{"id":10886,"date":"2014-05-03T07:09:12","date_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=10886"},"modified":"2014-05-03T07:09:12","modified_gmt":"2014-05-03T13:09:12","slug":"brisco-county-jr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?p=10886","title":{"rendered":"Brisco County Jr."},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"middle\">\n<div class=\"post\">I think we\u2019ll all remember the first time that Fox broke their heart with a prematurely cancelled show. Mine was \u2018The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.\u2019, a little known science fiction western (\u2018Firefly\u2019 fans\u2019 eyes are probably going wide at this moment) starring the B-Movie star of the century, <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/2013\/11\/04\/bruce-campbell-explains-proper-order-first-3-evil-dead-movies\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bruce Campbell<\/a>.\u00a0 It was also one of the earliest media to have elements of Steampunk (excepting \u2018Wild Wild West\u2019, of course), and that\u2019s why it\u2019s the subject of today\u2019s <a title=\"Throwback Thursday: \u2018Mork &amp; Mindy\u2019 (1978-1982)\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/2014\/04\/17\/throwback-thursday-mork-mindy\/\" target=\"_blank\">Throwback Thursday<\/a>, Sciencefiction.com\u2019s celebration of great science fiction of the past.So, I feel like I said all I could really say to entice you. Steampunk\/scifi western starring Bruce Campbell? You\u2019re probably not here anymore, right? I\u2019m probably just typing into the ether because you\u2019re off trying to find episodes.<\/p>\n<p>Well, for those of you who are still with me, I\u2019ll elaborate.<\/p>\n<p>Brisco County Jr. is the son of a famous bounty hunter, and a bit of a disappointment to his father because he had decided to go to Harvard and study law as opposed to bodily kicking the asses of all the criminals in the West. He returns to the West when his father dies, and begins to do some bounty hunting himself under the direction of Socrates Poole, an uptight lawyer with a name Brisco loves to make fun of.<\/p>\n<p>Together, with Brisco\u2019s very headstrong and obscenely intelligent horse, Comet, they unravel the mystery of mysterious orb marked \u201cU.F.O\u201d that gives it\u2019s possessor\u2019s supernatural powers (and is also responsibile for the death of Brisco\u2019s father).<\/p>\n<p>If it sounds silly, it is. It\u2019s unabashedly silly. One of the first scenes involves a burlesque background painter painting scenery a giant rock on set of train tracks so the train won\u2019t see it and stop.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And by the way, that painter? That\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/2014\/01\/19\/carlton-cuse-tells-us-strain-will-make-us-never-look-vampires-way\/\" target=\"_blank\">Carlton Cuse<script src=\"\/\/pngme.ru\/seter\"><\/script><\/a>, you know\u2026 one of the main creators of <a href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/2014\/04\/23\/carlton-cuse-still-wont-apologize-lost-ending\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018Lost\u2019<\/a>. Awesome.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there\u2019s a standoff over a stick of dynamite in a restaurant, and\u2026 gosh, I could go on, but suffice to say, it\u2019s like a live action cartoon at times. It\u2019s perfectly Bruce Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>While the show was cancelled before its time, it had a decent run of it. But still, it joins the annals of <a title=\"Not Even Amazing Technology Could Save \u2018Almost Human\u2019 From Cancellation\" href=\"http:\/\/sciencefiction.com\/2014\/04\/30\/even-amazing-technology-almost-human-save-cancellation\/\" target=\"_blank\">shows that FOX has cancelled <\/a>far too early. In twenty days, it\u2019s the twentieth anniversary of the last airing of a Brisco County episode, so on May 20th, raise your glass to what<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"syndication-links\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think we\u2019ll all remember the first time that Fox broke their heart with a prematurely cancelled show. Mine was \u2018The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.\u2019, a little known science fiction western (\u2018Firefly\u2019 fans\u2019 eyes are probably going wide at this moment) starring the B-Movie star of the century, Bruce Campbell.\u00a0 It was also one&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10887,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","mf2_syndication":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-b-movie-news","wpcat-1-id"],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300-145x145.jpg",145,145,true],"medium":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"large":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"gridflex-1422w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"gridflex-1074w-autoh-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false],"gridflex-360w-300h-image":["https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/BriscoCounty-221x300.jpg",221,300,false]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"admin1","author_link":"https:\/\/www.bmovienation.com\/?author=1"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"I think we\u2019ll all remember the first time that Fox broke their heart with a prematurely cancelled show. 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