Movies & TV Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for movie and TV enthusiasts. It only takes a minute to sign up.
Sign up to join this community
The Power Rangers was one of my favourite TV series during my childhood.
I'd like to know how many groups of them have existed. I am curious because I've seen several images all over the internet of different teams: dinos (the very first one), animals, ninjas, etc. I saw that they even teamed up with the ninja turtles.
It's difficult to define "groups" as a couple of the teams overlap a lot, or some actors leave the show and the role is re-casted. For Example, The Turbo Rangers are most of the Zeo Rangers, whom are most of the Mighty Morphing Power Rangers in the first place.
Team 1 through 5 are slight cast, costume and setting changes, considered the Zordon Era. So it can be considered 7 seasons of a single show. (Alien Rangers being a filler mini-season). Everything forward of Lost Galaxy were pretty stand alone seasons/teams, until Samurai and Super Samurai, which are two seasons of the same team. The same for Megaforce & Super Megaforce, and Dino Charge & Dino Super Charge.
Given that, there are 20 distinct major groups (From Wikia):
Spread among 23 individually titled series:
This is also limited to the Americanized show, not the original Japanese shows that the scenes are cut from. Which is much longer, and disjointed, as it's a genre of multiple unconnected shows, not just a franchise.
So, The Power Rangers are actually an American adaptation of a Japanese show called super sentai. They started releasing the English versions for american audiences in 1993 (MMPR) which was our first. In Japan, the equivalent was known as Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, which was the 16th "Season" and group. Every time the original group switched suits was technically a new group in Japan. So MMPR, Zeo, etc are entirely differnt people in the Japanese series, much like it is now in america. As of now, I believe they are on their 40th series.
