"Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" Day of the Dumpster (1993)

User Rating:

7.6/10   

Directors:

Adrian Carr
Strathford Hamilton

Writers:

Taylor Grant (story)
Shuki Levy (writer)

TV Series:

"Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers" (1993)

Original Air Date:

28 August 1993 (Season 1, Episode 1)

Genre:

Action | Adventure | Comedy | Family | Sci-Fi | Thriller

Plot:

Following the accidental release of long-imprisoned evil space-sorceress Rita Repulsa, a benevolent sage known as Zordon drafts a group of five teenagers to help protect the planet as Dino-powered warriors of goodness.

Plot Keywords:

Famous Opening Theme | Miniaturization | Piloted Giant Robot | Giant Robot | Sentai Adaptation

Cast

Austin St. John	...	Jason Lee Scott / The Red Ranger
Thuy Trang	...	Trini Kwan / The Yellow Ranger
Walter Jones	...	Zack Taylor / The Black Ranger
Amy Jo Johnson	...	Kimberly Ann Hart / The Pink Ranger
David Yost	...	Billy Cranston / The Blue Ranger
Paul Schrier	...	Farkas 'Bulk' Bulkmeier
Jason Narvy	...	Eugene 'Skull' Skullovitch
David Fielding	...	Zordon
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Stella Angelova	...	Sharky
Tarô Arakawa	...	Zordon (voice: Japanese version)
Audri Dubois	...	Trini - Yellow Ranger
Richard Genelle	...	Ernie
Barbara Goodson	...	Rita Repulsa (voice)
Richard Steven Horvitz	...	Alpha 5 (voice) (as Richard Wood)
Eiji Inoue
Robert L. Manahan	...	Zordon (voice) (as Bob Manahan)
Mari Maruta	...	Trini Kwan / The Yellow Ranger (voice: Japanese version)
Damian Mcknight	...	The Geek
Daiki Nakamura	...	Jason Lee Scott / The Red Ranger (voice: Japanese version)
Ken Narita	...	Eugene 'Skull' Skullovitch / Baboo (voice: Japanese version)
Romy J. Sharf	...	Alpha 5
Machiko Soga	...	Rita Repulsa (voice: Japanese version)

Company:

Terebi Asahi

Trivia:

The second scene of the episode involving the five teens, with Billy, Bulk and Skull in Jason's Karate class, was actually shot for the "Dark Warrior" episode. This explains why the teens are wearing their Communicators in this episode, when they don't actually get until the second episode "High Five". The originally shot scene for this episode had the teens being what the network had considered to be "too mean and violent to Bulk and Skull". That scene has NEVER been seen publicly, but they are reportedly wearing the same clothes in it as they are in the first and third scenes of this episode.

Goofs:

Revealing mistakes: When Zordon first directs the new rangers to the viewing globe to watch Rita, a few seconds of Barza, the Zyuranger version of Zordon, can be seen.