Spicy City

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Spicy City was an animated television miniseries created by Ralph Bakshi, who wrote two episodes.

The series, produced by HBO, premiered in July 1997, and was one of the first American animated TV shows made strictly for adults, predating South Park by one month.

Spicy City was an anthology series, along the lines of Tales from the Crypt, but with a sexier, animated host: Raven, voiced by Michelle Phillips. Each episode featured a different science fiction story set in a futuristic city with a seamy side and a cyberpunk aesthetic.

The show lasted for only one season, but became a cult favorite among Bakshi fans. Episodes, however, became extremely hard to find, as they were never officially issued on VHS or DVD. Bootleg copies, however, have shown up on eBay and BitTorrent sites.

[edit] Episode guide

1. Love is a Download Original airdate: July 11, 1997 (A female police detective and an android stripper uncover a plot to suck the intelligence from men with virtual exotic dancers)
2. Mano's Hands Original airdate: July 18, 1997 (A strange tale of a bongo player's hands coming to life and terrorizing civilians after mob members chop them off)
3. Tears of a Clone Original airdate: August 1, 1997 (A detective goes on a search to find a rich man's daughter, only to return with her clone instead)
4. An Eye For an Eye Original airdate: August 8, 1997 (A prostitute living with her abusive boyfriend finds true love in a 3D Internet world under the guise of a geisha)
5. Sex Drive Original airdate: August 15, 1997 (A ruthless female cop named Margo, known for betraying and blackmailing people, gets her comeuppance when Margo is arrested for killing her partner's wife and is sentenced to death by vivisection)
6. Raven's Revenge Original airdate: August 22, 1997 (Raven is hounded by futuristic police forces for being born with a DNA pattern that brands her as a freak)

[edit] External links

• Spicy City at the Internet Movie Database

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