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Originally Posted by Kane Knight
Haim Saban basically took a bunch of Japanese shows, bought the rights to distribute them in America, and then chopped them up. This may not have been the case for all of his Sentai programming, but it was the case for the Power Rangers. Note the quality difference between the suits between the original Japanese shots (Action scenes) and the Rangers with their helmets off. They reshot the rest of the series, which was far less than the cost of a whole new version...
He did something similar with one of my favorite Animes, Space Knight Tekkaman Blade.
He bought the rights, then went to work toning it down, chopping out the violence and nudity and making a lot of the fight scenes repetitive. He then redubbed the series, changing some characters (Maggy from Teknoman used to be a man in Tekkaman Blade). He renamed it Teknoman, and renamed the main character Slade in the US to avoid legal repercussions from Marvel...
And it still was 100000X better than half the shit on TV at the time. Too bad he only bought the rights to one season and someone bought Season 2.
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That show, though a bastardized american version, was really cool. I have been meaning to get that series on DVD.