
The Wild Wild West is an American television series. Developed 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, the series followed Secret Service agents James West and Artemus Gordon as they solved crimes, protected the President, and foiled the plans of megalomaniacal villains to take over all or part of the United States. The show also featured a number of fantasy elements, such as the technologically advanced devices used by the agents and their adversaries. The combination of the Victorian era time-frame and the use of Verne-esque style technology have inspired some to give the show credit for the origins of the steam punk subculture.


The demented leader of a fanatical army plans to overthrow the U.S. Army divisions stationed in the Southwest.
A soldier torn apart in an explosion during the War swears revenge on the men he holds responsible... and builds himself a steel skeleton and subdermal plating to carry out his revenge.
To take over California, Dr. Loveless uses lethal toys to attack shady millionaires buying bonds to save California from bankruptcy.
A puppeteer sentenced to death for murder tries to enact revenge on the Supreme Court that refused to hear his appeal... and uses puppets as his murder weapons.
Jim and Artie are charged with protecting a South Seas Prince who is living it up while he's in America. However, three killers plans to eliminate the Prince when he stops at a famous spa.
An investigation into some baffling diamond thefts leads West to an even more intriguing mystery: scientist Morgan Midas has created a serum that gives him lightning-fast speed.
An agent's murder leads West and Gordon to a plot to assassinate Mexico's president.
A self-styled maharajah (Boris Karloff) holds West captive in his palace.
Dr. Loveless abducts an Indian Princess in the hopes that he can create a war between Indians and whites. When Jim and Artie go to investigate, they find Loveless waiting... with a powder that can shrink anyone down to 6 inches tall.
A mad scientist creates a bomb-carrying robot identical to West and orders it to kill members of the president's cabinet.
Gordon and West ask help from a man who controls animals with his mind.
A bizarre extortion plot involves green men from Venus who need gold for spaceship fuel.
West and Gordon visit a town named Justice during Law and Order Week and find it the site for a convention of criminals.
Gordon and West must free an agent imprisoned on Devil's Island.
West is kidnapped by a madman who plans to create an underwater kingdom that will control shipping lanes.
Dr. Loveless drives Indians into poverty so he can become their benefactor and deity.
West and Gordon fail to save the life of a highly unpopular Latin American dictator they have been assigned to guard.
Gordon has a vivid nightmare about the ghost of a prisoner's mother, who attempts to clear her son's name.
A kangaroo court tries West for Gordon's murder; guest Donald Woods.
Gordon and West investigate threats on the life of a federal judge (Ed Begley).
Gordon and West confront a former Confederate colonel who controls the fourth dimension; guest Ricardo Montalban.
Gordon and West guard a member of a tontine, an investment group in which the surviving member inherits all.
Jim and Artie once again square off against Count Manzeppi. This time, Manzeppi is looking for a toy chicken that holds the secret of converting base metal to gold.
Gordon and West guard the Sultan of Ramapur and the sacred white elephant he brings as a gift to President Grant.
Gordon and West switch a prisoner in Vladivostok, without leaving the United States; guest John Astin.
West and Gordon encounter a society lady who plans to change the United States into a monarchy and reign as its queen.
A newspaper contains a prediction that a magician will die in front of West and Gordon.
West and Gordon investigate the murder of a scientist who was studying a rash of destructive tidal waves.
A series of mysterious robberies occur and the agents discover that the common denominator is that a wealthy rancher donated paintings to each location.
West and Gordon fear an attempt on President Grant's life while they are escorting him to a conference.
The assassination of a naval intelligence officer and the sinking of a frigate leads the agents to a Hawaiian expatriate who plans to kill King Kalakua and take control of the islands.
A master criminal decides to implant a device in President Grant's brain that will make him respond to the criminal's orders.
West and Gordon get involved with a Croatian king and a werewolf type who plots to control the king's country.
Dr. Loveless plans to rule by capturing an arsenal and a sub-treasury.
A man steals the Constitution to bargain for control of border territory; guest Madlyn Rhue.
West is ordered to block a Canadian revolutionary's scheme to use violence to establish a personal empire.
Gordon and West interfere with assassins stalking the president of Mexico.
Gordon and West think they have found Dr. Loveless' corpse, then meet a man claiming to be his uncle.
The search for a stallion leads West and Gordon to bandits and revolutionaries; guest Frank Silvera.
The honor of the U.S. government rests on recovering a Japanese sword.
Fires and explosions hamper an investigation of a rancher's murder; guest John Pickard.
Bogus archaeologists try to steal the famed treasure of Montezuma; guest Jack Elam.
Gordon and West pursue counterfeiters; guest Florence Sundstrom.
A giant cannon that has destroyed one town is aimed at Denver; guest Robert Duvall.
A sheriff (Jackie Coogan) asks West and Gordon to save his town from cutthroats.
Gordon and West must stop a territorial governor who rules like a dictator; guest Kent Smith.
An art collector (John McGiver) plans to turn West against his colleagues.
Gordon and West must return a Bosnian count (Mark Lenard) to his country for trial.
Gordon and West join itinerant entertainers while searching for a hired killer; guest Jason Evers.
A general (Robert Wilke) plans to use his reputation as an Indian fighter to become president.
West and Gordon work to avert the destruction of the American cotton industry by boll weevils smuggled in from abroad.
Gordon and West pursue weirdly dressed and heavily armed bank robbers.
A group of disfigured soldiers seek revenge on the Civil War commandant responsible for their deformities.
Jim finds himself stranded in the middle of the desert in the unknown town of Paradox, NV. As masked mannequins shoot at him and a mysterious woman appears and disappears, the agent begins to realize that the entire thing is part of a madman's twisted scheme for revenge.
A biologist (Hurd Hatfield) and his zombie army draw West and Gordon into voodoo.
West guards a cargo of smallpox vaccine, until a blow on the head causes amnesia; guest Kevin Hagen.
Gordon and West probe a mystery protected by a senator and his sons; guest John Abbott.
A would-be dictator tries to kill President Grant; guest Wendell Corey.
A foreign diplomat tries to implicate the United States in a conspiracy; guest Harvey Korman.
A former Army general (Kevin McCarthy) tries to steal an explosives formula.
A man uses a steam-driven device to drive homesteaders off oil-rich land; guest Floyd Patterson.
A physician (Jay Robinson) injects a rich family with a drug that causes rapid aging.
Gordon and West invade an eccentric's (William Schallert) mansion to find a deadly germ culture.
Gordon and West seek a sea creature terrorizing Portuguese fishermen; guest Ford Rainey.
A town's residents hunt for Gordon and West in order to free the agents' prisoner.
Gordon and West search for an Egyptian princess's ruby; guest Tom Troupe.
Gordon and West must intercept a fortune raised to revive the Confederacy; guest Dabbs Greer.
A meek agent (Pat Paulsen) becomes a big help in dealing with an opium ring.
A scientist employs a gigantic tuning fork in an extortion scheme.
Dr. Loveless returns with a scheme to commit wholesale homicide; guest Charles Aidman.
A madman plans to control San Francisco harbor by launching rockets from Alcatraz; guest Khigh Dhiegh.
Gordon and West pursue a mysterious outlaw band terrorizing New Mexican towns.
West vows to destroy Raven, an organization that uses mind conditioning on influential people to commit sabotage.
West's bizarre behavior indicates he is under Raven's control.
A dying man asks West to preserve a legacy for his young ward.
A melody holds the clue West needs to trap a departmental traitor; guest Jack Carter.
Gordon and West head to a lonely outpost to battle a terrorist gang.
A temperamental diva (Patrice Munsel) is kidnapped at a New Orleans performance.
West visits an eerie island to get a diamond for the National Museum; guest Beverly Garland.
A Russian prince races a desperate foe to recover a religious icon; guest Nina Foch.
Rescuing a governor's daughter from stagecoach robbers exposes West to plague; guest Lana Wood.
A plot threatens the directors of a corporation owned by a woman; Amelia Bronston.