http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3QW0Op3tFY
I used to watch this when I was younger, and I loved it. I never realized the Irish music though in the beginning. 
Maybe that is what sparked my love for it.
It has REAL DRAGONS! (I really dig that authentic touch.) Go Irish stuff!
Good to see they don’t neglect the Black Irish, who historically get short shrift every time.
My youngest son was in the target demographic for that show. He’s off to the university soon. He grew up with ITM and the more modern fusions of the music in his ears. He really took to that show (as well as “Roar” starring the young Heath Ledger). Mystic Knights helped legitimize the music I played in his mind, or so I rationalized. And some how I thought the show not as mind warping as the Power Rangers. There are still a dozen or so of the Bandai Mystic Knights action figures in his collection. It’s all about the retail follow-ons, innit? One constructive thing came out of his fascination with MKOTNN. We handed him a copy of The Once and Future King and he liked it well enough to become interested in reading similar books although not always in lieu of watching TV.
Feadoggie
I love the lyrics: “Mystic Knights! Tir na nÓg! Mystic Knights! Tir na nÓg!” Gee, I wonder what the show is about?
It’s interesting that the score is in C and played on a C chanter. Well, not that interesting …
And I totally missed the small winged person on the first run-through.
What though, I wonder, makes a knight “mystic”?
The black guy was my favorite one when I was little.
That is a pretty cool story.
It looks very…American.
Mukade
Actually, according to Wikipedia, it’s based on Japanese Tokusatsu, after Saban’s success with the Power Rangers.
Yes, and it was canceled to fund some new branch of power rangers I think.
A certain… mystique, a je ne sais quoi.
Also, armor that glows with pixie dust.
Follow-ons?! Hell, they start with the
toys and build the show around them…
According to this wiki page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mystic_Knights_of_Tir_Na_Nog
it is an original by Saban, not an import:
“It was an attempt in doing an original non-Japanese
special-effects series rather than adapting from actual
Japanese tokusatsu.”