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Space Rangers | |
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Genre | Science fiction Action-Adventure |
Created by | Pen Densham |
Starring | Jeff Kaake Jack McGee Marjorie Monaghan Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa Danny Quinn Clint Howard Linda Hunt Gottfried John |
Country of origin | United States |
No. of episodes | 6 |
Production | |
Running time | approx. 46 minutes |
Production companies | RHI Entertainment Trilogy Entertainment Group |
Original release | |
Network | CBS |
Release | January 6 – January 26, 1993 |
Space Rangers is an American futuristic science fiction drama. The series aired on CBS in 1993. The show was created by Pen Densham and Trilogy Entertainment Group.
In the year 2104, the Earth colony Fort Hope on the distant planet Avalon struggles to survive. A small force of police/marines called the "Space Rangers Corps" are the first, last and only line of defense for the colonists against crime and the perils of interstellar exploration. The series concentrates on Captain John Boon and his team of Rangers aboard Ranger Slingship #377.
Space Rangers was produced as a six episode miniseries by CBS. [1] Pen Densham developed the series over several years under its working title of Planetbusters with Densham emphasizing the focus of the show wasn't on pure science-fiction like Star Trek and was instead more focused on action-adventure. [1]
No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original air date | |
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1 | "The Replacements" | Ben Bolt | Gregory Widen | January 6, 1993 | |
The Rangers are assigned a new android troubleshooter, who they dub "Ringer" (as in Dead), while they try to uncover the reasons behind a mining ship's hijacking. They're convinced that the ship is being used by a Hobbaba crime lord named Isogul for smuggling a deadly drug known as "Exjay", but if they cannot prove it, they have to return it. They also discover that Colonel Weiss plans to eventually replace all human Space Rangers with androids. | |||||
2 | "Banshees" | David Burton Morris | Herbert J. Wright | January 13, 1993 | |
Colonel Weiss asks the Rangers to trap one of the deadly space predators known as Banshees - a request that Boon refuses until he learns a young boy (Rick Latini III) is trapped on an abandoned slaver spaceship in the Blood Nebula with some of the creatures. Once aboard the spaceship, they have difficulty finding him and learn the secret of his exceptionally long survival. They also have to worry about saving their own lives against creatures they know little about. | |||||
3 | "Death Before Dishonor" | David Burton Morris | Ed Spielman & Howard Spielman | January 20, 1993 | |
Captain Boon twice accidentally offends a race of reptilian warriors known as Vee'Lons. The Vee'Lon's dignitary Prince Gor'Dah (Sherman Howard), sentences Boon and his crew to death and declares war on Fort Hope & Central Command. After Central Command's Ambassador Hardcastle is assassinated, Chennault and Weiss are left alone to prevent an attack on Fort Hope. The crew's only way to avoid execution is for to Boon challenge the Prince Gor'Dah in a duel to the death in hand-to-hand combat. | |||||
4 | "Space Rangers aka Fort Hope" | Mikael Salomon | Story by : Pen Densham Teleplay by : Pen Densham & Jay Roach | January 27, 1993 | |
A lone escape pod reaches Fort Hope, its passenger tells the Rangers of a transport ship that went down. The ship was carrying Boon's former captain ex-Ranger Decker (Wings Hauser) and Graaka High-Priest Nazzer (Pat Morita) as it went down on the desolate planet Skaraab, a lifeless, sun-scorched wasteland, that's also home to a sacred Graaka burial site. Boon picks up new team member Daniel Kincaid who is fresh out of the academy. Zylyn tells Boon a legend of an ancient weapon hidden on the planet a thousand years ago, and protected from intruders by deadly vegetation. The Rangers attempt a rescue mission that could cost them all their lives. | |||||
5 | "To Be...or Not to Be" | Thom Eberhardt | Jess Hugh Mann | UNAIRED | |
A has-been comedian Lenny Hacker (Buddy Hackett) crash lands on prison planet Katraz on which there are no guards and from which no one ever leaves. Desperate to escape from yet another dress rehearsal for visiting General Kincaid (Danny's father), the Rangers undertake to rescue the comedian. General Kincaid holds Commander Chennault responsible for his son's safety. The team lands on the inhospitable penal colony and come face to face with its violent inhabitants, and the prisoners' vicious leader Rec. | |||||
6 | "The Trial" | David Burton Morris | Story by : Pen Densham Teleplay by : Gavin Scott | UNAIRED | |
Zylyn is accused of the murder of another Graakan. When they fail to find legal counsel for his defense, the rest of the Rangers are forced to defend him in court themselves. Convinced there is a conspiracy to bring discredit to the Graaka race, they hunt for evidence as to the identity of the real murderer. Meanwhile, Isogul, the ruthless Hobbaba crime lord, has a new card up his sleeve to destroy the Space Rangers' defense system from inside. His master plan is to take over control of Fort Hope, but the Rangers also have a plan of their own designed to stop Isogul's crime wave permanently. |
The complete series was released for a short time on VHS tape. It was later released to DVD for Region 2.
On October 15, 2013, Mill Creek Entertainment released the complete series on DVD in Region 1. [2] Oddly, the Mill Creek release contains two DVDs but contains all six episodes highly compressed onto the first disk, while the second disk has the same six episodes combined into three mini-movies of two episodes each. Furthermore, the Mill Creek release specifies a different episode order list versus the Episodes list above. The Mill Creek release specifies the order as:
It is not specified on the DVD package why the episodes are in this order on the DVD.
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