Editing Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (section)

===Depictions of violence===
Despite the success of the series, it was also subject to much controversy from parents who felt the show was too violent for young children. The show had aired before television stations issued content warnings such as parental guidance or fit for viewing persons twelve years or over, the [[V-chip]], and [[television rating system|television ratings]]. In the US, numerous complaints were sent to the [[Federal Communications Commission]] (FCC). In 1993, the Canadian broadcast rights to ''Mighty Morphin Power Rangers'' were jointly purchased by the [[YTV (TV channel)|YTV]] cable channel, and the series played to a receptive audience every weekday afternoon on YTV, the latter trailing the American broadcast by several months. However, due to complaints sent to the recently formed [[Canadian Broadcast Standards Council]] and a negative assessment from that body over the show's violent content,<ref>[http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/decisions/1994/940405.htm CBSC.ca] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070412034032/http://www.cbsc.ca/english/decisions/decisions/1994/940405.htm |date=2007-04-12 }}, Canadian Broadcast Standards Council&nbsp;— Ontario Regional Council October 24, 1994 decision regarding CanWest Global's broadcasting of the show.</ref> YTV removed the series from their line-up in November.<ref name="nytimes.com">{{#invoke:cite|news|title= With Power Rangers Scarce, A Frenzied Search by Parents|work= The New York Times|date=1994-12-05|url= https://www.nytimes.com/1994/12/05/us/with-power-rangers-scarce-a-frenzied-search-by-parents.html?scp=6&sq=Mighty%20Morphin%20Power%20Rangers&st=cse&pagewanted=2|access-date=2010-08-07 | first=Glenn | last=Collins}}</ref><ref name="wiz43">{{#invoke:cite|news| last = O'Neill | first = Patrick Daniel | title = Morphin Prohibited in the Great North | work = Heroes on Screen | pages = 68–69 | publisher = [[Wizard (magazine)|Wizard]] #43 |date=March 1995}}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|last1=Reimer |first1=Mavis |title=Power and Powerlessness: Reading the Controversy over The Mighty Morphin Power Rangers |url=https://ccl-lcj.ca/index.php/ccl-lcj/article/view/4087/3649 |publisher=Canadian Children's Literature |access-date=13 July 2022}}</ref> Despite not actually being a member of the CBSC, YTV complied and pulled the series before the end of its first season; Global (which was a CBSC member) ultimately did the same. While a phone-in poll was conducted to see if viewers wanted ''MMPR'' back on YTV, no further installments of the ''Power Rangers'' franchise aired on the network until 2011's ''[[Power Rangers Samurai]]'', although commercials for toys and videos were still advertised on it.<ref>{{cite magazine|title= Television: So what's on in Tokyo?|magazine=Time|date=1996-02-19|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984155,00.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091022020015/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,984155,00.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=October 22, 2009|access-date=2010-03-03 | first=Ginia | last=Bellafante}}</ref> Later Disney-era versions of the series were broadcast on [[Freeform (TV channel)|ABC Family]].

In 1994, the [[New Zealand]] [[Broadcasting Standards Authority]] (BSA) upheld several complaints from members of the public about the level of violence in the show. The main concern of those complainants was that the show portrayed violence as the primary means of resolving conflict, and that this was influencing children to behave more violently more frequently. Immediately following the BSA decision, the second season of the show was all but cancelled by [[Television New Zealand]].<ref name="wiz43" /> New Zealand is the only country in the world where this show has been prematurely withdrawn from public broadcast to date.<ref>{{#invoke:cite|web|url=http://www.med.govt.nz/upload/12863/bpinnz.pdf |title=Broadcasting Policy in New Zealand |access-date=2010-01-07 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070605093718/http://www.med.govt.nz/upload/12863/bpinnz.pdf |archive-date=2007-06-05 |url-status=dead }}</ref> DVD and video releases of the more-recent ''Power Rangers'' series that were filmed in New Zealand can be found at The Warehouse, although general sales through video stores and other retailers are scarce. Later series in the ''Power Rangers'' franchise, such as ''[[Power Rangers: Mystic Force]]'' and ''[[Power Rangers: Jungle Fury]]'', were filmed in New Zealand, but the programs were still not shown in the country, until 2011, when ''Samurai'' premiered.{{Citation needed|date=August 2016}}

In mid-October 1994, [[Death of Silje Redergård|the murder of Silje Redergård]] by two of her young friends prompted Swedish-owned [[TV3 (Viasat)|TV3]] to pull ''MMPR'' from its broadcast schedule in all of its market countries. However, ''MMPR'' was not related to the event.<ref name="Deseret News">{{#invoke:cite|news|agency=Associated Press |url=http://www.deseretnews.com/article/382495/NORWAY-PULLS-THE-PLUG-ON-POWER-RANGERS.html |title=Norway Pulls The Plug On 'Power Rangers' |newspaper=Deseret News |date=1994-10-20 |access-date=2013-11-15}}</ref>