Day 24 → Whatever tickles your fancy
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ericadawn16The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr
It's come to my attention that many of you are not familiar with The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr starring Bruce Campbell. This includes actual entertainment reporters who will refer to Firefly as the first SciFi Western...it was not. Brisco predates it.
Brisco was this awesome Western show with SciFi elements, but also humor and action. Brisco was played by Bruce Campbell and other cast included Kelly Rutherford, John Astin,Christian Clemenson and Julius Carry. Two episodes had Terry Bradshaw and Carlton Cuse...one of the show creators who would go to help create a show called Lost.
The basic difference between Brisco and Firefly is that Brisco takes place after the Civil War in the American West. Technically, I suppose it could qualify as Victorian steampunk except I've never seen steampunk set in a non-industrialized setting.
It premiered August 7th, 1993 and I'd watch every Friday at 8 PM. As soon as it was over, I'd change the channel before "the scary show" came on. My mom would try to convince me that it probably wasn't any worse than Goosebumps but I felt it was for older people, like teenagers. It'd be five more years before I'd decide to watch The X-Files.
Still, I LOVED Brisco.
Naturally, Fox canceled it...after one season...because they're Fox.
Luckily, for you, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr is on dvd...and someone has posted all of them on Youtube, yay! Yes, the dvd has much better picture quality.
Oh, did I neglect to mention how good looking Bruce Campbell is in this? How he was definitely one of my first crushes ever? I know some would prefer Ash with his torn shirt and machisimo, but Brisco looks just as good and can handle action just as well and the cocky smile and his interactions with the horse...not much is sexier than a man who treats an animal well and this isn't just any horse. He's EXTREMELY intelligent, hehe.
Also, here's another review which says it all much more eloquently:
http://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/brisco-county-jr-review.php
It's come to my attention that many of you are not familiar with The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr starring Bruce Campbell. This includes actual entertainment reporters who will refer to Firefly as the first SciFi Western...it was not. Brisco predates it.
Brisco was this awesome Western show with SciFi elements, but also humor and action. Brisco was played by Bruce Campbell and other cast included Kelly Rutherford, John Astin,Christian Clemenson and Julius Carry. Two episodes had Terry Bradshaw and Carlton Cuse...one of the show creators who would go to help create a show called Lost.
The basic difference between Brisco and Firefly is that Brisco takes place after the Civil War in the American West. Technically, I suppose it could qualify as Victorian steampunk except I've never seen steampunk set in a non-industrialized setting.
It premiered August 7th, 1993 and I'd watch every Friday at 8 PM. As soon as it was over, I'd change the channel before "the scary show" came on. My mom would try to convince me that it probably wasn't any worse than Goosebumps but I felt it was for older people, like teenagers. It'd be five more years before I'd decide to watch The X-Files.
Still, I LOVED Brisco.
Naturally, Fox canceled it...after one season...because they're Fox.
Luckily, for you, The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr is on dvd...and someone has posted all of them on Youtube, yay! Yes, the dvd has much better picture quality.
Oh, did I neglect to mention how good looking Bruce Campbell is in this? How he was definitely one of my first crushes ever? I know some would prefer Ash with his torn shirt and machisimo, but Brisco looks just as good and can handle action just as well and the cocky smile and his interactions with the horse...not much is sexier than a man who treats an animal well and this isn't just any horse. He's EXTREMELY intelligent, hehe.
Also, here's another review which says it all much more eloquently:
http://www.pajiba.com/tv_reviews/brisco-county-jr-review.php
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Date: 2009-12-19 08:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-19 08:32 pm (UTC)His book is hilarious, too. It's also almost just as much about Ted and Sam Raimi as it is about him. I'm talking about "If Chins Could Kill."
Also, he's probably not doing it as much now that he has the gig on Burn Notice but if you get a chance to see him in person, DO IT!!!
He was the nicest guy and so funny.
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Date: 2009-12-19 11:21 pm (UTC)And you're right, it probably would qualify as steampunk too.
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Date: 2009-12-20 12:34 am (UTC)Hehe, I didn't realized I hadn't mentioned it before now. Wamber had a forum for awhile and we had the topic "Childhood Crushes" so I mentioned it then with a picture. Unfortunately, there aren't a lot of good pictures online though. They're all small with crappy quality so a newbie can't really appreciate the total cuteness. While I've always liked pirates, I've always liked cowboys more and I felt that was a direct result of Brisco which took my sort of liking cowboys and expanded it immensely.