Wild Wild West
1 9 6 5 - 1 9 6 9 (USA)
104 x 60 minute episodes
 Entrusted
by President Ulysses S. Grant to defend America from all manner of
bad people, dashing secret Agents Jim West and Artemus Gordon
roamed the West battling revolutionaries and other subversive
types.
Artemus was a master of disguise and dialects, and an ingenious
inventor of gadgets to foil the assorted madmen they constantly
pursued.
The duo's main nemesis (with a remarkable facility for evading
capture) was the diminutive Dr Miguelito Loveless, a brilliant
antagonist bent on taking over the world.
The two of them travelled in a special railroad car that
supplied all the materials they needed to concoct all sorts of
strange weapons and devices to foil their adversaries.
Beautiful women, fantastically contrived situations, and
bizarre and creative devices populated this series throughout its
four year run.
The actors performed many of their own stunts on this CBS
series, and took the bumps and bruises one might expect from such
work. In one of the more extreme mishaps, Conrad fell off a prop
and fractured his skull. Charles Aidman (as Jeremy Pike) briefly
filled in for Artemus when Ross Martin had a mild heart attack.
A movie version of Wild Wild West was made in the late
1990s, starring Will Smith and Kevin Kline.
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