Editing Ivor the Engine (section)

==Home releases==
Throughout the 1980s and the early '90s, the BBC released a few videos of ''Ivor the Engine''.

In 1984, a single 57-minute compiled video called ''Ivor the Engine and the Dragons'' with 13 stories joined up together as an omnibus.

{| class="wikitable"
! width="14%" |VHS video title
! width="12%" |Catalogue Number<br>(pre-cert)
! width="12%" |Catalogue Number<br>(Uc rated)
!Year of release
!Episodes
|-
| align="center" |''Ivor the Engine<br />and the Dragons''
| align="center" |BBCV 9015
| align="center" |BBCV 4033
| align="center" |1 October 1984
| align="center" |{{hlist|"The Egg"|"The Proper Container"|"The Alarm"|"The Retreat"|<br />"The Seaside"|"The Lost Engine"|"The Outing"|"Cold"|<br />"The Endowment"|"Half-crowns"|"Chickens"|"St. George"|<br />"Retirement"}}
|}

In 1985, a single 58-minute compiled video called ''Ivor the Engine and the Elephants'' with 13 stories joined up together as an omnibus. In 1995, the video was re-released in different packaging.

{| class="wikitable"
! width="15%" |VHS video title
! width="12%" |Catalogue Number<br>(pre-cert)
! width="12%" |Catalogue Number<br>(Uc rated)
! width="12%" |Year of release
!Episodes
|-
| align="center" |''Ivor the Engine<br />and the Elephants''
| align="center" |BBCV 9017 
| align="center" |BBCV 4015
| align="center" |4 March 1985
| align="center" |{{hlist|"Mr Brangwyn's Pigeons"|"The Visitor"|"The Invalid"|<br />"The Boot"|"Banger's Circus"|"Sheep Herding"|"Juggernaut"|<br />"The Bird House"|"Bluebell"|"Dai and the Donkey"|<br />"Time Off"|"Sledging"|"The Rescue"}}
|}

In the early 1990s a video with six black and white stories of the very first ''Ivor the Engine'' series in the late-1950s (previously broadcast on Associated-Rediffusion) and seven colour episodes of the 1970s BBC series of ''Ivor the Engine'', all shown as single episodes, was released. The video was introduced by Oliver Postgate.

{| class="wikitable"
!width="11%" |VHS video title
!width="10%" |Catalogue<br />Number
!width="10%" |Year of release
!width="45%" |Episodes
|-
| align="center" |''Ivor the Engine -<br />The First Story''
| align="center" |BBCV 4652
| align="center" |19 August 1991
| align="center" |The first six episodes in black and white and seven colour episodes that are<br />{{hlist|"The Fire Engine"|"Mrs Porty's Foxes"|"Gold?"|"Mrs Porty"|<br />"The Water Tower"|"Cold"|"The Endowment"}}
|}

In 2000, a video called ''The Complete Ivor The Engine'' containing all 26 colour episodes was released by [[Universal Pictures|Universal]].

{| class="wikitable"
!VHS video title
!Catalogue Number
!Year of release
!Episodes
|-
| align="center" |''The Complete Ivor The Engine''
| align="center" |0781443
| align="center" |1 May 2000
| align="center" |All 26 colour episodes from the 1970s BBC version.
|}

In 2023, a [[Blu-ray]] called ''Ivor The Engine - The Colour Series'' containing all 40 colour, fully restored episodes was released by Fabulous Films.

{| class="wikitable"
!Blu-ray title
!Catalogue Number
!Year of release
!Episodes
|-
| align="center" |''Ivor The Engine - The Colour Series''
| align="center" |5030697050038
| align="center" |20 November 2023
| align="center" |All 40 colour episodes from the 1970s BBC version.
|}