It was a show so strange it should never even existed. Not just the idea of the show - six American teenagers fighting in special suits against a 10,000-year-old alien witch - but the whole execution of it. Live-action footage of the six actors was mixed in with footage ripped from a years-old Japanese show called Kyoryu Sentai Zyurange, dubbed over with English voices.
For all the children who watched it when it originally aired, though, it was like nothing they'd ever seen. It was our first brush with Japanese TV programming, and the weirdness of that country that still fascinates us. When the American actors were cast as the Rangers, they had no idea that they would one day become a global phenomenon.