Marshall
Bravestarr

Marshall BraveStarr is an American space Western animated television series.

The original episodes aired from September 1987 to February 1988 in syndication.

It was created simultaneously with a collection of action figures.

BraveStar was the last animated series produced by Filmation and Group W Productions that was broadcast. "Bravo!", a spin-off series (originally called "Quest of the Prairie People") was in production along with "Bugzburg" when the studio closed down.

The idea for Marshall Bravestarr began with Tex Hex, his chief adversary. Tex Hex was created by Filmation's staff artists in 1984, during the development of Filmation Ghostbusters.


Lou Scheimer found the character fascinating and pulled Tex Hex from the Ghostbusters cast.

He asked Arthur Nadel, Filmation's Vice President for Creative Affairs, and art director John Grusd to develop a sci-fi western around the character.

As the concepts took shape, staff writer Bob Forward fleshed out the writer's guide and eventually co-wrote the feature film script for BraveStarr the Legend with writer Steve Hayes.

Like many of Filmation's TV series (including He-Man and the Masters of the Universe, She-Ra: Princess of Power, Shazam, The Secret of Isis, and the animated Ghostbusters), a moral lesson is told at the end of each episode.

One particularly notable episode is "The Price," in which a boy buys a drug called "spin," a hallucinogen similar to LSD, becomes addicted to it, and dies from an overdose.

Marshall Bravestarr episodelist

01. The Disappearance of Thirty-Thirty
02. Fallen Idol
03. The Taking of Thistledown 123
04. Skuzz and Fuzz
05. A Day in the Life of a New Texas Judge
06. Rampage
07. To Walk a Mile
08. Big Thirty and Little Wimble
09. The Law
10. Kerium Fever
11. Memories
12. Eyewitness
13. The Vigilantes
14. Wild Child
15. Hail, Hail, the Gang's All Here
16. Eye of the Beholder
17. The Wrong Hands
18. An Older Hand
19. Showdown at Sawtooth
20. Unsung Hero
21. Lost Mountain
22. Trouble Wears a Badge
23. Who Am I?
24. The Treaty
25. Thoren the Slavemaster
26. The Price
27. Revolt of the Prairie People
28. Hostage
29. Tunnel of Terror
30. The Good, the Bad, and the Clumsy
31. Balance of Power
32. Call to Arms
33. The Three Suns
34. The Witnesses
35. Handlebar and Rampage
36. Runaway Planet
37. The Bounty Hunter
38. Buddy
39. The Day the Town Was Taken
40. BraveStarr and the Medallion
41. Legend of a Pretty Lady
42. Sunrise, Sunset
43. Call of the Wild
44. Tex But No Hex
45. Space Zoo
46. Tex's Terrible Night
47. Running Wild
48. Thirty-Thirty Goes Camping
49. The Haunted Shield
50. Ship of No Return
51. Little Lie That Grew
52. Brothers in Crime
53. Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century part 1
54. Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century part 2
55. New Texas Blues
56. Jeremiah and the Prairie People
57. The Ballad of Sara Jane
58. Brother's Keeper
59. BraveStarr and the Empress
60. Night of the Bronco-Tank
61. Nomad Is an Island
62. The Blockade
63. No Drums, No Trumpets
64. Shake Hands with Long Arm John
65. Strength of the Bear [aka the Power Within]



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Bravestarr
Bravestarr
In a distant time
And far away place
The planet New Texas floats deep in space.
Sky of three suns
Land of precious ore ...

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