Release
Two 26 episode seasons ran in Japan: the first season ran from October 1978 to April 1979, and the second one from November 1979 to May 1980, with screenwriters including Mamoru Sasaki, Isao Okishima, Tetsurō Abe, Kei Tasaka, James Miki, Motomu Furuta, Hiroichi Fuse, Yū Tagami, and Fumio Ishimori.
Starting in 1979, Saiyūki was dubbed into English (BBC production), and subsequently broadcasted in the United Kingdom, New Zealand, and by ABC Television in Australia under the name Monkey, with dialogue written by David Weir. Only 39 of the original 52 episodes were shown by the BBC. The remaining episodes were dubbed by Fabulous Films Ltd in early 2004 by the original cast, following a successful release of the English dubbed series on VHS and DVD; then they aired on Channel 4 in the UK.
A Spanish-dubbed version of Monkey aired in Uruguay in the early 1980s. While Monkey never received a broadcast in the United States, Saiyūki was shown on local Japanese language television stations in California and Hawaii in the early 1980s.
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