Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers

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Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers
Genre	Action-Adventure
Running time	30 minutes
Creator(s)	Haim Saban Shuki Levy
Starring	Raja Baroudi David Bacon Jim Gray Karim Prince Alan Palmer Julia Jordan Sicily Cody Slaton Ross J. Samaya Michael R. Gotto Matthew Sakimoto Michael O' Laskey David Yost
Country of origin	United States
Original channel	FOX
Original run	1996-02-05–1996-02-16
No. of episodes	10
IMDb profile

Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers was a Power Rangers mini-series inside the third season of the TV series Mighty Morphin Power Rangers that lasted for 10 episodes. As with the 3rd season of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, this miniseries used footage and monsters from the eighteenth Super Sentai series, Ninja Sentai Kakuranger; however, the Rangers' costumes from Kakuranger were now used as well.

Contents 1 Synopsis 2 Characters 2.1 Heroes 2.2 Villains 2.3 Allies 3 Zords 4 Trivia

[edit] Synopsis

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers are turned into children by Master Vile, and Zordon recruits five alien Power Rangers from the planet Aquitar, humanoids that feed on water and have awkward, watery voices, to help protect the Earth from Lord Zedd and Rita Repulsa. Meanwhile, the kids seek to find the pieces of the Zeo Crystal to return them to their full adult form.

Eventually, the Rangers found their Zeo sub-crystals and recruited a new friend, Tanya Sloan from Africa, as Aisha Campbell, the previous Yellow Ranger, wished to remain in Africa when she found her Zeo sub-crystal. Once the Zeo Crystal was recombined, the Rangers returned to their grown form, and the Aquitian Rangers returned to their home planet of Aquitar.

Goldar and Rito Revolto stole the Zeo Crystal and detonated a bomb in the Command Center, ending the miniseries on a cliffhanger that led into the following series: Power Rangers: Zeo.

The Aquitian Rangers are later seen and referenced in further Power Rangers series, including the first past/present Ranger team up during Power Rangers: Zeo. In particular, Billy Cranston goes and visits them on their home planet, therefore explaining his absence from the series from Power Rangers: Turbo onwards.

Some of the Alien Rangers are also seen in the climatic montage fight between the forces of good and evil at the finale of Power Rangers In Space and the Red Aquitian Ranger (Aurico) is seen in the Power Rangers Wild Force episode Forever Red which saw every previous Red Ranger (except Rocky DeSantos) united to stop the remnants of the Machine Empire in its latest scheme.

[edit] Characters

[edit] Heroes

Main article: Aquitian Rangers

Actor	Character	Title	Rank
David Bacon	Aurico	Red Aquitian/Alien Ranger	Second-in-command, field leader
Raija Baroudi	Delphine	White Aquitian/Alien Ranger	Team leader
Jim Gray	Tideus	Yellow Aquitian/Alien Ranger
Karim Prince	Cestro	Blue Aquitian/Alien Ranger
Alan Palmer	Corcus	Black Aquitian/Alien Ranger

[edit] Villains

Main article: Villains in Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

• Rita Repulsa
• Lord Zedd
• Goldar
• Rito Revolto
• Hydro Hog
• Master Vile
• Squatt
• Baboo
• Finster
• Monsters they battled:
  • Parrot Top
  • See-Monster
  • Crabby Cabbie
  • Garbagemouth
  • Brick Bully
  • Proffesor Longnose
  • Slotsky
  • Eric and Merrick, The Barbaric Brothers
  • Bratboy
  • Witchblade
  • Arachnofiend

[edit] Allies

• Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (children)
• Zordon
• Alpha 5

[edit] Zords

• Battle Borgs: Humanoid zords used by each Aquitian Ranger that were brought with them from Aquitar to Earth. They are similar to the Shogunzords, although less armored. They were controlled through telepathy.

• Shogunzords: The Aquitian Rangers also had access to the original Power Rangers' Shogunzords and were able to form the Shogun Megazord (most of the monsters they fought were eliminated this way). Along with the Falconzord, they could form the Shogun MegaFalconzord, which they used to defeat their most feared nemesis, the Hydro Hog.

[edit] Trivia

• Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers has the distinction of featuring both the first female White Ranger, the first female Power Ranger leader, the first African-American actor to portray a Blue Ranger and the first male Yellow Ranger.

• Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers featured the first Power Rangers to be Aliens.

• During the Toon Disney run of Power Rangers Generations, this portion of the third season wasn't seen on television, although its sister station ABC Family has aired the rest of the third season. Starting in the fall of 2006 however, Toon Disney will be the exclusive home of Jetix. Whether or not the Alien Rangers episodes will air on Toon Disney on a later date remains to been seen at this time.

• This is the second series in which a Ranger could control a Zord without being inside it.

• For the first time, the Power Rangers find out they aren't the only Power Rangers in the universe. There are Power Rangers on different planets.

• This is the first and only season where the Ranger team morphed without a Morpher.

• Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers is considered by some to be a full-fledged season unto itself, as it had its own opening credits sequence, theme song, logo and toy line.

• During the preview for the upcoming episode, the logo of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers was used instead of that for the series, causing further debate as to whether Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers is a fully-fledged Power Rangers series or simply a long story arc in the third season of MMPR

Preceded by: Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

Power Rangers 1996

Succeeded by: Power Rangers: Zeo

Power Rangers
Television series:
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers - Alien Rangers - Zeo - Turbo - Space - Lost Galaxy - Lightspeed Rescue - Time Force
Wild Force - Ninja Storm - Dino Thunder - S.P.D. - Mystic Force - Operation Overdrive
Movies
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: The Movie - Turbo: A Power Rangers Movie
Select episodes
Day of the Dumpster - Green with Evil - The Wedding - Ninja Quest - Hogday Afternoon Chase Into Space - Countdown to Destruction - Forever Red - Legacy of Power Back in Black - Lost and Found in Translation - Fighting Spirit - Mystic Fate
Characters
Rangers - Zords - Villains - Enemy grunts - Monsters - Other Characters
Related series from Saban
VR Troopers - Masked Rider - Big Bad Beetleborgs - The Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog
Other related series
Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad - Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills
See also
Fox Kids - ABC Kids - ABC Family - Toon Disney - Jetix - Saban - Disney - Super Sentai