Monday, December 29, 2014

Television and Cinema Verities: BraveStarr Edition



“…the one that I thought tremendously well was disappointing, and that was BraveStarr. I always wanted to do a space western, and it had all those qualities in there – except I think we got a plot placement in the wrong time slots, I don’t know.  My favorite, and more fun because I was a science fiction nut and I like westerns.”

- The late, great Lou Scheimer discusses BraveStarr, in an interview from 2007, at The Trades.
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