Harmony Gold dub
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The Harmony Gold dub was the first English dub of Dragon Ball and released in the 1980s. Harmony Gold dubbed Episode 1-5 of Dragon Ball, Dragon Ball: Curse of the Blood Rubies, and Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure. The original music was kept, but all of the character names were changed with the exception of Muten Roshi and Chaozu. Harmony Gold also dubbed Episode 1 of Dr. Slump and changed all of the character names except Arale.
Name changes
- Goku was changed to Zero.
- Bulma was changed to Lena.
- Oolong was changed to Mao Mao.
- Yamucha was changed to Zedaki.
- Puar was changed to Squeakers.
- Kuririn was changed to Bongo.
- Launch was changed to Marilynn.
- Tenshinhan was changed to Shinto.
- Tao Pai Pai was changed to General Tao Pei.
- Karin was changed to Whiskers the Wonder Cat.
- Crane Hermit was changed to Lord Wu Zu.
- Shen Long was changed to Dragon God.
- Penguin Village was changed to Happy Valley in Dragon Ball: Mystical Adventure, but was still named Penguin Village in their dub of Dr. Slump.
- Senbei was only referred to by his nickname, Dr. Slump.
- Akane was changed to Sandy.
- Taro was changed to Butch.
- Peasuke was changed to Buddy.
- Aoi was changed to Lois.
- Midori Yamabuki was changed to Tammy Lafox.