Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills

In the long history of television oddities, this one has to rank darn near the top. It was a cheap attempt to cash in on the Power Rangers craze of the time, and featured special effects that would make Edward D. Wood Jr cringe. Basicly the storyline was that four teenagers were chosen to protect earth from this bad guy who looked like Darth Vader sitting in a dentist chair. They were called to action by their glowing tatoos, which summoned portals that somehow replaced them with bodybuilders in spandex who looked pretty much nothing like the original actors. This looked friggin hillarious, because you'd see these stand-ins fighting a guy in the rubber suit that always looked like he was about to tip over, while stomping on a cardboard city. Eventually, the heroes would all lock wrists and turn into and incredibly cheesy looking giant knight. I make none of this up, I swear to God.. this show actually existed! There had to be only 5-10 episodes, because I remember after telling everyone in school about it, I turned on the TV like a week later to see that it was no longer on. Trust me, I was devestated. I'm suprised that to this day I've been unable to find a video of this show on ebay or anywhere else on the net, and I'm also very suprised this classic has yet to pick up the cult following that it deserves.

But, yes bad. The writer-producers were initially promised they'd have either A: Japanese monster footage from Tsuburaya,or B: A reasonable American alternative. They got C: crap. When you get crap, you make the best of it, which they did. Was it a parody? Mr. Fisher and Mr. Staahl came from Chicago's Second City, so you make the judgment. Made the judgment yet? It was a joke. It would have been a more successful joke if the shows had more than a ten cent budget, but everyone did the best they could. And if it hadn't been at least a slightly memorable joke, you wouldn't be reading this now, would you? Personally, I think David Lander's portrayal of Lechner totally rocks. Well, rocks a bit.

When I first saw this in Dragon Ball Abridged I thought nothing as horrible as this could exist. It was worse than expectations but not manos bad. Don't Watch it.

This show tired to cash in on Power Ranger craze during the mid 90's. In some way this was an American knock off Ultraman mixed in with Saved By the Bell.

The shows main villain is Emperor Gorganus who wants to take over Earth because it's a center point for him to control the entire universe. He was successful and conquering other worlds and Earth would seal the deal in universal domination. However Nimbar (who looks like slime) recruited a unlike group of teenagers. Ones who are mainly upper class stuckups from...you get the ideal. Nimbar give them glow in dark tattoos and have the abily to become Galactic Sentials though a Transporter pads. They then appear enlarged like giants ready to take on Gorganus's monsters. Their was one interesting twist. The Sentials had the power to merge into one single super Sential. Other than that the only great thing about this show was the action even though it was shot on video.

Neverless they should have kept this ideal of a show to themselves. We could live without it.

I loved this show which contained the campy youthful humor of shows like Saved By The Bell and California Dreams and mixed it up with action to capitalize on the Power Rangers / Superhuman Samurai / VR Troopers / Beetleborgs craze of the 90s! Four teens were given the power to turn into giants to fight equally gigantic monsters, and strangely enough, always in the same city set! The monster suits were cheesy even by campy Godzilla standards and when necessary, the teens joined together to form...not a giant robot, but a cheesy knight in shining armor! By not taking itself seriously, it was actually more entertaining to me than the higher budgeted shows aforementioned. I'd love to see them collected on DVD but am equally sure they never will be. From the USA Network!