Big Bad Beetleborgs
1990s American children's superhero television series
Big Bad Beetleborgs (later Beetleborgs Metallix for Season 2) is an American live-action superhero television series by Saban Entertainment and was co-produced with Renaissance-Atlantic Films, Toei Company and Bugboy Productions. Two seasons aired on Fox Kids from September 7, 1996, to March 2, 1998.
The series adapted combat footage from the Metal Hero tokusatsu-series Juukou B-Fighter (first season) and B-Fighter Kabuto (second season). Unlike its contemporaries, such as Power Rangers, the show had a greater emphasis on sitcom elements, rather than a villain of the week.
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Season 1
In the fictional town of Charterville, three kids — Andrew "Drew" McCormick (Wesley Barker), his younger sister Josephine "Jo" McCormick (Shannon Chandler, later Brittany Konarzewski), and their best friend Roland Williams (Herbie Baez) — enter the haunted Hillhurst Mansion after accepting a dare from two rich bullies, Van and Trip. They discover that the mansion is inhabited by actual monsters who intend to eat them. In the midst of a chase, the kids accidentally bump into a pipe organ, releasing a phasm named Flabber (Billy Forester), who had been trapped inside of it. Out of gratitude for freeing him, Flabber offers to grant the kids one wish. Their wish is to become their favorite comic book heroes, the Big Bad Beetleborgs. However, this also brings the Beetleborgs' archenemies, the Magnavores, into the real world.
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