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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
FUNimation's English dub of the Dragon Ball television series in 1995 spanned a single season of 13 episodes airing from September to December. 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 blocks (much TBD) until December 2003.[5]
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
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.[6]
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 September, eventually paving the way for a third broadcast season the following year.
The third broadcast season began in September 1999...
Home Video
TBD
Dragon Ball GT
Cable Broadcast
TBD
Home Video
TBD
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