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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1 Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Binding: DVD Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO EAN: 0012569768338 Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Subtitled, NTSC Label: Warner Home Video Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Number Of Items: 8 Publisher: Warner Home Video Region Code: 1 Release Date: July 18, 2006 Running Time: 1385 minutes Sales Rank: 2168 Studio: Warner Home Video Theatrical Release Date: August 07, 1993
Product Description: The world's favorite western/sci-fi/comedy/action cult hit rides again! Here on 8 discs is the complete series about Brisco (Bruce Campbell), a tough-as-rawhide cowpoke, debonair ladies' man and Harvard-educated smarty-britches who roams from Frisco to Jalisco in pursuit of outlaws who killed his father...and in search of a mysterious orb possessing out-of-this world powers. Hot lead and cool anachronisms await Brisco as he and his sidekicks - including Comet, the intellectual equine who doesn't know he's a horse - fight for justice in the way, way, way-out West. Put your boots in your stirrups, your tongue in your cheek and join the fun. Let's play cowboys and aliens.
Format: DVD MOVIE
Amazon.com: A science fiction-Western and comedy-drama with echoes of The Wild Wild West and Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Adventures of Brisco County Jr.: The Complete Series is uniquely entertaining. Anchored by the comically heroic style of likable B-movie actor Bruce Campbell, Adventures lasted one television season in 1993-94. But it left behind a full 27 episodes (including two two-part stories) full of classic TV Western production values and a running storyline that resembles The X-Files after awhile.
Campbell plays Brisco County Jr., a bounty hunter and son of a legendary U.S. marshal (R. Lee Ermey) gunned down by the villainous John Bly (Billy Drago) and his band of misfits. The younger Brisco is hired by a consortium of businessmen to protect their interests from the likes of Bly, and while he's dedicated to that cause, Brisco is also determined to avenge his father's murder. Helping him do a little of both is a fussy attorney, Socrates Poole (Christian Clemenson); a rival bounty hunter, Lord Bowler (Julius Carry); a wacky inventor, Professor Wickwire (John Astin); and a sultry saloon singer, Dixie (Kelly Rutherford). Rockets, mysterious orbs, and superhuman strength are some of the delightfully out-of-their-element phenomena that find themselves alongside more conventional cowpoke ingredients, including a horse so smart he can chew the ropes binding Brisco's hands. For the most part, the stories stand alone. But as the season progresses, a lot of things get weirder, albeit in a good way: the truth about Bly and his connection to a golden orb everyone wants, for example, are certainly unexpected. But the show is always dazzling, often satiric ("Oy!" Dixie exclaims when Brisco outlines the steps involved in stopping a runaway wagon they're trapped within), yet heartening in an old-fashioned way. Special features include Campbell's reading of a chapter about the series in his autobiography. --Tom Keogh
Customer Reviews
Average Rating:
Rating: - A single word: Wow!
The pity of this series is that it was short-lived. Still, 27 episodes isn't a bad run.
The Adventures of Brisco County Jr. is a western series with a lot of humor, bizarre characters, and several bits of science fiction. If this mix sounds familiar, think "Wild, Wild West". However, this isn't just an imitation.
Brisco County Jr. is the son of Brisco County Sr., one of the great bounty hunters of the western territories toward the end of the 19th Century. Sr. is killed ... Read More
Rating: - Cheaper elsewhere
FYI - This set available on Deepdiscount right now for $24.99. Just bought it myself today there. I was SHOCKED to see it was $69.99 on amazon.
Rating: - One of the best shows ever produced!
Thanks for making this series available. I am thoroughly enjoying watching each episode.
Bruce
Rating: - The greatest B actor ever!
Bruce Campbell is in a class by himself. Cleft chin, handsome, manly, rugged, talented--and with a killer sense of humor. All the things that could have made him a major movie star but somehow didn't. I don't know why, but I'm content with his status as the greatest B movie actor ever. Maybe it was his sense of humor about himself...
"Brisco County Jr." was one of the greatest TV series ever. Surrounded by an outstanding cast and anchored by solid scripts, this is Campbell's best.
Rating: - The coming thing that went away too soon.
Loved the show when it was on Fox. Was saddened to see it end so soon. But that's Fox Friday night for ya. (ex. - "Firefly")
This 8-disc set includes these features...
* Pilot episode commentary with star Bruce Campbell and creator Carlton Cuse
* Brisco's "Book of Coming Things" interactive menu of signature references from the series narrated by Bruce Campbell
* A Brisco County Writer's Room - A write-'em cowboy reunion
* The History of Brisco Country, ... Read More
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