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			       SPACE RANGERS

Show type: Science Fiction/Adventure
Number of episodes:  6
Episode guide revision date: 2-25-93

Cast:
     Linda Hunt               Commander Chennault
     Jeff Kaake               Captain John Boon
     Jack McGee               Doc
     Marjorie Monagham        JoJo
     Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa     Zylyn
     Danny Quinn              Danny Kincaid
     Clint Howard             Mimmer
     Gottfried John           Erik Weiss

Aired Episodes:

 1 - The Replacements   1/6/93
     Set in the 22nd century, this science fiction adventure follows the
     exploits of a group of futuristic police stationed at a remote
     outpost in deep space. First up: the Rangers are assigned a new
     android while they try to uncover the reasons behind a mining ship's
     hijacking.

 2 - Banshees   1/13/93
     Col. Weiss asks the Rangers to trap a deadly alien - a request that
     Boon refuses until he learns a young boy (Rick Latini III) is trapped
     on an abandoned spaceship with some of the creatures. Irina: Dawn
     Jeffory, Zed: James Cooper, Schmitty: Gary Byron.

 3 - Death Before Dishonor   1/20/93
     After Boon twice offends an alien dignitary (Sherman Howard), the crew
     is sentenced to death and war is declared on Fort Hope. The crew's
     only hope: Boon must challenge the alien to a duel. Marla: Claudia
     Christian, Muk'Toh: Dana Gladstone.

 4 - Pilot   1/27/93
     When a ship carrying Boon's old friend (Wings Hauser) crashes on a
     desolate planet that's also a sacred Graaka burial site, the Rangers
     attempt a rescue mission that could cost them their lives. Nazzer:
     Pat Morita, Makita: Salli Elise Richardson.

Un-aired Episodes:

 5 - To Be or Not To Be
     The Rangers race to a prison planet to rescue a comedian (Buddy
     Hackett).

 6 - The Trial
     Zylyn is accused of murder and the rest of the Rangers defend him
     in court.

Notes:

Information comes from TV Guide and Starlog.

Reason why the pilot episode was not aired first according to an interview
with Jack McGee in the April 1993 Starlog:

    "We found out that 'Space Rangers' was going to pilot a week
     before filming began, and it's hard to prepare to go into space
     in one week. And, because of that, it took us a while to jell
     while we were making the pilot. Some scenes were good but, when
     we looked at the finished pilot, we realized that the work got
     better as we went along and decided to discard the original
     pilot and introduce the characters in the context of a first
     episode."

Loren Heisey
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