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About the Dreamstone
The Dreamstone is an animated children's series that was shown in the UK on Children's ITV between 1990 and 1995. It was made by Martin Gates productions in association with FilmFair Animation, a company better known for stop-motion series such as the Wombles and Paddington Bear. It concerns the battle on a faraway world between the kindly Dreammaker and the evil Zordrak, the Lord of Nightmares. The series began with a double-length special, in which Rufus, an enthusiastic young noop, goes to work for the Dreammaker. Little does he know that Zordrak is sending his forces to the Land of Dreams, to steal the Dreamstone... can Rufus save the day? Go to the story section to find out!

There were fifty-two episodes of The Dreamstone in total, typically broken down into series of 13 episodes. In the first series, the extended special counted as two separate episodes. If you'd like a complete list of episode titles for every series, there's a link to a site containing that information in the Links section below. Also, the Trickfilmwelt Web site has all of the episode titles on it (in German only, but you can run them through an online translator to get the idea).

The Dreamstone – Series one episode titles Rufus and Amberley flying on leaves

  • The Knitted Balloon
  • Invisible Blob
  • The Voice of Zordrak
  • Albert is fishnapped
  • The Shrinking Stone
  • Blob's Incredible Plan
  • Too Hot to Handle
  • The Daydream Bubble
  • The Statue Collection
  • Argorrible Attack
  • Megattack

Availability
Dreamstone video; feature-length specialUnfortunately, The Dreamstone is no longer on TV in the UK, so if you'd like to see it again, you'll need to get your hands on a video. A number of tapes were released between about 1992 and 1995, covering the entire first series and a few episodes from the second. They were released under three different labels: The Video Collection, Tring home video and BMG Video International. The Video Collection released the feature-length special along with the episode "The Knitted Balloon" on a single tape. All the other tapes on the Video Collection label contained three episodes from series one. Tring also released the entire first series, but with only two episodes per tape. BMG only released one tape, but it contained a whopping five episodes from series two.

Some of these tapes do turn up very occasionally in the shops, but they are hard to find brand new. The best way to get them is second-hand; I personally recommend online auction eBay, as the tapes turn up there quite often. The soundtrack CD is no longer available to buy, nor am I aware of anywhere it can be downloaded online (sorry!). On the plus side, the opening special and "The Knitted Balloon" are, as of March 2006, available on a Region 0 DVD in the UK. You can buy this in high street stores, or online from retailers such as Amazon and Play.com.

As far as I'm aware, this series was never shown, and is not available, in America, but I know for sure it has been televised in Australia and New Zealand. Anyone else in the world seen it?
EDIT: Here's some more info about The Dreamstone around the world:
"The Dreamstone was aired here in Mexico in the late 90's for a few months under the title "El Mago de los Sueńos" (The Dream Wizard). Unfortunately it passed almost unnoticed and, as far as I know, was never available on tape."
Cool! Thanks to Miston Drirr for passing that on.

NEW!

"On your webpage I have found question about availability of "The Dreamstone" around the world. It's been in TV in Poland under the title "Klejnot Snów" (Dreamstone). It's been around since early nineties, and, as far as I know, it's been also available on video tapes."
Polish info courtesy of Smurgs. And also:

"I can tell you one thing about the show, it was aired here in Iceland in the mid 90's and it was dubbed in Icelandic and was called "Draumasteinninn" if I remember correctly which basicly is a direct translation of the English name." Thanks to Gestur for this!

Links

When I created this one, there were no other Dreamstone sites on the Web at all. As you can see from the list below, things are definitely improving!