Power Rangers Samurai | |
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The logo for Power Rangers Samurai season 1
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Genre |
Action Adventure |
Created by |
Haim Saban Toei Company |
Directed by |
Peter Salmon Luke Robinson Jonathan Brough Akihiro Noguchi Jonathan Tzachor Nobuhiro Suzumura |
Starring |
Alex Heartman Erika Fong Hector David Jr. Najee De-Tiege Brittany Anne Pirtle Steven Skyler Kimberly Crossman Rene Naufahu Felix Ryan Paul Schrier Rick Medina |
Opening theme | "Go Go Power Rangers" |
Composer(s) |
Ron Wasserman (arranged by Noam Kaniel) |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 45 (List of Samurai episodes, List of Super Samurai episodes) |
Production | |
Executive producer(s) | Jonathan Tzachor |
Producer(s) | Sally Campbell |
Location(s) | New Zealand and Japan |
Running time | 23 minutes |
Production company(s) |
SCG Power Rangers Power Rangers Productions Ltd. Toei Company, Ltd. |
Distributor |
Saban Brands MarVista Entertainment |
Release | |
Original network | Nickelodeon |
Original release | February 7, 2011 | – December 15, 2012
Chronology | |
Preceded by |
Power Rangers RPM Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (Re-version) |
Followed by | Power Rangers Megaforce |
Power Rangers Samurai is the eighteenth season of the American children's television series Power Rangers. With Saban Brands buying back the franchise, the show was produced by SCG Power Rangers and began airing on Nickelodeon and Nicktoons on February 7, 2011, making it the first to use the Saban name since the first half of Power Rangers: Wild Force. As with all Power Rangers programs, Power Rangers Samurai is based on one of the entries of the Super Sentai Series; in the case of Samurai, the source series is Samurai Sentai Shinkenger. Saban Brands have said the show will have a "brighter tone and gets an infusion of fun and comedy that wasn't present in seasons 16 and 17."
Power Rangers Samurai is the first Power Rangers season to be shot and broadcast in HD and to be airing on Nickelodeon. Samurai is split into two 20-episode seasons; the second set of 20 episodes began on February 18, 2012. and is called Power Rangers Super Samurai,Super Samurai is considered the nineteenth season.
By 2012, the show had an average of 2 million viewers on Nickelodeon. The highest rated episode was the May 15, 2011 broadcast of "The Blue and the Gold", with 3.7 million viewers.
The Samurai Power Rangers–Red Ranger Jayden, the stoic leader; Blue Ranger Kevin, the devoted second-in-command; Pink Ranger Mia, the big sister; Green Ranger Mike, the creative rebel; Yellow Ranger Emily, the youngest and most innocent; and Gold Ranger Antonio, the expressive fisherman/tech wiz– fight the evil Master Xandred and his army of Nighloks, who want to flood the planet with the waters of the Sanzu River to bring about the end of civilization.