"I didn't chalk up properly and I went 15 feet to the concrete and fractured my skull. "A little gymnastics - chandelier work," he later explained. On January 24, 1968, however, during filming of "The Night of the Fugitives" near the end of the third season, Conrad fell from a chandelier onto the stage floor and suffered a concussion. We started meeting the budget." Early on, he was doubled by Louie Elias or Chuck O'Brien. Things started moving quicker when I took the jumps and the spills. "For the first few episodes we tried stuntmen," Conrad explained, "but the setup time slowed production down, so I volunteered. Conrad also claimed that John Derek left the audition without testing.Ĭonrad performed nearly all of his own stunts in the series.
Others tested included Robert Horton, Ray Danton and James "Skip" Ward. Conrad claimed to be the 17th actor to test for the part. 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. October 7–8, 1980 (two parts) ( October 7–8, 1980 (two parts))īefore The Wild Wild West, Robert Conrad played private detective Tom Lopaka in ABC's Hawaiian Eye for four seasons (1959–63). This followed other idiosyncratic naming conventions established by shows such as Rawhide, where each episode title began with "Incident at" or "Incident of," and The Man from U.N.C.L.E., where episodes were titled "The (Blank) Affair." The title of each episode begins with "The Night" (except for the first-season episode "Night of the Casual Killer", which omitted the definite article "The"). In the tradition of James Bond, there were always beautiful women, clever gadgets and delusional arch-enemies with half-insane plots to take over the country or the world. Episodes were also inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, H. The show incorporated classic Western elements with an espionage thriller, science fiction/ alternate history ideas (in a similar vein to what would later be called steampunk), in one case horror ("The Night of the Man Eating House") and humor. When he retires, Gordon, who was a captain in the Civil War, returns to show business as the head of a traveling Shakespeare players troupe.
#ENDLESS SKY WANDERER STORYLINE TV#
According to the later TV movies, West retires from the Service by 1880 and lives on a ranch in Mexico. Thereafter, however, there is no pretense, and his reputation as the foremost Secret Service agent often precedes him. James West had served as an intelligence and cavalry officer in the American Civil War (1861–1865) on Grant's staff his "cover", at least in the pilot episode, is that of "a dandy, a high-roller from the East". The agents traveled in luxury aboard their own train, the Wanderer, equipped with everything from a stable car to a laboratory. Grant and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats. Their mission was to protect President Ulysses S.
The Wild Wild West told the story of two Secret Service agents: the fearless and handsome James West (played by Robert Conrad), and Artemus Gordon (played by Ross Martin), a brilliant gadgeteer and master of disguise.
#ENDLESS SKY WANDERER STORYLINE SERIES#
This aspect was accentuated even more in the 1999 film adaptation.ĭespite high ratings, the series was cancelled near the end of its fourth season as a concession to Congress over television violence.
The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Vernean technology has led several steampunk web sites to cite the show as a pioneering influence on the genre. The show featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. Two satirical comedy television film sequels were made with the original cast in 19 and the series was adapted for a theatrical film in 1999.ĭeveloped at a time when the television Western was losing ground to the spy genre, this show was conceived by its creator, Michael Garrison, as " James Bond on horseback." Set during the administration of President Ulysses Grant (1869–1877), the series followed Secret Service agents James West ( Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon ( Ross Martin) as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over part or all of the United States. The Wild Wild West is an American Western, espionage, and science fiction television series that ran on the CBS television network for four seasons from September 17, 1965, to April 11, 1969. Title card from the first act of the episode "The Night of the Poisonous Posey"
0 kommentar(er)
