Castle Vision is a home video company responsible for the UK and Australian VHS releases of TUGS. A total of five home videos covering the entire series were produced. Some of the videos were later re-released in the UK with updated covers, most of them distributed under the Playbox range.
Episode groupings for each video are as follows:
- CVI 1020 - Sunshine, Pirate - approx. 40 mins (1988)
- CVI 1021 - Munitions, 4th Of July - approx. 40 mins (1988)
- CVI 1037 - Trapped, Ghosts, High Winds - approx. 45 mins (1989)
- CVI 1093 - High Tide, Warrior, Bigg Freeze - approx. 45 mins (1990)
- CVI 1094 - Jinxed, Quarantine, Up River - approx. 45 mins (1990)
All five volumes are long out-of-print.
Trivia
- Castle Vision is infamous for the VHS releases being in horrendous quality, including the sound for the Australian releases. The company was also known for misleading its target audience (being older children) away from TUGS with the slogan, "From the producers of Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends" on all their VHS covers.
- In June of 1988, a showreel tape for Castle Vision was produced to showcase various shows they had acquired for their launch. The end of the tape contained their announcement for their acquisition for TUGS. The video utilized for the announcement was from the original UK version of the Sizzle Reel.
Original UK Releases
Sunshine/Pirate
Munitions/4th of July
Trapped/Ghosts/High Winds
High Tide/Warrior/Bigg Freeze
Jinxed/Quarantine/Up River
UK re-releases
Munitions/4th of July 1992 release
Munitions/4th of July 1996 Release (Playbox)
Trapped/Ghosts/High Winds 1996 Release (Playbox)
Jinxed/Quarantine/Up River 1996 Release (Playbox)
Australian releases
Sunshine/Pirate
Trapped/Ghosts/High Winds
High Tide/Warrior/Bigg Freeze
Jinxed/Quarantine/Up River
Munitions/4th of July
Other logos
Print logo (1988)