The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers

The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers. TV Series 1993-96. 30-minute episodes.

American television series, in the style of Ultraman and the Godzilla movies. According to the Wikipedia entry, the show "was adapted and used stock footage from the Japanese television show Kyōryū Sentai Zyuranger, which was the 16th installment of Bandai Visual and Toei Company's Super Sentai franchise." Five teenagers are recruited to fight an evil being trying to take over destroy the earth. Their recruiter is an ultra dimensional being who teleports them to a high tech command center whenever a villain comes to threaten Earth where their other comrade, a robot named Alpha helps them out. The Power Ranger also control fighting robots in the shape of dinosaurs and a mastodon and a sabertooth, all of which combine to form a giant robot which (cf. Voltron, a mid- to late- '80s anime style animation). For further details see Wikipedia Article

(DanB, 17May94/RDE 31Dec14)