These 12 Facts About Mighty Morphin Power Rangers Will Only Add To Your Love Of The Show
You'll want to go back in time to the Saturday mornings you spent binge-watching action packed episodes of Power Rangers when you read these facts.Â
Open calls were held to find the six teenagers that would play the Power Rangers and the group that eventually ended up on the show had bonded during the lengthy audition process.Â
Super Sentai was a show created by Toei Studios in 1975 and there were a ton of different version of it. The American version was based on Beast Rangers of the Dinosaur Corps which was the 16th version that existed.Â
Producer Haim Saban tried to sell the show for seven years with no success. It wasn't until 1993 that he was able to sell it to Fox Children's Network.Â
Barbara Goodson was the voice actress for Rita Repulsa and after being cast, a poll was taken and it was determined that she just wasn't scary enough. Producers were ready to open the role up to the other people, when she asked if she could try something different. Eventually the let her and she landed the role again.Â
Audri DuBois was originally cast to play the Yellow Ranger, but was fired for asking for more money after shooting the pilot.
The show premiered on August 28, 1993 and by the end of the year, it was playing six days a week. It took the top spot for six to 17 year olds on Saturday morning and had captured the highest Nielsen ratings for a children's TV show.Â
Fans loved the Green Ranger so much that he was written into the show as permanent character even though he was only supposed to appear for a few episodes.Â
Amy Jo Johnson, who played the pink ranger was planning to leave Los Angeles after a bad breakup. She then met her acting coach and the casting director for the show and got the part.Â
The exterior shots of Zordon's lair are actually shots of the American Jewish University Brandeis-Bardin Campus in Simi Valley, California.
All of the fights scenes were pulled from the original Japanese series and the writers would create a story around the footage that they already had. The American actors would go in and dub their lines over the original fight scenes.Â
When they originally started filming, the show was called The Dino Rangers.
The actor playing Zordon only appeared on camera once. The rest of his work was done in the recording studio for budgetary reasons.Â