SubZero Ice is to be believed, Turner UK said that while they weren't looking to air Kai if they did they would air the Ocean dub.

Of course TOEI could interfere, as they did with Kix but I get the impression they don't care much for Kai anymore so they may just let UK broadcasters use either version of Kai (at least I hope).

A rerun of the Westwood and Blue Water dubs would be nice, I agree.
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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Sin » Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:12 am

I remember these very well. I was around 5-6 years old when DBZ started airing here in the UK, i can even remember the advert leading up to its airing which involved some guy eating sushi with chopsticks.

The constant jumping back after an arc had finished was part of watching the series in the UK, and like you said it really helped build suspense. I rememember it jumping back to the Saiyan arc around Freezas fight (second transformation?) and going on holiday thinking how great that when I got back there would be more episodes to watch. Whilst on holiday in France they had loads more DBZ merchandise than we did, I remember buying figurines everyday for one Franc (old currency) and buying a magazine which actually contained hentai though my mum and dad didn't realise. A lot of figures were from later arcs like Kid Trunks or Buu, we had no idea who they were so just speculated but what an awesome time to be a fan of the series.

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Fizzer » Tue Jun 27, 2017 8:28 am

Sin wrote:I remember these very well. I was around 5-6 years old when DBZ started airing here in the UK, i can even remember the advert leading up to its airing which involved some guy eating sushi with chopsticks.

The constant jumping back after an arc had finished was part of watching the series in the UK, and like you said it really helped build suspense. I rememember it jumping back to the Saiyan arc around Freezas fight (second transformation?) and going on holiday thinking how great that when I got back there would be more episodes to watch. Whilst on holiday in France they had loads more DBZ merchandise than we did, I remember buying figurines everyday for one Franc (old currency) and buying a magazine which actually contained hentai though my mum and dad didn't realise. A lot of figures were from later arcs like Kid Trunks or Buu, we had no idea who they were so just speculated but what an awesome time to be a fan of the series.
Man, yeah. I think I was around 7-8 when DBZ started airing, and going on holiday to Europe and seeing how big DBZ was there and how much merchandise there was was definitely a highlight. I remember once coming across a set of DBGT figures (Goku, Trunks, Pan, Gill) having never heard of GT and my parents speculating that "maybe it's called Dragon Ball GT in America".

I'm pretty sure it was just after the episode Frieza's Second Transformation that we got at least a couple of of jump backs, because it meant at school we got to speculate for a long time about what Freeza's final form would look like. Spoiler: we were very wrong :D

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by NinjaGoku » Tue Jun 27, 2017 11:15 am

The benefits of it airing so late after it's initial broadcast in Japan was that we got 5, sometimes 6 new episodes every week.

Filler really wasn't a problem back then. If it was only 1 or 2 episodes per week I think interest would dwindle.

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by NitroEX » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:01 am

Robo4900 wrote: Man, I'd really love a UK revival of Toonami. It could be awesome.
Hell, even if it sucked, if they could get the license to rebroadcast any of the Westwood or Blue Water runs of any of the Dragon Ball shows, even if it's just one episode as a one-off special event, I wouldn't even care if the entire rest of the lineup was utter crap.
I feel as though we may actually be in a better position to get Toonami back now. Pierre Branco was just recently promoted by Turner to senior VP for the UK and Northern Europe, he used to be the general manager for Turner Broadcasting in France, Portugal, Africa and Israel. France had a Toonami launch last year and now Africa just launched Toonami as well, this seems to have all hapepned under his leadership which is a very good sign for us.

Pierre could very well be the hero we need right now, that is unless the UK division is still entrenched in an anti anime/action toon mentality.

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Robo4900 » Mon Jul 03, 2017 12:24 pm

NitroEX wrote:I feel as though we may actually be in a better position to get Toonami back now. Pierre Branco was just recently promoted by Turner to senior VP for the UK and Northern Europe, he used to be the general manager for Turner Broadcasting in France, Portugal, Africa and Israel. France had a Toonami launch last year and now Africa just launched Toonami as well, this seems to have all hapepned under his leadership which is a very good sign for us.

Pierre could very well be the hero we need right now, that is unless the UK division is still entrenched in an anti anime/action toon mentality.
Is there an easy way to contact this guy about this?

Perhaps we should continue to discuss this in the main Ocean Kai thread?
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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Baggie_Saiyan » Tue Jul 04, 2017 6:42 am

AloversGaming wrote:I remember when it was airing on CNX they decided to use the FUNI dub. After about two weeks they switched back to Ocean. I think it was due to people hating it. I wasn't able to get used to Fat Buu's high pitched voice.

CNX was a cool channel, gone too soon.
CNX was a life savour for me, my folks got rid of CN after the Cell arc and one day was bored flicking through channels and came across CNX and they were airing the Buu arc and specifically where Buu turned Vegetto into candy IIRC. Good times.

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Robo4900 » Sat Jul 15, 2017 9:40 pm

So, using information from this thread, and some links from here, I have a partial list of airdates for DBZ in the UK, starting from episode #108's first airing.

Anyone want to complete/correct my listing?

[spoiler]108 - 2001-04-02
109 - 2001-04-03
110 - 2001-04-04
111 - 2001-04-05
112 - 2001-04-06
113 - 2001-04-06
114 - 2001-04-06
115 - 2001-04-09
116 - 2001-04-10
117 - 2001-04-11
118 - 2001-04-12
119 - 2001-04-13
120 - 2001-04-16
121 - 2001-04-17
122 - 2001-04-18
123 - 2001-04-20
124 - 2001-04-21

237 - 2002-10-14 [FUNimation dub]
238 - 2002-10-14 [FUNimation dub]
239 - 2002-10-15
240 - 2002-10-16
241 - 2002-10-17
242 - 2002-10-18
243 - 2002-10-21
244 - 2002-10-22
245 - 2002-10-23
246 - 2002-10-24
247 - 2002-10-25
248 - 2002-10-28
249 - 2002-10-29
250 - 2002-10-30
251 - 2002-10-31
252 - 2002-11-01
253 - 2002-11-04
254 - 2002-11-05
255 - 2002-11-06
256 - 2002-11-07
257 - 2002-11-08
258 - 2002-11-11
259 - 2002-11-12
260 - 2002-11-13
261 - 2003-02-07
262 - 2003-02-10
263 - 2003-02-11
264 - 2003-02-12
265 - 2003-02-13
266 - 2003-02-14
267 - 2003-02-17
268 - 2003-02-18
269 - 2003-02-19
270 - 2003-02-20
271 - 2003-02-21
272 - 2003-02-24
273 - 2003-02-25
274 - 2003-02-26
275 - 2003-02-27
276 - 2003-03-01[/spoiler]
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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by 90sDBZ » Sun Jul 16, 2017 6:25 am

Robo4900 wrote:So, using information from this thread, and some links from here, I have a partial list of airdates for DBZ in the UK, starting from episode #108's first airing.

Anyone want to complete/correct my listing?

[spoiler]108 - 2001-04-02
109 - 2001-04-03
110 - 2001-04-04
111 - 2001-04-05
112 - 2001-04-06
113 - 2001-04-06
114 - 2001-04-06
115 - 2001-04-09
116 - 2001-04-10
117 - 2001-04-11
118 - 2001-04-12
119 - 2001-04-13
120 - 2001-04-16
121 - 2001-04-17
122 - 2001-04-18
123 - 2001-04-20
124 - 2001-04-21

237 - 2002-10-14 [FUNimation dub]
238 - 2002-10-14 [FUNimation dub]
239 - 2002-10-15
240 - 2002-10-16
241 - 2002-10-17
242 - 2002-10-18
243 - 2002-10-21
244 - 2002-10-22
245 - 2002-10-23
246 - 2002-10-24
247 - 2002-10-25
248 - 2002-10-28
249 - 2002-10-29
250 - 2002-10-30
251 - 2002-10-31
252 - 2002-11-01
253 - 2002-11-04
254 - 2002-11-05
255 - 2002-11-06
256 - 2002-11-07
257 - 2002-11-08
258 - 2002-11-11
259 - 2002-11-12
260 - 2002-11-13
261 - 2003-02-07
262 - 2003-02-10
263 - 2003-02-11
264 - 2003-02-12
265 - 2003-02-13
266 - 2003-02-14
267 - 2003-02-17
268 - 2003-02-18
269 - 2003-02-19
270 - 2003-02-20
271 - 2003-02-21
272 - 2003-02-24
273 - 2003-02-25
274 - 2003-02-26
275 - 2003-02-27
276 - 2003-03-01[/spoiler]
Looks pretty accurate for the most part, except that the Funimation dub was used for the entirety of the Fusion saga for its first few runs and not just the 2 episodes you have listed.

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Rory » Sat Jul 22, 2017 6:46 pm

AloversGaming wrote:I remember when it was airing on CNX they decided to use the FUNI dub. After about two weeks they switched back to Ocean. I think it was due to people hating it. I wasn't able to get used to Fat Buu's high pitched voice.

CNX was a cool channel, gone too soon.
I remember this being fucking jarring. I couldn't believe when I first heard it, I had tons of old taped pre-Westwood dub episodes (Freeza arc dub episodes), so I recognized the music and voice actors straight away, to go back to them out of nowhere was both exciting and confusing.
Then when they switched back again I just gave up and went along with it. In the long run I'm happy with it, there's a few voice actors that I'm glad I managed to latch onto, nostalgia-wise (especially Drummond, McNeil and Swaile in the Boo arc).

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by NitroEX » Tue Aug 22, 2017 4:15 pm

Bit of a bump but found something relevant to the topic that's kind of interesting.

Super Saiyan Prime posted some of BARB's weekly UK TV ratings in a separate thread and I noticed their database also lists ratings for Cartoon Network going as far back as 1998. For those interested, Dragon Ball Z does indeed first appear in the lineup when you search the year 2000 along with the month of March (6th-12th). Unfortunately, they don't seem to have any record of the ratings for CNX or Toonami channels which is disappointing. You can also find Kix's weekly ratings for Dragon Ball Z Kai on there too, just search for January 2013 onwards.

http://www.barb.co.uk/viewing-data/weekly-top-10/

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Robo4900 » Tue Aug 22, 2017 8:56 pm

A shame it doesn't say which episodes aired when. That way, we'd be able to put together a definitive airdate listing for the entire UK run.
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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by DBZimran » Sun Oct 29, 2017 10:58 am

Just for reference sake, and to add to my previous timeline of UK DBZ.
Imperfect Cell Saga aired September 3rd 2001:
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Boo Saga aired April 8th 2002:
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Time line:
[spoiler]1. Dragon Ball Z first aired on Cartoon Network March 6th 2000.
2. Following it's success it was decided to launch Toonami as a block on Cartoon Network in September of that same year. They aired Tenchi Muyo, Gundam Wing, Batman of the Future and Johnny Quest.
3. They repeated the Saiyan Saga until they got the rights to the Namek saga and Frieza saga around the end of 2000. Shortly after the Garlic Jr Saga also aired around the end of 2000.
4. The Trunks saga was airing at the start of 2001 while also airing promos for a "NEW DBZ coming soon" which previewed the Android saga.
5. The Android Saga (Episode 108) first aired in the UK on April 2nd 2001 in Holland it aired earlier in January 2001 (Westwood Dub). Imperfect Cell Saga aired September 3rd 2001.
6. Majin Boo Saga aired April 8th 2002.

This issue of Funimation Dub airing instead of the westwood dub occured around 28th of September 2002. They used Funimation dub clips to promo the fusion saga which was to air on CNX. The information is sketchy but it seems that episode 237 to 238 was Funimation dubbed when it first aired on CNX. Then switching to the Westwood dub for episode 239 on November 14th 2002.

7. CNX launched and The final sagas of DBZ aired from October 14th 2002 to March 1st 2003 the (launch date of CNX). They began airing from episode 237 on the launch date. They aired 2 new episodes every weekday at 5pm and 5.25pm. Re-runs of DBZ aired at 1pm and 1.25pm starting from episode one on launch day also. 2 new episodes a day from Monday to Friday, while rerunning the weeks episodes during the weekend.

8. The Fusion saga ( Episode 239) aired in November 2002. At some point the episodes began to re-run at the end of the Fusion saga (episode 260). This trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WajeOaWb2qs began airing on CNX mid-January 2003 for "The Final Saga". Kid Boo saga aired February 7th 2003.

9. The last episode 276 of DBZ was aired on March 1st 2003.
10. Dragon Ball GT first aired in the UK on CNX, Monday March 3rd 2003 at 5pm-6pm airing episode 1 and 2.[/spoiler]
My best advice is use 'Waybackmachine' look for old UK dbz fansites. I used http://www.UKdb.net/ from back in 2002 before I ran the site. Also promos I have saved from YouTube from years ago.
Also on a side note Ultimate Battle 22 and Final Bout were released on PSOne on October 11th 2002 for £19.99.

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Robo4900 » Tue Oct 31, 2017 5:41 pm

DBZimran wrote:My best advice is use 'Waybackmachine' look for old UK dbz fansites. I used http://www.UKdb.net/ from back in 2002 before I ran the site. Also promos I have saved from YouTube from years ago.
Yeah, I did that.
Ended up with this...
Robo4900 wrote:[spoiler]108 - 2001-04-02
109 - 2001-04-03
110 - 2001-04-04
111 - 2001-04-05
112 - 2001-04-06
113 - 2001-04-06
114 - 2001-04-06
115 - 2001-04-09
116 - 2001-04-10
117 - 2001-04-11
118 - 2001-04-12
119 - 2001-04-13
120 - 2001-04-16
121 - 2001-04-17
122 - 2001-04-18
123 - 2001-04-20
124 - 2001-04-21

237 - 2002-10-14 [FUNimation dub]
238 - 2002-10-14 [FUNimation dub]
239 - 2002-10-15
240 - 2002-10-16
241 - 2002-10-17
242 - 2002-10-18
243 - 2002-10-21
244 - 2002-10-22
245 - 2002-10-23
246 - 2002-10-24
247 - 2002-10-25
248 - 2002-10-28
249 - 2002-10-29
250 - 2002-10-30
251 - 2002-10-31
252 - 2002-11-01
253 - 2002-11-04
254 - 2002-11-05
255 - 2002-11-06
256 - 2002-11-07
257 - 2002-11-08
258 - 2002-11-11
259 - 2002-11-12
260 - 2002-11-13
261 - 2003-02-07
262 - 2003-02-10
263 - 2003-02-11
264 - 2003-02-12
265 - 2003-02-13
266 - 2003-02-14
267 - 2003-02-17
268 - 2003-02-18
269 - 2003-02-19
270 - 2003-02-20
271 - 2003-02-21
272 - 2003-02-24
273 - 2003-02-25
274 - 2003-02-26
275 - 2003-02-27
276 - 2003-03-01[/spoiler]
It's not complete, and some of the dates may not be 100% correct, but it's a start.
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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by pickledradditz » Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:43 am

So much good information in this thread and thank you to everyone who contributed, sure brought back a lot of memories going back in this time machine of a thread.

One thing that I have never been able to dig up much info on is the 'Saga Sunday' if you remember it was just as the title says and a whole saga would air on a Sunday from morning to night, does anyone recall any dates or times for these?

I have searched and pulled up a few Wayback machine articles, but none of them mention Saga Sunday on Cartoon Network UK

Here is a promo video for the Frieza Saga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyagUynP_8

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

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pickledradditz wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:43 am
Here is a promo video for the Frieza Saga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyagUynP_8
They really air all 32 episodes in a single Sunday?!?

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by 90sDBZ » Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:40 pm

MasenkoHA wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:03 am
pickledradditz wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:43 am
Here is a promo video for the Frieza Saga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyagUynP_8
They really air all 32 episodes in a single Sunday?!?
I remember this. It was around summer 2000. CN UK would just air as much as they could on a Sunday, then carry on where they left off the following Sunday. Meanwhile there would be a separate run going on Monday-Friday.


This was back when they kept restarting after Trunks warned Goku about the Androids. I watched the Goku vs Frieza fight so many times I lost count.

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by MasenkoHA » Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:51 pm

90sDBZ wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:40 pm
MasenkoHA wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:03 am
pickledradditz wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:43 am
Here is a promo video for the Frieza Saga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyagUynP_8
They really air all 32 episodes in a single Sunday?!?
I remember this. It was around summer 2000. CN UK would just air as much as they could on a Sunday, then carry on where they left off the following Sunday. Meanwhile there would be a separate run going on Monday-Friday.


This was back when they kept restarting after Trunks warned Goku about the Androids. I watched the Goku vs Frieza fight so many times I lost count.
Interesting. But you guys had a much smaller gap between the last Ocean episode recorded under Funimation and the first Funimation Studios episode right? Since Toonami UK didn’t start airing Dragon Ball Z at all until Funimation had dubbed up to the Garlic Jr saga?

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Re: When DBZ aired in the UK

Post by Kid Buu » Thu Jul 15, 2021 12:58 pm

MasenkoHA wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 9:03 am
pickledradditz wrote: Thu Jul 15, 2021 4:43 am
Here is a promo video for the Frieza Saga

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulyagUynP_8
They really air all 32 episodes in a single Sunday?!?
Can recall watching almost the entire Saiyan arc on a single Sunday.
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