Power Rangers: Wild Force (often abbreviated as
PRWF and often simply called
Wild Force) is the tenth anniversary of the
Power Rangers franchise, based on the
Super Sentai series
Hyakujuu Sentai Gaoranger, which itself was the 25th anniversary of Super Sentai.
Power Rangers: Wild Force takes place in 2002. The first part of the series was originally broadcast from February to August 2002 on the
Fox Kids television block. Following the sale of Fox Family Worldwide (renamed
ABC Family Worldwide Inc.), including
Saban Entertainment (renamed
BVS Entertainment), to
Disney by
Haim Saban and
News Corporation,
Fox Network's parent company, the show was moved in the fall 2002 to
ABC's new Saturday morning block,
ABC Kids (formerly
Disney's One Saturday Morning).