 Before the series was aired in the USA on the UPN network, several changes  were made to the original English version, produced by Saban. The name of the  main character, "Blade", was changed to "Slade", and the name of one of his  enemies was changed as well, from "Dagger" to "Gunnar". In this reversion,  two of the characters voices were changed as well: as "Slade", Bob Bergen  replaced David A. Thomas Jr., and Michael McConnohie replaced Kerrigan Mahan  as Ringo Richards. The first version produced is copyrighted 1994 in the  credits, and the UPN version is copyrighted 1995.	The UPN version only aired  26 episodes; the "international version" ran for 43 episodes.