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I'd always assumed that this show was a Western. How wrong I was! It's a great adventure, with two best friends/agents partying on a train in between gigs, battling dastardly villains, dealing with gorgeous and sometimes dangerous ladies, pulling gizmos, gadgets and tricks out of their shoes, and more.
Robert Conrad is the handsome leading man, with lovely clothing and quick reflexes--but he still often needs help from friend and associate Ross Martin, who can do accents, voices, makeup, and become a chameleon at a moment's notice in order to extract his pal from whatever pickle he's gotten himself into.
A lot of fun. Don't miss out!
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Quite simply, this is the most amazing, entertaining, and colorful television show ever produced (and, yes, that goes for even this first season in black and white)! Robert Conrad is mesmerizing as Agent James West, while Ross Martin is magical and witty as Agent Artemus Gordon. What can I add to all the other 5-star reviews at this juncture? Only this: they are correct. Get this asap (and the other seasons, too).
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I was twelve in 1965 when the first season aired, and I had/have fond memories of the show, having not seen any re-runs since its initial broadcast. As I started to watch the DVDs I had a very mixed reaction. The episodes are very inconsistent, and the show had a lot of producers that first season and went off in a lot of different directions. Was it a Western? A spy show? A science fiction show? It seems to take a long time finding its legs, and as it did so, many of the early episodes were horribly written and shot.
And yet, by the time I was done with the first season, I had a good taste in my mouth and I just now ordered the second season. Why?
You have to give Robert Conrad a lot of credit, he may not have been the greatest actor at that time, but he certainly put a lot of energy into the roll. He does most of his own stunts and you very much see it on the screen. Lots of contrived excuses to have all those fights, but what the heck, it is enjoyable. Ross Martin was a great character actor too, and it was fun to watch him both graciously play second fiddle to Conrad and get into the wide variety of charcters that he played, he seemed to have a great time going over the top once or twice every episode. There were a lot of fun character actors doing guest shots on the show too, if you are a fan of the period or character actors in general, it is fun to watch just for that, as is much of 60's television. The first season also has four episodes with Michael Dunn as Dr. Miguelito Loveless. Those episodes really stand out, not because they were particularly well written, but because Dunn gave very over the top performances that were very fun to watch. And once the formula for having at least one incredibly attractive woman in each episode fell into place, that was an added draw as well.
So overall, I got a great deal of pleasure re-watching something that I had enjoyed from my childhood. The show does not have the foundation that Star Trek had, and in turn watching The Wild Wild West made me appreciate what I have always loved about the original Star Trek series. Make no mistake there, watching other series from the same period you do come to realize why Star Trek is a stand out show and gained the longevity that it has. But at the same time the Wild Wild West, for all of its flaws, once I came to accept the limitations of the period, was fun and easy to watch once again. Shows like Mission: Impossible and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea from the same period did not to me hold up anywhere near as well.
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I loved watching Wild Wild West in syndication as a kid and here I am an adult, loving it on dvd!! The first season of this sci-fi western runs more like a western than the following seasons. While it's rough around the edges, it definitely shows the promised potential of it's creativity and the writers' ingenuity. Since this was made back in the 60s, any innuedos, especially sexual, were very subtle and symbolic. And this definitely adds to its charm and humor! In one scene of an episode, at a lavish and private dinner for two, the femme fatale discusses the murder of male family members to James West as she loudly cracks nuts. I really laughed. The dialogue is also subtle and clever. What a riot. Robert Conrad also does vocal intros to each episode in the first season. There is also a wonderful interview with Robert Conrad and Ross Martin from 1979. Red West also joins in and it's hilarious!! This was when they were making a Wild West movie for TV. If you look close, you can tell Ross Martin's health is declining as he had heart issues from what I've read and I believe he passed on in 1983. Anyway, the first season is in black and white, wonderful to watch, and has a charm in it's own right. And goodness....Robert Conrad sure was hot in his day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The Wild Wild West is my favorite TV show of all time. The concept was great, the stories were thrilling, and the actors were perfectly cast. My thanks to CBS for having the foresight to do the show. This first season is the best. The subsequent seasons lost a bit of the edge the first season had, but Robert Conrad and Ross Martin still carried the show.
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