The Story of the Bizarre Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog: Weirdest Power Rangers Clone?

[@RichardDCook]

Thanks for doing this video! I worked on all 50 Mystic Knights episodes, it was a fun time for sure. While most shows of this budget use entirely synth soundtracks, Saban decided to budget live musicians to be blended into the mix. I'm the bagpiper heard on the opening theme and in various places in every episode. I still have my Mystic Knights toy collection, some of the action figures and the McDonalds cardboard display will all the small figures attached. Two small notes: in correct Irish it's spelled Tir na nOg (small n, capital O) "land of youth" and Tir ("land') is pronounced "cheer" in many Gaelic dialects.

[@UniversalJuan]

Thanks for your work! I recently revisited this series without nostalgia glasses as I was incredibly indifferent to the series when it first aired (I was about 15 at the time). Coming up on 40 now and I can say, without reservation, that I believe the series holds up well! To your work credit, the music especially!

[@thomasmontalvo310]

I work for 8 months I don’t know if you remember Mike

[@stevebazin127]

This show ignited my life long love of Fantasy. Thank you so much for making this show.

[@RichardDCook]

@@stevebazin127 Thanks! It was a fun time in my life, it was a bit surrealistic to come home from a recording session and turn on the TV to Mystic Knights and hear my bagpipes.

[@scandelez]

That’s really cool!

[@erichance8222]

True story: this was the first show I ever worked on in VFX back in the mid 90s, we were a small group with several fresh college grads. We had a lot of cool ideas but the schedule was a bit tight (and the tech very early) at times. Fun memories and the actors were super nice when we met them. Thank you for giving this show some love and big thanks to ppl giving fond memories of this!

[@stevebazin127]

Hey, thanks for helping to make this show. I loved it as a kid. I miss it as a grown up.

[@erichance8222]

@@stevebazin127 I’m so glad! We all learned a lot making it, to this day, I still work in visual effects and use lots of the tricks I learned on it :-)

[@RichardDCook]

I worked on Mystic Knights at the Saban building in Westwood, is that were you were? I was always in one of the recording studios, but a few times I did wander around, watching sound mixing or whatever else happened to be going on.

[@erichance8222]

@@RichardDCook Good question, I was up at a good VFX shop called Foundation Imaging. Along with MK we worked on several shows in the mid 90s (including Trek and some full CG shows).

[@scandelez]

Lmao the vfx/cgi was atrocious. Even for the 90s

[@AtomikaBlerd]

I’m so glad this wasn’t a fever dream of my childhood mind.

[@bew1977]

The fever dream was Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters from Beverly Hills

[@shr00m7]

Came here to say this exact thing.

[@RikkiWhite]

And yet... We all experienced that fever dream.

[@alexauclair1]

Same

[@victorcavazos5012]

Omg same! I thought I imagined/Mándela Affected that show for a while haha!

[@EccentricGentelman]

It's so rare that a show choses quality, artistic vision or integrity over profitability. And I think Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog deserves a little recognition for that.

[@panelsandbars]

You guys are the kings of unlocking long repressed memories

[@RatelHBadger]

Bring on the episode about Earthworm Jim!!!

[@AtomikaBlerd]

I can’t wait for the Tattooed Teenaged Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills episode.

[@ThomasMHead]

@@AtomikaBlerdthat memory was repressed for a reason, lol

[@toytripperv8488]

@@AtomikaBlerd youtuber monster island buddies made an episode on it, very entertaining and informative.

[@DjDoxastic]

@@twerktospec he was bad touched by his uncle when this show was on im guessing, same.

[@RandomBlackGamer]

Probably the best non-Sentai/original show we got from Saban. And the toys were actually cool. When I was a kid I thought that the Blue Knight was Braxton from the Jame Foxx show 😂

[@TheTrueKazekage]

Facts Bro!!!!

[@bfluker85]

The toys were fantastic. So much cool detail in the armor.

[@daywalker3735]

Omg he does look like him hahaha

[@YoungEj1990]

Me too😂😂😂

[@heatwave1789]

I'm glad I wasn't the only one who thought that as well

[@MrGeekFreek]

Rohan: Fire within me! Deirdre: Air above me! Ivar: Water around me! Angus: Earth beneath me! Garrett: Forest before me!

[@Undrave]

Rohan fought Rath Cohen the Ice Lord for his armor. Deidre defeated Sonorus Skye the Lightning Bat for her's. Ivar trounced Forga McRoil the Sea Serpent. Angus bested Bane Morfane the Rock Wolf! The four Sentinels of Temra were formidable reccuring antagonists later on... Garret... Garret fought a giant CGI spider after battling some reused suits from MMPR...

[@chloeirnes]

Sounds like Garrett is going down and Rohan had too much Taco Bell....

[@RikoJAmado]

Garrett: “At least I did not end up with Heart!” Ma-Ti:”.......” Garrett: “ Sorry, too soon?”

[@RockinRhinox]

@@Undrave Oh my god thank you so much I've been trying to remember and track down the real names of the four sentianls of Temra for years, I could only ever find the Ice Lord's real name.

[@Undrave]

@@RockinRhinox No problem! I always remember this kind of BS details :p

[@gloriaplatt8443]

This was my childhood. That and Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Captain Planet, Princess Starla and the Jewel Riders, Mega Man, Attack of the Killer Tomatoes cartoon, etc. Loving all the videos :)

[@tompadfoot3065]

I had every toy for this, still have Rohan, Ivar, and Angus. And despite that so few people I know remember this I thought it was a hallucination lol

[@dimensionxartworks5680]

I wish I still had Lugad that was my favorite figure of that toy line I still have a few of the McDonald's toys lol

[@DarthBoolean]

The Dragons Breath dagger was a permanent part of playing with my friends for the rest of my childhood. As was trying to explain to then what show it was from.

[@JazGalaxy]

Tiger sharks was definitely the thing from my childhood that I remember that I felt like nobody else did.

[@tompadfoot3065]

@@JazGalaxy Cadillacs and Dinosaurs is like that for me, I'm like 4 years older than a lot of my current friend circle and man lemme tell ya, that 4 years makes a huge pop culture difference

[@quadl24]

I remember watching this on Fox Kids on Saturday mornings

[@MANCO92687]

This should be a badass movie franchise. Just imagine with a budget how badass it would be.

[@johnhubbell1083]

"Please consult your attorney first; I'm just a guy on the internet" is probably the most needed and grounded statement on the internet, and should be a preface to every youtube video on any and every subject.

[@AwaseMike5137]

When i heard him say this i instantly thought “T-shirt slogan of the year/decade”

[@xmarksthespot1372]

That's the best advice on the internet.

[@cardinalhamneggs5253]

_Mystic Knights_ can be considered a prequel to _Power Rangers: Mystic Force_ except that it was created before the Disney Era of PR. That, coupled with the fact that Toei and Disney worked together on both _Mahou Sentai Magiranger_ and _Mystic Force_ makes _Mystic Force_ a sequel to _Mystic Knights_ .

[@RatelHBadger]

Power Rangers, Beetle Borg's, Knights of Tir Na Nog... Ahh the 90's, Kung Fu, giant robots and bad overdubs.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Everything was pretty cool, then 4kids showed up and the party was over.

[@yellownotmellow]

wait is beetle borgs just metal heroes? im not american so im not too sure about that

[@TakBonez]

@@yellownotmellow yes

[@jaybates3816]

@@yellownotmellow So was the VR Troopers, and they had their own shows in Japan. Ryan Steel's Battle Armors are from Metalder and Shaider and JB's and Caitlin's Battle Armors are from Speilban.

[@jaybates3816]

@Zarc The Mighty Guy Now, that would've been interesting to see. What made Saban Entertainment scrapped the original plans?

[@Chuckless86]

I remember trying to explain to my friends a few years ago the show to see if anybody watched it and no one knew it existed. Had me questioning whether it was a real show or not. So glad you made this video now I know I’m not crazy.

[@geardog24]

7:12 Do you know how many kids would've paid to see Hercules fight the Power Rangers? *ALL OF THEM!*

[@victorcavazos5012]

Young Ryan Gosling Hercules or Kevin Sorbo...didn’t matter! Lol

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I mean they did do that weird power rangers TMNT live action crossover episode/event. But they used the turtles from next mutation and I don't think many people liked that show.

[@el-kiote]

Idk, i tuned out after the masked rider and tmnt crossovers

[@JMDarkly1]

Hell, I'd still pay good money to see that, even 20 years later.~

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@JMDarkly1 If it was the Ryan gosling Young Hercules versus say I don't know one of the '90s versions of power rangers with time traveling shenanigans I'd be all about that.

[@Hattori75]

THANK YOU! My brother and I remembered this show existed but thought we just had a gas leak in our old house and hallucinated the whole thing. Also, this might explain why I have a fascination with Ireland and Irish mythologies.

[@frostfyrezero1830]

Man, this brings back memories. I used to watch this religiously and had the McDonalds toys. The baddies had some pieces that, if you collected them all, made a dragon.

[@gmcubed]

I thought they were Burger King toys?

[@frostfyrezero1830]

@@gmcubed nope, they were McDonald's happy meal toys.

[@CaptainCretaceous91]

That's the one thing that kept me remembering the show.

[@delusionalpatriotsfan9858]

I still remember all of this Air above me , Water around me, Earth beneath me, Fire within me, Forest before me.

[@RichardDCook]

yes this is a blend of two parts of the ancient Irish prayer "The Lorica of Saint Patrick" (a Lorica was a piece of Roman armour that protected you from front, rear, and both sides) part of which says "the force of fire, the flashing of lightning, the speed of wind, the depth of the sea, the stability of the earth, the hardness of rocks" and "Christ with me, Christ before me, Christ behind me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ at my right, Christ at my left..." (By the way "Lorica" is usually translated as "breastplate" which is not only inaccurate but also misses the point of the prayer.)

[@mattfrank85]

I think the phrase “what Power Rangers would look like if it was 100% western developed” is a really good summary of Mystic Knights and its placement in pop culture history.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

That's a nice way of saying mostly completely forgotten. I wouldn't say it's the most obscure of all these type of shows but it's certainty in the top five at least. The fact there are any DVDs or a full collection tells you a lot I mean not even from whatever it was Germany and Ireland where this was so much more popular.

[@Tim85-y2q]

Honestly, I think in some ways, this was Saban's best attempt at the genre because the fact that they didn't have to frankenstein footage of another show into the series meant the fight scenes etc. could be more dynamic and unique. (much like IMHO the original Super Sentai shows are compared to their Power Rangers counterparts). You can just do a lot more when you're producing an entire show from scratch instead of trying to cobble one together from unrelated bits and pieces.

[@darth-g0ldaR]

Yeah it's nothing like Merlin/King Arthur Lord of the rings or any of that European stuff. Which is exactly why the theme song to The mystic nights show sounded like a rip off of the Riverdance..... That's what we're all about here in America....👌😅

[@emanuelepolloni4002]

@@Tim85-y2q But doing an entire show from scratch has some economic issues, for example you can't make big battles in which hundreds of enemies fight against the heroes filled with explosions and sets destructions unless you have a budget that allows you that. And Mystic Knights didn't had that.

[@Tim85-y2q]

@@emanuelepolloni4002 Neither did most of the Japanese shows Saban licensed footage from though. TBH I think the armor suits and special F/X in mystic knights look comparable to anything seen in the other Saban shows at that time.

[@deaston18]

I remembered this show because next to MSG, there's a pub called Tir Na Nog and the theme always plays in my head when I walk by it.

[@dermotshaw5722]

As an Irish person i can say you nailed the pronunciation of the shows name

[@SecretGalaxyTV]

Thank you.

[@lorcannagle]

@@SecretGalaxyTV kinda mangled Oisin (it's more like uh-sheen) and Niamh (like Neeve) though. But I've heard far, far worse. You got Lochlann down perfect and that can be very hard. I'm mostly glad they spelled it Maeve instead of Meidhb for the show...

[@dreddfan01]

Did this ever air in ireland? I never heard of it till I saw a few clips on KZbin.

[@lorcannagle]

@@dreddfan01 according to wiki, it was on the Den, but I was a touch too old for the Power Rangers craze and never sought it out

[@dreddfan01]

@@lorcannagle I thought it was the kind of thing rhe den would go for alright but I'm the same as you, a bit too old for it.

[@Bunkeralpha]

So true story. I was working at a Suncoast Motion Picture company when this show came out. I somehow managed to convince the store manager at the time to open a copy of this to play on the regular rotation. She saw it was a rated "G" and opened it. Up that was the last time she ever listed to me about playing anything in the store again.

[@jonc2914]

Hahahahahaha. fired

[@brandonp7503]

*bonk*

[@RFNOFFICIAL]

I loved this show when it aired, glad to see a episode about it.

[@WardNightstone]

i still have a dragon breath dagger a bit scuffed up but a neat iem

[@starbrand3726]

You forgot to mention the Fifth knight. He came in much later, wore green armor, was blonde and had the power of the forest.

[@jasoncastillo9017]

Wow the Discovery zone.. that brings me back..the feels

[@D21BeastReviews]

“It’s where kids wanna be!”

[@GenAqua]

God, I remember Mystic Knights...I watched part of an episode in the waiting room of a hospital as a kid, when my dad got into a fender bender and got his collar bone dinged.

[@D21BeastReviews]

I was a huge fan of this show as I entered my teens. Thank you for covering it! I wish there was a legal way to watch it all again. Special Note: There did eventually come a fifth Knight, Garrett. I believe he was a prince as well and his magical element was the forest. He carried a set of twin axes.

[@Angelus13AOV]

He was the price of Reged, an ally nation to Kells. He had an arranged marriage with princess Deirdre and their marriage would unite the two nations. He did indeed gain the element of Forest when he earned his armor and his Twin Timber Axes and became the fifth Mystic Knight. However, he also had a unique ability where he could control any living creature by looking into it’s eyes. This apparently had nothing to do with him being a Mystic Knight and I don’t remember if it was ever explained why he had this ability.

[@pferreira1983]

I remember this exchange: Garrett: He's talking in riddles. Angus: Get used to it. 😁

[@pferreira1983]

@@MrReganomics1 There's quite a few people. Check the likes and the comments below. 😉

[@pezzz182]

Great minds and Robs think alike Mr. Pollock. I actually own the Mystic Knight of the forest, it's pretty wicked and as I stated in my previous comment "it still holds up"

[@pezzz182]

@@pferreira1983 Clever Angus strikes again

[@madisonrocca7100]

Mystic Knights, all the Power Rangers, Beetleborgs, VR Troopers, Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad...they were all of my obsessions at that point. Okay, they still are.

[@MiBrCo4177]

Holy shit super human samurai cyber squad lmao yes please. Not to mention all of those showes were amazing back then.

[@GideonGrimmGaming]

Lol I forgot about Beetleborgs! Loved those as a kid too, along with Mystic Knights.

[@willofdodge1]

Was there a tv show where teenagers traveled to the internet and fought "viruses" in a mech suite. Idk if I made that made sense

[@madisonrocca7100]

@@willofdodge1 I think that was Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad.

[@Sea-Salt]

Me and my brother got into the show, but honestly I couldn't tell you what happened in any given episode. Do have to give props for making a fully-western Power Rangers type of show, though. Some of the toys were pretty cool, though, I ended up getting Pyre (the big dragon) and the Drageen (the baby dragon), while my brother got Tyrune (the hydra), and still have them to this day.

[@gameprose4293]

I was always more into fantasy, so I actually loved this more than Power Rangers at the time both were being aired on Fox. Was sad when it stopped airing, but still had the toys....until my grandma sold them at a yardsale when I turned 18 without telling me until after the fact. She refused to give me the money she made from them....even though I had saved my allowance for weeks to buy them (they were not gifts). I had the Rohan, Ivar (who was my favorite as a kid because he was blue), and Angus action figures. I miss them, they'd be proudly displayed in my collection of nerdy model kits and action figures if I still had them.

[@JohnWilliams-cr2sz]

I LOVED Mystic Knights, was heart broken it never got a second season. I am still holding out hope for a reboot someday.

[@joelbarkow9240]

Season 2's pilot script was almost finished when the cancellation call came in... it would have been a great season 2!!

[@mpdalyful1]

This is where the now celebrated Beckett actress Lisa Dwan started her career.

[@joelbarkow9240]

@@mpdalyful1 Everyone starts somewhere. We got lucky in casting.

[@Shadesatx]

@@joelbarkow9240 Is the script available anywhere?

[@joelbarkow9240]

@@Shadesatx Unfortunately, no. With the cancellation we just stopped writing.

[@lorddalek]

The Celtic Craze of the late 90s brought about by Riverdance spawned a lot of weird shit. Mystic Knights was par for the course.

[@orinanime]

I was watching Power Rangers, Masked Rider, VR Troopers, Super Human Samurai Syber Squad.... all of 'em. And I was definitely watching Mystic Knights. It was Power Rangers mixed with my favorite fantasy subgenre, sword-and-sorcery with a cheesy smattering of D&D and Final Fantasy. Everything 10 year old me wanted.

[@D21BeastReviews]

Did you also happen to make it as far as Tattooed Teenaged Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills?

[@orinanime]

@@D21BeastReviews i did indeed.

[@D21BeastReviews]

@@orinanime HaHa! Wonderful.

[@jacobjones-4811]

"Let's Form Knightron !!!"

[@williamazbill8776]

Oh gods I remembered this as a kid. Thank you so much for doing an episode.

[@melon3109]

I was invested in this show as a kid. The last episode I remember seeing left off on a cliffhanger and I never saw what happened next.

[@mastermonarch]

I wanted to know what powers the new main villain had and what did Maeve get it on with to make Lugad her half human half whatever son.

[@MADMONEYMAN5000]

@@mastermonarch The last thing I remember seeing from that show was that it was revealed that Rohan is the son of Queen Maeve as well.

[@mastermonarch]

@@MADMONEYMAN5000 weird show 😂

[@kevtlee08]

I was just thinking about this series and boom KZbin algorithm is “boom, I know you want this”.

[@jdrvargo287]

Same!

[@TheActualCathal]

It was weird seeing those actors show up in random commercials for the following ten years. Not as the Knights, just as random people flogging butter and washing powder.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Gotta stretch those 15 minutes as far as you can I guess.

[@TheActualCathal]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Acting's a tiny industry in Ireland. There's no shortage of people who have a decent success for five years as an actor or a musician and then go back to teaching secondary school.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@TheActualCathal Are they still considered like local celebrities or has that all pretty much dissipated at this point?! I always think how weird it would be with the internet and things to find out your school teacher or someone in your regular life was on some obscure power rangers type show. My question is always proud or embarrassed?!

[@CybranMonkeylord]

@@JohnDoe-wq5eu Ireland doesn't have the same celeb culture as other places. Asking for anything beyond a selfie on "private time" would be considered a bit distasteful.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

@@CybranMonkeylord I personally totally respect that. I freaking hate celebrity culture and I love that other countries have not adopted that attitude at least not Ireland anyway.

[@zeejay-junejo]

Pretty sure the producer was listening to safety dance when he came up with the idea.

[@geardog24]

Mystic Knights of Tir Na Nog Made more sense than Big Bad Beetleborgs

[@Snyperwolf91]

Not only that but it was fantasy and very original without borrowing japans actionscenes to make content . And the kelly family made the theme song .

[@Rasengan9000ttt]

That’s because they didn’t rely on stock footage to continue the story. Beatlborgs was still great.

[@bfluker85]

Most things make significantly more sense than Beetleborgs. Lol.

[@CMartinez1986]

And VR Troopers

[@CEOdawg]

Never heard of this show until now, but I'm always going to enjoy the trips down memory lane with Toy Galaxy!!

[@tekila00985]

That would be a first. Airing an episode of a forgotten series on KZbin to see who copyright strikes it so that you can start a gofundme to make em continue the series.

[@spoonimefan]

A plan so cynical and complicated ... it just might work!

[@jakestyles002]

Wow. You guys are incredible. The research that goes into what you do, alone, must be immense. Thank you for providing such delightful edu-tainment.

[@istevens78]

I was 20 when Mystic Knights came out but I thoroughly enjoyed it. It definitely had potential. I wish it ran for additional seasons.

[@henninghohmann7426]

im german and after almost 20 years i still cant get the theme song out of my head. straight fire.

[@Marc_Araujo]

This and Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters From Beverly Hills were my guilty pleasures as a kid.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

I think that's right about where things veered off into full self parody intentionally or not. It took roughly 10 years but by the early 2000s weren't seeing power ranger clones anymore.

[@audiooddities9982]

I was just going to suggest this to them to do! Lol

[@jacobjones-4811]

Tattooed Teenagers was like a Teen Sitcom Combined with a Sentai Show.

[@aresef]

This show is notable for being an early work of Ned Dennehy, he played Mider. Lisa Dwan, who played Dierdre, has also had a fascinating career on stage and screen. In the aughts, she got super into Samuel Beckett and has performed and spoken about his work around the world.

[@stevebazin127]

Lisa Dawn is one of the foremost Samuel Beckett scholars now. She's written some interesting papers on his work.

[@chief664]

Man I loved this show! I was part of a very small American crowd, I wonder how few of us there were. I think this was the 1st show I ever liked that got canceled on me

[@Marc_Araujo]

I was in that crowd...I also watch Tattooed Teenage Alien Fighters.

[@anispidey]

I absolutely loved this show! This and Ronin Warriors is probably where my love for elemental theme heroes with armor spawn from.

[@nicholasjones7881]

I loved this show, it was like watching Hercules or Xena. Just Irish myth instead of Greek

[@pawned79]

I wasn’t familiar with this one, but your references to Hercules and Xena reminded me that there was also a Beastmaster TV show.

[@fudgejn]

And the live action Conan, though the 90s cartoon was better

[@jaysonraphaelmurdock8812]

Conan the adventurer is awesome

[@Dargonhuman]

My mom LOVED Beastmaster. She had the hots for Marc Singer.

[@kirbyfanprime]

Don't forget Highlander

[@pawned79]

@@kirbyfanprime Highlander and Forever Knight are in a class onto their own.

[@al3034]

Shoots bolts of electricity, even though he’s the water guy…. BAHAHAHA

[@i_Hydra]

Ivar just couldn’t beat the allegations that came with water and his skin tone. 😂

[@shrunkenone]

I had fond memories of that show, and recall being quite outraged at it's cancellation. And now seeing those unreleased figures, I am saddened they never got made. I would have wanted those 8' figures to go with the ones I already had.

[@custink22]

Mmm Deirdre, one of my many live action kids show crushes when i was growing up... And i actually liked the mystic knights more than power rangers.

[@trikeonabike4949]

I’m glad this video exists lol. I still have the large scale dragon figures they had (Pyre and Tyrune), which still imao the best fully articulated large toy dragons to this day (Pyre). There’s just not enough poseable toy dragons out there , oddly.

[@LuDogg805]

I never liked this show, it was always boring to me- even today, but my brother loved it and I always remember the arguments we had over who gets to watch TV at that time of day. Fun times...

[@serveaux]

You always seem to find the things I have a vague memory of and not sure I didn't just imagine myself.

[@jeromethompson5848]

The show was weird

[@GenerationX1984]

I remember they had happy meal toys of Mystic Knights. The freaking bald man character whose name I forget was a happy meal toy. Weird.

[@UraharaShoten]

LOVED this show and its action figures. Couldn’t agree with the final sentiment more: that in the end, it was the execs who pushed too hard for it to be like the Power Rangers instead of leaning into its uniqueness that hurt it. 😢

[@rammuertoanimations4664]

Medieval Power Rangers! But when I watched it back then i didnt even realize that. I thought this show was so unique for the setting it chose

[@deargamadaun]

That might be the best telling of the story of Oisín I've ever heard.

[@OtakuUnitedStudio]

This was the most unique of the 90's US tokusatsu. Thank you for covering it!

[@pferreira1983]

There wasn't anything Japanese in it.

[@TokuNorth]

@@pferreira1983 Yes that's why he said "US Tokusatsu" you dingus

[@187Wretched]

Holy crap I remember getting an action figure of the gold/red dude from a garage sale when I was a kid. I never knew it was from this show!

[@pocketheart1450]

I loved this goddamned show as a child.

[@grahamcarpenter5135]

Huh. If Hasbro owns the rights to this game...maybe we'll get a Mystic Knights-themed adventure book for D&D. Or maybe a Mystic Knight class.

[@MBulldog1979]

There's a Mystic Knight class in a videogame called Dragon's Dogma. Look it up.

[@yoda908]

Wnile everyone else was watching power rangers I watched this. I really do hope someone brings this show back. I love the Tír Na Nóg song and highly recommend it to anyone who is into Celtic mythology and history.

[@AnonymousSam]

Hey man, I watched both lol

[@newred67]

Thank you for covering the Mystic Knights for this video! I enjoyed watching this show in the 90s, especially the female characters. Princess Deirdre was my favorite! She was not only beautiful but showed heart and determination that made her endearing. Queen Maeve and the fairy Aideen were great as well. That second season "Battle Thunder" would have picked up from that compelling cliffhanger in the finale (if you remember), so thanks for mentioning that. I have watched a few of your videos covering my favorites shows, and I commend you on a job well done.

[@TheDrunkLee]

I wish there was somewhere I could watch this show. I remember loving it as a kid way back when it first aired. Back then, I couldn't catch every single episode because I was a child at the mercy of my parents schedule, so it would be cool to go back and see it all

[@TheForeverRanger]

kzbin.info/door/ETK70sEjZTpa1C6kqLhOyw Not advertising because I think this fits.

[@colourkadventures]

Check out Mystic Knight of Spirit’s KZbin channel. They have all 50 episodes with the English audio mixed in with the higher quality video from the German broadcasts: kzbin.info/door/viLcE-TBlGZ6-oxu5a_qIQ

[@TheDrunkLee]

@@colourkadventures Holy crap! Thanks for letting me know about this! These people are doing the lords work

[@JeterSwisherFan88]

Needless to say, this show was one of my guilty pleasures when I was a teenage girl back in 1998-99.

[@jonc2914]

Lol how

[@f.4301]

Lol

[@mhutch5082]

This was out in new zealand around 2003ish or later

[@andredrw289]

God I remember loving this show, they really need to put it on dvd or a streaming service

[@TheForeverRanger]

Won't happen due to it being a joint production so the rights are in limbo. That being said you can find some decent quality versions of the show here on youtube.

[@andredrw289]

@@TheForeverRanger yeah I’ve seen some of them on here. They should figure out the rights issue

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@andredrw289 Not likely since no one owns the rights to the name and the raw footage is probably sitting in a random warehouse in Ireland.

[@ryushin6]

Someone actually restored all the episodes on KZbin as a project of theirs. It has all the episodes on their channel. kzbin.info/www/bejne/nnukmHpmpayVaas

[@TheForeverRanger]

@@ryushin6 Good news is that since no one owns the copyright to the series anymore the episodes aren't likely to be taken down.

[@redwardranger7034]

This is probably the Power Ranger-like thing I haven't seen yet and I gotta get myself into it because I've developed a fascination to Celtic and Irish mythologies after reading Michael Scott's Nicholas Flamel series

[@OrinOfAtlantis]

I LOVED THIS SHOW! So glad you brought this back into the light! You should check out the 90s animated show "DRAGONFLYZ" soon. It's right up your alley!

[@RatelHBadger]

Such a goofy toy line, precursor to Beyblades

[@Thrano]

I used to watch this show at my cousin's house every evening. Feels like childhood.

[@eonaon6914]

Suggestion: Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys, where Jerry Doyal got to after Babylon 5

[@alucard624]

RIP Jerry

[@omniboy33]

Woah. Seconded.

[@solidkingcobra]

I wanna piggy back of this suggestion and say WMAC Masters. any of youse remember this friggin show?

[@CantankerousDave]

Jerry Doyle, Michael Dorn, Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, etc. etc. ... Not as full of big names as Gargoyles, but how often do you get a throwaway Clockwork Orange quote in a cartoon? They also had the best monkey pun episode titles.

[@truefanforum3273]

@@solidkingcobra I remember that show and thought it was so awesome!! And the fact that the characters were played by real martial artists helped a great deal.

[@marywallace3620]

You've unlocked a memory of a show I thought was just a mash up of memories of all the fantasy and Power Rangers kids shows i watched as a kid.

[@KajiRider1997]

Loved this show. I remember the twist of the main bad being the mother of Rowan

[@wbennin]

Spoiler alert!

[@joelbarkow9240]

Excellent memory!

[@angeltiger777]

And spoiler.... Rowan also has a brother, Lugad

[@zeejay-junejo]

Imagine a comeback crossover with these.

[@kajunsblerdeye9325]

I remember watching this. It was a nice little change of pace to Power Rangers.

[@Mystyx-Sama]

Happy to say I grew up on ALL of this, and loved it. It was a nice alternative to Power Rangers, which was everywhere, and the CGI was at the time not bad at all - especially for my hyped up mind lol. So glad I remember them. Was always an Angus guy myself. Loved the look of his gear. "Fire within me!" "Air above me!" "Earth beneath me!" "Water around me!" And no politics to be found. Pure gold!

[@SoloWing88]

This and Syber Squad were my jAm, and I'm happy the comments has people who also remember it

[@danswope]

I used to watch this show by my Great Grandmas house after school. It was a weird bonding moment because she thought the setting was cool and I loved the designs of the armor, and she was a huge part of my childhood... Thank you bringing back some great memories...

[@nazgullord357]

I used to have so many of the toys from this. The Ice Lord of Temra was always my favorite villain. I even recreated him (to an extent) in the game For Honor. lol What I would give for a remake of this show, like, a high budget, Game of Thrones style (in terms of production and effects, not mature content - Lord of the Rings-esque in terms of seriousness and maturity maybe) remake.

[@nazgullord357]

@@abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz4839 Indeed

[@andrepalatino3376]

Omg yes. Best action figure. It was him and skeletor in my toy box that were my favs

[@scandelez]

Completely forgot about this show until recently. I was watching it at like 5 years old on tv. Man oh man if you watch it now though, it’s seriously a tough watch. The acting, the costumes, the cgi smh good Lord the budget must’ve been low.

[@42bitsTVGo]

When I was a kid I really liked this show hahahah In my head was the most closely thing based on a live action Saint Seiya or Ronin Warriors hahaha

[@jackvalentine5784]

I was such a fan of this growing up!!! I would bring this up in conversations and people would think i was making it up. Thanks for this video👍

[@Shin_Lona]

Dan, have you all done an episode on Hercules and Xena yet? Because if you haven't, you should probably just go ahead and make that happen.

[@Nepthu]

@Michael Fox Vanishing Son was good and aired alongside season 1 of Hercules, but it was cancelled to make way for Xena. Over the years, they toned down the violence in Hercules and made sure to mention that he doesn't drink, when he clearly drank alcohol in early episodes.

[@b3ans4eva]

“I’m not Xena, I’m Lucy Lawless.” Kevin Sorbo became a Christian & starred in a lot of bad Christian films. Lucy Lawless gets the occasional acting gig & has been arrested protesting for Greenpeace. Michael Hurst’s career really took off and Renee O’Connor went back to theatre.

[@8trackroadtrip]

Fox Kids was THE network for kid's television at this time. I grew up with the USA Cartoon Express so I just missed this cultural moment but I remember the TV ads and my brother loved these shows. Great episode!

[@TheCatWatches]

Ice Lord is still one of my favorite Bandai action figures. His character design was cool

[@genthba]

So glad you covered this. I had most of the action figures in my collection, but remember this show so loosely

[@theslimjames]

This is definitely a show I remember being advertised on Fox and was like, "nah". I was too old anyway, but this seems like the beginning of the end of Fox Kids programming, along with that Ninja Turtles show with Venus de Milo.

[@JohnDoe-wq5eu]

Yeah the next mutation was absolute crap. It was right around the early 2000s where Fox kids basically gave over all their programming to 4kids and it was just kids anime stuff for whatever many hours. I think that was also when power rangers went to Disney possibly can't remember. But yeah the early 2000s were definitely dominated by all the channels basically seeing what anime could be the next big Pokemon craze. The absolutely destroyed cardcaptor Sakura in the form of card captors was a perfect example of this.

[@TheCharliePauper]

I'm so glad you made this video, I was just thinking about this show not too long ago! I remember playing their game they had on the fox kids website, back when all I had was dial-up

[@faherty87]

"There's no smoke without Pyre" Vaguely remember a joke like that about the dragon

[@thantrus]

Your channel is really interesting. I love these history treatises on obscure shows. Also the synthwave music in the background is top notch.

[@joshmarshall7138]

I was hoping that you would do an episode on this someday! I still find my self chanting the theme song of this show occasionally. Mys-tic Knights! Tie-Na-Nog!

[@JLunaarS]

I was in the target age demographic during Mystic Knights' run and even had some toys. Definitely loved it but was bummed when the show's finale aired. Even as a kid, it was clear they did not want things to end there.

[@Kamenriderneo]

I loved that show. It was like a live-action of King Arthur and the Knights of Justice. It did follow some tropes from Power Rangers though. The Megazord was replaced by Pyre, dragon of dare, a fire breathing dragon that Rohan would summon using a dagger. Mid-way through the show, Queen Meave cast a spell on a prince from another country and turned him evil. The spell was broken and he turned good again before becoming the new Mysthic Knight of the Forest...(cough, cough, Tommy)...

[@DeorsaWisteriaVenustiano]

I have always loved this show. My interest in Celtic lore was born and I understood the references you made to the tales of Tir Na Nog. I also have all four Happy Meal figures I found on ebay. Once in a while I catch some on youtube but somehow they are still deleted. I honestly think it was a nice try and it could have grown to be more for young adults. I am a Mystic Knight of Tir Na Nog fan FOR LIFE!!!

[@SuperIchi]

3:12 Cathbad should be pronounced "ca'had" fyi, but no worries Thank you for helping bring to light one of my favorite shows ever

[@daithifarrell]

I loved this show as a kid

[@kevanoid]

Yesss!!!!! I loved this show!!! I wish one of em would be a crossover fighter in the ranger fighting game 🙇🏻‍♂️

[@simongreenaway7937]

It was never my thing when it came out but I fully respect the show. Setting, characters and lore all made it the most individualistic. Could see it being a good reboot even if in animated form. With the good modern interpretations of fantasy I think it could work and with the new technology it would look great.

[@islandcave8738]

Reboot?, we need the actual season 2 first.

[@christopherwall2121]

I bet if we gave an animated reboot to those guys who did those animated movies about Celtic/Irish folklore stuff, they'd make it look even better than the original show.

[@SmrtPhonRtistCF]

Man, I remembered Mystic Knights all and through, I even had the Prince Ivar McDonald's toy too. Also, though ended, Some elements of Mystic Knights lived on through Power Rangers ,like in Time force when Wes obtained Mystic magic to forge his Battlizer, in Mystic Force, they reused the Mystic Knights dragon and repurposed it into the dragon, Fire heart.

[@Tuttowski]

Loved this show! As a kid from Germany this show hooked me so much more than power rangers, cause i loved the medieval fantasy world and magic way more than robots. And o boy, the german intro is still legendary to this day, what a perfect fit for this kelly family song. Not gonna lie, there were multiple college parties in my life, where that banger was blasted in the morning hours and there were always people who could sing along.