Episode 17 of the season, "Green With Evil, Part I," introduces the beginning of what is known by fans as the "Green Ranger Saga." New kid, Tommy Oliver, is found to be a martial arts ace and placed under a spell from Rita to become her evil green ranger. Season 1 of the series circles around the five new power rangers getting to know their new friends Zordon and ALPHA 5, getting used to their new found powers, and fighting their enemies, but it is also the start of the biggest story in the series.
It's not as pretty as most series brought to DVD, as there are plenty of fuzzy video sections, but it's much better looking than it was in 1993. When you think about how low this show's budget was and how poor the original film was (many scenes copied and reused from the Japan original), the DVD presentation does a very respectable job of cleaning up the video. All these years later, Shout! Factory has released the Saban Entertainment's original Power Rangers series in a complete box set.
Is it possible for a show to absolutely horrible, yet completely awesome, all at the same time? I would say that the Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers are proof that this scenario is without a doubt possible. As insane as it was (and really still is), it was all so captivating and has been continuing on in some form or another for 20 years now. It's hard enough to believe that an intergalactic sorceress and her minions were held captive in a dumpster on the moon, but even more so that five teenagers were called upon to wear spandex suites and fight inside dinosaur robots - Dinozords - (and OF COURSE the five individual zords come together to form one Megazord) against putty patrollers (the equivalent of foot soldiers from the TMNT series) and giant Godzilla-looking villains sent from the two main bad guys: Rita Repulsa and Lord Zedd (starting in Season 2). In 1993, one of the most ridiculous looking TV shows, with one of the most outrageous plotlines, was brought to the forefront of pop culture and kids and teens alike fell in love.
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