Wild Wild West

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This page is devoted to the tv series Wild Wild West, which starred Robert Conrad and Ross Martin. One year Martin had heart problems and was temporarily replaced by a series of guest stars, mainly William Schallert (who also got to guest star in Night Of The Gruesome Games as an eccentric with a very dark sense of humor). West went on the air as a CBS Production in 1965 with Night of the Inferno at the exact time that CBS production The Twilight Zone left the air for retooling (emerging 5 years later as Rod Serling's Night Gallery), so it inherited many of TZ's writers, directors and guest stars. The first 2 seasons in particular bore more than a passing resemblence to the sci-fi series, especially the Richard Donner directed ones. Gene L. Coon later adapted as a Star Trek episode his 1965 episode The Burning Diamond, about people who give West something to drink so he can see them - their metabolism has been speeded up to the point they're invisible. In #6606 Night of Flying Pie Plate, a small town is visited by green women from Venus who need gold for fuel and are willing to trade genuine diamonds (common on their planet), though West and a local businessman (William Windom) seem skeptical.

The series ran 9-17-65 to Spring of 1970, when Rod Serling had work again for his staff (Night Gallery).

Michael Dunn became the series' most popular guest-villain, as a self-proclaimed genius determined to take over the world one way or the other: in one he uses inter-dimensional doorways disguised as framed paintings (Night of the Surreal McCoy). Everyone in the series did their own stunts, sometimes getting injured in the process, and Michael Dunn was particularly proud when he was injured doing one of his, remarking that now he'd "joined the club." For an article on stunts (and injuries) on the series, click here.

In a 1966 ep (Night of Watery Death), West reports that he went to a waterfront bar to meet a tipster, where he's shot by a mermaid with a blowgun, and wakes up on a ship that's sunk by an exploding dragon. When he returns, the bar doesn't exist and he can't prove anything else (picture if you will, a man on the edge of insanity...), and other eps were based on urban legends about disappearing rooms the hotel says don't exist, a deadly bed, and getting a fortune cookie with a plea for help hidden inside. Some of the death traps were right out of Edgar Allen Poe
And then there were the Jules Verne/futuristic gadgets...

Wild Wild West has been the subject of Wild Wild West books, Television books, and Classic Television books. Of course if you want a CD of Will Smith's current version of the Wild Wild West themesong, that's available too.

Here are this month's episodes on TNT - Turner Network Television
Note: In June 2000, "Wild Wild West" went to a weekly broadcast so that "Babylon 5" could be seen Mon-Friday before it moved to the SciFi Channel and Wild Wild West is now back to 6 days a week:

Current Wild Wild West page The 1st 4 numbers are the ep #, then the date TNT broadcast will be, daily Mon-Saturday @ 6am EST / Pacific Time unless noted. Most of the descriptions in links are provided by TNT

The 1999 Wild Wild West movie starring Will Smith is currently on HBO, along with a "Making Of Wild Wild West" 15 min. docu.

By the way, on Thursday 6-15-00, NBC reran the episode of "Just Shoot Me" guest-starring Robert Conrad as himself. Jack has written a biography in which he claims to have beat up Conrad, who then shows up at the magazine demanding to know when and where... the episode ends with Conrad and Jack (who by then are pals) trying on a garish Nahru jacket. Conrad looks at himself in the store's mirror and complains that it makes him look like Wil Smith ...

Conrad also starred in the Hawaiian Eye. On 4-14-00, TV Land ran this episode:
"Total Eclipse," Tracy and Tom disagree over whether or not a beautiful young girl is guilty of murdering her wealthy husband, despite the fact that a jury has acquitted her. The situation is not resolved until they uncover another murder attempt.

Wild, Wild West (1965)
More Wild, Wild West (1980)
TheWild, Wild West Revisited (1979)
Wild Wild West, vol. 1 (1965)

If you are interested in a video not currently available, click on the title and follow instructions to email your request - if the video company gets enough requests, they may start making more episodes of Wild Wild West available!

                        Previous TNT broadcasts:
6604   11/04/00, Night Of The Big Blast
6603   11/11/00, Night of the Raven
6617   11/18/00, Night of Feathered Fury
6613   12/16/00,  Night of the Infernal Machine
6717   1/02/01    Night Of Headless Woman
6611   1/03/01    Night of Ready Made Corpse
6817   1/04/01    Night Of Sabatini Death
6814   1/05/01    Night of the Spanish Curse
6527   1/08/01    Night of the Murderous Spring
6823   1/09/01    Night of the Tycoons
6824   1/10/01    Night Of The Plague
6721   1/11/01    Night Of The Amnesiac
6810   1/12/01    Night of the Camera
6524   01/22/01   Night Of Druid's Blood
6821   01/23/01   Night of Bleak Island
6818   01/24/01   Night of the Janus
6714   01/25/01   Night of Iron Fist
6723   01/26/01   Night of the Simian Terror
6506   01/29/2001   Night Of The Thousand Eyes
6616   01/30/2001   Night of the Tottering Tontine
6607   01/31/2001   Night of the Poisonous Posey
6523   02/01/2001   Night of Two Legged Buffalo 
6712   02/02/2001   Night of Cutthroats
6516   02/05/2001   Night Of Steel Assassin
6517   02/06/2001   Night The Dragon Screame (not to be confused with Night of Watery Death
6708   02/07/2001   Night Of The Hangman
6507   02/08/2001   Night of Glowing Corpse
6624   02/09/2001   Night Of Colonel's Ghost
6508   02/12/2001 - 2 episodes @ 5am  Night of Dancing Death
6518   02/12/2001   and Night of the Grand Emir
6804   02/13/2001   Night Of Sedgewick Curse
6528   02/14/2001   Night Of The Sudden Plague 
6627   02/15/2001   Night Of The Wolf
6509   02/16/2001   Night of Doubled Edged Knife
6514   02/19/2001   Night of the Howling Light
6609   02/20/2001   Night of Watery Death
6519   02/21/2001   Night Of Flaming Ghost
6704   02/22/2001   Night of Legion of Death
6510   02/23/2001   Night that Terror Stalked the Town
6521   02/26/2001   Night of the Puppeteer
6809   02/27/2001   Night of Fire & Brimstone
6512   02/28/01   Night of the Human Trigger (no TNT description available)
6619   3/1/01   Night of the Braine
6724   3/2/01   Night of the Death-Maker
6513   3/5/01   Night of the Torture Chamber (no TNT description available)
6615   3/6/01   Night of the Lord of Limbo
6803   3/7/01   Night Of Juggernaut
6715   3/8/01   Night of the Running Death
6802   3/9/01   Night of Doomsday Formula
6511   3/12/01   Night of the Red-Eyed Madman
6622   3/13/01   Night of Deadly Bubble
6713   3/14/01   Night of the Turncoat (no TNT description available)
6719   3/15/01   Night of Underground Terror
6718   3/16/01   Night Of The Vipers
6520   3/19/01   Night Of Whirring Death
6602   3/20/01   Night of the Golden Cobra
6820   3/21/01   Night Of The Diva 
6608   3/22/01   Night Of Bottomless Pit
6625   3/23/01   Night Of Deadly Blossom
6515   3/26/01   Night of the Fatal Trap (no TNT description available)
6618   3/27/01   Night of Gypsy Peril
6702   3/28/01   Night Of The Firebrand
6620   3/29/01   Night of Vicious Valentine
6711   3/30/01   Night of the Falcon
6525   4/02/01   Night of Freebooters
6716   4/03/01   Night Of The Arrow
6626   4/04/01   Night Of The Cadre
6705   4/05/01   5:00 AM,  Night of the Assassins
6805   4/05/01   6:00 AM,  Night Of Gruesome Games
6706   4/06/01   Night of Jack o' Diamonds
6501   4/09/01   Night of the Inferno (1st of series)
6707   4/10/01   Night Of The Samurai
6605   4/11/01   Night of the Returning Dead
6815   4/12/01   Night Of Winged Terror 1
6816   4/13/01   Night Of Winged Terror 2
6502   4/16/01   Night of the Deadly Bed
6722   4/17/01   Night of the Undead
6504   4/18/01   Night of Sudden Death
6808   4/19/01   Night Of Egyptian Queen
6812   4/20/01   Night of Miguelitos Revenge
6503   4/23/01   Night Wizard Shook Earth
6612   4/24/01   Night of Man Eating House
6621   4/25/01   Night Of The Tartar
6526   4/26/01   Night Of Burning Diamond
6813   4/27/01   Night of the Pelican
6522   4/30/01   Night Of Bars Of Hell
6811   5/01/01   Night of Avaricious Actuary
6614   5/02/01   Night Of The Skulls
6709   5/03/01   Night of Montezuma's Hordes
6801   5/04/01   Night of Big Blackmail
6806   5/07/01   Night of the Kraken (no TNT description available)
6710   5/08/01   Night of the Circus of Death
6623   5/09/01   Night of the Surreal McCoy
6703   5/10/01   Night Dr. Loveless Died
6601   5/11/01   Night Of The Eccentrics 
6628   5/14/01   Night of the Bogus Bandits 
6720   5/15/01   Night Of Death Masks (no TNT description available)
6610   5/16/01   Night of the Green Terror
6606   5/17/01   Night of Flying Pie Plate 
6604   5/18/01   Night Of The Big Blast
6603   5/21/01   Night of the Raven 
6617   5/22/01   Night of Feathered Fury
6613   5/23/01   Night of Infernal Machine
6717   5/24/01   Night Of Headless Woman 
6611   5/25/01   Night of Ready Made Corpse
6817   5/28/01   Night Of Sabatini Death
6814   5/29/01   Night of the Spanish Curse
6527   5/30/01   Night of Murderous Spring
6824   6/1/01    Night of the Plague  
6721   6/4/01    Night of the Amnesiac
6810   6/5/01    Night of the Camera
6505   6/6/01    Night of the Casual Killer 
6701   6/7/01    Night of the Bubbling Death
6807   6/8/01    Night of the Fugitives
6819   6/11/01   Night of the Pistoleros
6822   6/12/01   Night of the Cossacks
6524   6/13/01   Night of the Druid's Blood
6821   6/14/01   Night of the Bleak Island
6818   6/15/01   Night of the Janus
6714   6/18/01   Night of Iron Fist
6723   6/19/01   Night of the Simian Terror
6506   6/20/01   Night Of Thousand Eyes 
6616   6/21/01   Night of Tottering Tontine
6607   6/22/01   Night of the Poisonous Posey
6523   6/25/01   Night of Two Legged Buffalo (no description available from TNT.com)
6712   6/26/01   Night of Cutthroats 
6516   6/27/01   Night Of Steel Assassin
6517   6/28/01   Night The Dragon Screame (no description available from TNT.com)
6708   6/29/01   Night Of The Hangman 
6705   7/2/01    Night of the Assassins
6507   7/3/01    Night of Glowing Corpse
6624   7/4/01    Night Of Colonel's Ghost
6508   7/5/01    Night of Dancing Death
6518   7/6/01    Night of the Grand Emir
6804   7/9/01    Night Of Sedgewick Curse
6528   7/10/01   Night Of Sudden Plague
6627   7/11/01   Night Of The Wolf
6509   7/12/01   Night of Doubled Edged Knife
6514   7/13/01   Night of the Howling Light
      Mon 16     Night of the Watery Death    
      Tue 17     Night Of Flaming Ghost
      Wed 18     Night of Legion of Death
      Fri 20     Night of the Puppeteer
Thu 2    6802, Night of the Doomsday Formula
Fri 3    6511, Night of The Red-Eyed Madman
Mon 6    6622, Night of the Deadly Bubble
Tue 7    6713, Night of the Turncoat (no TNT description available)
An art collector (John McGiver) plans to turn West against his colleagues.
Wed 8    6719, Night of the Underground Terror
Thu 9    6718, Night of the Vipers
Fri 10    6520, Night of the Whirring Death
Mon 13    6602, Night of the Golden Cobra
Tue 14    6820, Night of the Diva 
Wed 15    6608, Night of the Bottomless Pit
Aug 16th, Night of the Deadly Blossom - Gordon and West attend a meeting of Navy officers, who subsequently are slain; guest Nehemiah Persoff.
Aug 17th, Night of the Fatal Trap  - Gordon poses as a prospector to pave the way for West's impersonation of a gold thief.
Aug 20th, Night of the Gypsy Peril - Gordon and West guard the Sultan of Ramapur and the sacred white elephant he brings as a gift to President Grant
Aug 21st, Night of the Firebrand - West must stop a Canadian revolutionary (Pernell Roberts) planning a personal empire.
Aug 22nd, Night of the Vicious Valentine - A socialite (Agnes Moorehead) plans to become queen of the United States.
Aug 23rd, Night of the Falcon - A giant cannon that has destroyed one town is aimed at Denver; guest Robert Duvall.
Aug 24th, Night of the Freebooters - Gordon and West pose as mercenaries to infiltrate a renegade's (Keenan Wynn) private army.
Aug 27th, Night of the Arrow - A general (Robert Wilke) plans to use his reputation as an Indian fighter to become president.
Aug 28th, Night of the Cadre - A master criminal plans to implant a mind-control device in President Grant.

For more previously broadcast titles, click here

For more Wild Wild West stuff, including Robert Conrad's thoughts on the movie (he may sue), and the trains used, click here (if it's still there). For more background on the series and how it was created, click here. For biographies of West, Gordon, and the major villians go here

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