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|style="white-space: nowrap;|September 10, 2001<ref name="namekseason5date">{{Cite web|URL=https://web.archive.org/web/20010815084747/http://www.planetnamek.com/cgi-bin/mainnews/viewnews.cgi?newsall|Website=Planet Namek|Title="New DBZ September 10th..."|Date=11 August 2001|AccessDate=09 June 2021}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|URL=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.dragonball/c/6_lk0pB7Ges/m/Cp9umVYON1MJ|Website=alt.fan.dragonball|Title="all together now"|Date=10 September 2001|AccessDate=09 June 2021}}</ref>
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|style="white-space: nowrap;|September 16, 2002<ref>{{Cite web|URL=https://www.animenation.net/blog/new-detail-on-cartoon-network-dbz-season-6/|Website=Anime Nation|Title="New Detail on Cartoon Network DBZ Season 6"|Date=10 September 2002|AccessDate=09 June 2021}}</ref>
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|style="white-space: nowrap;|November 19, 2002<ref>{{Cite web|URL=https://groups.google.com/g/alt.fan.dragonball/c/wJHgvHrbAd4/m/XTxe-MNACJ8J|Website=alt.fan.dragonball|Title="Dragon Ball Z Episode "Evil Kid Buu!""|Date=19 November 2002|AccessDate=09 June 2021}}</ref>
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Broadcast of the Dragon Ball franchise in Japan does not follow segmented "season" designations, delineations, or breaks. While "cours" do exist and may be followed by other production companies adapting other franchises, as with many other Toei adaptations of Shueisha properties, this has never been the case with a mainline Dragon Ball series television broadcast.

Dragon Ball's first episode aired in February 1986, and the franchise ran continuously until the final Dragon Ball GT episode in November 1997. Likewise, Dragon Ball Super television series ran from its first episode in July 2015 straight through to its final episode in March 2018.

The closest example to a hard division that exists for the Dragon Ball franchise is the actual broadcast break between the original Dragon Ball Kai series of episodes (April 2009 to March 2011) and its "Final Chapters" broadcast (April 2014 to June 2015).

FUNimation & American Seasons

FUNimation markets the Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball Z, Dragon Ball GT, Dragon Ball Kai (as "Dragon Ball Z Kai"), and Dragon Ball Super television series with "season" distinctions for the home video market. These "season" delineations are arbitrary, and do not line up with the company's own respective television broadcast seasons (where and if they do exist).

Dragon Ball

Syndication Broadcast

Further information: FUNimation Dragon Ball English Dub (1995)

FUNimation's original English dub of the Dragon Ball television series spanned a single season of 13 episodes airing from September to December in 1995. Though the company had plans to run through 26 episodes[1] and beyond[2], the decision was made to move on to Dragon Ball Z for the fall 1996 broadcast season[3].

Cable Broadcast

Following the success of their ongoing Dragon Ball Z broadcast (see below), American cable network Cartoon Network picked up the original Dragon Ball television series for continued broadcast in 2001.[4] The series ran in season-style blocks (much TBD) until December 2003.[5]

New episodes of Dragon Ball will be starting on Monday, September 1st at 5:30pm ET, starting the Demon King Piccolo saga. This season is expected to complete the show’s run, with the final 52 episodes (102-153).[6]

"Season" Episodes Beginning Date End Date
5 102-153 September 1, 2003 December #, 2003

Home Video

FUNimation's original 13-episode broadcast season was released on six VHS volumes, and later a two-disc DVD set ("The Saga of Goku").

Two-disc "saga" sets (Dragon Ball Saga Sets (Funimation)), subsequent five "season" sets (Dragon Ball Season DVDs (Funimation))

Dragon Ball Z

Syndication Broadcast

Further information: FUNimation Dragon Ball Z English Dub (1996-1998)

FUNimation's English dub of the Dragon Ball Z television series from September 1996 to May 1998 spanned 53 edited, English dub-only episodes — supplemented by a three-episode-cut of Dragon Ball Z Movie 3 — airing over the course of two syndicated television broadcast seasons on local network affiliates.

A single episode aired during the first broadcast season; this was expanded to a full hour-long, two-episode block in its second broadcast season.[7]

This era is often referred to as the "Ocean dub" or "Pioneer dub" or "Saban dub", confusing various partners of the time and obfuscating the ultimate ownership and production by FUNimation themselves.

Cable Broadcast

The first two "seasons" were later licensed to Cartoon Network in 1998 for airing on the cable channel's Toonami block beginning that fall, eventually paving the way for a third broadcast season the following year.

The third broadcast season began in September 1999, picking up where the syndication broadcast left off and running through the end of the Freeza arc. The Garlic Jr. filler arc, while technically still part of the third cable broadcast season, was held for Toonami's new "Rising Sun" block the following spring, and was subsequently rolled back into place during re-runs. The fourth (and largest/longest) cable broadcast season from September to December 2000 covered the entirety of the Cell arc, picking up with the Trunks material and running through the epilogue episode with Trunks returning to his future. The Boo arc was split into three smaller broadcast seasons debuting across September 2001, September 2002, and March 2003.

"Season" Episodes Beginning Date End Date Notes
3 54-92
(68-107 JP) 		September 13, 1999[8] November 3, 1999[9] September 13, 1999 saw Toonami broadcast a two-hour block with the final two episodes ("52" and "53") of "season two" followed by the debut of the first two episodes ("54" and "55") of "season three".[10]
n/a 93-102
(108-117 JP) 		April 15, 2000[11] May 27, 2000[12][13]
September 1, 2000[14] 		The Garlic Jr. arc was by and large considered the tail end of "season three". These episodes debuted in the Saturday morning "Rising Sun" timeslot, and later aired again in August 2000 during the normal Toonami timeslot.[15] The final episode of this batch, "Krillin's Proposal", does not appear to have ever actually aired in the original Rising Sun block debut broadcast.[16][17] Instead, the episode aired in early September before the fourth season's debut.[14]
4 103-179
(118-194 JP) 		September 4, 2000[18][19] December 29, 2000[20][21][22] n/a
5 180-222
(195-237 JP) 		September 10, 2001[23][24] November 13, 2001[25][26] While the fifth season was originally planned to debut on September 3[27], the premiere was later shifted to September 10.[23]
6 223-261
(238-276 JP) 		September 16, 2002[28] November 19, 2002[29] n/a
7 262-276
(277-291 JP) 		March 17, 2003 April 7, 2003 n/a

Home Video

TBD

Dragon Ball GT

Cable Broadcast

TBD

Dragon Ball GT will start on Cartoon Network on October 3rd, apparently airing just Fridays at 6:30. According to FUNimation’s announcement at Otakon, it will begin from the FUNimation-created recap ‘episode 16,’ “A Grand Problem”, as does the DVD release. They still say the first 15 episodes (whatever happened to the real Episode 16 that was not included on the first DVD?) will be released eventually, although they have not said when.[6]

"Season" Episodes Beginning Date End Date
1 16-## October 3, 2003 TBD
"The Lost Episodes" 1-16 TBD TBD

Home Video

TBD

External Links

Notes

References

  1. ↑ [citation needed]
  2. ↑ [citation needed]
  3. ↑ [citation needed]
  4. ↑ [citation needed]
  5. ↑ [citation needed]
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "DB, DBZ, DBGT Cartoon Network News" (09 August 2003). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  7. ↑ [citation needed]
  8. ↑ "DBZ Uncensored: Episode 68". DBZ Uncensored. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  9. ↑ "DBZ Uncensored: Episode 107". DBZ Uncensored. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  10. ↑ "New Date For Third Season Debut on Cartoon Network" (07 September 1999). Kanzenshuu. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  11. ↑ "edits in garlic junior on CN!" (15 April 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  12. ↑ "Whats Next?" (24 May 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  13. ↑ "Has anyone ever SEEN "Krillin's Proposal" on CN???" (02 September 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  14. ↑ 14.0 14.1 "So THAT's how they're doing it..." (01 September 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  15. ↑ "DBZ's 4th season" (01 August 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  16. ↑ "What was on Rising Sun today?" (10 June 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  17. ↑ "Missing and/or new episodes on Toonami" (22 August 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  18. ↑ "Past Updates - Page 5" (30 August 2000). Temple 'O Trunks. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  19. ↑ "2nd ep of new db run" (05 September 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 08 June 2021.
  20. ↑ "[Spoiler] US Cell saga end date" (20 December 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  21. ↑ "When does the Cell saga end ? and what about repeats on CN ?" (25 December 2000). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  22. ↑ "Friday's ep" (01 January 2001). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  23. ↑ 23.0 23.1 "New DBZ September 10th..." (11 August 2001). Planet Namek. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  24. ↑ "all together now" (10 September 2001). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  25. ↑ "DBZ Now in Reruns, Schedule Posted..." (13 November 2001). Planet Namek. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  26. ↑ "Dragon Ball Episode "Final Atonement"" (13 November 2001). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  27. ↑ "Air Date for DBZ Season Five Announced" (25 May 2001). Anime Nation. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  28. ↑ "New Detail on Cartoon Network DBZ Season 6" (10 September 2002). Anime Nation. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.
  29. ↑ "Dragon Ball Z Episode "Evil Kid Buu!"" (19 November 2002). alt.fan.dragonball. Retrieved: 09 June 2021.


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