The actual "Power Ranger" and "
bad guy" scenes were taken from a
Japanese sentai television show--in the first season it was
Zyu Rangers, afterward
Dai Rangers. Since the Rangers are masked, it was easy enough to intercut the scenes with those of the
American actors and pretend they were one and the same.
Saban claimed this was done to work around the awkwardness that results from dubbing Japanese actors into English, but others feel that their motivation was a belief that American kids will not identify with Asian heroes.