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Jackie Marchand is a television writer and producer, best known for her work on the children's action/adventure series Power Rangers.

Background[]

Jackie Marchand was, as of Power Rangers Jungle Fury, the longest running veteran on the show since Judd Lynn, whom she shared co-writing duties with until she left at the end of Time Force. She started back in the third series of Mighty Morphin and was a casual fan of the show. Marchand also praised the Sentai show Seijuu Sentai Gingaman.

Taking a break from the show after Time Force, after disagreements with the executive producer, Jonathan Tzachor, on the decision to stick more closely to Sentai plots.[1] Marchand was brought back by Doug Sloan in 2003 when Disney began filming new episodes of Power Rangers in New Zealand.[2] After contributing to Ninja Storm through SPD, she was promoted under Bruce Kalish and Eddie Guzelian: the story editor in Mystic Force, and then co-producer of Operation Overdrive, Jungle Fury (where she was responsible for the Spirit Rangers[3]) and finally RPM, where she served as the season's head writer for a time before leaving the franchise altogether. Due to her experiences, John Tellegen says Marchand takes the lead in deciding where to use important parts of the Sentai footage: "she really enjoyed the Sentai and understand when a new... general was introduced or a new weapon... she would place it up on the board where we should probably do that."[4]

Marchand worked under four different bosses with different demands. She claimed Sloan used to share the writers footage to work with and asked for various concepts based on that, and allowed the writers to create their own stories. Lynn and Kalish had a more collaborative writing room approach where all the writers get together and choose what to do. Some seasons required more adherence to Sentai, with Disney demanding to use more stock footage to save budget. ("There was one exec there that said 'just dub the whole show'.") She felt that fight scenes become too repetitive and could undermine the episode.[5] Tzachor was interested in high production values, and when he allowed original stories, Marchand believed they could be the strongest stories on the show. "Time Force" is cited as an example and her favorite under him.[6] Sloan's approach was humorous and "kid relatable".[7] She was not included much in the development of RPM but "diplomatically" said she thought the writing was very strong.[8]

Her favorite seasons under Saban were Mighty Morphin, Lightspeed Rescue, and Time Force, and praised the cast for the last two. Marchand admitted to Toku Rants that Zeo wasn't as thematically developed as it could be. Ninja Storm (compared to the original show with "funny villains" and "a lot of heart") through to Mystic Force (where she enjoyed the Udonna/Claire and record shop scenes) were listed as fun jobs while Jungle Fury was unfortunately affected by the strike. Operation Overdrive became more difficult when Disney's budget and stock footage demands made the writers unable to execute the pitched Indiana Jones-styled series.

In her Toku Rants review, she's said her favorite stories were the shorter, more contained "cute little story" - citing "Diva in Distress" as an example.

Marchand also played an uncredited voice role in 1998's Power Rangers in Space, as the voice of the monster named Mamamite. Back in that period of the show, writers and crew were often asked if they'd like to make cameos or voice monsters.[9]

Marchand made an appearance at the Power Morphicon, the first Power Rangers fan convention, in June 2007. She was profiled by Yahoo.com Media as part of their coverage of the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike. In 2014, Marchand admitted that it would have been better not to go on strike, but she did not judge the substitute writers, but choosing to write while was on strike would have been their position.[10]

When development for Power Rangers RPM began, Marchand was actually in line to become the show's executive producer after Bruce Kalish stepped down. Disney would have paired her with Eddie Guzelian, and the pay between them would be split, back to the level she was making when she was just a writer. When Marchand asked for more pay, due to her experience with the franchise, she was denied and worked under Guzelian, not even getting to go to New Zealand to interact with the cast & crew. She was then fired a couple months later. Marchand's last work for the franchise was the two-parter, Ranger Yellow.[11]

After Hasbro announced on May 1, 2018 that they had acquired the Power Rangers franchise, Marchand expressed interest in returning to write for the franchise under the company[12].

She was a story consultant on Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Once & Always.

Writing credits[]

Myths[]

  • Jackie Marchand is rumored to have fought for a Ninja Storm/Wild Force teamup. In a Toku Rants interview, she denied this and said she thought it would have been a bad move as they were still setting up in New Zealand.

References[]

  1. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 16:35 to 17:02
  2. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 17:04 to 17:32
  3. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 31:55 to 33:18
  4. ↑ [1] Toku Rants interview with Jon Tellegen
  5. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 09:55 to 13:14
  6. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 47:50 to 48:38 and 47:50 to 48:38
  7. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 22:27 to 23:50
  8. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 51:17 to 52:31
  9. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 08:00 to 09:30
  10. ↑ Toku Rants interview with Jackie Marchand: 29:54 to 31:57
  11. ↑ [2]
  12. ↑ https://twitter.com/jackieyo/status/991375921427824640

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