Version) now being his first name, due to the impossibility of removing the "Hallo (German for Hello) Spencer" sign usually seen behind him in his office), and many other characters were altered to make them more palatable. Nepomuk also found himself with a first name: Grumpowski, Elvis became Elmar and the house band, the Quietschbeus became The Screech Boys. The series aired from 1992 to 1993. An alternate English dub was produced by PentaTV in the late 2000s. The PentaTV English dub was included as a bonus feature in the German DVDs. Episode availability Episodes of the original version are widely available in Germany on VHS and DVD. The English language version is unsurprisingly rarer. 52 episodes were originally translated and broadcast, but only six have been released on VHS, in three volumes in the United Kingdom. Judging by the contents of the tapes, the American episodes seem to have been chosen at random, with no regard at all to the running order of the original series. The contents of each tape is as follows: Volume 1: A Friend from China (Episode 100) and The Storm (Episode 86) Volume 2: The Visitor (Episode 121) and The Argument (Episode 77) Volume 3: The Less I See, The More I Hear (Episode 84) and A Million for Mona Lisa (Episode 120) Another VHS tape was released in the United States in 1993. References External links Official Hallo Spencer website (German) Spencerdorf.de 1980s German television series 1990s German television series 1979 German television series debuts 2001 German television series endings German television shows featuring puppetry Television shows set in Ohio Television shows set in Germany German children's television series German-language television shows Das Erste original programming Television series by Saban Entertainment