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  • Keep Circulating the Tapes: Only five of the thirteen episodes have ever been released on DVD, leaving eight that are only available on the original VHS.
    • All thirteen episodes are now currently available via streaming services.
  • No Export for You: Only the first six episodes were released in Israel, presumably because the seventh was the first to take its story from the New Testament. However, the episodes were not released in chronological order, and subsequent Old Testament episodes were not released in Israel either.
  • The Other Darrin: Jesus has a different voice actor in "The Miracles of Jesus" than in "The Easter Story". Also, Derek's voice actor was changed in 1989.
  • Out of Order: Kind of. The episodes are generally ordered chronologically, starting with "The Creation" and ending with "The Easter Story", but that's not the order in which they were released. In fact, the episodes were produced in no particular order, ending with "Jonah" in 1992. Some continuity problems stem from this, if we are to assume the time-travelers are going through the Bible chronologically. For example, in "Moses" (released in 1986) the gang is amazed at having arrived in Egypt. However, they were already in Egypt in the chronologically previous episode, "Joseph and His Brothers" (released in 1990).
  • Screwed by the Network: While the series was intended for home video, this was one of the few Hanna-Barbera shows never seen on either Cartoon Network or Boomerang. While the networks did show HB's other direct-to-video series, and CN even showed one special that was blatantly pro-Christian every year, one typically thinks that Adam and Eve may have been the reason this series was benched. Other western and Japanese shows with too much "nudity or perceived nudity" often were censored or skipped.

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