The Wild Wild West - The Complete First Season

The first season of The Wild Wild West was released to DVD in North America on June 6, 2006, as a special 40th anniversary edition by CBS Home Entertainment. For the first season set, Robert Conrad recorded special audio introductions for all 28 episodes and the set also included interviews and 1970s era footage of Conrad and Martin being interviewed.(Sorry, I didn't include the interviews in this download.) The second season was released on March 20, 2007 but the set contained no special features. The third season was released on November 20, 2007. The fourth and final season was released on March 18, 2008. In France, all four seasons (known locally as Les Mystères de l'Ouest) have already been released in a DVD boxed set. The Wild Wild West told the story of two Secret Service agents: James West, the charming gunslinger (played by Robert Conrad), and Artemus Gordon (played by Ross Martin), the brilliant gadgeteer and master of disguise. Their unending mission was to protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats. The agents traveled in luxury aboard their own train, the Wanderer, equipped with everything from a stable car to a laboratory. James West had served as a intelligence/cavalry officer in the US Civil War; his "cover" during the series is that he is a railroad President. After retiring from the Service by 1880 he lives on a ranch in Mexico. Gordon's past is more obscure; when he retires in 1880 he goes on the road as the head of a Shakespeare traveling players troupe. The show incorporated classic Western elements with an espionage thriller, as well as science fiction/alternate history ideas (in a similar vein to steampunk) and plenty of comedy. In the finest James Bond tradition, there were always beautiful women, clever gadgets, and delusional arch-enemies with half-insane plots to take over the country or the world. Each episode's title begins with "The Night" (except for the first-season episode "Night of the Casual Killer", which omitted the definite article). Shows with similar naming conventions include: Friends ("The One ..."); The Man from U.N.C.L.E. ("The ... Affair"); The Rat Patrol ("The ... Raid"); Rawhide (seasons 1–3 and 5–6: "Incident ..."); Monk ("Mr. Monk and..."); Still Standing ("Still..."); Everybody Hates Chris ("Everybody Hates..."); Scrubs ("My ..."). The one memorable recurring arch-villain was Dr. Miguelito Quixote Loveless, a brilliant but megalomaniac dwarf portrayed by Michael Dunn. Like Professor Moriarty for Sherlock Holmes, Loveless provided West and Gordon with a worthy adversary, whose plans could be foiled but who resisted all attempts to capture him and bring him to justice. Loveless was introduced in the show's sixth produced, but third televised episode, "The Night the Wizard Shook The Earth", and appeared in another nine episodes. Initially he had two constant companions: the huge Voltaire, played by Richard Kiel; and the beautiful Antoinette, played by Dunn's real-life singing partner, Phoebe Dorin. Voltaire disappeared with no explanation after his third episode, and Antoinette after her sixth. According to The Wild Wild West Revisited TV movie, Loveless eventually dies in 1880 from ulcers, brought on by anger and frustration at having his plans consistently ruined by West and Gordon. (His son, played by Paul Williams, subsequently seeks revenge on the agents.) Though several actors appeared in multiple villainous roles, only one other character had a second encounter with West and Gordon: Count Manzeppi (played flamboyantly by Victor Buono), a diabolical genius of "black magic" and crime, who – like Dr. Loveless – had a escape plan at the end. (Buono eventually returned in "More Wild Wild West" as a parody of Henry Kissinger, who ends up both handcuffed and turning invisible with the villainous Paradine!) While the show's writers created their fair share of villains (Agnes Moorehead won an Emmy for her role as Emma Valentine in "The Night of The Vicious Valentine"), they frequently started with the nefarious, stylized inventions of these madmen and then wrote the episodes around these devices. Stories were also inspired by Edgar Allan Poe, H. G. Wells, and Jules Verne. Robert Conrad and a stock company of stunt players choreographed at least two fight sequences per episode. Conrad also insisted on performing all of his own stunts, such as leaping off a balcony or running in front of a team of horses. During filming of "The Night of the Fugitives", Conrad fell 12 feet from a chandelier onto a concrete floor and suffered a concussion. [1] Production of the series, then near the end of its third season, was shut down two weeks early. (The episode eventually aired during the fourth season, with footage of the fall left in.) Ross Martin broke his leg in a fourth season episode, "The Night of the Avaricious Actuary", and suffered a heart attack a few weeks later after completing "The Night of Fire and Brimstone." His character was replaced temporarily by other agents played by Charles Aidman (four episodes), Alan Hale, Jr. and William Schallert. Aidman said that the script rewrites he had been promised simply amounted to changing the name "Artemus Gordon" to "Jeremy Pike" (his character's name).[5] Pat Paulsen is frequently thought of as a Martin substitute, but he in fact appeared in one of Aidman's episodes, and his character would have been present even if Martin appeared. Ross Martin once called his role as Artemus Gordon "a show-off's showcase" because it allowed him to portray over 100 different characters during the course of the series, and perform dozens of different dialects. Martin sketched his ideas for his characterizations and worked with the make-up artists to execute the final look. Martin was nominated for an Emmy in 1969. The Wild Wild West featured numerous gadgets. Some were recurring devices, such as James' sleeve gun or breakaway derringer hidden in his left and right boot heels. Others only appeared in a single episode. * Sleeve gun (a Remington derringer, featured in many episodes). In a few episodes the ejecting/retractable support-arm of the device had other useful gadgets attached to it instead of the derringer (i.e. a tiny squirt-can containing acid, iron climbing-claws, various blades, etc.) * Lock-pick in the lapel of the bolero-style jacket. * Throwing knife in the collar of the jacket. * Various explosive devices fitted in the lining of his jacket, inside his belt (and its buckle), and a secret compartment in his holster. * A flat metal barbed climbing-spike and a thin, but strong attachable rope or cord that could be shot into a wooden beam or wall from either his derringer or revolver. * A small hand-held rod with a built-in spring-loaded motor-driven winch. When used in conjunction with his climbing-spike and rope, the rod-winch can either hoist him upwards to a building's roof, for instance, or lower him into a deep pit, the distance depending on the length of rope deployed. * An ejecting knife-blade in his boot, just between the outer sole and toe-box of the boot. * Extra bullets in his belt buckle. * A thin, but extremely strong wire flexible enough to be coiled and fitted in the inner lining of the crown of his hat; the wire has multiple uses, and is also capable of sawing through a steel bar. * Breakaway derringer (featured in numerous episodes). Usually the handle and trigger mechanism is located in the hollowed-out heel of one boot, while the barrel assembly is located in the other boot's hollowed-out heel; the two pieces snap together and lock. Often bullets for this breakaway derringer are dispensed from a secret compartment in his belt-buckle. * Exploding billiard ball (usually the cue ball, but not always; featured in pilot episode). * Cue stick that has a hidden sword inside (featured in pilot episode) * Cue stick that can shoot a bullet (featured in pilot episode) * Stage coach with ejector-seat (featured in "The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth") * A ball-like wad of explosive material in the hollow heel of one boot; the fuse attached to the hem of his jacket. * A break-away blow-torch, each piece hidden in each hollowed-out boot heel. * Aboard the agents' train, two pistols on a wooden swivel-stand on desk, activated and controlled by a knob on the fireplace. * Also aboard the agents' train, the fireplace conceals a secret escape door and an emergency flare signal * Several pistols, a few rifles, shotguns, and other assorted weaponry hidden behind a sliding wall-panel behind the map at one end of the railway car. * A shotgun hidden under a revolving table-top. * A telegraph mechanism in a cane * A blow torch disguised as a cigar. The villains often used equally creative gadgets, including: * An earthquake making device. * A brainwashing device using intense sight and sound * A cyborg, i.e., a man who replaced much of his flesh and bone with metal, augmenting his strength and invulnerability * An early flamethrower * Man-sized steam-driven puppets * Jars that could preserve disembodied human brains and draw upon their knowledge and psychic force * A prototype tank * A potion made from liquefied diamond capable of allowing a man to move so fast as to be invisible * An LSD-like hallucinogenic capable of driving men into fits of killing madness * A television * A torpedo disguised as a dragon and capable of homing on a radio signal * An invisible electronic force field that disintegrates anything that came in contact with it * A drug capable of shrinking a man down to a height of 6" * A suit of armor that acted as an exo-skeleton * A tidal wave-making device that generated giant bubbles * A sonic device that allowed the use of paintings as a portal to other dimensions * Surgically implanted crystals that when shattered inside the brain by a high-pitched noise, caused the subject to turn into a criminal * A giant falcon-shaped cannon, capable of devastating a small town with a single shot * The Juggernaut, a steam-powered tank that was triangular in shape, and had a barbed tip.

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Silverhandhealer (2009-04-13)

Okay, we are officially frozen at 28.1%, I find it hard to believe that nobody got a complete download, but lets at least hang in there.
I got the first episode complete, talk about a memory walk, thanks for the upload, but please let's get it all.
thanks again.

doorwayguy (2010-04-22)

Stuck at 28.3%, just like most of the other peers ... need this seeded please!!! I loved this show and can't wait to relive some of it's moments.

k-372 (2010-11-30)

Can anyone seed this?

torgman1 (2010-12-12)

My BitTorrent says:
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THIS IS DEAD!!!

Freeizgood (2011-01-26)

Man I wish this was more available....one of the best TV series of ALL time....I have several episodes but would kill to have them all.
Thanks for the effort aikijohn

billydasquid (2011-05-25)

Any seeders out there? Please seed if possible.

NoMoreAVI (2015-03-02)

All 4 seasons were posted by rambam1776 in 2012. 600MB AVI = xvid + AC3.