The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.
The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is an American weird western television series created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse. It ran for 27 episodes on the Fox network starting in the 1993–94 season. Brisco was one of the last television shows to be filmed on the Warner Bros. Western backlot.
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The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is an American weird western television series created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse. It ran for 27 episodes on the Fox network starting in the 1993–94 season. Brisco was one of the last television shows to be filmed on the Warner Bros. Western backlot. Randy Edelman composed the distinctive theme music, which has been reused by NBC during its coverage of the Olympic Games. The series earned high ratings at the beginning of its season, but later episodes failed to attract a substantial number of viewers. Fox canceled the show at the end of its first and only season. In 2006, Warner Home Video released a DVD set containing all 27 episodes. The show has been remembered fondly by critics, who praise its humor and unique blend of genres. A large number of episodes involve the Orb, a powerful device from the future. The search for new technology and progressive ideas, what the writers of the show called \”The Coming Thing\”, is a central theme throughout the series. All ten of the gang members are captured or killed, and Brisco’s pursuit of Bly, who is seeking the Orb for its supernatural power, frequently puts him into contact with supernatural power. In the episode ‘The Scholar’, Brisco kills Bly and leaves him to die in a river; he reappears later in the series and reappears in the hunt for the Orb.
The Orb is a large golden globe studded with rods, which a group of shackled Chinese workers unearths. As each worker is touched with the rod he is imbued with superhuman strength which they use to break the iron chains binding them, thus freeing themselves. The murder of Br Cisco County, Sr., and the discovery of the Orb set into motion the major plots of theSeries. Members of the Westerfield Club hire Brisco, the son of the slain U.S. Marshal, to track and re-capture Bly and his gang. The Westerfield club’s timid lawyer, Socrates Poole relays instructions and financial support to Brisco. In the second-to-last episode, Brisco tracks John Bly’s second-in-command, Smith. In a battle on a train, he is knocked off the train and into a river, where he is assumed dead until he reappear in the next episode. The final episode of the series sees Brisco and Bowler work together as partners and friends in the goal of capturing Bly in the Big-Big-Big. Later episodes show the two men reluctantly joining forces to achieve a common goal in the final episode, ‘The Big Big Big’ Brisco goes on the run with the rest of the Bly gang and is killed by Bly. The episode ends with a cliffhanger in which Bly shoots Brisco in the back of the head, leaving Brisco to assume the role of the U. S. Marshal for the first time in his life.
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