Calamity Jane on WB

it was very good but unfortunately it was a very short series who was never developed at its full potential

btw, there was once also another adaptation of Calamity Jane used in the Franco-Belgian comic Lucky Luke
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The Legend of Calamity Jane ran on Kids WB from September 13, 1997 to September 27, 1997. The series was canceled after only 3 episodes and it's time slot was taken by Men in Black: the Series.
 
I don't remember this show even being on. Maybe it didn't air in my parts.

From the looks of things, other than being frightfully pale, this Calamity Jane looks a far bit better looking than the original. As I understand it, the real Calamity Jane wasn't exactly a looker.
 
For some reason, I distinctly remember the announcer voice of Kids' WB at the time lying to us saying something like "Don't worry! Calamity Jane is just taking a break for now and will return after Men in Black!".
 
I don't remember any announcement about Calamity Jane's fate on TV, but I do have a copy of TV Guide that claims that LoCJ was going to return to Kids WB's schedule in January of 1998. It didn't.
 
I remember seeing this show and loving it on first sight -- something that doesn't happen too often -- so I should have realized the show was doomed. KidsWB cancelled it after only three episodes. I'm not sure why, but it may have had something to do with the gunplay, which was taboo on Saturday mornings. Clancy Brown, who had just started his 10-year run as Lex Luthor in the DCAU, played Wild Bill Hickock, who was something of a mentor to Jane in the show.

I'd love to see this come out on DVD, but I doubt it will happen.
 
I remember watching this show and liking it quite a bit. Up in Canada I believe they showed all the episodes on Teletoon for about a year. Shame it got canned so fast, had everything kids like, guns, cowboys, fights. The lead also had an interesting look.
 
I remember this show when it was on Kids WB for all of several weeks---I think the *advertising* leading up to the show's debut lasted longer than the show itself did.

-B.
 
I remember watching this on teletoon. Don't remember how many episodes they aired, but my guess is all that were fully preduced.
 
I remember watching it and loving the style of it.
Sad it never got more then a few eps in the US
Did we EVER get a full story of why it got cancelled? I'm surprised no one who worked on it ever brought up the subject.
 
Maybe it was the TV Guide article I heard it mentioned in and not some on-air announcement. I used to read TV Guide frequently in the late 90s, so that's probably it.
 
So what keeps stuff like this from being released on DVD? Is it a rights thing? 'Cuz I've seen other stuff with less minutes get put on DVD all the time. It seems like the perfect kind of thing to put on the internet somewhere, too, some kind of video-on-demand site like hulu or Amazon.

The show looks great. WB always had great action cartoons so I imagine this would be the same thing.
 
I watched like 5 minutes of the pilot when it aired. I remember a lot of grimacing from her, and very little of characters yakking their heads off to eat up time, so you know it had to have a mature storyline. =D
 
Not sure, it's a pretty obscure cartoon that not a lot of people saw or remembered. So demand probably isn't there. Too bad there's no place to see it online( legally ).
 
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