Can You Believe That These were actual TV Shows

[IAmGettingAMailOrderBride]

 

[AkaDemiK]

masked rider was cool

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Those were ALL based on actual Japanese shows:

Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad was actually Lightning Superman Gridman

Masked Rider was actually Kamen Rider.

Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters was a rip-off of Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers which itself was a re-vamp of the Super Sentai Series of shows from Japan.​

 

[Shaft]

Aside from Power Rangers, the only other shows of a similar genre that were worth a damn...

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Aside from Power Rangers, the only other shows of a similar genre that were worth a damn...

VR Troopers was actually a combination of three different Japanese shows: Superhuman Machine Metalder, Space Sheriff Shaider, and Dimensional Warrior Spielban.

Beetleborgs was a combination of 2 shows: Juukou B-Fighter and B-Fighter Kabuto​

 

[Thoughts]

OP trippin' ...two of those were classics.

 

[satam55]

I still have an official VHS release from the 90's that has 2 episodes of Superhuman Samurai on it. Me & my siblings used to watch the fukk outta it growing up because we didn't have cable till I was 13 (Early 2002).

 

[satam55]

Aside from Power Rangers, the only other shows of a similar genre that were worth a damn...

Yeah, I used to watch VR Troopers on my local UPN affiliate. I don't really remember much, if at all of the Beetleborg show.

 

[The Guru]

Masked Rider had hands

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Only reason I know about these shows is because I used to watch a show in the 80's on USA Network called Up, All Night! which used to show a version of the Super Sentai, but they made it into a comedy by inserting a laugh track, goofy sound-effects and hilarious dialogue. When Power Rangers first started as an American series, I was like......" I've seen this before". I was hoping it was gonna be like what I remembered, but it wasn't even close.

EDIT: Just remembered. They called it 'Dynaman' and the actual show was Night Flight.​

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

Here we go......

Years before Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers, USA Network aired episodes of a sadly short-lived program called Dynaman that took footage from a 1983 Japanese sentai show and redubbed the show What's Up, Tiger Lily-style with comical dialogue and rock music. Dynaman aired in 1988 on USA's late night weekend program Night Flight, and also as a one-hour hour Nickelodeon special. A real tragedy only six episodes were made.

 

[Ice Cold]

Superhuman Samurai was piff

 

[Family Lives Matter]

Masked Rider was dope
Big Bad Bettleborgs though

 

[DaylitoJames]

Let me add to the "Can't believe these were actual shows list"....

That damn Cavemen show on ABC


During Flavor Flav's end run during the time he was just everywhere on tv... his "comedy" sitcom

 

[Diunx]

VR Troopers and Masked Ryder were piff back in the days.