Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future originally aired in 1987, and lasted roughly twenty two episodes. Designed to tie in with an interactive toy line, the series allowed viewers to use their Captain Power action figures and accessories to play a video game of sorts within the episode as it progressed

Earth in the 22nd Century is a wasteland, the Metal Wars have raged across it's surface for many years, a war in which man fought machine, and machines won. Now the world is overrun by powerful armies known as Bio-Dreads, under the command of the merciless and vindictive Lord Dread. , commanded from his structure within Volcania. Defying Dread and his attempts at imposing his new world order are Captain Jonathan Power and a crack team of defiant humans doing what they can to halt the advance of the Bio-Dread empire, at any cost.

Captain Power boasted a talented team of writers that helped raise it above it's promotional purposes, such as J. Michael Straczynski of Babylon 5 fame. The series was well crafted, with an initial idea to cover a five year arc of twists and turns if the series proved a success, alas, it did not, and Power ended it's run on a cliffhanger