Yeah, I laugh every time I even think of "Bubba Ho-Tep." Brilliant film, with every actor in it shining very brightly. It's a perfect Bruce Campbell film.
@@Bluebelle51 Times we can never see again along with that show either though I may have seen the whole thing on TUBI TV at some point but it's gone now. Streaming services really can get you with that nostalgia trap among others.
My dad was a big western fan growing up, and we would bond over The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Bruce Campbell, Kelly Rutherford, and Julius Carry were an awesome team.
Same for me as well. I ended up finding it on DVD about a decade ago when my dad was suffering from complications of Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and had lost the ability to read. We ended up watching the show a few times in the last years of his life.
I remember liking this show as a kid, but I was pretty little and don't remember much about it. But I swear there is one part from this that I'll always remember. They get locked in a bank vault and the horse has to let them out. After they get out the teller tells Brisco "That's a smart horse", with Brisco responding "He's not that smart it still took him 3 times to get it right."
Robber Baron is a term that should have never fallen out of fashion .. they existed back then .. and they exist today and are just as evil and ruthless
It's so hard to understand how that happened. He's such a great, classic leading man. Absolutely born to be playing an adventure serial hero, but with a distinctly snarky, self-aware edge that was perfect for Gen X. Somehow he never got any larger projects and a career of working in low-budget films and syndicated TV meant he could never escape that ghetto into the mainstream.
I don't know if he ever could have been a big star, but several times I've seen dull and cheesy B movies in a sci-fi action vein and thought "if they just had Bruce Campbell in the lead this movie would actually be fun and maybe even kind of good."
Yeah he sure is sadly this show used to be on TUBI but now it isn't and still Bruce Campbell is good just saw it in another show Discontinued but like this show you better hurry and catch it while you still can.
I was so bummed out when there wasn't a second season. So many unanswered questions. Thanks to Secret Galaxy for revealing all the drama and BS going on behind the scenes for the shows we grew up loving.
Man. I was one of the people that watched every episode when it aired. I was such a huge fan that I thought it had to go on forever. Broke my heart when it was canceled. When the DVD was released I purchased it right away.
Absolutely loved this show as a kid when it first came on TV. Got the whole series on DVD when it released and watched all of it alongside my elderly father who grew up on westerns when he was kid and still loves them. Great memories and a great show that needs more love. Thank you for choosing to cover this. Many thanks.
Omg, how my best friend and I adored Brisco County, Jr. as kids. We were suckered in by the steampunk'ish western concept from day one. Bruce Campbell was perfect for the show, imo. Friday nights rocked for us in those days.
Brisco and The X-Files were appointment viewing for my sister and me from when the pilot first aired, we were 14 and 11 respectively so we had nothing going on Friday nights. The summer it got cancelled she tracked down the Evil Dead movies on VHS, and we’re still both huge Bruce Campbell fans to this day.
@@jackgilchrist Love Burn Notice. I’m such a die-hard Bruce fan I’ll watch just about anything he’s in, I even saw movies like Congo, McHale’s Navy and Serving Sara in the theater back in the day just to experience him on the big screen. Had to see McHale’s Navy by myself because even my parents were all “Ew, Tom Arnold. No thanks.”
When I was a kid I didn't go to school one day because of Nevada Day or something and TNT was showing an all day marathon of this show. You reminded me of that because I ate pizza and watched it. I hadn't seen it. I remember it was a good pie too. I used to get a meatball pizza they made and wings. I remember that's what I had that day. They were leftovers but they were good. I mean realistically how bad is a meatball pizza with wings going to be? I haven't thought about that in years but it was fun
Not a single mention of Kelly Rutherford! She was the real reason I watched Brisco County, Jr. ❤ Also, in New Zealand, the show was either a weekend morning or afternoon show. Probably afternoon, since the morning would have been for animated shows like C.O.P.S.
This is literally in my DVD player right now! Loved it when it came out! My brother was Brisco for Halloween for three years in a row! w Was so excited to find the box set and introduce my wife to it.
Great show! was syndicated on public TV over here in the fictional country of Noo Zeelund! Bruce Campbell is criminally under-rated! (His Spiderman cameos alone are awesome!)
Brisco County Jr. was an absolute gem of a show in the 90s. There was nothing else like it on TV. The way John Pyper-Ferguson says "Brrrrisco" will be forever burned into my brain. Yes, my Friday nights were busy also, but I always managed to set the VCR to record this show and that quirky little Night Stalker rip off, the X-Files, right after it. Two of the best hours of TV ever. I never knew about the "violent" rating of the show. Anything Bruce does looks like a cartoon anyway (I mean that in a good way). Such an amazing actor. I hope Sam Axe gets to come back in a Burn Notice movie. Thank you for the retrospective!
I LOVED this show as a kid. I was 6 when it came out, and it was the only thing on FOX that i was allowed to watch, which is a testament to how non-violent it was. I spent a lot of Friday nights at my grandparent's house, and my grandfather and I would eat hydrox cookies, drink milkshakes, and laugh our heads off watching the incomparable Bruce Campbell. Great memories.
My friends and I loved that show. We still to this day sometimes pop out references from it like “he touched Pete’s piece!” Or “Utah Johnny Montana (he’s from Idaho).”
I loved this show! watched every episode back in the day; I have the entire series on disc in the boxed set too (the same one pictures at the start of this video in fact!). Bruce Campbell and Julius Carry had great chemistry! Awesome series that should've gone a lot longer!
I was watching a documentary recently about Wyatt Earp and the Cowboys and in some of the transition shots you can see Briscoe and Bowler riding into town. It was wild when I saw it.
OMG, this show was F'ing AWESOME, you had Frank Nitti as the bad ass villain, Sho 'Nuff as the partner in crime, and Ash Williams as the main man. How could this not have been amazing? It always gave me OG Wild Wild West vibes, if it had had sci-fi elements, and more comedy. Like so many great shows of the past, it ended way too soon, but what we got was no less great because it ended early. Top level recommendation to anyone who has never seen it.
The only western I've ever liked. Absolutely perfect show with a solid cast that really nailed their characters. It really was a great night of television. That we didn't' see much from some of these actors after is a tragedy because this was a production to be proud of.
This video is the high point of a very long shity day. Thank you, no one ever remembers this show, I will always remember watching it with mom and dad when I was a punk kid.
I watched the series when it originally aired and LOVED it! The science fiction elements help to draw me in as well as the anachronisms and the wit of the writing. Bruce Campbell was absolutely fantastic in this and I wish that we had seen more of the show. Stanley was probably this more than anything else that made me a lifelong fan of Bruce Campbell. On a side note even though I had at that point in time seeing Barry Gordy's The last dragon, I did not initially recognize Julius Carey as the actor who played Lord Bowler and Sho Nuff. This series ranks right up there with Firefly for me. Secret Galaxy, thank you for shedding light on this amazing hidden gem.
oh, crazing timing on this! I watched this last year when I saw it was on Tubi with ads and had such a great time, I dressed up as Brisco for last Halloween! I ended up getting the boxset for Christmas, lol. On top of that, I started watching X-Files last month and am barely on season 2, and didn't know they used to share a night until I caught a behind the scenes thing with the X-Files cast and heard them complaining about Brisco being the Fox darling and getting all the funding, lmao
This was a fun series to watch, of only lasting one season. I absolutely love everything that Bruce Campbell does. You should do a review of more of his catalogue, including: Jack of All Trades, Bubba-Ho-Tepp, Lobster Men From Mars, The Man With The Screaming Brain... basically you could do a 2 hour review of just his acting career!
This WAS my favorite show. My twin brother and I could not miss an episode. My mom would record it for us every Friday because we had baseball games. The last episode she forgot to record. Have been devastated ever since. I need to purchase the series
Bruce Campbell also starred in Jack of All Trades which ran along side Cleopatra 2525. He had a recurring character on Hercules & Xena & starred in many movies like Bubba Ho Tep. Carlton Cuse's company also had an early 2000's show starring Sammo Hung, Arsenic Hall & Kelly Hu called Martial Law. Which ran 2 seasons & had a crossover with Walker Texas Ranger.
Brisco County is the reason why i would never watch any tv series with less than 4 seasons already released. I was 14 when it was reelased in Brasil and i loved it. Broke my heart when i found out it was cancelled.
I found this series on dvd at Wal-Mart for like 20$ like 8 years ago and I had never heard of it! I absolutely love this show! I wish I had been able to see it when it was on tv.
I watched this show with my family every week when I was about 8 years old. My father loves westerns, still does, and I love sci fi. Even before I knew what sci fi was. Back to the future was my favorite movie as a kid. I loved watching Brisco County Jr. It's one of those family bonding moments you will always remember. I couldn't wait to come home from school on Fridays, get to stay up late and watch Brisco County Jr. My parents bought the dvd set for me when it came out in 2006 and I own it streaming on youtube. It's worth a watch about once a year. If you haven't watchined it, please do. It's a good time.
My dad and little brother and I watched Brisco every week when it would come on and then we would go to sleep afterwards because X-Files was too scary for us kiddos. :) We definitely miss it and bonded over it.
My mom and I loved that show when I was a kid. I always wished they had kept it going. It was such a a good show, set in such a rapidly changing time in America.
Best 2 hours of TV back in '93. Loved Brisco back then and was crushed when it was canceled. I was happy that they got to wrap up their story line. Most every other series never go that chance. Which makes it easy to recommend to others. They get a complete watching experience.
A great show way ahead of its time! Steampunk before it was named. Also, the table read they did during covid was awesome. Now, please do '"Jack of All Trades"!
Well, the name "steampunk" was coined by author K.W. Jeter in 1987, a few years before Brisco, so it did have a name albeit not widely known yet. The genre that we call steampunk goes back decades before Brisco. In television, _The Wild, Wild West_ series from the late '60s is maybe the earliest example of a mainstream TV show in the genre.
Bruce Campbell elevates everything he is in by simply existing. The reason I stuck with Burn Notice as long as I did. Crazy to think Brisco was too violent at the time.
I remember seeing the initial promos for this series "part Bond, part Indiana Jones, all action" and being hooked. I recall being at my grandparents' home the night it premiered and watched every episode as it aired or the next day (pre-recording each episode 'just in case'). The series is highly underrated and should have been in the pantheon of amazingly great 90s shows.
I really liked this one, but from '92 - '94 I was attending Sam Houston State, and we would party like hell on Thursday nights in Huntsville, and almost everyone would go home on Fridays for the weekend. I was either working, or out chasing girls, but I wasn't at home with my folks on a Friday, so it was hard to catch.
I love this series when I was much much younger! Bought it on dvd as soon as I heard it was out and have loved it ever since. It works well with Legend, another wild western that came out the same time with Richard Dean Anderson.
I watched every episode from the first to the last as it originally aired. Preordered the DVDs, and still watch it about once every two years. My DVDs are signed by Bruce Campbell, who said that he knew the show was over when he appeared as Brisco at a Pawn Shop in my home town of Reno, NV. He's been back for every book tour.
I think this is the first thing I saw that had Bruce Campbell in it. I was a little young for the Evil Dead movies at the time. I remember loving this show, and disappointed when it was canceled.
Thank you so much for making this video and showing this show some love. I've never forgotten that year as a kid where I could look forward to sitting down with me Dad and watching Brisco County Jr. I've got the whole series on DVD now and love rewatching it.
I was a 30 year-old newly minted dad when this show aired, and I loved it. I was the demographic. I was stuck home on Friday nights, and was a sci-fi fan and a fan of its spiritual antecedent, The Wild Wild West. I loved it so much, I took the unusual step of writing a letter to Fox telling them so, and making suggestions about how to make it even better (never heard back). Bruce Campbell became my man-crush, and I still don't understand why he didn't become the next Harrison Ford. So charismatic. Physically, he looks exactly like I have always imagined Bruce Wayne/Batman to look, and wish he'd been cast in the 1990s as that character. I bought the DVD set when it came out and watched the show again about 8 years ago. It holds up pretty well, despite its unevenness. That the showrunners were having to react to endless, contradictory notes from the network is visible onscreen unfortunately. I remember the "violence" controversy, and couldn't believe at the time how stupid it was. It was ACTION, not violence. There's a difference. Ah well. A big swing and a miss. Gone too soon. A great one-season wonder that deserves to be remembered.
Man, I Looove Brisco County, here (Argentina)it was broadcasting saturdays at noon, so this series was an obligated watch at satuday's launch, i was son brokenhearted when there wasn't more episodes, but it will b forever remembered in my heart
My memory (perhaps incorrect) is that Brisco and X-Files added Friday nights to Fox’s schedule, which has started out only on Saturdays and Sundays. The season preview event was shot outside of the Psycho mansion set, and I believe X-Files was seen as the “also ran” at the time.
I remember getting out of school on Fridays and eagerly waiting until 8:00 so I could see Brisco County and X-Files. Nothing will compare to that 2 hour time slot.
Ah yes Brisco County, Jr. One of two shows that helped launch Weird West and Steampunk as subgenres. In fact it helped influence a new tabletop roleplaying game called Deadlands. In fact Bruce Cambell himself wrote the intro to Deadlands's core rulebook. Something that is still available in the 20th anniversary reprint. That reprint is still available in digital form on both the publisher's website and Drive Thru RPG.
And to think, the 90s saw the other of those shows (Wild Wild West) get a pretty solid movie adaptation that furthered the possibilities for Steampunk.
I too was the absolute perfect demographic for this show when it came out. I was a 16 year old scifi and fantasy fan that loved Evil Dead, BttF3, and Indiana Jones, but I was also a mallrat. So I was NEVER home on Friday night. I was hanging out with the guys in my band talking to girls and, even though I was kind of aware of the show, it was not a priority at the time. Thank you for sharing I'm going to have to check it out now!
The only thing I actually remember from this show is "cow pies", but I know I loved it as a kid. While in college, I met Bruce at a book signing and had him sign it as Brisco County Jr.
I loved this show. I was there for the premiere. I recorded episodes of it and X-Files to watch when I couldn't be there when they aired. ... I can't believe you didn't mention the episode with Timothy Leary in it. wtf
Brisco County Jr was so good! Though I love everything Bruce has been in, to be fair, including Jack of All Trades. BCJ has remained one of my favorite of his roles.
Weird timing, guys. I just bought this a couple weeks ago to watch with my kid. We are literally 10 episodes into the show. I remembered watching it when I was my son's age when it was airing. I'm still enjoying it on the rewatch decades later. It's good to know this little gem hasn't fallen into complete obscurity.
16:26 wow. This is why you all at SG rock. Dan what a way to make this more than the story. The series is woefully underrated (although let's face it, Fox has a way of canning shows that were so good yet so undervalued) and Bruce Campbell is an actor that deserves so much credit for the work he's done.
Brisco County Jr. is an effing beast! I used to intentionally stay home on Fridays to watch it(thus the lack of a social life in high school). No regrets!
Oh my friends and I watched it- we loved it, loved Bruce, and thought the whole thing was Brilliant. At the time there was an RPG called Boot Hill and that game quickly became the show for us- when it was canceled we were baffled as it seemed to have everything
Bruce Campbell is probably the greatest underrated actor. Bubba Ho-Tep is a legit masterpiece!
He's my favorite bad actor. And by "bad actor" I don't mean he isn't a talented actor. I mean he is excellent in B movie type roles.
He also played in "Lois and Clark" for a few shows.
Yeah, I laugh every time I even think of "Bubba Ho-Tep." Brilliant film, with every actor in it shining very brightly. It's a perfect Bruce Campbell film.
One of the most underrated shows ever.
1,000% I was so upset when it was cancelled, I loved this show
Yeah it most was also used to be on TUBI but it went sadly.
Came here to say exactly this
@@Bluebelle51 Times we can never see again along with that show either though I may have seen the whole thing on TUBI TV at some point but it's gone now. Streaming services really can get you with that nostalgia trap among others.
@@kellychuang8373 I just ordered the DVD
I can watch it anytime I want to now
If Bruce Campbell was the main star in it, that meant two things: 1.) It was AWESOME! 2.) It was destined to be cancelled too soon.
same with jack of all trades
This checks out.
Indeed, I feel lucky we got three seasons of Ash vs Evil Dead
Bruce Campbell is handsome, but too goofy.
Also, Westerns were going out of style by then.
Kids were starting to grow up more on Sci-fi with cartoons.
@@youtubedj9298 that's fair
My dad was a big western fan growing up, and we would bond over The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. Bruce Campbell, Kelly Rutherford, and Julius Carry were an awesome team.
Dude.. same. It was the one show my old man would watch with me.
Same here.
Same for me as well. I ended up finding it on DVD about a decade ago when my dad was suffering from complications of Dementia with Lewy Bodies, and had lost the ability to read. We ended up watching the show a few times in the last years of his life.
It was for me and my dad as well.
Same!!! My brother ,my Dad, and I bonded with this show,too!!!
I remember liking this show as a kid, but I was pretty little and don't remember much about it.
But I swear there is one part from this that I'll always remember.
They get locked in a bank vault and the horse has to let them out. After they get out the teller tells Brisco "That's a smart horse", with Brisco responding "He's not that smart it still took him 3 times to get it right."
This is legitimately one of my favorite things ever. Brisco and X-Files were absolute must sees. Just don't touch Pete's piece.
He'll get cranky and critique your art somethin' fierce.
"you mean..... rip it from my memory like a picture form a book??"
😂😂 Pete could never die!
Robber Baron is a term that should have never fallen out of fashion ..
they existed back then .. and they exist today and are just as evil and ruthless
Truly an unappreciated series.
Bruce Campbell is fated to forever be a second banana.
To be fair he's made it clear that's in part by choice.
It's so hard to understand how that happened. He's such a great, classic leading man. Absolutely born to be playing an adventure serial hero, but with a distinctly snarky, self-aware edge that was perfect for Gen X. Somehow he never got any larger projects and a career of working in low-budget films and syndicated TV meant he could never escape that ghetto into the mainstream.
I don't know if he ever could have been a big star, but several times I've seen dull and cheesy B movies in a sci-fi action vein and thought "if they just had Bruce Campbell in the lead this movie would actually be fun and maybe even kind of good."
Yeah he sure is sadly this show used to be on TUBI but now it isn't and still Bruce Campbell is good just saw it in another show Discontinued but like this show you better hurry and catch it while you still can.
Jack of All Trades is a bit cheesy and short lived, but a pretty decent Bruce Campbell vehicle nonetheless.
I absolutely loved watching Brisco County Jr. when it originally aired and I am still sad to this day that didn't get more seasons.
I was so bummed out when there wasn't a second season. So many unanswered questions. Thanks to Secret Galaxy for revealing all the drama and BS going on behind the scenes for the shows we grew up loving.
Man. I was one of the people that watched every episode when it aired. I was such a huge fan that I thought it had to go on forever. Broke my heart when it was canceled. When the DVD was released I purchased it right away.
Absolutely loved this show as a kid when it first came on TV. Got the whole series on DVD when it released and watched all of it alongside my elderly father who grew up on westerns when he was kid and still loves them. Great memories and a great show that needs more love. Thank you for choosing to cover this. Many thanks.
Nobody touches pete's piece!
John Astin, Bruce Campbell, are you kidding me? This show was absolutely genius!
Omg, how my best friend and I adored Brisco County, Jr. as kids. We were suckered in by the steampunk'ish western concept from day one. Bruce Campbell was perfect for the show, imo. Friday nights rocked for us in those days.
Brisco and The X-Files were appointment viewing for my sister and me from when the pilot first aired, we were 14 and 11 respectively so we had nothing going on Friday nights. The summer it got cancelled she tracked down the Evil Dead movies on VHS, and we’re still both huge Bruce Campbell fans to this day.
Ever watch Burn Notice?
@jackgilchrist I have- cool show!
@@jackgilchrist Love Burn Notice. I’m such a die-hard Bruce fan I’ll watch just about anything he’s in, I even saw movies like Congo, McHale’s Navy and Serving Sara in the theater back in the day just to experience him on the big screen. Had to see McHale’s Navy by myself because even my parents were all “Ew, Tom Arnold. No thanks.”
@@MrBeardsley McHale's Navy was kick ass
I loved this show back in the day. As well as "Action Pack" featuring shorts of "Hercules," "Cleopatra 2525," and "Jack of all Trades."
I loved this show when it came out. Made me a lifelong Bruce Campbell fan. Led to an awesome moment where I got to meet the man himself in person.
One of a handful of series that actually deserved to not be cancelled.
I had a roommate in college who was obsessed with this show, and after a night of beer, pizza, and his haggard DVDs, I mourned what we could have had.
When I was a kid I didn't go to school one day because of Nevada Day or something and TNT was showing an all day marathon of this show. You reminded me of that because I ate pizza and watched it. I hadn't seen it. I remember it was a good pie too. I used to get a meatball pizza they made and wings. I remember that's what I had that day. They were leftovers but they were good. I mean realistically how bad is a meatball pizza with wings going to be? I haven't thought about that in years but it was fun
Not a single mention of Kelly Rutherford! She was the real reason I watched Brisco County, Jr. ❤
Also, in New Zealand, the show was either a weekend morning or afternoon show. Probably afternoon, since the morning would have been for animated shows like C.O.P.S.
We named our first cat after this show: Briscoe Kitty Jr.
This is literally in my DVD player right now! Loved it when it came out! My brother was Brisco for Halloween for three years in a row! w
Was so excited to find the box set and introduce my wife to it.
Violence?! What?! That show was broadcasted at 4 P. M. Saturday here in germany!
Great show! was syndicated on public TV over here in the fictional country of Noo Zeelund!
Bruce Campbell is criminally under-rated! (His Spiderman cameos alone are awesome!)
Oh yeah, this one is right up my alley!
Oh, Hi Chris I see we caught you watching Secret Galaxy!
Hey Chris! Long-time fan of your channel and this one. Love your videos!
Never clicked on a video faster. Loved this show. Came out just as I was discovering Evil Dead.
lol, same here
I had a Pekingese when this aired and she loved watching this with me. She would sit beside me for the whole show and never move from the couch.
Brisco County Jr. was an absolute gem of a show in the 90s. There was nothing else like it on TV. The way John Pyper-Ferguson says "Brrrrisco" will be forever burned into my brain. Yes, my Friday nights were busy also, but I always managed to set the VCR to record this show and that quirky little Night Stalker rip off, the X-Files, right after it. Two of the best hours of TV ever. I never knew about the "violent" rating of the show. Anything Bruce does looks like a cartoon anyway (I mean that in a good way). Such an amazing actor. I hope Sam Axe gets to come back in a Burn Notice movie. Thank you for the retrospective!
I LOVED this show as a kid. I was 6 when it came out, and it was the only thing on FOX that i was allowed to watch, which is a testament to how non-violent it was. I spent a lot of Friday nights at my grandparent's house, and my grandfather and I would eat hydrox cookies, drink milkshakes, and laugh our heads off watching the incomparable Bruce Campbell. Great memories.
Man I so loved this show! Damn shame we lost Julius Carry.
My friends and I loved that show. We still to this day sometimes pop out references from it like “he touched Pete’s piece!” Or “Utah Johnny Montana (he’s from Idaho).”
By brother and I often say "Brrrrrisco!"
I loved this show! watched every episode back in the day; I have the entire series on disc in the boxed set too (the same one pictures at the start of this video in fact!). Bruce Campbell and Julius Carry had great chemistry! Awesome series that should've gone a lot longer!
I was obsessed with Brisco County and Army of Darkness in 92 as a 10 yr old boy. Been a Bruce fan ever since.
I was watching a documentary recently about Wyatt Earp and the Cowboys and in some of the transition shots you can see Briscoe and Bowler riding into town. It was wild when I saw it.
I was only 10-11 when this show aired, but I remember really enjoying it.
OMG, this show was F'ing AWESOME, you had Frank Nitti as the bad ass villain, Sho 'Nuff as the partner in crime, and Ash Williams as the main man. How could this not have been amazing? It always gave me OG Wild Wild West vibes, if it had had sci-fi elements, and more comedy. Like so many great shows of the past, it ended way too soon, but what we got was no less great because it ended early. Top level recommendation to anyone who has never seen it.
Billy Drago was effortlessly creepy and weird.
@@CantankerousDave Billy Drago is the guy you get if you crossed Willem Dafoe and Christopher Walken; the ur-example of "laissez-menace."
The only western I've ever liked. Absolutely perfect show with a solid cast that really nailed their characters. It really was a great night of television. That we didn't' see much from some of these actors after is a tragedy because this was a production to be proud of.
That theme song was everything. 😌
Brisco was the proto Firefly.
Brisco was my #1 show that was cancelled too early until Firefly.
This video is the high point of a very long shity day. Thank you, no one ever remembers this show, I will always remember watching it with mom and dad when I was a punk kid.
Still to this day one of my favorite guilty pleasure action/adventure series. Takes me right back to simpler times
I watched the series when it originally aired and LOVED it! The science fiction elements help to draw me in as well as the anachronisms and the wit of the writing. Bruce Campbell was absolutely fantastic in this and I wish that we had seen more of the show. Stanley was probably this more than anything else that made me a lifelong fan of Bruce Campbell. On a side note even though I had at that point in time seeing Barry Gordy's The last dragon, I did not initially recognize Julius Carey as the actor who played Lord Bowler and Sho Nuff. This series ranks right up there with Firefly for me.
Secret Galaxy, thank you for shedding light on this amazing hidden gem.
I'm not normally into westerns, but it had just enough weirdness I loved Brisco County Jr. I really wish it got another season.
oh, crazing timing on this! I watched this last year when I saw it was on Tubi with ads and had such a great time, I dressed up as Brisco for last Halloween! I ended up getting the boxset for Christmas, lol. On top of that, I started watching X-Files last month and am barely on season 2, and didn't know they used to share a night until I caught a behind the scenes thing with the X-Files cast and heard them complaining about Brisco being the Fox darling and getting all the funding, lmao
I loved this series as a kid. My dad and I would often watch it together when I was around 4 years old.
I freaking love this show! Glad to see you guys finally cover it!!
This was a fun series to watch, of only lasting one season. I absolutely love everything that Bruce Campbell does. You should do a review of more of his catalogue, including: Jack of All Trades, Bubba-Ho-Tepp, Lobster Men From Mars, The Man With The Screaming Brain... basically you could do a 2 hour review of just his acting career!
Bubba Ho-Tep is an absolute classic
I'm a huge Bruce Campbell fan so I was addicted to this show when it aired. I have the complete series and watch it with my kids
I will love Brisco County Jr until my dying day. It’s silly and dumb and smart and perfect.
This WAS my favorite show. My twin brother and I could not miss an episode. My mom would record it for us every Friday because we had baseball games. The last episode she forgot to record. Have been devastated ever since. I need to purchase the series
Im not big on westerns, but i absolutely loved this series. Made sure to watch it when it came out. Gave me memories of the original Wild Wild West.
My Pops & I loved this fricking show. I remember getting so pumped to see this every Friday. Really wish it could've stuck around longer.
Bruce Campbell also starred in Jack of All Trades which ran along side Cleopatra 2525. He had a recurring character on Hercules & Xena & starred in many movies like Bubba Ho Tep. Carlton Cuse's company also had an early 2000's show starring Sammo Hung, Arsenic Hall & Kelly Hu called Martial Law. Which ran 2 seasons & had a crossover with Walker Texas Ranger.
Autolycus, King of Thieves. One of my favorite characters even before I knew who Bruce Campbell was.
Brisco County is the reason why i would never watch any tv series with less than 4 seasons already released. I was 14 when it was reelased in Brasil and i loved it. Broke my heart when i found out it was cancelled.
I found this series on dvd at Wal-Mart for like 20$ like 8 years ago and I had never heard of it! I absolutely love this show! I wish I had been able to see it when it was on tv.
I watched this show with my family every week when I was about 8 years old. My father loves westerns, still does, and I love sci fi. Even before I knew what sci fi was. Back to the future was my favorite movie as a kid. I loved watching Brisco County Jr. It's one of those family bonding moments you will always remember. I couldn't wait to come home from school on Fridays, get to stay up late and watch Brisco County Jr. My parents bought the dvd set for me when it came out in 2006 and I own it streaming on youtube. It's worth a watch about once a year. If you haven't watchined it, please do. It's a good time.
I fell in love with this show immediately when it aired. To me Bruce Campbell isn't Ash, he's Brisco County Jr. So bummed when it was canceled.
My dad and little brother and I watched Brisco every week when it would come on and then we would go to sleep afterwards because X-Files was too scary for us kiddos. :) We definitely miss it and bonded over it.
This and Brimstone, were some of the best "fringe" storytelling back in the 90s on Fox
Oh MAN I loved Brimstone. That was another I wanted to see continue
@@Cavillier1970 It was a really great story too. Definitely gave me Spawn vibes
My mom and I loved that show when I was a kid. I always wished they had kept it going. It was such a a good show, set in such a rapidly changing time in America.
the Adventures of Brisco County Junior was the best tv-show in the 90's, much better than the X-Files.
Best 2 hours of TV back in '93. Loved Brisco back then and was crushed when it was canceled. I was happy that they got to wrap up their story line. Most every other series never go that chance. Which makes it easy to recommend to others. They get a complete watching experience.
A great show way ahead of its time! Steampunk before it was named. Also, the table read they did during covid was awesome. Now, please do '"Jack of All Trades"!
Well, the name "steampunk" was coined by author K.W. Jeter in 1987, a few years before Brisco, so it did have a name albeit not widely known yet.
The genre that we call steampunk goes back decades before Brisco. In television, _The Wild, Wild West_ series from the late '60s is maybe the earliest example of a mainstream TV show in the genre.
I used this to explain steampunk to people who hadn’t read Verne or Wells
I loved this show when it was on. It would have been, and would still be, awesome to have Brisco and Bowler represented in my collection.
Bruce Campbell elevates everything he is in by simply existing. The reason I stuck with Burn Notice as long as I did. Crazy to think Brisco was too violent at the time.
I remember seeing the initial promos for this series "part Bond, part Indiana Jones, all action" and being hooked. I recall being at my grandparents' home the night it premiered and watched every episode as it aired or the next day (pre-recording each episode 'just in case').
The series is highly underrated and should have been in the pantheon of amazingly great 90s shows.
Dixie was one of my first tv crushes
This show got me into sci westerns as a kid. It really was a family show that I watched with my parents; and they absolutely loved it as well
I never realized it was originally on Fox. I remember watching it on Saturday mornings with my dad on USA or TBS. We loved the show.
I really liked this one, but from '92 - '94 I was attending Sam Houston State, and we would party like hell on Thursday nights in Huntsville, and almost everyone would go home on Fridays for the weekend. I was either working, or out chasing girls, but I wasn't at home with my folks on a Friday, so it was hard to catch.
I love this series when I was much much younger! Bought it on dvd as soon as I heard it was out and have loved it ever since. It works well with Legend, another wild western that came out the same time with Richard Dean Anderson.
I'd honestly never heard of that one. I'll have to track down some episodes.
I watched every episode from the first to the last as it originally aired. Preordered the DVDs, and still watch it about once every two years. My DVDs are signed by Bruce Campbell, who said that he knew the show was over when he appeared as Brisco at a Pawn Shop in my home town of Reno, NV. He's been back for every book tour.
I think this is the first thing I saw that had Bruce Campbell in it. I was a little young for the Evil Dead movies at the time. I remember loving this show, and disappointed when it was canceled.
Thank you so much for making this video and showing this show some love. I've never forgotten that year as a kid where I could look forward to sitting down with me Dad and watching Brisco County Jr. I've got the whole series on DVD now and love rewatching it.
I watched it when it was originally on the air and have the DVD set. It still stands up well today
I was a 30 year-old newly minted dad when this show aired, and I loved it. I was the demographic. I was stuck home on Friday nights, and was a sci-fi fan and a fan of its spiritual antecedent, The Wild Wild West. I loved it so much, I took the unusual step of writing a letter to Fox telling them so, and making suggestions about how to make it even better (never heard back). Bruce Campbell became my man-crush, and I still don't understand why he didn't become the next Harrison Ford. So charismatic. Physically, he looks exactly like I have always imagined Bruce Wayne/Batman to look, and wish he'd been cast in the 1990s as that character. I bought the DVD set when it came out and watched the show again about 8 years ago. It holds up pretty well, despite its unevenness. That the showrunners were having to react to endless, contradictory notes from the network is visible onscreen unfortunately. I remember the "violence" controversy, and couldn't believe at the time how stupid it was. It was ACTION, not violence. There's a difference. Ah well. A big swing and a miss. Gone too soon. A great one-season wonder that deserves to be remembered.
Bruce rebounded just fine with Jack Of All Trades
It was Sliders, Brisco, and X-Files, and I LOVED it. I caught all three hours every week, it was like a reward for being done with school.
This show was one of my favorites as a kid growing up. I don't often think of the Roman empire, but I do think of this show.
Man, I Looove Brisco County, here (Argentina)it was broadcasting saturdays at noon, so this series was an obligated watch at satuday's launch, i was son brokenhearted when there wasn't more episodes, but it will b forever remembered in my heart
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My memory (perhaps incorrect) is that Brisco and X-Files added Friday nights to Fox’s schedule, which has started out only on Saturdays and Sundays. The season preview event was shot outside of the Psycho mansion set, and I believe X-Files was seen as the “also ran” at the time.
Well now I finally have closure. Thank you for taking accountability for yourself. I can forgive, but don't ask me to forget...
I remember getting out of school on Fridays and eagerly waiting until 8:00 so I could see Brisco County and X-Files.
Nothing will compare to that 2 hour time slot.
Ah yes Brisco County, Jr. One of two shows that helped launch Weird West and Steampunk as subgenres. In fact it helped influence a new tabletop roleplaying game called Deadlands. In fact Bruce Cambell himself wrote the intro to Deadlands's core rulebook. Something that is still available in the 20th anniversary reprint. That reprint is still available in digital form on both the publisher's website and Drive Thru RPG.
And to think, the 90s saw the other of those shows (Wild Wild West) get a pretty solid movie adaptation that furthered the possibilities for Steampunk.
I too was the absolute perfect demographic for this show when it came out. I was a 16 year old scifi and fantasy fan that loved Evil Dead, BttF3, and Indiana Jones, but I was also a mallrat. So I was NEVER home on Friday night. I was hanging out with the guys in my band talking to girls and, even though I was kind of aware of the show, it was not a priority at the time. Thank you for sharing I'm going to have to check it out now!
My favorite show as a kid, WHICH I COULD NEVER FIND IT BEING AIRED. just and random saturday afternoon every few weeks.
The only thing I actually remember from this show is "cow pies", but I know I loved it as a kid. While in college, I met Bruce at a book signing and had him sign it as Brisco County Jr.
I loved this show. I was there for the premiere. I recorded episodes of it and X-Files to watch when I couldn't be there when they aired.
... I can't believe you didn't mention the episode with Timothy Leary in it. wtf
Brisco County Jr was so good! Though I love everything Bruce has been in, to be fair, including Jack of All Trades. BCJ has remained one of my favorite of his roles.
I remember watching this show, I never had any clue Bruce Campbell was the title character.
Weird timing, guys. I just bought this a couple weeks ago to watch with my kid. We are literally 10 episodes into the show. I remembered watching it when I was my son's age when it was airing. I'm still enjoying it on the rewatch decades later. It's good to know this little gem hasn't fallen into complete obscurity.
It was, or maybe still is free on IMDB streaming, if that even exists. I rewatched it in 2018, holds and had so much potential.
It got rebranded as Freevee and no longer has it for free streaming.
16:26 wow. This is why you all at SG rock. Dan what a way to make this more than the story. The series is woefully underrated (although let's face it, Fox has a way of canning shows that were so good yet so undervalued) and Bruce Campbell is an actor that deserves so much credit for the work he's done.
I watched it when it was originally on, own the DVD set and almost watched it the other night. ;)
Brisco County Jr. is an effing beast! I used to intentionally stay home on Fridays to watch it(thus the lack of a social life in high school). No regrets!
I LOVED this show!
This was one of my favorite shows as a kid. My dad and I watched it every week. I loved the Julius character.
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Oh my friends and I watched it- we loved it, loved Bruce, and thought the whole thing was Brilliant. At the time there was an RPG called Boot Hill and that game quickly became the show for us- when it was canceled we were baffled as it seemed to have everything