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.
The
History of Brisco County: A behind-the-scenes documentary with cast and creator.Featurette:1.) "Tools of the Trade" - mini
featurettes on special aspects of the show narrated by Bruce Campbell. 2.) "A Brisco County Writer's Room" - Roundtable discussion
with the writers & producers fo Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.Other:1.) "A Reading From The Book of Bruce" 2.) "Brisco's
Book of Coming Things" - interactive menu launching mini-featurettes about the signature references to futuristic elements
of the show, narrated by Bruce Campbell. 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.
