Does anyone know why Jetix doesn’t show the credits some shows like Power Rangers they just show a disclaimer and fill the fill the rest of the space with Camera Crack Ups or a clip of Robot Wars Mighty Morphin hasn’t even got opening titles it just goes straight into the episode
Does anyone know why Jetix doesn’t show the credits some shows like Power Rangers they just show a disclaimer and fill the fill the rest of the space with Camera Crack Ups or a clip of Robot Wars Mighty Morphin hasn’t even got opening titles it just goes straight into the episode
Credits seem to be considered expendable items on children's programmes, either being cut or squashed into a box so small that they can't possibly be read. It's nothing new - CBBC, CITV and GMTV Kids were still doing it 10 years ago.
I don't think the MMPR titles are edited for time reasons, it's because someone at the channel decided that the original titles could potentially cause epileptic fits through a flashing sequence in it (even though the same flashing sequence was shown countless times in the programme itself and never edited). They then re-edited the original titles to cover this bit up. However, they evidentely couldn't be bothered to do it with any later versions, and kept attaching the same sequence to newer episodes, even late series 3 episodes, by which time the entire main cast had changed! Presumably they've realised how stupid this is and now just don't show any titles at all.
However, they evidentely couldn't be bothered to do it with any later versions, and kept attaching the same sequence to newer episodes, even late series 3 episodes, by which time the entire main cast had changed!.
I sometimes think the changing of the cast was part of a money making stratgegy. Recently watching one of my aunt's old home videos from 1994, one of my cousins was big on power rangers and had got several of the figures for Xmas, and you can hear him moaning that one of the figures he got wasn't in the show any more, and that he didn't have the ones for the new characters (he was 6 at the time, so cleearly didn't think about being polite about what he had got). So the high cast turnover would have helped make money for them through merchandise sales.
People channel surf during credits - as they find them boring. If you either cut them or do end credit promotions there is more chance people will stay with you - though if you run adverts you're slightly stuffed - as people surf when ads arrive as well. (Which is why you find many channels run ad breaks at the same time...)
I read somewhere that networks in America like squashing credits because most viewers don't wanna see the credits roll on the screen for 30 secs, instead they squash them so they keep the viewership, here's a example of how they do it:
However, they evidentely couldn't be bothered to do it with any later versions, and kept attaching the same sequence to newer episodes, even late series 3 episodes, by which time the entire main cast had changed!.
I sometimes think the changing of the cast was part of a money making stratgegy. Recently watching one of my aunt's old home videos from 1994, one of my cousins was big on power rangers and had got several of the figures for Xmas, and you can hear him moaning that one of the figures he got wasn't in the show any more, and that he didn't have the ones for the new characters (he was 6 at the time, so cleearly didn't think about being polite about what he had got). So the high cast turnover would have helped make money for them through merchandise sales.
Rumours have it that Austin St John (Jason - original red), Walter Jones (Zack - original black) and the late Thuy Trang (Trini - original yellow) were after more money, and so they just got rid of them and got in three new actors. Then again, it could have been to merchandise, but surely they would have just done what since Lost Galaxy has become the norm of replacing the rangers and actors after one series.
As for the credit issue, I noticed that Disney Channel were doing it over last weekend, by skipping the credits on every programme. Though it is something that they did do well, for example on the old Studio Disney by having the credits and either information or the studio continuing at the same time.
Even now in the afternoons they have credits, with webiste, programme and every other bit of information available.
The three Actors you mentioned did leave after a pay dispute and were quickly replaced
For about 3 episodes before the characters leave they used stock footage and voice impressionists
Austin St John came back in Zeo, the Turbo Movie an episode of Wild Force and presented a special program about power rangers with Walter Jones who also came back to do voices in an episode of Lost Galaxy and an episode of Wild Force but Thuy Trang never came back
i thought one of the actors died, i remember them discussing it on citv and the presenters saying he didn't die which is a lie, i don't think you should lie to children, it encourages them to
they don't do that on blue peter.
anyway somebody said they saw the wrong end credits to a cartoon, I saw that sort of thing years ago with hannah barbera cartoons where they would finish, say scooby doo, with the end credits to captain caveman for example
you could tell it was the wrong credits because they used to show them over pictures of the characters, so you'd see captain caveman characters when you'd just been watching scooby doo