2013 marks the 20th anniversary of Power Rangers. I grew up with the teenage superheroes from Angel Grove and have been reliving my childhood by rewatching the series on Netflix. Last month, I started a year long series of articles celebrating the anniversary with 5 Power Ranger Rip-Offs You Probably Forgot. This month, I have delved into the massive Power Ranger archives to deliver the following trivia that you didn’t know about the series.
10. The Perfect Attendance Award Goes To…
Billy and Alpha 5 are the only main characters to appear in all 155 episodes of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. That’s right, the nerd and the robot appeared in every episode of the original series.This is due in part to the departure of Austin St. John (Jason), Thuy Thang (Trini) and Walter Emanuel Johns (Zack) halfway through the second season and Amy Jo Johnson (Kimberly) leaving toward the end of the third season. David Yost, who played Billy, would not leave the series until near the end of Power Rangers Zeo.
And now Alpha 5:
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Haha nice list. Though I think the title ‘Power Rangers Trivia’ would be a more appropriate fit
Number 1 hasnt got anything to do with power rangers really, everything else I knew :) You couldve said The original yellow ranger wasnt the original yellow ranger, She was a different actress in the pilot episode same with the morphin sequence
I knew just about everything on thing on this list except for “the show runners originally intended to have Tommy leave the show after a short run to star in V.R. Troopers” and the reason why Rocky wasn’t in the awesome Forever Red episode.
LOL FUN LIST
Number One had absolutely nothing to do with Power Rangers.
Maybe Number One could have mentioned the death of Thuy Trang (the original yellow Ranger). I know about 8 of the 9 Power Ranger things already.