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Before The Wild Wild West, Robert Conrad played private detective Tom Lopaka in ABC's Hawaiian Eye for four seasons (1959–63). In November 1964, he was making the film Young Dillinger (1965) with Nick Adams, Victor Buono and John Ashley (all of whom would later guest star on The Wild Wild West) when his agent sent him to CBS to audition for the West role.
In the mid-1960s, Garrison pitched The Wild Wild West to CBS as "James Bond on horseback"—linking the television Western to the popular spy genre. During its first season, the series had difficulties and CBS rotated nine producers in and out of the show. The network tried to fire Garrison, but he was reinstated at the end of the season.
Ten years after the series was cancelled a made-for-television revival movie, The Wild Wild West Revisited, aired and was successful enough to warrant a follow-up entitled More Wild Wild West (1980), thus bringing the total number of episodes up to 106. However, the movie was more campy compared to the serious tone of the television series.
Articles relating to the Western, espionage, and science fiction television series The Wild Wild West and its adaptations. Set during the administration of President Ulysses S. Grant (1869–1877), the series followed Secret Service agents James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) as they foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over part or all of the United ...
Wild Wild West is a 1999 ... a common Hollywood practice of the 1950s and 1960s when television writers who helped create popular series allowed producers or studios ...
Renamed Dr. Arliss Loveless, he appeared in the 1999 film adaptation Wild Wild West, played by Kenneth Branagh and featuring several major changes from his original television counterpart. For instance, Branagh's Loveless was a former Confederate military engineer who had lost his lower body in an accidental explosion .
‘Wild, wild west.’ Families say organs of deceased Alabama inmates have been removed without their consent. Isabel Rosales, Chris Youd and Ray Sanchez, CNN. April 18, 2024 at 3:25 AM.
The "check-lists" (appended after the episode lists) of directors and producers are hopefully of use to researchers. The guest stars list that includes a cross section of The Wild Wild West and Star Trek episodes might be considered "trivia" but, once again, comprehensiveness was the goal.