Rotten Tomatoes
Submit search Movies Tv shows RT App News Showtimes

Season 1 – The Wild, Wild West

Play trailer Poster for Season 1 – The Wild, Wild West Sep 1965 Drama Western Adventure Play Trailer Watchlist
Watchlist Tomatometer Popcornmeter
Tomatometer 1 Reviews 100% Popcornmeter Fewer than 50 Ratings
Charming gunslinger James West and Artemus Gordon, an inventor and master of disguise, are the country's first Secret Service agents, traveling the Old West at the behest of President Ulysses S. Grant, fighting villains, encountering beautiful women and dealing with fiendish plots to take over the world.

Critics Reviews

View More
Noel Murray AV Club Dec 4, 2018
A-
What's striking isn't how ahead of its time the series was, but how of its time... A pervasive Cold War anxiety runs through every one of The Wild Wild West's tightly plotted, tightly framed season-one episodes. Go to Full Review Read all reviews

Audience Reviews

View More
Mike P @RT09890132 Apr 9, 2025 An amazing show, a spy show set in the old west...It's vastly under-rated, and way ahead of its time: (and a million times better than the ghastly 1999 Barry Sonnefeld/Will Smith version)...And it follows the adventures of slick and austere James West; (Robert Conrad); and Artemus Gordon, (Martin Ross); his goofy sidekick; the country's first secret service agents. And they're masters of disguise and inventors; and martial arts experts; as well as sharpshooters... And so this is a retro-futurist, steampunk, old West variation on James Bond essentially; (it's 007 in the Wild Wild West)... James Bond and Dr. Who actually, as it wildly incorporates many sci-fi elements. And...I mean you're expecting Bonanza when you watch the rousing opening credits; but then it bate-and-switches you and gives you the X Files. Or Mission Impossible. I mean, it's really amazing. This is one of the greats. Great acting, Conrad and Ross are eminently charismatic and watchable, great production values, superb writing; but what really puts this over is the envelope pushing genre-hybrid type set up; which is so imaginative and amazing. I highly recommend this. See more Peabarter _ @RT17624769 Nov 11, 2023 Sooo entertaining and Conrad and Martin did such a great job in the lead roles. A western theme with an espionage and government agent, theme plus sci-fi, and advanced technology way ahead of its time for when this originally aired. I've watched the first episode and I'm hooked. See more Read all reviews
The Wild, Wild West — Season 1

My Rating

Read More Read Less WRITE A REVIEW EDIT REVIEW POST RATING

Cast & Crew

View All

Robert Conrad

Actor

Ross Martin

Actor

Michael Dunn

Guest Star

John Dehner

Guest Star

Richard Kiel

Guest Star

Charles Davis

Guest Star

Episodes

Episode 1 Aired Sep 17, 1965 The Night of the Inferno President Grant sends West and Gordon to stop a Mexican revolutionary; guests Suzanne Pleshette, Victor Buono. Details Episode 2 Aired Sep 24, 1965 The Night of the Deadly Bed A criminal planning to take over Mexico leads West and Gordon to a tiny village with an underground secret. Details Episode 3 Aired Oct 1, 1965 The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth Dr. Loveless (Michael Dunn) turns to murder and blackmail to get a rival's explosives formula; guest Leslie Parrish. Details Episode 4 Aired Oct 8, 1965 The Night of Sudden Death West and Gordon take on a band of counterfeiters who have robbed the mint of plates used to print money. Details Episode 5 Aired Oct 15, 1965 The Night of the Casual Killer Gordon and West pose as itinerant Shakespearean actors to infiltrate a corrupt politician's army. Details Episode 6 Aired Oct 22, 1965 The Night of a Thousand Eyes A beautiful girl upsets West's efforts to quell the piracy of riverboats plying the lower Mississippi River. Details Episode 7 Aired Oct 29, 1965 The Night of the Glowing Corpse The disappearance of a mysterious substance from a French consulate is linked to Prussia. Details Episode 8 Aired Nov 5, 1965 The Night of the Dancing Death West and Gordon discover the Albanian princess in their care is an impostor. Details Episode 9 Aired Nov 12, 1965 The Night of the Double-Edged Knife West discovers that an ex-general with grandiose plans is really behind murders allegedly committed by Indians. Details Episode 10 Aired Nov 19, 1965 The Night That Terror Stalked the Town Dr. Loveless creates a double of West and infiltrates the Secret Service to retrieve a formula. Details Episode 11 Aired Nov 26, 1965 The Night of the Red-Eyed Madman The demented leader of a fanatical army plans to overthrow the U.S. Army divisions stationed in the Southwest. Details Episode 12 Aired Dec 3, 1965 The Night of the Human Trigger A geologist (Burgess Meredith) plans to take over Wyoming with man-made earthquakes. Details Episode 13 Aired Dec 10, 1965 The Night of the Torture Chamber A museum curator substitutes a look-alike for a governor to use state funds to buy art. Details Episode 14 Aired Dec 17, 1965 The Night of the Howling Light A doctor is hired to brainwash West and to program him to kill an influential, peaceful American Indian. Details Episode 15 Aired Dec 24, 1965 The Night of the Fatal Trap Gordon poses as a prospector to pave the way for West's impersonation of a gold thief. Details Episode 16 Aired Jan 7, 1966 The Night of the Steel Assassin West meets his match in physical prowess in an embittered Army officer whose injured body has been repaired with steel. Details Episode 17 Aired Jan 14, 1966 The Night the Dragon Screamed West and Gordon probe a smuggling operation and find themselves involved in a struggle for a Chinese province. Details Episode 18 Aired Jan 21, 1966 The Night of the Flaming Ghost West sets out to stop a megalomaniac descendant of John Brown who is determined to take over the United States. Details Episode 19 Aired Jan 28, 1966 The Night of the Grand Emir West and Gordon must protect a visiting despot from assassination despite his disregard for his own safety. Details Episode 20 Aired Feb 18, 1966 The Night of the Whirring Death Loveless plans to make California a children's haven by extorting cash from millionaires. Details Episode 21 Aired Feb 25, 1966 The Night of the Puppeteer A sculptor (Lloyd Bochner) who fled a death sentence stalks a justice on the Supreme Court. Details Episode 22 Aired Mar 4, 1966 The Night of the Bars of Hell West may be the first victim of the electric chair when he pursues a warden who uses inmates to commit crimes. Details Episode 23 Aired Mar 11, 1966 The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo A South Sea island prince insists on visiting an exclusive health resort where assassins wait to kill him. Details Episode 24 Aired Mar 25, 1966 The Night of the Druid's Blood West suspects the deaths of several scientists are linked to a woman they all loved; guest Don Rickles. Details Episode 25 Aired Apr 1, 1966 The Night of the Freebooters West and Gordon are assigned to investigate an outlaw army being recruited for the conquest of Mexico's Baja California. Details Episode 26 Aired Apr 8, 1966 The Night of the Burning Diamond Diamond thefts lead West to a man whose formula for melted gems makes him invisible. Details Episode 27 Aired Apr 15, 1966 The Night of the Murderous Spring Dr. Loveless gives West a new hallucinogen that turns users into murderers. Details Episode 28 Aired Apr 22, 1966 The Night of the Sudden Plague Gordon and West pursue looters who are using a bacteria culture to paralyze people. Details

More Like This

View All
Airwolf % 44% Airwolf Watchlist Planet of the Apes 55% 90% Planet of the Apes Watchlist Mission: Impossible % % Mission: Impossible Watchlist The Dukes of Hazzard % % The Dukes of Hazzard Watchlist Nash Bridges % % Nash Bridges Watchlist Discover more movies and TV shows. View More
View All

The Wild, Wild West — Season 1

The Wild, Wild West The Wild, Wild West The Wild, Wild West The Wild, Wild West View more photos

Season Info

Director
Irving J. Moore, Don Taylor, Richard Donner, Richard C. Sarafian, Edward Dein, William Witney, Mark Rydell, Alan Crosland Jr., Paul Wendkos, Alvin Ganzer
Executive Producer
Philip Leacock, Michael Garrison
Screenwriter
John Kneubuhl, Henry Sharp, Ken Kolb, Preston Wood, Robert Hammer, Don Mullaly, Fred Freiberger, William Tunberg
Network
CBS
Rating
TV-PG
Genre
Drama, Western, Adventure
Original Language
English
Release Date
Sep 17, 1965
Join The Newsletter Join The Newsletter Cookie Settings