Dragon Ball (Harmony Gold English Dub; 1989)

Dragon Ball is a well-known Japanese anime production, originally a manga (or Japanese comic) from 1984. The anime was produced from the mid to late 1980s. Dragon Ball's English dub is well known for being produced by Texas studio Funimation Entertainment (now known as simply Funimation).

Before the Funimation dub however, there was another company that attempted to dub the series into English. A California based television distribution company known as Harmony Gold licensed Dragon Ball in 1989 in an attempt to bring it to America. They did have a successful dub in the 1980s of the anime Robotech.

Two dubs were produced. The first dub was where Harmony Gold cut two of the Dragon Ball anime movies together and made them into a hour long feature. The dub was censored however, with the words "blood rubies" changed to "earth rubies." A scene involving one of the female characters firing her pistol was edited out, although other weapons were not edited out in the film. This dub aired on Philadelphia television station WGBS in the early-90s, and a copy does exist on the internet on a russian video website.

The other dub consisted of a few episodes of the series that aired in test markets. Dubbed by Intersound, Inc. in California, there are people on the internet that claim to have seen this dub, claiming many controversial scenes to be unedited from this dub. Unfortunately, no clips from this dub exist, and the episodes have never seen the light of day since 1990. It is thought that Funimation currently has the episodes in their library, but Funimation has only released their in-house 2001 dub of the series, not the 1989 Harmony Gold dub.

Found footage of the dub of the cut movies
Part 1 of the Harmony Gold dub of the movie

Part 2 of the Harmony Gold dub of the movie (note: the video is out of sync with the audio a bit, but it doesn't matter)

Cast of the Intersound dub
Betty Gustafson (Barbara Goodson) Wendee Swan (Wendee Lee) Clif Wells Jeffrey Platt (Michael McConnohie) Myron Mensah Colin Philips (Dave Mallow) Reba West (Rebecca Forstadt) Carole Wilder Ryan O’Flannigan (Kerrigan Mahan) Penny Sweet (Edie Mirman) Ray Michaels (Mike Reynolds) Christy Mathewson (Eddie Frierson) Bob Papenbrook Wanda Nowicki Jamie Johnson Ted Lehman <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.1875px;">Barry Stigler <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:'LucidaGrande','TrebuchetMS',Verdana,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;line-height:18.1875px;">A. Gregory (Bill Capeze)