The five of you have come together to form as fine a group of superheroes as there has ever been no way for this video.

We'll be looking at the grim behind the scenes details of the beloved nineties hit series.

Were you a fan of the power rangers?

Who was your favorite?

Go Go let us know in the comments, the original series back in the 19 eighties music composer Haim Saban was watching Tv in his Tokyo hotel room and came across the japanese talks at su su percentiles series.

Seeing these color coded superheroes facing off against monsters gave him the idea to create an Americanized version.

I bumped into this very colorful show, five kids in spandex kicking monster but and I thought this looks like fun After almost a decade of failed pilots and rejection Saban with the help of Fox's then head of programming Margaret Lesh finally launched mighty morphin power rangers in 1993 5.

Overbearing and overemotional humans, not teenagers, That's correct.

The series followed five American teenagers who were already skilled in gymnastics and martial arts as they trained to become the titular group.

Oh my gosh!

The original series starred Twee Trang trini the yellow ranger, Austin ST john Jason, the red ranger Amy jo johnson Kimberly, the pink ranger, walter emanuel jones zack, The black ranger and David Yost billy the blue ranger.

Later in the first season, Jason, David frank joined as the green ranger who would become the white ranger, One of us Now, welcome on board!

A new chapter has begun, rangers let the power protect you.

Some of the young cast weren't even actors including ST john who was a martial arts instructor since the actor's faces were under helmets.

Saban used footage from Kiuru sent ties, do ranger and other super sent I series for the fight scenes.

However, the cast did perform some of their own stunts, mastodon triceratops, overnight success and mighty morphin merchandise.

The first episode of mighty morphin Power rangers premiered august 28th, 1993 on Fox kids.

It was an instant, an unexpected hit, quickly becoming one of the highest rated kids shows on broadcast television show was famous.

Before the show came out, I was walking down the beach with my cousin and these kids ran up on me and they're like, hey yo you're the black ranger and they're like, yeah, I am.

How do you, how do you know that?

I'm like, the show's not even out yet.

It comes out in two weeks.

They're like, no, no, I bought your doll yesterday and your face is on the box audiences love these teenagers with attitude and they're insane fighting skills, morphing into the colorful superheroes that defeated monsters and aliens every week.

The theme song was pretty awesome too With the massive popularity of the series, it wasn't long before the merchandise was flying off the shelves.

It was just blowing out of the stores people are fighting in the aisles?

We were getting over 450 calls a day.

Why can't I get these toys?

Why aren't they on the shelves, toys, costumes, video games, comics, bedsheets, toothbrushes upon entertainment and bandy created a multi billion dollar merchandizing empire that would dominate the 19 nineties and beyond.

I've done a lot of work other than power rangers, but I don't think I've done anything that has as much merchandise.

So it's continuously following me between the comic books and video games.

With all the hype surrounding the show came sudden fame for the young cast, something they had to adjust to fast.

I did not like the amount of people who suddenly knew who I was, but I don't know who they are.

I think that that really freaked me out.

In 1990 for the six cast members became ambassadors for the Dare program and made national news when an appearance at Universal studios shut down.

Los Angeles traffic.

We do our first show and it's crazy.

You know, they say he does the power of the mastodon.

He is, Zach took off my helmet, the ground goes, There are lights everywhere.

Everybody's taking pictures.

A crowd of roughly 35,000 people attended the conference with some camping outside for hours.

You come out on stage and it was like the biggest rock star moment.

We had people just Jason, Jason chanting your name, your hair standing up on the back of your neck.

It was intense low wages and poor working conditions.

Power rangers proved to be a lucrative venture for Saban and the higher ups but the cast quickly realized that they weren't getting the pay they deserved.

Here.

We were just, you know, getting paid peanuts nonunion because we did one personal appearance at universal empathy here.

I think it holds like 4000 people.

We had to do like seven shows that day because so many people came, they worked long hours, sometimes 12 to 15 hour days, six days a week and reportedly made about $600 a week with zero residuals.

The success of the show led to daily episodes instead of weekly which increased the production schedule and took an even bigger toll on the cast and crew as an onion ized show and as actors without agents, there wasn't anyone to advocate for better pay or improving poor working conditions has to be another way trini zack and Jason in your hearts, you will always carry the spirit of the power rangers but your destinies lie elsewhere.

Amy jo johnson detailed the time when she and David Yost, we're almost injured in an on set accident and revealed that she and tweet rang once had to work the morning after an earthquake.

The first actors to leave the show were Trang Austin ST john and walter emanuel jones.

It's so sad that they're leaving by you guys.

The three of them wanted to have a union and receive more compensation but were turned down and quickly replaced in the middle of the second season, The cast is replaced just like they do in Japan.

Every year in 1990 for Karen Ashley joined the cast as Aisha Campbell slash yellow ranger, johnny young bosch as Adam Park slash black ranger and steve Cardona's as Rocky de Santos Behold, I present to you the new power rangers, Rocky Adam isn't this incredible.

Three Newbies also starred in mighty morphin Power rangers.

The movie which was released june 30th 1995.

Well, pack your bags because we're sending you right back where you came from?

Hm A teenager with a big mouth.

Not much has changed in 6000 years, you obviously don't know who you're dealing with Mr Raisin head.

Really?

Yeah, we're the power rangers.

Where's my autograph book Controversy over the years since its debut, the Power Rangers have had their fair share of controversies.

The show was banned in multiple countries for its excessive violence, including New Zealand and Canada.

In 1994, Norway Sweden and Denmark pulled the show from the airwaves after the tragic death of a young girl at the hands of classmates, even though there was no direct connection between the two Malaysia Vietnam and the Philippines ban.

The word morphine from the title and anywhere in the series, fearing it was too close to morphine.

The drug.

Aside from censorship issues.

Power rangers garnered criticism for the racial coding of the black ranger being played by a black man and the yellow ranger by an asian american woman.

However, jones says it was purely coincidental and the first yellow ranger in the unaired pilot was played by hispanic actress Audrey Dubois.

I felt like for people of color was really inspiring.

Overall it was inspired for everybody.

I mean, you know, in the pilot, the yellow ranger was Latina.

So at that time it wasn't really such a big deal.

It was like, oh yeah, that's okay black ranger, the black costume which I would have picked anyway.

Perhaps the darkest of the mm Pr Controversies is one that not many have discussed.

It wasn't until years after his time on the series that day, video spoke out about the reason behind his departure.

Writers, directors, it's not that people can't talk about me and have their opinion about me, But continuing to work in an environment like that is really difficult.

In 2010, Yost revealed in an interview that he was subjected to onset harassment for his sexual orientation and the crew regularly used homophobic slurs when talking about and to the actor basically I just felt like I was continually being told I'm not worthy of where I am because I'm quote unquote a gay person and I'm not supposed to be an actor and you can't be a superhero that's sort of the vibe that I was getting this mistreatment led to yo suffering a nervous breakdown for which he had to be hospitalized.

Where are they now?

Many of the O.

G rangers continue to act including Amy jo johnson who landed a role on J.

J.

Abrams Felicity and went on to become a filmmaker and musician for the last five years.

I've started filmmaking, I've done three short films and I just finished my first feature film which is called the Space between walter Emanuel jones also continued his acting career appearing in shows like moshe and Buffy the vampire slayer and later lending his voice to 2013 cloudy with a chance of meatballs to David Yost left acting behind and became a producer whose body of work includes reality shows, Temptation Island and the real housewives of Beverly Hills Jason, David frank's Tommy Oliver remains a recurring character in the franchise, appearing in power rangers turbo, Power rangers, Dino, Thunder and power rangers, super ninja steel just to name a few, I live day by day and I try to put as much passion into Tommy as I could and here we are 25 years later and I'll put just as much passion into him like I did with dragon and all the other series that we've done after exiting the show.

Austin ST john returned to martial arts but later went to college and spent time working as a paramedic in Washington D.

C.

He also reprised his role as Jason in a few series like Power rangers, Wild Force and power rangers, Beast more furs.

I was starting to wonder whether you show up at all.

You didn't think I was gonna let you do this without the original Red ranger did you?

However, he's recently made headlines with some legal troubles In 1996 tweet.

Trang had a small part in Spy Hard but starred as the villain Cali in the Crow City of Angels.

That same year, sadly the actress died in a car accident in september 2000 and one.

To all the people out there.

You know, just live out your dreams if you dream something, just pursue it and do it because if you put your mind to it, you can do basically anything and everything you want to johnson jones, yost frank and ST john make regular appearances around the convention circuit.

Often reuniting for events and interviews.

When I really think about 25 years has passed.

It's like, wow!

We still, whenever we're together, we just pick up where we left the Chemistry of Families still Is still there.

In 2016, most of them joined former castmates Karen Ashley and David Fielding Zordon for an original film called The Order.

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If you're on your phone, make sure you go into your settings and switch on notifications, legacy and cultural impact, people tell us I got the hunger to be who I am because I was inspired by you and what a compliment is that mighty morphin Power rangers was a nineties phenomenon that continues to be one of the most successful media franchises in history.

And despite the darker aspects of its history, the show inspired a generation of kids who are now adults and sharing it with their Children, lifelong fans come to see their favorite rangers at various conventions, including power morpher Con, that was such an honor.

The first time that I appeared at power morpher Con and that so many people showed up and they waited in line for five hours, some of them to get an autograph and take a picture with me, which is just crazy because I do see the impact that our characters had on people.

The 2017 reboot.

Power rangers may have not been a smash hit, but it was praised for an ethnically diverse cast, something which the franchise has long valued.

It's morphin time furthermore, the film's version of Billy Cranston played by RJ Kyler is on the autism spectrum and David Joos praised the film for featuring a queer superhero.

Becky G as trini slash yellow ranger, me and four kids from Angel Grove found a spaceship buried underground.

What I'm pretty sure I'm a superhero.

While a sequel never materialized.

Another reboot is in the works at netflix.

Since 1993 there have been 29 seasons and over 900 plus episodes in the Power rangers Canon, not counting television specials, directed video productions or the three movies the franchise shows no signs of ending.

Much to fans delight been through an extraordinary experience together.

You need each other now and the world needs you.

Yeah, Alright, I'm in.

Me too.

You can count on me.

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