23 years, 23 official seasons, the 24th debuted last January, and the reboot arrives on the big screen on March 24. A whole generation has grown up with the Power Rangers, and as time goes by it becomes harder to access the original episodes. Well, fans are about to get a golden opportunity starting tomorrow, when Twitch Presents streams all 831 episodes of Power Rangers without interruption. Good luck.
A franchise that has stood the test of time
Not many shows for kids manage to last decades on television. Sooner or later, those series cross a threshold that makes them much more interesting for adults, and we can already find several examples. The first that comes to mind is Pokémon. Ash's defeat in the Kalos League (grrrr!) left the Web in flames, but the series reached 960 episodes in Japan, and we all wait for Nintendo to announce a new game for the Switch that will surely continue the story. On the other side are the Power Rangers. Their debut on the small screen via Fox Kids was on August 28, 1993, and since then Saban has found a way (with varying results) to put at least one season per year on air. Almost a quarter of a century later, Power Rangers has a new version (Power Rangers Ninja Steel), three movies (one is about to be released), and more than a dozen specials. The total of regular episodes amounts to 831 (not counting the latest season), and the folks at Twitch decided to broadcast them all.
The marathon begins
Yes, all of them. Starting tomorrow at 11 a.m. PDT (7 PM in Spain, or calculate your timezone here), the Twitch Presents channel will begin its historic marathon without interruptions of the Power Rangers. Teen superheroes, strange monsters, disturbing levels of pyrotechnics, recycled scenes from Japanese series you can barely pronounce... many memories, although each one will have to decide if they are good or bad. The last complete season is Power Rangers Dino Super Charge, and its final episode was watched by 1.7 million people.
That said, I wonder how many will have the time and the will to follow such a marathon. If numbers don't fail me, that's more than 17 days of uninterrupted episodes. I imagine some seasons can be completely ignored because they are so bad (the Web has already started making suggestions about it), but others are talked about highly...
