friggle The Wild Wild West lived at 7:30 (6:30 Central) on CBS / Friday nights. As I recall - for 5 years. A most enjoyable show especially for an 11 year old up through its cancellation. I must have seen all the episodes. Now I remember in 1979 being at my parents home and watched it with my mom. We tuned it in because we liked the original. Nothing though can match laughing out loud with a parent after you are an adult. This was done as a spoof of themselves. "Have you been sick?" No Artie why? He only went 6 feet when you hit him. West goes to pick up a girl at the saloon only to find out that she knows him because he use to date her mother. Slam on the old age stuff - I liked it - it was what it was suppose to be. Just saw it again on DECADES TV. What a treat.

mrb1980 James West (Robert Conrad) and Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) are brought out of retirement in this engaging, if very campy, TV reunion movie from 1979. West and Gordon battle Miguelito Loveless, Jr. (Paul Williams), who has imprisoned several European heads of state in a dungeon and replaced them with doubles. Loveless also has a nuclear bomb with which he's menacing the world. In an ending reminiscent of the old series, West and Gordon manage to foil Loveless and escape in a most improbable manner.Fans of the original series will notice a few differences. First, West uses very few of his famous Secret Service gimmicks such as the pistol up his sleeve and the explosives hidden in his boot heel. Second, the dialog and acting are comedic and very broad, almost to the point of ridiculing the characters. Some of the situations presented are pretty ridiculous.Familiar faces such as Skip Homeier and Harry Morgan appear as Secret Service agents, and the familiar train is of course present. The beautiful Old Tucson filming locations are a big plus as well. Conrad and Martin are good, but the film suffers from its campy approach. It's still enjoyable to see the old duo back in action after 10 years, so if you liked the original series, you'll like this TV movie.

solar12 The classic espionage TV series The Wild Wild West, which ran from 1965 to 1969 on CBS, was followed by two TV movie sequels: The Wild Wild West Revisited (1979) and More Wild Wild West (1980). The original series episodes ranged from thrilling espionage episodes to more comedic and campy ones, but the follow-up TV movies continued only in the campy and comedic vein. That was considered a let down by some fans of the series who were hoping for something closer to the more serious episodes of the show. I can understand their viewpoint, but I found both movies entertaining for what they were: a fun bit of escapism featuring the reunion of two favorite characters and the actors who played them. The chemistry between these guys can't be beat. Both movies have their weak points, but Conrad and Martin, reunited as an older West and Gordon, make for fun viewing.

grendelkhan I was excited when I first heard about The Wild Wild West Revisted. I loved the original series and enjoyed Conrad's more recent series, Baa Baa Black Sheep. I was all set to see one of my favorite series reborn. I was soon to learn a harsh lesson: you can't recreate the past.The movie finds Jim and Artie retired, but pressed back into service. Now, one thing they got right was not pretending that Jim and Artie were still young. Unfortunately, they used this to try to mine laughs, rather than drama. We are introduced to Dr. Loveless Jr., played by Paul Williams. It's a nice idea, and Williams tries hard, but it doesn't work (still better than Kenneth Branagh, though). Add 70's TV staples Shields and Yarnell, as steam era cyborgs (in a bad parody of The Six Million Dollar Man) and you have a complete mess.The elements that made the show great are missing. There are no wild stunts, no clever gadgets or steampunk devices (Shields and Yarnell aside) and it's rather lacking in the bizarre, or at least interesting bizarre. The atomic bomb shtick also ends up to be overly jokey.Conrad and Martin still had good chemistry, and it's fun to see them, but the material just wasn't there. Fan's would have been better off with a retrospective, or a more straightforward, dramatic script; but, instead, they get one big lame joke.