Mighty Morphin Muppet Babies was an action-packed TV series created by Jim Henson and Haim Saban. After the original Muppet Babies cartoon was doomed to be canceled in 1985, Henson took a trip to Japan where he met a fellow American producer, Saban, and both men were exposed to a long-running Japanese superhero franchise known as Super Sentai. After seeing the latest season of the franchise, "Choudenshi Bioman" (Translated into English as, "A Bunch of Idiots Running Around in Ridiculous Costumes"), the two men were hooked. Mighty Morphin helped extend Muppet Babies until its eventual cancellation in 1991, when Jim Henson had died, and Saban was unable to make the show appeal to the new grunge generation.