I've only heard of this on and off at times until I found this show on YouTube and this app called Night Flight Plus. Night Flight was on the USA Channel's program block in the 1980s and I was surprised at what this program block had with the Night Fight Plus app.
This show can also come off as a bit of a precursor to Mighty Morphing Power Rangers and that show does a bit of a parody of this in Power Rangers Dino Thunder with the Japanese side of the show being dubbed. It's the episode in Power Rangers Dino Thunder called Lost and Found in Translation if that helps you. This series is also based on the super sentai show Kagaku Sentai Dynaman which translates to "Science Squad Dynaman" that came out in Japan in 1983.
This is about "5 good-looking Japanese friends from all walks of life, Wooshi their leader, is DynaRed. Huba, able to reach tall trees is, Dyna Black. Franky the human outboard motor is, Dyna Blue. Cowboy the show-thinking weapons expert is Dyna Yellow. And their main squeeze Slojin is Dyna Pink. Under the guidance of this man, Dr. Ho, who from his laboratory and daycare center keeps the world safe from the evil antics of Bernie Tanaka and Mel Fujitsu. At one time his partners but now his arch enemies, who can stop them, who can save the world, who that's who, the ultimate persuader in the battle against evil, these are the adventures of Dynaman." this pretty much sums up the show.
The first episode is the pilot which also explains the dialogue I quoted in the opening. Dr. Ho explains how his assistants after an accident, Bernie and Mel became evil and took Dr. Ho's gene-splitting machine, then all the Dynamen meet at Dr. Ho's daycare center that's probably his lab secretly underground, I like to think. Dr. Ho mentions that Bernie and Mel are going to make illegal music videos with the help of their friend Nigel, the reptiles that go "whee" and this crab monster called "Cy" is gathering orphans to be extras in the music video. The Dynamen save the orphans and go fight the reptiles and Cy but they all end up falling into the ocean then later get gadget watches and finally get their outfits and a giant ship called the Dynaship that also has these two other ships that come out of it and can become a giant robot. They then fight Nigel and the reptiles then during the battle DynaRed cuts off one of Nigel's tails after that they fight Cy and then he grows giant. The Dynamen then get into the DynaShip, send the DynaHead ship, the DynaBody ship, the DynaTank, and later become DynaRobo. While fighting Cy they use this hammer with a ball and chain attached to it, this Dyna boomerang, and do the finisher with the Dyna Sword.
The next episode is "Rhinoman" where Bernie finds out their basement is trashed at their hideout and then Mel blames the Dyna kids for it. Then Mel uses this gene-splitting machine to create the ultimate party crasher Rhinoman which is a rhino monster. After that, Dr. Ho explains how long the reptile people have been around underground since the dawn of man. Then the Dynaman fight the reptile people attacking the city in the Dynaship, then they land and fight Rhinoman and Nigel, who lose another tail. Then Nigel and Rhinoman escape after an earthquake or something like that. Then the Dynamen return to the daycare, make some inventions, and do some training. They later crash Bernie's birthday party in their costumes and fight the reptile people using their special weapons and tricks. Nigel then sends Rhinoman and the Dynamen to try to defeat him but he then grows giant. The Dynamen then form DynaRobo and while fighting him they form the DynaSword as the finisher.
Episode 3 is called "Day of the Dolphin: Flipper's Revenge" In it Bernie's niece Lucy and his boyfriend Flipper the Dolphin visit and he wants revenge after this guy, who also made him intelligent, Dr. Wiggly because Flipper was sent to the Vietnam War and forced to kill others. Then it goes to Franky and Slojin visiting an aquarium and Franky's Uncle Wiggly, then Flipper comes out of the water and kidnaps Dr. Wiggly while Franky and Slojin fight the lizards and there's even this scene where Franky fights right in the water. Franky and Slogin transform into Dynamen and then Lucy shows up to help Flipper while the rest of the Dynamen show up. Franky ends up falling into the ocean while Flipper and Lucy escape the fight, some of the Dynamen search the ocean in a boat and find where Dr. Wiggly is hidden. Flipper uses this mind control device that looks like a hair dryer on Dr. Wiggly and he tells the fish in the end to become psychedelic hippies.
Some of the Dynamen find where Dr. Wiggly was kidnapped and fight all the lizardmen there, then Flipper shows up and all the Dynamen show up. Franky wakes up in this dream-like place where this mermaid is waiting for him. She mentions how clean and pure the ocean was but now that the fish turned into psychedelic hippies and it's getting dirty now. She tells Franky to save the fish and stop Lucy and Flipper, he says he will and then wakes up on the shore. He then meets up with the rest of Dynaman on his weird surfboard thing and then they all end up fighting Flipper and use the finisher "Dyna Human Pinwheel". Then Flipper becomes a giant then DynaMan uses DynaRobo to defeat him with the DynaSword. Then they save Dr. Wiggley and Franky tries to listen to the ocean in this little shell while the rest of Dynaman throw him in the water as a joke.
The next episode is called Lizard of Oz where Bernie and Mel try to create lizard people extras in Dynatown for their movie that's a parody of "The Wizard of Oz" and make them with the gene splicer to make this bat monster they created called Mr. Fabulous. As Mr. Fabulous flies over Dynatown, he converts people into lizards he also suggests they go underground and tells them to reproduce to make more extras for the movie. The Dynamen end up fighting Mr. Fabulous and the Lizardmen and then Mr. Fabulous escapes for now. After that, the Dynamen find where Mr. Fabulous is hiding while he's being fueled up to convert more people for later. While fighting him the DynaRed sends in the DynaShip while he uses his fighter to take down Mr. Fabuolus to stop him from flying around. Then the Dynamen use the Dyna Human Pinwheel to finish him, and Mr. Fabulous becomes gigantic, making the Dynamen use DynaRobo to defeat him. Then the Dynamen create a cure along the way to save all the people from Dynatown from being lizards forever.
The next episode is called "The Seven Loves of Lucky Pierre" where Lucy gets this French frog monster, Lucky Pierre, to get all these women who are about to get married that made fun of Lucy to marry Lucky Pierre instead as a way to get back at them for calling her tail a muffin. Slojin sees Lucky Pierre trying to steal the last bride but she stops him and the rest of the Dynamen fight Lucky Pierre and his lizards. After he escapes the Dynamen use Slojin as a bride-to-be to catch Lucky Pierre, she's later sent to this hideout where all the brides are held captive. Then Slojin stops him just as he's about to marry all the other brides and fights the lizards as the brides all escape Lucky Pierre's hideout. Then the rest of the Dynamen help Slojin and then she transforms, after they all fight Lucky Pierre and the lizards they do the finisher Dyna Human Pinwheel. Lucky Pierre then becomes gigantic and the Dynamen send in the Dynaship and form Dynarobo, and then Lucky Pierre uses electricity from his tongue and some kind of hypnosis to stop the Dynamen for a bit. They all snap out of it and use this giant mirror to reflect Lucky Pierre's hypnosis, then the Dynamen use their finisher with the Dynasword. Then one of the brides gets married and Slojin wonders if she will ever get married one day soon and the episode ends.
The final episode is "Last Adventure of Spunky the Wonder Squid" where Huba tries to contact his relatives in outer space for his birthday. Then Mel and the other villains are keeping a watch on the spaceship and Mel is mad that he only got a squid monster on his birthday even though he looks more like an octopus than a squid. That's also "Spunky the Wonder Squid" and they plan to destroy Huba's gift of a Nuclear Power Plant from his uncle, Spunky then goes to the surface of a beach and then he touches a radio, and then gets electrical powers for some reason, he ends up flying to a power line tower to get more of a charge. Huba ends up getting a signal from outer space and finds his relatives in some flying saucer outside in broad daylight, Huba also wears this silver suit as well, which is the birthday suit they gave him. Huba and his friends try to talk to his relatives from outer space and Spunky sees them and tries to distract the Dynamen then he and Huba fight a bit and Spunky shocks Huba. Dynamen all then transform and fight the Lizards and then they all escape and later on destroy Huba's Nuclear Power Plant. The Dynamen come by and fight Spunky near a beach where the power plant was and then Huba fights Spunky one-on-one and then Huba's relatives come by and help him after they clean up the radiation from the Nuclear Power Plant. The Dynamen then use the finisher "Dyna Human Pinwheel to defeat Spunky and then he becomes gigantic then Dynamen sends in the Dynaship and it forms Dynarobo defeating Spunky. Huba misses his relatives and hopes to see them again next year though a year is about 50 years to them so he might be dead by then and it ends.
There's also this lost episode I found on youtube that's also kind of a documentary about something called DynaCon! And it just seems okay is all. You'll also hear a lot of 1980s rock that's licensed so I'm not sure if uploading it is a good idea, though I made a Spotify playlist that I might link on here at the end of the review. In the end, this show is awesome with all the action footage from the original show and the rock music makes things kind of cool as well, it also.
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