According to this Tripod based Maple Town page, six videocassettes were released by Family Home Entertainment from about 1988 to 1990.
The first cassette pictured here, titled "Welcome to Maple Town", was released in 1987 and has about 4 episodes running about 86 minutes total. These episodes are: Welcome to Maple Town, The Stolen Necklace, The Pot That Wouldn't Hold Water and the Greatest Treasure of All.
The remaining five videos released all have just two episodes each. They are as follows:
"The Prettiest Dress In Maple Town", 1987, containing The Prettiest Dress In Maple Town and The Children's Forest Patrol
"A Baby Comes to Maple Town", 1987, containing A Baby Comes to Maple Town and When Children Must Be Grownups
"The Case of the Missing Candy, 1987, containing the Case of the Missing Candy and Teacher, Please Don't Go
"Medicine from Maple Mountain", 1987, containing Medicine from Maple Mountain and the Ransom of Maple Forest
"The House Made of Love", 1987, containing the House Made of Love and A Most Unlikely Heroine
In Japan during the 1990s, Toei Video released about ten videocassettes with about three episodes each. (Above image courtesy of the Lost Media Wiki.) The UK got a few video releases through Multiple Sound Distributors. Meanwhile in the Netherlands, CNR Video released a few cassettes with episodes.
As for DVD releases, even in this day and age, they are quite rare. DVD releases exist in Japan, Spain and Hungary.
This is the DVD release of the Spanish Maple Town dub known as "La Aldea Del Arce".
I have no pictures of the Hungarian DVD release at present. In its native Japan, Toei has released both Maple Town and Palm Town on DVD over two boxed sets. My sources tell me that as many DVD sets do, there's bonus material such as production art, storyboards and character model sheets.
At the time of this writing, no other DVD releases have been announced for elsewhere like the United States.
There are two points of order that I need to address here. The first is that anyone in North America interested in getting any of the above DVD releases should take heed. Europe and Japan uses a region 2 coding for their videodiscs; these will NOT work on a North American DVD player, which are region 1.
The other one is directed at anyone looking for episodes in any format (DVD, videocassette, digital files and so on). PLEASE DO NOT CONTACT ME HERE OR BY EMAIL ASKING FOR EPISODES. For legal reasons, I cannot offer them nor can I direct you to any sources for these episodes. You are on your own for locating these.
Should the situation change with any sort of digital or optical disc release, this post will be updated.
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