BraveStarr

BraveStarr
BraveStarr title card
Genre	Space Western Action/Adventure/Science fiction
Voices of	Pat Fraley Charlie Adler Erika Scheimer Lou Scheimer Alan Oppenheimer Susan Blu Ed Gilbert
Country of origin	United States
Original language(s)	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	65
Production
Executive producer(s)	Lou Scheimer
Running time	25 minutes
Production company(s)	Filmation
Distributor	Group W Productions NBCUniversal Television Distribution
Release
Original network	first-run syndication (1987–1989) Qubo Channel (2010–2013)
Original release	September 14, 1987 – February 24, 1988

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. BraveStarr was the last animated series produced by Filmation and Group W Productions to be broadcast. Bravo!, a spin-off series (originally called Quest of the Prairie People) was in production along with Bugzburg when the studio closed down. Reruns of the show aired on Qubo Night Owl from 2010 to 2013, and on the Retro Television Network from 2010 to 2015.

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

The episodes combine elements of science fiction and western genres. It is set in the 23rd century on a multi-cultural desert planet called New Texas.

As on other Filmation series (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 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 of an overdose.