Trivia / Power Rangers Time Force

• Acting for Two: Jason Faunt plays Wes and Alex.
• Cast the Runner-Up: Dan Southworth was offered the role of Wes. Interesting to note: in the show, the team was hoping that the Quantum Morpher would go to Wes. Just before that, he auditioned for Lucas. But, apparently, the crew thought he was "a little too intense" to be the Blue Ranger.
• Creator's Favorite:
  • Erin Cahill’s favourite episode was “Jen’s Revenge”, due to getting the chance to be more aggressive.
  • Dan Southworth's favorite episode was "Clash for Control Part 1". As a kid, he was a huge fan of the Land Of The Lost, so having an episode set in prehistoric times was a dream come true. He also liked the "Movie Madness" episode, where he played the role of a caveman.
• Distanced from Current Events: As a series that regularly involves lots of property damage, there was a lot of editing that invoked the trope after 9/11. (fellow Fox Kids series The Ripping Friends and Transformers: Robots in Disguise also got affected- several episodes of both shows weren't aired.)
• Executive Meddling:
  • Eric was originally slated to die, just like his counterpart in Timeranger. The writers were skeptical that Fox Kids would allow this, so they filmed two versions of the scene: one where he died, and one where he lived. Fox Kids, as expected, vetoed the death. It worked out for the better, considering his performances in his two teamup appearances.
  • Also, the originally planned ending had Jen staying in 2001 with Wes to keep the recurring theme going. But due to this trope this was thrown out the window, resulting in writer Judd Lynn quitting the show. The team-up in the next season did have Jen return to the present, though it's never stated one way or the other whether she stayed this time.
• In Memoriam:
  • "Circuit Unsure" was dedicated to original Yellow Ranger Thuy Trang after she was killed in a car accident.
  • "Quantum Secrets" was dedicated to long time Super Sentai make-up and costume designer Minoru Uchiyama, who also worked on Power Rangers as well.
• Irony as She Is Cast: Kevin Kleinberg (Trip) has a red belt in karate and seven years of kickboxing experience. He rarely shows off this skill when Trip is unmorphed and Trip is depicted as being the weakest of the Rangers in terms of fighting skill.
• Keep Circulating the Tapes: Of a sort. The show is readily available on DVD and across multiple digital platforms; that being said, due to the September 11th attacks, all episodes that were produced and aired before 9/11 had to be heavily edited during reruns to remove several shots of buildings being blown up and destroyed, people running in terror due to said buildings being destroyed, as well as the minute references to terrorism in the speech Ransik makes during the fourth episode. This means in order to see the episodes in their uncut form, you’ll have to scour the internet for the original broadcast versions.
• Missing Episode: According to Shout! Factory, one of the original uncut episodes was destroyed, though it's current unclear which exactly it is.
• The Other Darrin: Alison MacInnis (Dana) went ill during the ADR filming for "Time for Lightspeed", so Catherine Sutherland was called in by the producers to voice Dana's morphed lines.
• Real Life Writes the Plot: The reason the show is for the most part a Shot-for-Shot Remake was because Timeranger’s plot was ingrained into the stock footage, making it hard to make significant changes.
• Recast as a Regular: Years before Dan Southworth got the part of Eric — during the Zordon-era, to be exact — he was a Stunt Double for Austin St. John (Jason) and for Johnny Yong Bosch (Adam), when both their characters were suited up (though of course it's well known that those two did most of their own stunts when unmorphed and on a few occasions when they were suited up).
• Separated-at-Birth Casting: Dan Southworth as Eric Myers looks so much like his Japanese counterpart, Shinji Kasahara as Naoto Takizawa, that at several points the series uses faraway shots of Naoto directly from Timeranger.
• Underage Casting: Michael Copon (Lucas) was the youngest cast member at 18 years of age. Assuming that the Time Force agency is the futuristic equivalent of a police academy, and that Lucas is the same age as his actor, that would mean that he somehow managed to finish school, go through all the training required to work in law enforcement, and meet all the qualifications despite being young enough to be a senior in high school. This also goes for Erin Cahill (Jen), who was 21 at the time, though to a lesser extent. Deborah Estelle Harris (Katie) at 23 is a little more believable. Justified with Kevin Kleinberg (Trip), as Trip is an alien and therefore could be any age.
• What Could Have Been: Enough for its own page

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