The Good Old Wild Wild West
When I was a kid I loved The Wild, Wild West. Everything about this show was flat out cool.
Did I say that everything about the show was cool? Good. Because everything about it was cool. And I mean everything.
Conrad and Martin were perfectly cast as West and Gordon. They had a rapport that seemed real. Although the series was set in the time period following the Civil War, a science fiction element was involved in many of the episodes. West was given cool gadgets a la James Bond… and the fight / action scenes were the best on tv.
The show title sequence featured an animated cowboy in four different scenes with great theme music. Each commercial break ended with a cliffhanger and the scene would freeze, change into a line drawing and then replace a drawing on a title card.
The series was definitely ahead of it’s time. It spawned two tv movies [not nearly as good] and a big screen movie staring Will Smith and Kevin Kline as West and Gordon which was really bad. I’d like to have seen Tom Cruise as West but the script was so bad, that I doubt that he’d have done much better with the project.
When I was a kid, I loved the television show “The Wild, Wild West.”
I still do.
Alas, I’m old enough to remember its first TV run in the 1960s. And I am glad that three of the four seasons are now available on DVD (with the fourth season to follow this spring)!