The series was made available to overseas broadcasters by the BBC Transcription Services.
Home and Away's overseas broadcaster, Five said that Ric managed to put "problematic past well and truly behind him" and got back "on the rails".
The storyline was promoted by the Seven Network and overseas broadcaster Channel 5, in the form of televisual adverts.
Some other overseas broadcasters, such as Australia's ABC, purchased the series in an eight-part, one-hour episode format.
TV and radio services are provided by the French public overseas broadcaster, RFO.
BBC Enterprises retained their film copies, although the story was never purchased by any overseas broadcasters, until at least 1972.
Telerecordings of the Pathfinders series were made for sales to overseas broadcasters.
The series may continue to be screened in Scotland on the STV network and on overseas broadcasters.
Many more were thought to be lost until copies were recovered from various sources, mostly overseas broadcasters.
Coyle also admitted there had been interest expressed by overseas broadcasters in looking to license the iPlayer technology.