The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr.

The Adventures of Brisco County, Jr. was an American weird western television series created by Jeffrey Boam and Carlton Cuse. It ran for 27 episodes on Fox from August 27, 1993, to May 20, 1994. The series is set in the American West of 1893 and follows its title character, a Harvard-educated lawyer turned bounty hunter, played by Bruce Campbell. He is hired by a group of wealthy industrialists to track and capture the outlaw John Bly and his gang. Although it is ostensibly a western, the show routinely draws on science fiction and steampunk, including a powerful device from the future called the Orb and the anachronistic inventions of Professor Wickwire, played by John Astin. Humor is a large part of the series, and its central theme is the search for new technology and progressive ideas, which the writers called the Coming Thing. Boam and Cuse developed it at the request of Fox executive Bob Greenblatt, who had been impressed by their script for Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and wanted a series with the tone of vintage movie serials. Fox canceled the show at the end of its first and only season, and Warner Home Video released all 27 episodes on DVD in 2006.