The Wild Wild West
James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight evil. Half science fiction and half western, Artemus designs a series of interesting gadgets for James that would make Inspector Gadget proud. A lighthearted adventure series.
- 1965-1969
- 4 seasons
- CBS
- Action & Adventure
- TV-PG
James West and Artemus Gordon are two agents of President Grant who take their splendidly appointed private train through the west to fight evil. Half science fiction and half western, Artemus designs a series of interesting gadgets for James that would make Inspector Gadget proud. A lighthearted adventure series.
Season 4 Episode Guide
24 Episodes 1968 - 1969
Episode 1
The Night of the Big Blackmail
Fri, Sep 27, 1968 60 mins
While President Grant attends a fencing contest at the German consulate, he is invited by Baron Hinterstoisser to a reception and special presentation afterward. Agent West learns that the Baron plans to show a bogus kinetoscope film (see Goofs) revealing Grant signing a secret agreement with a nation of questionable character. Because an embassy is considered protected foreign soil, West and Gordon need to disrupt the Baron's plot by substituting their own fake film without being discovered, thereby causing an international incident.
Episode 2
The Night of the Doomsday Formula
Fri, Oct 4, 1968 60 mins
A former Army General tries to steal an explosives formula.
Episode 3
The Night of the Juggernaut
Fri, Oct 11, 1968 60 mins
Jim and Artie are ordered to find out who or what is running homesteaders off their land.
Episode 4
The Night of the Sedgewick Curse
Fri, Oct 18, 1968 60 mins
A physician injects a rich family with a drug that causes rapid aging.
Episode 5
The Night of the Gruesome Games
Fri, Oct 25, 1968 60 mins
Racing the clock to recover a stolen vial of deadly germs, Jim and Artie stumble upon a party hosted by an eccentric millionaire who delights in playing lethal parlor games.
Episode 6
The Night of the Kraken
Fri, Nov 1, 1968 60 mins
A religious fanatic (played by Ted Knight) warns passersby at the San Francisco harbor that the city will be destroyed because of its citizens' wild ways. When a kraken (a sea monster) attacks at a pier, West tears off a piece of its tail, which is man-made. Gordon investigates by going undercover as an old salt, while West works with the U.S. Navy.
Episode 7
The Night of the Fugitives
Fri, Nov 8, 1968 60 mins
A town's residents hunt for Gordon and West in order to free the agents' prisoner.
Episode 8
The Night of the Egyptian Queen
Fri, Nov 15, 1968 60 mins
A priceless ruby is stolen from an Egyptian exhibit at the San Franciso Museum. When West and Gordon are commissioned to recover the jewel, they led to a waterfront bar where they notice the ruby on the toe of a beautiful young woman dancing on the table. Gordon, disguised as a sea captain, chases the dancer but fails to capture her or the ruby. As West gets closer to the dancer, he discovers that he has competition from two other unsavory characters who will stop at noting to get their hands on the valuable gem.
Episode 9
The Night of Fire and Brimstone
Fri, Nov 22, 1968 60 mins
Claiming to have made a discovery of major importance, a professor summons Jim and Artie to the deserted mining town of Brimstone.
Episode 10
The Night of the Camera
Fri, Nov 29, 1968 60 mins
To take down an opium-smuggling ring, Jim West and Jeremy Pike join forces with Bosley Cranston, a timid secret service agent with some extraordinary skills.
Episode 11
The Night of the Avaricious Actuary
Fri, Dec 6, 1968 60 mins
When vibrations from a giant tuning fork destroy the palatial homes of extremely wealthy businessmen, Jim and Artie are called in to investigate.
Episode 12
The Night of Miguelito's Revenge
Fri, Dec 13, 1968 60 mins
While West gets a shave at the barbershop, he becomes anesthetized by a hot towel and awakens in a fun-house. West soon learns of a series of kidnappings with clues leading to a traveling circus. There, West encounters the demented Dr. Miguelito Loveless with his latest invention, a powerful mechanized man. After the mechanical man knocks out West, places him in a coffin and throws the agent into a river, Loveless plans to hold a mock trial for his abducted victims and sentence them to death.
Episode 13
The Night of the Pelican
Fri, Dec 27, 1968 60 mins
West and his temporary partner Jeremy Pike investigate a Chinese gangster's theft of rare explosives from a San Francisco armory. Artemus Gordon (Martin) is said to be on desk duty in Washington. The dying words of a murdered Chinese informant, leads Pike to go undercover in China Town searching for the thief, while West masquerades as a military prisoner at forbidding Ft. Alcatraz.
Episode 14
The Night of the Spanish Curse
Fri, Jan 10, 1969 60 mins
Crossing the border into Mexico, Jim and Artie pursue a group of bandits posing as the ghosts of Cortez and his conquistadors.
Episode 15
The Night of the Winged Terror: Part 1
Fri, Jan 17, 1969 60 mins
James West is dispatched to a town after the U.S. receives a warning of an impending catastrophe. The Secret Service agent is unable to prevent the town's mayor from blowing up a new railroad trestle. West is assigned to work with agent Frank Harper on the case. Harper arrives too late to prevent a museum official from slashing paintings and destroying other artwork. President Grant departs Washington to personally brief the agents about the case, in which prominent people inexplicably commit acts of destruction. West arrives just in time to stop a dedicated sheriff from releasing a vicious gang from his jail. The sheriff, like the other prominent people involved, had received a free pair of spectacles from a Dr. Occularis. It turns out there are at least two doctors dispensing the free spectacles. Harper takes the place of a mayor who is scheduled for a visit from Dr. Occularis and he nearly kills West. The Secret Service man is captured and is informed by Professor Toombs that a group called Raven is behind all this and it intends to rule the world scientifically. West is then freed to pass an ultimatum to President Grant. As the episode ends, West has managed to find Raven's headquarters and observes Tycho, the leader of Raven who has an enormous head.
Episode 16
The Night of the Winged Terror: Part II
Fri, Jan 24, 1969 60 mins
West departs Raven's headquarters in a bid to ruin the organization's plot to kill a Mexican official. The Secret Service agent, though, doesn't realize he has been programmed to assassinate the official -- and it appears he has done just that. However, fellow agent Frank Harper disguised himself as the official and wore a bulletproof vest, enabling him to survive the attack by the brainwashed West. Meanwhile, West bides his time, pretending to join Raven until he could find out more about Raven leader Tycho who claims to know "all that ever was." Harper, meantime, and other agents research the background of Raven's Professor Toombs. Harper disguises himself as Toombs' mentor, a disgraced German scientist. The agents try to break the case before Raven can strike again.
Episode 17
The Night of the Sabatini Death
Fri, Feb 7, 1969 60 mins
Johnny Sabatini makes a dying request of his adversary, West: to ensure that a special young woman (Sylvia Nolan) receives the gift he is bequeathing her. The mission takes West and his able assistant, Ned Brown, to the spooky ghost town of Calliope, Missouri, where, according to the thuggish sheriff, outsiders come (looking for a reputed hidden fortune) but are never seen leaving.
Episode 18
The Night of the Janus
Fri, Feb 14, 1969 60 mins
While solving the murder of a fellow Secret Service agent, Jim West and Jeremy Pike must uncover a traitor at the service academy with their only clue a sheet of music left by the dead agent.
Episode 19
The Night of the Pistoleros
Fri, Feb 21, 1969 60 mins
Gordon and West head to a lonely outpost to battle a terrorist gang.
Episode 20
The Night of the Diva
Fri, Mar 7, 1969 60 mins
West and Gordon receive orders to protect Rosa Montebello, a famous Italian opera diva and niece of the ambassador from Italy. Artemus gets nothing but grief from the difficult diva. When the curtain goes down in the middle of the opera performance, West suspects foul play and jumps to the stage just in time to stop the diva's kidnapping. With subsequent attempts on her life, Montebello soon realizes just how much she needs the protection from the agents.
Episode 21
The Night of the Bleak Island
Fri, Mar 14, 1969 60 mins
West finds himself invited to the aptly-named Bleak Island owned by a single wealthy family, who, with some servants, are the island's sole occupants. A howling (which West first attributes to a hound, but is told there are no pets) attributed to a local monster (but which is no such thing, of course) is heard by West and later at dinner. Beverly Garland, in a rare icy role, is quite incisive as Celia Rydell, the cold and domineering sister of the man (Joseph Bleak) whose will is to be read. The estimable veteran British thespian John Williams -- who played Chief Inspector Hubbard, the Scotland Yard detective who figures out the truth and tricks Ray Milland's character into revealing himself as the would-be wife killer in Dial M for Murder (1954) -- appears as Sir Nigel Scott, another Scotland Yard detective role, who is an acquaintance of West, having worked on a case in London together some five years earlier. The two had no idea the other would be on the island. They investigate the mysteries and murders. Jana Taylor and Mark Chambers play Celia's attractive ward and handsome artist nephew, Alicia Crane and Mark Chambers, who are secretly in love. The hound (which turns out to be real, in an ironic twist), the creepy but luxurious mansion, and the remote island accessible to the mainland only by boat, are tropes in homage to "Ten Little Indians" and "The Hound of the Baskervilles", but there the convoluted similarities end. Some big surprises await West and the audience as well as an unsurprising finale.
Episode 22
The Night of the Cossacks
Fri, Mar 21, 1969 60 mins
Following an assassination attempt, the royal family of Karovnia escapes to America where Jim and Artie attempt to save them from an evil count who's following in pursuit.
Episode 23
The Night of the Plague
Fri, Apr 4, 1969 60 mins
While Jim attempts to rescue the governor's daughter from a band of kidnappers, Artie discovers one of the bandits is the carrier of a deadly plague.
Episode 24
The Night of the Tycoons
Fri, Apr 11, 1969 60 mins
James West investigates the deaths of members of the board of directors of the Jupiter Corporation with the help of the son of one of the deceased. They both encounter both stock fraud and an odd bar with a circus theme.
