Power Rangers: Dino Thunder
| Power Rangers Dino Thunder | |
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| Genre |
Action Adventure Superhero Science fiction |
| Directed by | Charlie Haskell Andrew Merrifield Paul Grinder Douglas Sloan Britta Johnstone |
| Starring |
Jason David Frank James Napier Kevin Duhaney Emma Lahana Jeffrey Parazzo Katrina Devine Tom Hern Miriama Smith Latham Gaines |
| Country of origin | United States |
| No. of episodes | 38 (list of episodes) |
| Production | |
| Executive producer(s) |
Ann Austen Douglas Sloan |
| Producer(s) |
Janine Dickins Koichi Sakamoto |
| Location(s) | Wellington and Auckland, New Zealand |
| Running time | 20–21 minutes |
| Production company(s) |
BVS Entertainment Renaissance Atlantic Entertainment Toei Company, Ltd. Village Roadshow KP Productions Limited |
| Distributor |
Saban Brands MarVista Entertainment BVS International (previously) |
| Release | |
| Original network | ABC (ABC Kids) |
| Original release | February 14 – November 20, 2004 |
| Chronology | |
| Preceded by | Power Rangers Ninja Storm |
| Followed by | Power Rangers S.P.D. |
| Website | |
Power Rangers Dino Thunder is an American children's television series, the twelfth season of the Power Rangers franchise. As with all Power Rangers series, it was adapted from a series from the long running Japanese Super Sentai franchise, in this case the 27th entry, Bakuryū Sentai Abaranger.Dino Thunder was also the subtitle of the Korean dub of Abaranger in South Korea and had a similar/identical logo to the American version as well. The series is notable as it features the return of Jason David Frank to a starring role.
Currently, 23 of the 38 episodes are available in various volumes on DVD in Region 1, whereas a complete box set was released in Region 2 on July 14, 2008. Shout! Factory has released the entire series as part of their "Seasons 8 – 12" DVD box set. The complete Region 1 season is now available individually as of February 2017. It marked the first season for the Power Rangers series to be aired on the new block, Jetix, and Toon Disney.
A soccer player, a computer expert, a singer, an artist, and a teacher with a long history of such situations join forces to become Power Rangers and help save the Earth from the scheming of Mesagog, a dinosauric villain who wishes to eradicate all human life and return Earth to the age of dinosaurs.
In this season, Tommy Oliver, from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers to Power Rangers Turbo fame, returns as a paleontology professor in Reefside, California. When he is assigned three detention students, Conner, Ethan, and Kira, they end up finding the Dino Gems, paving the way for them to become the Dino Rangers. Conner gains the power of the Tyrannozord (based on the Tyrannosaurus), as well as super-speed; Ethan gains the power of the Tricerazord (based on the Triceratops), as well as the ability to make his skin invulnerable; and Kira gains the power of the Pterazord (based on the Pteranodon), as well as a sonic scream. Tommy (known often as Dr. O) himself once again becomes a Power Ranger by joining the team as the Black Dino Ranger with the power of invisibility, and they are also later joined by Trent Mercer as the White Dino Ranger, with the power of camouflage. Trent must deal with the inner struggle of good and evil, as Tommy himself once had to do as the evil Green Ranger, due to the fact that he gained his powers from a raw Dino Gem in Mesogog's lab, with the powers originally intended to be Mesogog's. Mesogog is in fact, Trent's adopted father Anton Mercer, who, in a faulty lab experiment, began to mutate into Mesogog. Trent later sides with good and saves his father from the mutation.
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