Star Trek: The Original Series (Betamax)

Star Trek: The Original Series was released on the Betamax format in both the US and the UK throughout the 1980s.

US releases
The first releases of the series on Betamax in the US took place in. Paramount Home Video issued five volumes with two episodes each under the "Television Classics" banner. A further one-off release took place in under the Paramount Gateway Video label of the episode  coinciding with the theatrical release of.

A complete release of the series would eventually follow starting from. Paramount issued episodes in batches (or Groups as they called them) every few months in broadcast order (though the tapes were numbered in production order). Each tape contained a single episode and each Group had around 10 episodes each. Both parts of "The Menagerie" were issued on a single tape. These releases concluded in with the release of Groups 7 and 8 which contained the remaining episodes.

was released twice. The first had the black & white scenes from Gene Roddenberry's copy of the original episode and was released in. Following the discovery of the missing color scenes a "All-Color Collector's Edition" was released in.

UK releases
A few Betamax tapes were issued in the UK by CIC Video and other labels in the early 1980s. All of these releases used packaging identical to the VHS releases with sometimes only a sticker being placed on the cover and spine to tell them apart.