Mortal Kombat: Conquest

Mortal Kombat: Conquest serves as a prequel to the Mortal Kombat video games, following the original Kung Lao five hundred years before the events of the games.

The series was one of the first live-action shows based on a video game to air on US television, preceded only by the live-action segments of The Super Mario Bros. Super Show!, and it shared similarities with Mighty Morphin Power Rangers.

Notable guest appearances included WCW wrestlers Meng and Wrath, since Conquest aired immediately following TNT's top-rated program WCW Monday Nitro.

Former QVC model Dorian John played the barmaid Magda in the episodes 'Twisted Truth' and 'Quan Chi'.

The program was filmed at Disney-MGM Studios in Orlando, Florida.

The series was produced by Threshold Entertainment, which also produced the Mortal Kombat film series, in association with New Line Television, the television arm of the films' distributor.

Thanks to its lucrative timeslot following WCW Monday Nitro, Conquest was very popular, but according to the show's developer Joshua Wexler this popularity led to higher budget costs than anticipated.

TNT cancelled the show without prior announcement, leaving it on a cliffhanger that was intended to be resolved in a planned second season tying into the Mortal Kombat game timeline, but that season never happened.

In 2010, 4thletter! ranked Conquest sixth on its list of 'The Top Ten Most Ridiculous Things to Come Out of Mortal Kombat', and in 2011 1UP.com called it a 'wire-fu disaster' in an article about times Mortal Kombat went wrong.