"Masked Rider" (1995)TV series

Seasons:

1

Genre:

Sci-Fi

Plot Keywords:

Spin Off | Morphing | Alien | Power Ranger | Japan

Cast

Ted Jan Roberts	...	Prince Dex / ... (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Rheannon Slover	...	Molly (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Ashton McArn	...	Albee (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Jennifer Tung	...	Nefaria (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Paul Pistore	...	Ferbus / ... (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Candace Kita	...	Barbara (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
David Stenstrom	...	Hal (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Steve Kramer	...	Cyclopter (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Julie Maddalena	...	Fact (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Michael McConnohie	...	Gork (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Ken Merckx	...	Count Dregon / ... (40 episodes, 1995-1996)
Michael Sorich	...	Double Face (40 episodes, 1995-1996)

Also Known As:

Saban's Masked Rider (USA) (complete title)

Runtime:

30 min (40 episodes)

Country:

USA | France

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Certification:

Netherlands:MG6

Company:

Bugboy Productions

Trivia:

Creator of Kamen Rider, Shotaro Ishinomori was so outraged by how this show insulted his creation, he refused to allow Saban to have anymore footage to make the show, which is why they stopped making the show entirely

Movie Connections:

Version of "Kamen Raidâ Burakku aru ekkusu" (1988)

Awful TV show. Worse than Power Rangers? I dunno.....

When this show went on the air, I had become absolutely sick of power rangers and was looking for some kind of new Saturday morning cartoon to watch while I ate my giant bowl of cereal.

Masked Rider went on the air in 1995 and I absolutely was disappointed. I was a kid and I forgave the god awful production values, but the original pilot episode was decent. Afterwards, the show became even more annoying than (dare I say it) Power Rangers and ALL of its spin offs.

They introduced some retard pseudo-furby type character named "Ferbus" which was supposed to be funny. He would often get into "wacky" situations around the house where he'd try to cook when Dex was out fighting or something. It was plain awful. I never found him funny.

The villian, while had an actual purpose to destroy the hero (unlike the enemies in Power Rangers) looked awfully fake and really distracted from the plotlines.

(Some of you may think that I have put an unusual amount of effort into this review for a Saturday Cartoon, but I remember being really disappointed as a kid when I saw this show so that's why I'm here)

Back to the point. The stories were terrible. The effects were terrible. The characters were terrible. The show was terrible. Even when I was a kid I thought this was crap. Catch a real Saturday morning classic like X-Men or the newer Spider-Man. Do not lay your bare eyes on an episode of this groin grabbingly terrible show.

1.5/10.