Brad Dharma, fully named ''Brad Dharma, Psychedelic Detective'' was an
animated series that appeared as part of the third season of
Liquid Television on
MTV
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in 1994. The segments were created by John Moynihan and Greg Pair, based on Moynihan's original comic strips.
Dharma, voiced by Dick Rodstein, was a private detective who lived in
Timbuktu sometime in the near future. The city is very heavily populated (with a population of 30 million people) and apparently ruled by an elite called the "Hipster Elders". Dharma is depicted as a
trench coat- and
fedora
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-wearing man with long, stringy hair and eyes that appear, like
Little Orphan Annie's, to have no pupils. He seems to have
psychic abilities. The plot line pits Dharma against corrupt public officials (including what appears to be the
French Foreign Legion) and a mysterious organization called The
Beelzebub Brotherhood.
External links
Brad Dharma, Psychedelic Detective
Liquid Television
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