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The Legend of the Clock Tower is the seventeenth episode of Power Rangers Time Force.
Synopsis[]
Katie encounters a ghost named Walter in the clock tower, who sends her back in time to change his lonely fate. She meets Walter in the past, and changes his future by helping him stand up for himself and attain the woman he loves as demonstrated by the story she was told changing. The Rangers later have to battle a mutant, but easily defeat him with the Time Force Megazord.
Plot[]
The Time Force Officers try in vain to fix the run-down and ancient Clock Tower. Katie learns of its history, and how a previous owner of the building, Walter Brown, is said to haunt the attic, still lovelorn for a girl he never fought for.
Katie wanders up there, bumps into his restless spirit, and accidentally falls into a random Time Hole. She emerges in Silver Hills, a colonial village, circa the early 1800s. Soon, Katie meets Walter Brown in person, and learns he's a gentle poet in love with a girl named Gwen.
Only problem is, her boyfriend and Walter's boss Drake is a bully who loves to push him around. Katie helps Walter gain enough confidence to confront Drake, and manages to win Gwen's heart by punching Drake in the gut. The entire tale appears to be a dream, when Katie wakes up in the Clock Tower at the present day with no memory of returning.
After heading off to battle with Cyclobots and capturing the mutant of the day with the rest of the Rangers, Katie informs them of her adventure. Wes, having told her Walter Brown's story the night before, is quite confused, since the story he remembers telling Katie had Walter & Gwen living happily ever after. Katie discovers she has changed history for the better, and that it was no dream... though the Clock Tower remains a little spooky.
Cast[]
- Jason Faunt as Wesley "Wes" Collins (Red Time Force Ranger 2)
- Michael Copon as Lucas Kendall (Blue Time Force Ranger)
- Kevin Kleinberg as Trip (Green Time Force Ranger)
- Deborah Estelle Phillips as Katie Walker (Yellow Time Force Ranger)
- Erin Cahill as Jen Scotts (Pink Time Force Ranger)
- Vernon Wells as Ransik (credit only)
- Kate Sheldon as Nadira (credit only)
- Edward Albert as Mr. Collins (credit only)
- ??? as Cruel Senturicon
- Jordan Belfi as Walter Brown
- Lacey Beeman as Gwen
- David Blayne as Drake
- Marc Schaffer as Buddy #1
- Mitch Gould as Buddy #2
Errors[]
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Notes[]
- This marks the only time one of the Rangers has time traveled without technology; it appeared to be a mystical source that caused Katie to travel back to the 1800s.
- None of the townspeople in the past react nor seem to think Katie's presence is unusual, despite her clothing and skin tone making her completely stand out.
- Keeping with the sense of time being changed, Katie is the only one who remembers the original story about Walter. She wasn't in the present at the time history changed, so her memory of how it originally unfolded remained the same.
- This was the eighth episode produced, though held off and aired later due to its single-story nature. It was made between "Short-Circuited" and "Jen's Revenge".
- The Power Rangers Legacy DVD sets the episode in between "Jen's Revenge" and "The Time Shadow".
- Daniel Southworth (Eric) does not appear in this episode (as mentioned above, this episode was produced prior to him joining the main cast).
- Vernon Wells (Ransik), Kate Sheldon (Nadira), and Edward Albert (Mr Collins) don't appear in this episode.
- This is the only episode of Time Force written by Judd Lynn without Jackie Marchand co-writing with him. It's also the only episode not to feature Circuit, although he is mentioned.
- This episode has a slight reference to the first Back to the Future film (1985). It involves someone helping another male get the woman he loves from someone else, who is forcefully making him do his work for him, and is trying to stand up against him. Unlike the movie, where Biff’s still aggressive, but ends up becoming friendlier to George McFly and others, Drake's defeat leaves him friendless and publicly humiliated.
- Cruel Senturicon, the police-themed mutant fought by the Rangers in this episode, does not appear until near the end of the episode and the fight against him is very brief. This is presumably due to most of the Sentai footage of his counterpart being unusable: In the Timeranger episode from which the footage is taken, Senturicon's counterpart, Corrupted Officer Arnold-K, is depicted wielding a pistol and a baton. He uses the former to shoot at the Timerangers and innocent civilians and the latter as a beating weapon. This footage likely went unused to avoid portraying police officers negatively to young children.
See Also[]
- Case File 9: The Don's Depression - Super Sentai counterpart in Timeranger. See comparison page. (fight footage)
- Case File 16: A Dream of Soba - Super Sentai counterpart in Timeranger. See comparison page. (plot elements)
External Links[]
List of Power Rangers Time Force episodes |
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1 & 2: Force from the Future • 3: Something to Fight For • 4: Ransik Lives • 5: A Blue Streak • 6: A Parting of Ways • 7: Short-Circuited • 8: Jen's Revenge • 9: The Time Shadow • 10: Future Unknown • 11: Uniquely Trip • 12: Worlds Apart • 13: The Quantum Quest • 14 & 15: Clash for Control • 16: Bodyguard in Blue • 17: The Legend of the Clock Tower • 18: Trust and Triumph • 19: Trip Takes a Stand • 20: Quantum Secrets • 21: The Last Race • 22: Lovestruck Rangers • 23: Full Exposure • 24 & 25: Movie Madness • 26: Time Force Traitor • 27: Frax's Fury • 28: Dawn of Destiny • 29: Fight Against Fate • 30: Destiny Defeated • 31: Undercover Rangers • 32: Beware the Knight • 33: Time for Lightspeed • 34: Reflections Of Evil • 35: Nadira's Dream Date • 36: Circuit Unsure • 37: A Calm Before the Storm • 38-40: The End of Time |
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