The Wild Wild West (TV series)

The Wild Wild West is an American television series that ran from 1965 to 1969. The series falls into the steampunk and Weird West genre, and combines elements of aWestern with that of espionage. The series ran for 4 seasons with a total of 106 episodes.



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[hide] *1 Story  ==Story[ Edit] == The story revolves around two agents of the u.s. secret service — James "Jim" West, a charismatic gunslinger, and Artemus Gordon, a brilliant inventor and master of disguise. They must be the President of the United States and the United States protect itself against all kinds of dangers. To do this, they have plenty of nifty gadgets at their disposal that are ahead of their time. The two move in a luxurious steam train called the Wanderer, which among other things contains a mobile laboratory .
 * 2 Cast
 * 3 creation and production
 * 4 Background
 * 5 spin-off movies
 * 6 external links

An enemy of the duo is the mad scientist Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless, whose knowledge of technique that matches or even exceeds Gordon 's. His goal is to conquer the United States, and eventually even the world. Although Jim and Gordon always thwart his plans, they never succeed in arresting him. Loveless has two fixed henchmen. The colossal Voltaire and the beautiful Antoinette.

The series contains a lot of humor, and a bunch of references to James Bond. In addition to fight Jim Gordon and Loveless still a lot of other villains. Most come but in an episode for. However, episodes turned more to the inventions of these villains than the villains themselves. As an inspiration for the episodes served among other things the stories of Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. ==Division Of Roles[ Edit] == In addition, many actors had a guest role in the series as the villain of an episode. ==Creation and production[ Edit] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The series was created in a time when Westerns lost popularity and the espionage genre was introduced. Michael Garisson came up with the idea to combine these two. He described the series itself as "James Bond on a horse".
 * Robert Conrad – Jim West
 * Ross Martin -Artemus Gordon
 * Michael Dunn – Dr. Loveless
 * Richard Kiel – Voltaire
 * Phoebe Dorin – Antoinette
 * Roy Engel – President Ulysses S. Grant

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Michael Garrison himself was well aware of the James Bond stories. So he and his partner Gregory Ratoff bought the film rights to Ian Fleming's first Bond story, Casino Royale in 1955. However, it came to a movie, and Garrison sold the rights to Charles k. Feldman. He then engaged in The Wild Wild West.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The pilot episode, "The Night of the Inferno", was written by Gilbert Ralston, who has been to many other series of Garrison had been involved. In the first production weeks underwent the crew of the show a large number of changes. This was partly because of conflicts between Garrison and the television network. Collier Young produced episodes 2 through 4. In its episodes for a butler named Tennyson, which came with traveling West and Gordon. Tennyson was by the producer who took over by Young from the series written. Fred Freiberger produced episodes 5-14; John Mantley episodes 15-21; and Gene l. Coon episodes 22-26.Garrison produced the last two episodes of season 1. Garrison died unexpectedly In August 1966 to the consequences of a fall. CBS hired when producer Bruce Lansbury in. He produced the rest of the series.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The first season was shot in black and white, and was more serious than the rest of the series. Cinematographer Ted Voightlander was nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on this season. The other seasons were filmed in color. Even though the undertone from season two was a lot more humorous, there were still a number of violent episodes in between. That was also the reason that the series was eventually discontinued. ==Background<span class="mw-editsection" len="353" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The title song was composed by Richard Markowitz. He was brought in after the producers had rejected the efforts of Dimitri Tiomkin . Markowitz was never credited as a composer.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Another unique element to the series was the cartoonteaser, which was shown in the opening credits. It will be shown a screen that was divided into five boxes. In one of the boxes is a comic hero, who the problem situations in the boxes around him dissolves. ==Spin-off movies<span class="mw-editsection" len="356" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Conrad and Martin worked on two television films based on the series: The Wild Wild West Revisited (9 may 1979) and More Wild Wild West (7 October 1980).

<p lang="en" len="660" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1999 a cinema movie based on the series called Wild Wild West, with Will Smith as Jim West and Kevin Kline as Artemus Gordon.