Wild Wild West

Night of the Grand Emir, #6518

Agents James West and Artemus Gordon are assigned to protect a Middle Eastern despot from assassination, Emir El Emid, who has survived so many attempts on his life that he no longer worries about such annoyances. The two accompany the Emir to a cafe to watch a can-can dancer named Ecstasy La Joie, who has repeatedly tried to kill the ruler. She gives him her garter but West intercepts just in time, disposing of the item before it explodes. West pursues the dancer but is scratched by her drugged ring and awakes in a straight jacket. Can Gordon find his partner and discover the real identity of the man who wants the Emir dead before it's too late?

Writer Donn Mullally said the concept for The Grand Emir came to him through personal ties. "I had a friend that was a shirt-tail relative to the king of Libya. He had this crazy, mixed up Libyan connection going and it gave me the idea for the story."

Directed by Irving J. Moore
Written by Donn Mullally
Dr. Mohammed Bey: James Lanphier
No. 1 Girl: Alene Charles
Ecstasy La Joie: Yvonne Craig (who also played Batgirl)
No. 2 Girl: Phyllis Davis
Emir El Emid: Robert Middleton
Willard Drapeu: Tom Palmer
T. Wiggett Jones: Don Francks
Clay: Ralph Gary
Christopher Cable: Richard Jaeckel
George: Arthur E. Gould-Porter

* The above information was compiled from The Wild Wild West: The Series by Susan E. Kesler (Arnett Press), "Michael Garrison's Wild Wild West," an article by Robert Alan Crick in Epi-Log Journal #11 and other sources.
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