The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. returned to the airwaves (well, the cableways) on 13 January, 1996 on TNT at 8pm (EST). Brisco was shown at 10am (EST) on TNT (right after "The Wild Wild West" and right before "Due South"), and then left the airways again in Janurary of 2001, and then returned again (a return return return!) starting April 17th, 2001. Brisco still plays intermittently on TNT -- check the "schedule" link at TNT's Brisco page. (BTW, the "Multimedia" section has a couple of great interview in it, and the "Pictures" section has some nice Bruce's.)

BRUCE's BOOK - "If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B Movie Actor" is published by St. Martin's Press. ("An LA Weekly Book for Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, New York") ISBN 0-312-24264-6. A great read; here' a little more of a review by me, and a more elaborate one by "Prevue" Magazine.

Bruce's Most Recent Series! For the first time since Brisco, Bruce Campbell starred in "Jack of All Trades". (This show has also been cancelled. Well, c'mon, it happens to every show, you know -- the web page for it has closed down too, alas -- it was a great design!)

Check out a collection of interviews with the star of Brisco, Bruce Campbell - including one by yours truly.

Check out Nell's Brisco Fans Unite page: a sort of Brisco Fan coffee house -- well, there's no coffee, and uh, actually no house, but you get the idea.

To hear a bit of Brisco, visit Enrique's Brisco County Real Audio Page, with various bits of Briscism (Be ready for the "tripod" popup - it's harmless.) You'll need the RealAudio Player to hear 'em.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. is set in 1893 - the old West is fading, but not quite gone. The central "story" is that of John Bly, and the quest for the mysterious orb, and Brisco's avenging of his father's ("The Greatest Lawman the West has ever seen") death at the hands of Bly, and Brisco's wish to continue his father's work in his own way.

• Episode Guide (version 1.7 -- from Lynn-Anne Friese's excellent text edition.)

• The Good Guys
  
  • Brisco County, Jr.
  • Lord Bowler, Manhunter
  • Socrates Poole
  • Professor Albert Wickwire
  • Brisco County, Sr.
  • Whip Morgan

• The Bad Guys
  • John Bly
  • Pete Hutter
  • The Swill Family (Will, Bill, Gil, Phil, Lil and Ed)

• Comet

  

• Dixie Cousins

• The Orb

• Homages (characters, lines, and concepts appearing in homage to things in other TV shows, movies, or even (gasp!) real life.)

• Brisco is always searching for "The Coming Thing", and often finding it. Here's a few.

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And an article from April 2, 1994 TV Guide, as part of one of their "Save Our Shows" campaigns.

Other Brisco-related Web Sites

• Mike's 'Ultimate Adventures of Brisco Guidebook' is a fine source of all things Brisco.

• Justin Wykes' Bruce Campbell Page includes upcoming appearances, a list of his movie appearances, biographical details, soundgrabs, pictures - even "The Bruce Game"!
• Gabriel Ruenes' Best actor on the face of the known planet we call earth page has tons o' Bruce stuff.
• An interview with Bruce on AOL just before "Tornado" was broadcast.
• Check out "BruceNet", which concerns itself with Bruce Campbell -- star of the show. ("Brucenet" seems to be inaccessible at this time, unfortunately.)
• And of course's there's Bruce's own web site, www.bruce-campbell.com. (Bring your eyeglasses, it's another one of them Microsoft FrontPage itty-bitty typeface things. I guess ol' Bill wants us all to be blind as well as dumb! :-)

A little music?

• The Brisco Theme in WAV format (starts out a little staticy).
• The Brisco Theme in AU format (starts out a little staticy).

• The Pilot episode theme music in WAV format (clear as a bell).
• The Pilot episode theme music in au format.

This way to the Brisco Sound Gallery, provided by Dan Papale (briscoc@ix.netcom.com).

(The Brisco Theme has recently "appeared" in NBC's coverage of the 1996 Olympics; here's a comment from TNT about it.)

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Last updated: November 1, 2001