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The Adventures of Brisco County jr - Bad Luck Betty
episode 25
USA 1994
produced by Paul Marks, Jeffrey Boam (executive), Carlton Cuse (executive) for Boam/Cuse Productions, Warner Brothers/Fox Network
directed by Joseph L. Scanlan
starring Bruce Campbell, Julius Carry, Christian Clemenson, Jeff Phillips, Annabella Price, Jane Sibbett, Jeff Doucette, Dana Craig, Don Keith Opper, Edith Fields, Morgan Hunter, Adam Hendershott
written by Tony Blake, Paul Jackson, created by Jeffrey Boam, Carlton Cuse, music by Stephen Graziano
TV series The Adventures of Brisco County jr
review by Mike Haberfelner
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Brisco (Bruce Campbell) and Bowler's (Lucius Carry) employer Socrrates
Poole (Christian Clemenson) is kidnapped, snatched away from his own
birthday party. Brisco and Bowler take up pursuit of course, together with
their new sidekick Whip (Jeff Phillips), who claims to be able to identify
the kidnapper by scent. They make it to a town that's marshalled by Deputy
Betty (Annabella Price), whom bad luck follows around, and where the only
boarding house is the former morgue, run by Dianna Grayson (Jane Sibbett),
daughter of the deceased mortician, who has been executed for killing his
wife. However, of late the witnesses and jurors of the trial that sent him
to the gallows die in droves, and that's where Poole fits right in, as at
the beginning of his career as a lawyer, he handled the case. And some
weird circumstances surround the case, like all the victims being dragged
off by a horseless hearse, and several witnesses seem to have seen the
deceased mortician - but eventually the horseless hearse turns out to be
battery-powered, and the dead mortician his own daughter in disguise, as
guilt has driven her insane after she has actually killed her mother and
her father has only taken the blame - and of course, Brisco and Bowler see
to it that justice is served and their friend is freed ... In
the 1930s and to a lesser degree also the 1940s, B-westerns were prone to
carry horror elements, something that, apart from the odd exception, went
out of vogue in later decades. But with The Adventures of Brisco
County jr being somewhat of a heir to the western tradition of old
(and Bruce Campbell sure having horror pedigree, even back when), it was
probably only a question of time before the film went all out on this -
and making a point of it, too, by even using the housed from Psycho
as one of its locations. And the result is a very pleasant one, as the
episode manages to blend the humour that makes the series with its
admittedly old-fashioned horror elements and enough typical western
elements to make a very entertaining whole. And Annabella Price as
accident-prone deputy is fun to watch by herself and would have deserved a
return to the series ... if only it ever had a second season.
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