BraveStarr: Tex’s Terrible Night

It’s Scrooge Sunday in the Advent Calendar House, so hang on to your hats as we blast back to 1987 to revisit the Filmation space western, “BraveStarr,” and its dickens of a backstory, “Tex’s Terrible Night.”

On This Episode:Mike Westfall (@fallwestmike), a sometimes bipedal talking horse you forgot was in this show.Joey O. (@ImGonnaDJ24), whom some people call space cowboy, from Y-Not Radio.Sammy Hain (@SammyHain), the personification of the unknown future wearing a hat over his hood for some reason.Topics and Tangents:The official BraveStarr YouTube channel.The Fisher-Price Western Town I used to use as a backdrop for the much, much larger Bravestarr action figure.Joey’s interview with Pat Fraley, the voice of Marshal BraveStarr.This episode of the show uses flashback scenes from the movie, “BraveStarr: The Legend,” which explains why the animation quality isn’t consistent.Young Tex Hex looks like a purple Faker from He-Man.Stampede, the show’s even bigger bad, grants Tex Hex the power of transformation, because Filmation really wanted to teach kids that things that transform are evil.The “present-day” husband of Tex’s former love, Ursula, looks like Fred Ward.The time Marshal BraveStarr found a kid dead of a drug overdose.Previous Podcast Episodes Mentioned:He-Man/She-Ra: A Christmas Special (Season 2, Episode 18)The Glo Friends Save Christmas (Season 3, Episode 6)G.I. Joe: Cobra CLAWs Are Coming to Town (Season 4, Episode 11)Commercial Break:Marshal BraveStarr, Tex Hex, and Neutralaser Toy Commercial, 1986.Podcast Promo:Christmas Time in the City, exploring the history and traditions of the holidays in New York City and beyond.

“BraveStarr” and “Tex’s Terrible Night” ©1987 Filmation Associates.

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