BraveStarr: Volume One
by Bob Arkwright, Lou Zukor
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Actor: Charles Adler, Ed Gilbert, Lou Scheimer, Pat Fraley, Susan BluDirector: Bob Arkwright, Lou Zukor
Brand: BCI
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Animated, Color, DVD, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 705 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Studio: Bci / Eclipse
DVD Reviews of BraveStarr: Volume One
DVD Review: The final Filmation cartoon
Summary: 4 Stars
Bravestarr is the end of a long line of great cartoons from Filmation studios, and this also ended the era of television animation done completely by Americans (today, animation is outsourced). In 1987, following Ghostbusters, Filmation created Bravestarr and sold the rights to Mattel, who then made the toyline which had special electronic guns (which are often shown during combat scenes).
Bravestarr is a hybrid of two common television themes, half science fiction and half western. The main character, Marshall Bravestarr (a native American) is the primary law enforcer on a planet called New Texas. New Texas has a valuable mineral called Kerium, which yields a great deal of energy when destroyed, but emits a gas that causes hallucinations if the Kerium is partially damaged. To help Bravestarr, his primary sidekick is a robot horse (Equestroid) named 30-30 and Bravestarr has a prairie humanoid deputy named Fuzz. In addition to 30-30 and Fuzz, there are a number of other characters, with a local female Judge who goes by the initials JB (a romantic interest is hinted at, but not really explored on the TV series), a bartender named Handlebar and finally a mentor and spiritual protector to Marshall Bravestarr known as Shaman (an older more traditional looking native American).
Predictably, Bravestarr is good versus evil. Bravestarr's criminal roster includes Tex Hex (the main nemesis), Outlaw Skuzz (the opposite of Deputy Fuzz), and several other villains. Tex Hex answers to a powerful spirit named Stampede, who is the rough equivalent to Shaman.
The transfer quality is good, although there are visual artifacts here and there, and the audio is nearly flawless for a monaural soundtrack. The 4 DVD's include the first 33 episodes and includes interviews with Lou Schiemer, Pat Fraley (voice of Bravestarr), and two directors. On disc 4, Filmation apparently did an experimental show that would have followed as a spinoff to Bravestarr called "The quest of the prairie people", although the spinoff does not feature any of the main Bravestarr characters.
The DVD packaging is of good quality-two discs per side, stacked in a way I haven't seen before (one DVD tray on top of the other, which fold out), and while it doesn't have an embossed package like in He-Man, it is easy to tell that a lot of effort was made here.
DISC 1
Episode 1-Tunnel Of Terror
Episode 2-Memories
Episode 3-The Day The Town Was Taken
Episode 4-Brother's Keeper
Episode 5-Kerium Fever
Episode 6-The Taking Of Thistledown 123
Episode 7-No Drums, No Trumpets
Episode 8-Showdown At Sawtooth
Episode 9-Bravestarr And The Law
Episode 10-Eye Of The Beholder
Episode 11-Eyewitness
DISC 2
Episode 12-Big 30 And Little Wimble
Episode 13-Bravestarr And The Medallion
Episode 14/15-Sherlock Holmes In The 23rd Century
Episode 16-Hail, Hail, The Gangs All Here
Episode 17-Thoren The Slavemaster
Episode 18-To Walk A Mile
Episode 19-Skuzz And Fuzz
Episode 20-Who Am I?
Episode 21-The Vigilantes
Episode 22-The Witnesses
DISC 3
Episode 23-The Wrong Hands (stereo background music)
Episode 24-The Good, The Bad And The Clumsy (stereo background music)
Episode 25-Wild Child (stereo background music)
Episode 26-Jeremiah And The Prairie People (stereo background music)
Episode 27-Unsung Hero (stereo background music)
Episode 28-An Older Hand (stereo background music)
Episode 29-Hostage (stereo background music)
Episode 30-Runaway Planet
Episode 31-Bravestarr And The Treaty (stereo background music)
Episode 32-Lost Mountain (stereo background music)
Episode 33-Rampage
Unlike most all other Filmation shows, this show doesn't rely so much on stock footage (for example, there are no shots of anyone laughing based on the original Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle stock animation). While the show was targeted towards children, adults can still enjoy the show as the plots aren't really "dumbed down." Filmation studios has no problem saying the "K" word unlike most other animation studios, past and present. "K" meaning kill, of course.
"The Legend Of Bravestarr", which is not included, explains background information on all the characters.
If you like Filmation cartoons, this is a good final effort from them, and I wanted to see all of the episodes I missed when it was broadcast long, long ago. I'm giving the boxed set a "4" because on disc 3, many of the episodes have a full stereo musical soundtrack. If this had been a minimal release (all mono-soundtrack, no DVD extras at all), the show by itself is pretty average-closer to a "3" in Amazon's rating system. Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd century started out very interesting, but by the second half of the episode I didn't think too highly of it. Anyway, a big thanks to BCI Eclipse for treating Bravestarr respectfully in Filmation's afterlife!
Because this is a hybrid western/science-fiction show, it has aged pretty well. As far as the stories go, they are average in quality but I still personally like Flash Gordon and Tarzan Lord Of The Jungle (unreleased) better.
Note-for some reason, on my Lou Scheimer interview, halfway through the audio completely cuts out.
Description of BraveStarr: Volume One
There's a new sheriff in town and his name is Marshall Bravestarr!He's come to the rough-and-tumble planet of New Texas to bring some law to its anarchy. Aided by the shape-changing technohorse Thirty-Thirty and the beautiful Judge J. B., Bravestarr protects the settlers and miners from the motley villains that want to steal the valuable mineral Kerium.
The outlaw Tex Hex and his gang have lots of technological weapons at their command ? and occasional assists by the powerful phantom Stampede ? but they're no match for Bravestarr's own powers: the strength of the bear, the speed of the puma, the eyes of the hawk, and the ears of the wolf!
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