Steven Spielberg Presents Animaniacs was a children's animated television program that ran from 1993 to 1998. Over the show's course, several VHS collections were released, and DVD box sets are currently being released as well.
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Several VHS videos were released in the United States in the United Kingdom and Australia. All of these videos are out of production, but are still available at some online sellers. The episodes in the VHS "volumes" were generally jumbled at random and are in no particular order with the series. The other videotapes (with the exception of Animaniacs Stew) feature episodes that had focused on one general subject. Each video featured four to five skits each and was accompanied by a handful of skit intros, with a running time of about 45 minutes.
| Video Name (Volumes) | Ep # | Release Date | Episodes Featured |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | 4 | September 21, 1993 | Ups and Downs; Critical Condition; Wally Llama; Spellbound |
| Volume 2 | 5 | November 2, 1993 | Drive Insane; Cat on a Hot Steel Beam; With Three You Get Egg-Roll; Jockey for Position; Woodstock Slappy |
| Volume 3 | 7 | December 20, 1993 | Hooked on a Ceiling; The Big Kiss; Mesozoic Mindy; The Flame; Chicken Boo-Ryshnikov; Nothing But the Tooth; Pavlov's Mice |
| Volume 4 | 6 | January 23, 1994 | Cookies for Einstein; Hiccup; The World Can Wait; The Wild Blue Yonder; Hurray for Slappy; The Three Muska-Warners |
| Volume 5 | 5 | June 18, 1994 | Draculee, Draculaa; Phranken-Runt; Scare Happy Slappy; Brain Meets Brawn; Hot, Bothered and Bedeviled |
| Volume 6 | 3 | February 23, 1994 | Chairman of the Bored; Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump, Ta da Dump Dump Dump; Smell Ya Later; Lookit the Fuzzy Heads; Where Rodents Dare |
| Video Name (Collections) | Ep # | Release Date | Episodes Featured |
| Animaniacs Sing-Along: Yakko's World | 10 | August 24, 1994[1] | Yakko's World; Wakko's America; I'm Cute; HMS Yakko; I'm Mad; Schnitzelbank; Make a Gookie; Our First Day of School |
| Animaniacs: The Warners Escape | 4 | August 24, 1994[2] | Newsreel of the Stars; De-zanitzed; Temporary Insanity; Hello Nice Warners; Video Review |
| Animaniacs Stew | 7 | August 24, 1994[3] | Slappy Goes Walnuts; Operation Lollipop; Sir Yaksalot; In the Garden of Mindy; Baghdad Café; Yes, Always; Bumbie’s Mom |
| Animaniacs: Spooky Stuff | 6 | August 13, 1996[4] | Draculee Draculaa; Phranken Runt; Meatballs or Consequences; Hot, Bothered, and Bedeviled; Scare Happy Slappy; Witch One |
| Animaniacs Sing-Along: Mostly in Toon | 12 | August 13, 1996[5] | The Ballad of Magellan; The Presidents Song; The Planets; The Panama Canal; Be Careful What You Eat; A Quake, A Quake; Big Wrap Party Tonight; The Senses; What Are We?; All the Words in the English Language; The Tiger Prince; Hello Nurse |
| Animaniacs: Helloooo Holidays | 8 | August 24, 1994[6] | Twas the Day Before Christmas; Little Drummer Warners; The Great Wakkorotti: The Holiday Concert; A Christmas Plotz; Jingle Boo; Yakko's Universe; A Gift of Gold; Nighty-Night Toons |
Volume one of Animaniacs had sold very well; over half of the product being sold in the first week made it one of the fastest selling animation DVD sets that Warner Home Video ever put out.[7] So far, the first 75 episodes are available in 3 DVD box sets, although only Region 1 DVDs have been released so far, but many have said that they work on any DVD player, so they are possibly region free.
| DVD Name | Ep # | Release Date | Additional Information |
|---|---|---|---|
| Volume 1 | 25 | July 25, 2006[8] | This five disc box set contains the first 25 episodes from season 1. Includes the featurette "Animaniacs Live!", where Maurice LaMarche hosts an in studio via satellite big screen TV with Animaniacs friends (voice actors, composers, etc.) as they comment on the show. The video is presented in its original television aspect ratio, with Dolby Digital 5.1 audio in English, with French, Portuguese, and Spanish subtitles. |
| Volume 2 | 25 | December 5, 2006[9] | This five disc box set contains the second 25 episodes (26-50) from season 1. Includes the featurette "The Writer's Flipped, They Have No Script", where Maurice LaMarche leads a gathering of writers on what their favorite Animaniacs episodes are that they wrote. |
| Volume 3 | 25 | June 19, 2007[10] | This five disc box set includes the last 15 episodes (51-65) of season 1, all 4 episodes (66-69) of season 2, and the first 6 episodes (70-75) of season 3. Includes two featurettes: "They Can't Help It if They're Cute, They're Just Drawn That Way": Meet the Character Designers, Storyboard Artists and Art Directors who give life and lunacy to Wakko, Yakko, and Dot; and "They're Totally Insane-y: In Cadence with Richard Stone": The music of Animaniacs, highlighted by a tribute to the late Composer. |
| Volume 4 | 24 | June 26, 2007 | This final volume would contain the remaining episodes of season 3 (76-82) and all of season 4 (83-90) and 5 (91-99) but as of 2010, Warner Bros. has "no plans at this time" for more Animaniacs releases on DVD. |
| Collections | 26 | June 26, 2007 | Those Collections from August 24, 1994 to August 13, 1996 Re-Runs to August 18, 1998 to November 14, 1998 and There are 9 Episodes. |