The Beachcombers is an incredibly iconic Canadian TV series, but sadly a very hard to find one. Sadly only around a total of 20-or-so episodes of the British Colombian TV series are available publicly (and by publicly, I mean un-official YouTube uploads). Sadly it looks like we may NEVER get a official and/or digital release of the series, but back in 2017 it looked like there was going to be a release in of all places Germany.



The Beachcombers was released in Germany under the title Strandpiraten, and the series was very successful, almost all the episodes of the original series were dubbed in Germany. Considering its success it would only be natural that the series was going to be released on DVD?



Enter PIDAX, a German DVD distribution company (think Criterion Collection but German). PIDAX is known for releasing rare and old films and TV series on DVD. The Beachcombers (or in this case Strandpiraten) would be a perfect fit. A 3 disc DVD set was announced that would contain the first e…