Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors on DVD

[Jan]

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors Volume 1 is out on DVD this week. JMS worked on that show as a staff writer and IMDb says that he wrote 13 episodes. Extras include:

• Rare Original Concept Art
• "Escape From The Garden" Pilot Script written by Haskell Barkin,
• "Steel Against Shadow" Script written by J. Michael Straczynski

Jan

[Lunan]

Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors Volume 1 is out on DVD this week. JMS worked on that show as a staff writer and IMDb says that he wrote 13 episodes. Extras include:

• Rare Original Concept Art
• "Escape From The Garden" Pilot Script written by Haskell Barkin,
• "Steel Against Shadow" Script written by J. Michael Straczynski

Jan

oh thank goodness, i thought i was the only one on the planet whop remembered that show, i hope the whole series comes out on dvd

[Sinharat]

The show has always been fondly remembered by us French. We (my generation) all used to watch it, as far as I can remember, when I was a kid. There has been a French DVD release for quite some time. But I swear I had no idea JMS was part of the staff !

[JoeD80]

Apparently jms wasn't given a credit on Jayce and it was part of his reason for leaving Filmation (along with Larry DiTillio):

jms 6/26/1998:

An adventure/SF series "Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors," a dopey concept I again hijacked in an attempt to make it into something more.

jms 4/17/2000:

We had single writing credits per episode, but not as staffers. We went over to DIC after leaving Filmation when we weren't given the story editor credits we had earned by working as story editors.

jms 4/19/2000:

They could rewrite if they chose to.

We convinced them otherwise.

[JoeD80]

I came across my above post today through a google search for Jayce so I thought I should correct it:

Jayce was a show done by DIC, which Joe started on after leaving Filmation and She-Ra, which was the show he and Larry didn't get story editor credit on. No writers had on-screen credits for their individual scripts on Jayce that I can determine (there were about 20 writers credited at once, but for some reason JMS and Larry weren't in the list).

[JoeD80]

BTW, all episodes of Jayce are available on iTunes.

[lotjx]

I do remember the show, but it was such a Star Wars rip-off it was sad. It might be better if JMS wasn't attached to it.

[Jan]

I do remember the show, but it was such a Star Wars rip-off it was sad. It might be better if JMS wasn't attached to it.

It was long ago in a galaxy far, far away...(well, somebody was bound to say it - might as well be me. )

Jan

[babylonlurker]

BTW, all episodes of Jayce are available on iTunes.

Hmmm - why is it that essentially every time someone says some video is available on iTunes it cannot be found here (Europe) ?

If it is something I want to see it gets really annoying.

Same thing with everything else being available "US-only" no wonder people resort to "alternative means" in order to get things, when they are not even available . . .

(which is why I poked a bit at the US side when they had the Thor movie after everyone else - nice to be on the early side for a change.)

[JoeD80]

I do remember the show, but it was such a Star Wars rip-off it was sad. It might be better if JMS wasn't attached to it.

I can kind of see that with the Jayce/Gillian/Herc being Luke/Obi-Wan/Han Solo dynamic, but that was how the characters were created for the show. That wouldn't have changed whether JMS was on it or not. I don't remember the part of Star Wars where Darth Vader was a transforming sentient mutant plant though.

[lotjx]

The whole lost father thing was Star Wars, plant or not. The girl was a de-aged Leia and the knight guy was R2. It was really obvious even for an 8 year old kid.

[JoeD80]

Luke wasn't searching for his father like Jayce was though, since Obi-Wan said he was dead.

[JoeD80]

So there are some writing credits on the show. Only scripts written by JMS or Larry got credit for some reason (I suppose it might have been a clause in their contracts since they had left Filmation over credit issues). So if interested in individual episodes, these come from the actual on-screen credits (as opposed to guesses on imdb):

JMS Episodes:

Lightning Strikes Twice
Darksinger
A Question of Conscience
Underwater, Underpaid
The Life Eater
The Liberty Stone Part V
Steel Aganist Shadow
Final Ride at Journey's End
The Gardener
Quest into Shadow
Circus Planet

Larry DiTillio Episodes:

Swampwitch
Braintrust
Squiresmith
Dreamworld
Wasteland
The Liberty Stone Part IV
The Raid
Armada
The Purple Tome
Time and Time Again

[Marsden]

I never thought it was like Star Wars. I remember really liking this back when it was on but again didn't know anything about JMS. It's shocking for me to know retroactively how many things he's worked on that I liked.

[SmileOfTheShadow]

I tried to watch an episode...

...man that was hard to watch.