Discotek Media is bringing back a gem from the 90s with the announcement that they will be releasing the Old West animated series ‘The Legend of Calamity Jane,’ which ran for one season of thirteen episodes between 1997 and 1998.
The series stars Barbara Scaff (Peanuts, Duck Ugly) as the legendary frontierswoman Calamity Jane keeping order in Deadwood in 1876. The cast also included Frank Welker (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze), Clancy Brown (Superman: The Animated Series), Michael Horse (Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron), and Tim Matheson (Batman: The Brave and the Bold).
Discotek will release it in standard definition, but on Blu-Ray. They plan on releasing the box set on September 26th, 2023, but it is available for pre-order on the RightStuf Anime website.
They also revealed the art for the DVD box set:
The series was written by Mark Zaslove and directed by Pascal Morelli. It was a co-production between the North American animation studio Gangster Production and the French entertainment company Contre Allée.
Jennifer Jason Leigh was originally to star as Calamity Jane (Fargo, Atypical, Todd McFarlane’s Spawn) but the producers decided to go a different direction. Scaff would get the role two weeks before the show’s premiere.
Discotek describes the synopsis as follows,
“The Old West birthed its fair share of legends—The Wild Bunch, Bill Hickok, John Wesley Hardin; the list goes on. However, not all legends are so easily remembered… When the territories were threatened by roving bands of outlaws and scoundrels, one woman whipped them into shape—Calamity Jane. With her trusty hoss Dakota and cantankerous right-hand man Joe Presto by her side, the mythic frontierswoman doled out old-fashioned justice one tall tale at a time.”
Despite its short run on network television, ‘The Legend of Calamity Jane’ has developed a cult following.
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