Trivia / The Dreamstone S 01 E 01 The Dreamstone

• Deleted Scene: The episode was originally part of an hour-long special before being cut into two episodes for syndicated airings ("The Dreamstone" and "Into Viltheed" or "The Dreamstone: Parts 1 and 2"). To meet the length of a proper episode, the first part suffers some cuts:
  • One was when Rufus was told off by Mr Wacks for being late again, in which took place right after Rufus spoke to Amberley. Rufus was ordered to fill a basket with candles, he did so, but as he put the candles in, he started to daydream about being a performing clown, juggling the candles that then turned into objects and animals. Rufus was then interrupted by Amberley, in which then caused him to drop and break the candles. Amberley picked up the candles and walked away saying 'Daydreaming again!' The original soundtrack has the juggling music in, right between the musketeer and the beginning music for the Wacks Wicks Works track. One viewer may also find when Rufus was going to cut the candles from the rack, that some broken candles were still seen on the floor from the deleted scene.
  • After Rufus saw the whirlyped fly away with The Dreamstone and Amberley, as Rufus tried to tell The Dreammaker on what'd happened, he then asked Rufus on what was he doing in the tower? Rufus told the Dreammaker that he was showing off as he tried to impress Amberley, but after seeing that the Urpneys had taken her away and have The Dreamstone, the Dreammaker then said "Oh this is disastrous, you've failed me Rufus." before saying the lines that was in the normal episode. In the electronic remix Dreamdance, you could actually hear The Dreammaker saying that line that was cut off from the normal episode. In the same scene when Rufus said that he will sneak The Dreamstone out of Zordrak's nose, he then said that he is small and no one will notice him, but was then interrupted by the Dreammaker who then said "Rufus, that'll be an extremely difficult and a dangerous undertaking!" Rufus then asked please on letting him have a try, that then led up to the final lines to what The Dreammaker had to say, which is also on the normal episode.
  • In early repeats of the opening special, Rufus' dream sequence set to "Better Than A Dream" was edited out. This scene is usually reinstated in most rereleases of the episode.
• Edited for Syndication:
  • When divided into two episodes, the special lost a few scenes due to time constraints. Some of these edits are kept in video releases, which usually feature the two episode version.
  • The Whirlyped Launch scene has the music muted until the Whirlyped is airborne.
  • When Rufus shows Amberley the laughter box, and took out some of the laughter bubbles, alternate sounds of laughter can be heard from them.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only the first VHS of the show distributed in the UK has the entire original cut of the opening special (curiously right down to the eye-catcher used during it's first airing). All releases afterwards use syndicated version cut into two standard episodes, with most of the Deleted Scenes remaining cut.