The BEST episodes of Power Rangers season 1
Every episode of Power Rangers season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of Power Rangers season 1!
Mighty Morphin Power Rangers is a long-running American children's television series adapted from the Japanese tokusatsu Super Sentai Series. A team of five high school students are selected by Zordon to battle evil. Using martial arts, special weapons, and gigantic robots called "Zords", they protect their city Angel Grove from monsters and witches.
#1 - Green With Evil (1): Out of Control
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 10/5/1993
Rita creates her own evil Green Ranger to beat the Power Rangers at their own game.
#2 - Day of the Dumpster
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 8/28/1993
Following the accidental release of long-imprisoned evil space-sorceress Rita Repulsa, a benevolent sage known as Zordon drafts a group of five teenagers to help protect the planet as dino-powered warriors of goodness.
#3 - Green With Evil (5): Breaking the Spell
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 10/9/1993
The mighty Dragonzord awakens after thousands of years as the Rangers try to break the spell over the Green Ranger once and for all.
#4 - Happy Birthday, Zack
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 9/16/1993
The Ranger teens & Ernie plan a surprise party at the Juice Bar for Zack. The secrecy leads him to believe they've all forgotten about his birthday. Rita shows she cares, by sending down a special treat, a vicious black knight monster known as Nasty Knight. The Black Ranger faces off with him, Power Axe to sword. Later, Zack's birthday party goes off without a hitch, though Ernie ends up getting covered in cake instead of Bulk & Skull for a change.
#5 - Green With Evil (2): Jason's Battle
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 10/6/1993
The Power Rangers work to restore Zordon and Alpha, unaware that the new kid in school is actually Rita's evil Green Ranger.
#6 - Foul Play in the Sky
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 9/22/1993
Kim goes for flying lessons with her pilot uncle Steve. Bulk & Skull tag along. Rita's henchman Squatt spikes Steve's drink with a sleeping potion, which kicks into effect while in the skies over Angel Grove. Kim nervously takes over flying the four-seater plane, and with a little guidance from Alpha 5, lands safely. She then joins her teammates in battle with the Snizzard monster, already in progress.
#7 - No Clowning Around
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 9/17/1993
The fair has come to Angel Grove, and the Ranger teens enjoy a day at it, with Trini's cousin Sylvia. The fair turns out to be a front for Rita, with numerous Putties as clowns. One such clown, named Pineapple, turns Sylvia into a cardboard cutout. He reveals himself to be a creature named Pineoctopus. Billy & Alpha solve Sylvia's 2-dimensional dilemma, and the Rangers shut down the evil carnival for good.
#8 - Switching Places
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 10/4/1993
Billy's brain switching machine goes haywire (with a little help from Squatt & Baboo), causing his & Kimberly's minds to swap bodies! Hilarity ensues when Billy as Kim, and Kim as Billy, spend a few days in each other's shoes... literally! Plus, the Genie monster rubs our heroes the wrong way.
#9 - Green With Evil (4): Eclipsing Megazord
Season 1 - Episode 20 - Aired 10/8/1993
An eclipse of the sun saps the Megazord's power as Rita's forces launch a full-scale assault on Angel Grove.
#10 - Green With Evil (3): The Rescue
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 10/7/1993
Femme fatale Scorpina joins Rita as the Green Ranger continues to battle the Power Rangers.
#11 - Return of an Old Friend (1)
Season 1 - Episode 49 - Aired 2/28/1994
Rita demands that the Power Rangers hand over their Power Coins if they ever want to see their parents again.
#12 - Return of an Old Friend (2)
Season 1 - Episode 50 - Aired 3/1/1994
With their Power Coins in the hands of the enemy, the Rangers have no choice but to turn to Tommy once again for help.
#13 - Dark Warrior
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 9/28/1993
Trini's famous scientist uncle Howard drops by the Youth Center, with a new invisibility formula. Rita spots it, and plans to use it on her new monster, the camouflaged creature known as the Dark Warrior. Billy gets sick of Bulk & Skull picking on him, and decides to reenroll in Jason's karate class. But as before, he doesn't fare well in it. Uncle Howard, not only a scientist but a master martial artist, offers to give him some training at the park. There, Dark Warrior kidnaps him, and orders him to give up the invisibility formula. He refuses, and gets strapped to a bomb capable of leveling the city. Billy saves the day, and manages to get his yellow belt with Uncle Howard's help.
#14 - Island of Illusion (1)
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 11/8/1993
There's an upcoming dance competition, and despite his usual smooth moves, Zack's got a heavy case of self-doubt. Rita is inspired, and after summoning the evil God, Lokar (who sends the Mutitus creature to face the Megazord), she traps them on a strange island dimension. There, the 6 Rangers face illusions preying upon their worst fears.
#15 - Two Heads are Better Than One
Season 1 - Episode 52 - Aired 4/29/1994
Tommy & Jason teach the mothers of Angel Grove some self-defense courses at the Youth Center. Their motto for the moms, two heads are better than one. Rita is inspired, as always, and has Finster create a Two-Headed Parrot monster. Teamwork, two-heads times three, plus a Pamango fruit are needed to take out this double-bird brained menace.
#16 - Mighty Morphin' Mutants
Season 1 - Episode 59 - Aired 5/16/1994
Miss Appleby assigns her class to find their personal fault, and attempt to correct it. Tommy's is obvious, he's incredibly forgetful! His teammates try to help out, but he forgets to use the things they made him to keep from forgetting. Meanwhile, Rita has Goldar specially train a group of Putties. Only five pass the tests, and are given the Badges Of Darkness, allowing them to morph into exact evil doubles of the Yellow, Pink, Blue, Green, and Black Rangers. To replace Red, the Commander Crayfish monster is created. These evil Rangers give the real ones a run for their money, with most of them even growing large during the Megazord battle!
#17 - Different Drum
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 9/10/1993
Kimberly's deaf friend, Melissa, has a tough time fitting in. When the Gnarly Gnome monster strikes, using music to hypnotize the children of Angel Grove, her handicap allows her to remain unaffected. With her aid, the Power Rangers put an end to the Gnome's symphony of destruction.
#18 - Food Fight
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 9/4/1993
Ernie's Youth Center & Juice Bar sponsors an International Food Festival, in cooperation with Angel Grove High. The five Ranger teens are among those involved. Rita sends down Finster's latest creation, the aptly named Pudgy Pig, to consume the festival's food supply, as well as anything else he can fit into his hungry mouth. Pudgy Pig even ends up eating the Rangers' Power Weapons! A weak spot is noticed, involving his dislike for spicy foods, and soon the monster's eating binge comes to an explosive close. The International Food Festival also meets a messy demise, when Bulk & Skull start an uncontrollable food fight.
#19 - High Five
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/7/1993
Trini must overcome her fear of heights to save Billy.
#20 - Teamwork
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/8/1993
Kimberly and Trini gather signatures to close down a nearby dump site while convincing their teammates to work together more.
#21 - A Pressing Engagement
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/9/1993
At the Youth Center, Jason attempts to break Bulk's benchpressing record, only to be severely distracted. Rita comes up with a plan to divide and conquer the Rangers, by splitting them up during a battle with the King Sphinx monster. It takes the Zord-charging power of their Coins' Power Crystals to bring everyone back together, and to take down King Sphinx & Goldar.
#22 - I, Eye Guy
Season 1 - Episode 8 - Aired 9/14/1993
Billy helps his young brainy buddy Willy with a Virtual Reality device for the Angel Grove science fair. Willy's intelligence and lack of self-confidence entices Rita, as she schemes to capture him and use his experiments for evil. The Eyeguy scopes the boy out, but fails to see the Rangers coming.
#23 - Big Sisters
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 9/30/1993
Kim & Trini get the task of being "big sisters" to a mischievous little girl named Maria. Rita kidnaps the bratty child, with intent of using her to open a magic trunk filled with Power Eggs. The Rangers end up facing the Chunky Chicken monster to save the annoying girl. All of this, plus, Billy unveils his specially modified VW Beetle, known as the RADBUG.
#24 - The Trouble with Shellshock
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 10/11/1993
Tommy settles into his new role on the team, by playing a friendly game of basketball with the other Ranger teens. On the moon, Rita naps, prompting Baboo & Squatt to take charge by making their own monster. Shellshock, a turtle with a stoplight atop his shell, is sent to Earth, and wreaks more havoc by accident than on purpose. Trini races for the Deandra Flowers. The 6 Power Rangers put his light on permanent red with the help of their two Megazords.
#25 - Gung Ho!
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 11/4/1993
Jason & Tommy team-up for an upcoming Team Ninja competition at the Youth Center. They have trouble working together, as both are used to sparring one-on-one. As the other Rangers fight the nigh-invincible Super Putties, Zordon sends Jason & Tommy off to retrieve new weapons. They face a strange metal creature known as Titanus, and learn teamwork in the face of adversity. The Super Putties are wiped out, and Zordon reveals that Titanus is an old friend, who'll act as a Carrierzord for the Megazords, with which they'll create the Ultrazord!