Power Rangers Wild Force | |
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Genre |
Action Adventure Fantasy Superhero |
Created by |
Haim Saban Toei Company |
Directed by |
Koichi Sakamoto Terry Withrow Worth Keeter Taro Sakamoto Jonathan Tzachor |
Starring |
Ricardo Medina, Jr. Alyson Kiperman Phillip Jeanmarie Jessica Rey Jack Guzman Philip Andrew Ann Marie Crouch Ilia Volok Sin Wong |
Composer(s) |
Lior Rosner Paul Gordon Drew DeAscentis |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 40 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producer(s) | Jonathan Tzachor |
Location(s) |
Santa Clarita and Los Angeles, California |
Running time | 20 minutes |
Production company(s) |
Disney Enterprises BVS Entertainment Renaissance Atlantic Entertainment Toei Company, Ltd. MMPR Productions, Inc. |
Distributor |
Saban Brands MarVista Entertainment BVS International (previously) |
Release | |
Original network |
FOX (Fox Kids) (Ep 1–26) ABC (ABC Kids) (Ep 27–40) ABC Family (reruns) (Jetix) |
Original release | February 9 | – November 16, 2002
Chronology | |
Preceded by | Power Rangers Time Force |
Followed by | Power Rangers Ninja Storm |
Website | www |
Power Rangers Wild Force is an American television series and the tenth season and anniversary of the Power Rangers franchise, based on the Super Sentai series Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, which itself was the 25th anniversary of Super Sentai.
Power Rangers Wild Force takes place in 2002. The first part of the series was originally broadcast from February to August 2002 on the Fox Kids television block. Following the sale of Fox Family Worldwide (renamed ABC Family Worldwide) including Saban Entertainment (renamed BVS Entertainment) to Disney by Haim Saban and News Corporation, Fox Network's parent company, the show was moved in the fall 2002 to ABC's new Saturday morning block, ABC Kids (formerly Disney's One Saturday Morning).
The series follows the adventure of Cole Evans, who had been staying with a tribe in a jungle for many years, as he tries to find his destiny in the fictitious town of Turtle Cove. He encounters the Animarium, a place that many believed to be a fairy tale. He joins four others who had a common path to become the new leader of the Wild Force Power Rangers.
The Animarium is an island that floats in the sky. It is shaped like a turtle and is the home of the Wild Zords and Princess Shayla, the Rangers' mentor. (It is unclear how the Rangers travel between the Animarium and the Earth surface, but in one of the last episodes Merrick and Kite are teleported onto the Animarium, so presumably they used the same teleportation throughout the rest of the series.)