The BEST episodes directed by John Blizek
#1 - Dream Weavers
Silk Stalkings - Season 8 - Episode 20
When a private investigator is found dead, Tom and Cassy uncover a complex blackmail conspiracy run by four young ""Dream Weavers"".
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#2 - Defending Dark Heart (1)
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 31
The troopers discover an army of mutants, as they scan them, they discover that one the mutants is a human being. Ryan suspects that one of them could be his missing father.
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#3 - Defending Dark Heart (3)
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 33
A SKUG learns of the V.R. TROOPERS plans to de-virtualize RYAN'S father, TYLER STEEL/DARK HEART and warns GRIMLORD. who decides to use Dark Heart as bait to lure Ryan to his destruction. PROFESSOR HART and J.B. analyze the data and discovers that Dark Heart is literally connected to Grimlord through a specific chemical and electronic link. The only way to break the link is to destroy Grimlord! Grimlord appears on the lab's screens and gives Ryan specific coordinates on the reality grid. There he will find his father. Grimlord threatens that if Ryan does not appear, Dark Heart will be destroyed. Ryan keeps his appointment and must fight several mutants who intend to destroy both him and his father. Dark Heart is shot and Ryan rescues him. The father and son escape on Ryan's Turbo Cycle. However, Grimlord begins a full scale assault on the lab. ...to be continued.
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#4 - Defending Dark Heart (4)
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 34
GRIMLORD, knowing DARK HEART/TYLER is gravely injured, launches a full aerial assault on PROFESSOR HART'S lab, as this is the first place RYAN will take his father. Ryan, warned that the lab is under attack, takes his father to a long forgotten and secret lab in the mountains. Father and son are about to be attacked by a full scale aerial assault when J.B. reinputs the transformation commands into the lab's computer. He and Kaitlin transform and rush to Ryan and Dark Heart/Tyler's aid. Ryan and Dark Heart/Tyler decide to challenge Grimlord face to face and enter virtual reality. Meanwhile, Grimlord begins a self destruct system. Father and son escape just as Grimlord's dungeon explodes - supposedly with Grimlord inside. However, most of the mutants were outside, and another battle begins. Ryan fights off DECIMATOR and Tyler returns to human form. Ryan holds his father before he disappears -- as Grimlord takes him back to Virtual World.
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#5 - Battle for the Books
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 5
ZIKTOR wants to destroy all books that teach about solar energy. He starts with MR. REESE'S bookmobile, as a way of getting at J.B. The boys are getting ready for a doubles Karate tournament when KAITLIN alerts them and they rush to save J.B.'s dad from the attacking SKUGS. The boys win the first round of the tournament, but join Kaitlin between rounds to take on THE ELIMINATOR who is attacking the Central Library. RYAN forgets his virtualizer back at the Dojo, so Kaitlin and J.B. go to fight while Ryan retrieves it. Using the new VORTEX power, J.B. takes the battle with GRIMLORD'S airforce to a virtual quarry. Ryan joins them and the robots are defeated. The boys win the tournament and J.B. gives his father the prize money to fix the bookmobile. Ryan surprises J.B. by adding his prize money to J.B.'s, sacrificing his goal of becoming partners with Tao in the dojo.
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#6 - Oh Brother
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 6
RYAN and J.B. are training two young brothers who argue with each other all the time. ZIKTOR/GRIMLORD decides to unleash two monster robot brothers of his own, the SWORDBOTS. KAITLIN and the brothers stumble across Grimlord's ""Power Diverter"" and the brothers are captured by SKUGS. To track them, PROFESSOR HART invents a ""virtual blood hound"" using a robotic ""Sniffer,"" linked to JEB's real nose. The brothers argue so much the Skugs separate them. Kaitlin and J.B. are able to free one boy while Ryan fights the Swordbot robots and frees the other boy. After this, the boys agree not to argue with each other and they win the tournament.
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#7 - Defending Dark Heart (2)
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 32
Katlin and JB are trapped between a rock and hardplace. When they realize that if Percy discovers who they are, they are in hot water. Meanwhile, Ryan tries to reason with dark heart to discover if he really is his missing father.
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#8 - Best Man for the Job
Power Rangers - Season 2 - Episode 47
Rita and Zedd turn the class election into an ugly rivalry for Kimberly and Tommy.
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#9 - Mutant Mutiny
VR Troopers - Season 2 - Episode 1
As the Troopers entertain offers of commercial endorsements from a competing dojo to get money to help Tao's mother, AMPHIBIDOR, an evil mutant, is preparing a revolution against Grimlord; a revolution which will make this monster the dictator of Virtual Reality. When Grimlord realizes that his wicked empire is under attack, he devises a strategy to solve two problems at once: he will send Amphibidor after the V.R. Troopers. If they don't destroy each other, they will at least be weakened and vulnerable enough that Grimlord's thugs can finish the job. As Amphibidor battles V.R. Ryan, V.R. Kaitlin and V.R. J.B. face the rest of Grimlord's army in a full-out air battle. Together, the V.R. Troopers defeat Grimlord's men and Amphibidor---saving reality and ending Grimlord's revolution. Back at the dojo, the Troopers find out that Tao has worked out a deal with his competitor and will get the money he needs for his mother.
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#10 - Storybook Rangers (1)
Power Rangers - Season 2 - Episode 48
Angel Grove High is sponsoring a book fair. Books of interest for everyone. One such book, a fairytale called "Grumble The Magic Elf", gains the attention of Kimberly, who remembers it from her childhood. Lord Zedd & Rita Repulsa use their magics to zap Kim, Tommy & Rocky INTO the storybook. Inside, they meet the title character, a Mr. Tinklesneezer looklike in a Santa Suit. He had a spell cast on him to make him grumpy, and has to deliever a cart of toys to some children to have the spell removed. Zedd & Rita also zap in some Putties, who steal the toys, making sure the story never ends, and ensures the three Ranger Teens remain trapped there forever. If that wasn't bad enough, they run into an evil snowman, who buries them in an avalanche.
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#11 - Storybook Rangers (2)
Power Rangers - Season 2 - Episode 49
Still trapped in the book, "Grumble The Magic Elf", Kimberly, Tommy & Rocky escape the snowman's avalanche, thanks to some help from Grumble himself. They're at a loss on how to make sure the story ends, and head back to beg mercy from the man who cast the grumpy spell on Grumble to begin with: Mondo, the Magnificent Magician. He refuses to listen, and turns them away. Meanwhile, back on Earth, Bulk & Skull use a book on monster-making to make their own monster, schemeing to yank off the Rangers' helmets when they come there to fight the creature. Skull screws up the process, and mixes it up with a book on turkey making. With magical help from Rita & Zedd, this results in a creature known as Turkeyjerk! Their wacky monster chases them into the park, where the remaining three Power Rangers are forced to broil the beast with ease. Soon, Zordon & Alpha learn of the missing three Ranger Teens' location. Aisha uses her artistic talents to draw in replacement toys. Grumble gets them to the kids, his grumpy spell is broken, and the three teens are returned to their own reality. Somehow, Rita is an old pal of Mondo the Magician, and summons him from the book. The Thunder Megazord takes this leather & silver metal menace out of the picture.
#12 - Blue Ranger Gone Bad
Power Rangers - Season 2 - Episode 52
In art class, a girl named Violet has a major obsessive crush on Billy. She even makes a statue of him! Rita & Zedd send Goldar, Baboo & Squatt down to turn it into a life-sized replica of the Blue Ranger. Except evil, as expected, the real Billy is captured and trapped in another dimension, while his evil twin steals the other Ranger Teens' morphers. Eventually, real Billy escapes from his prison, and confronts his evil twin, Two Blue Rangers at once creates quite confusion among the others! Eventually, the evil one is destroyed. Rita & Zedd turn Tommy's failed art project into a monster called Vase Face.
#13 - The Reality Virus
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 39
GENERAL IVAR and COLONEL ICEBOT stage a battle with the V.R. TROOPERS in virtual reality in order to infect them with a Reality Virus. The Troopers cross back to reality, unwittingly carrying a virtual sludge designed to eat away the reality barrier. By the time RYAN, KAITLIN and J.B. discover the virus, it's already infected much of Cross World City and GRIMLORD is preparing a massive attack. The kids discover one of TAO'S plants will destroy the virus, but SKUGS take the plant. As reality crumbles and Kaitlin and J.B. fight the QUANTUM CRUISERS, Ryan must fight RENEGADE and CRABOR in order to retrieve the rare plant that will allow PROFESSOR HART to prepare specialized virtual bombs that will heal the reality barrier.
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#14 - The Couch Potato Kid
VR Troopers - Season 1 - Episode 44
RICKY, TAO'S visiting nephew, is a couch potato who spends most of his time watching TV and playing video games. The kids are planning an obstacle course for Cross World City and they get Ricky involved. GRIMLORD, reeling from recent defeats at the hands of the V.R. TROOPERS, plans an obstacle course competition for his warriors. The prize: another bout with Ryan. Grimlord's newest robot, COMBAX, kidnaps Ricky and brings him to the games. Ryan finds Ricky and Combax at the robot games. Ryan defeats Combax and rescues Ricky, who no longer wants to be a couch potato. He wants to participate in life. To Tao's delight, Ricky not only runs the obstacle course, he soundly trounces PERCY, despite his opponent's head start.
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