Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Season 1, Episode 45: Crystal of Nightmares
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is based upon the Japanese series Super Sentai . If you are reading this post, you should already know that. I’ve mentioned it in previous posts as I have worked my way through the first season of the show. If you want to get more specific, the first season is based upon the Kyoryu Sentai Zyuranger season of the Super Sentai series. Many of the fight scenes when the Power Rangers are in costume have been taken directly from that series and fitted with American dialogue and an American story to market it to American children. The reason that I am bringing this up again is that I have now ventured into the tail end of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers ’ first season. I believe I said in the second Pudgy Pig episode that the show was reusing footage that it had used in the first Pudgy Pig episode. There is a reason for that. The first season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is sixty episodes of televis...