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I just happened to find full episodes of this TV show on Utube.

So I watched episode one season one in black and white.

What a great show! While some of the early TV shows seem hokey now this show had a simple story line with gadgets and of course the train.

How can you not like a beautiful locomotive with a couple of spies traveling the country chasing bad guys.

I swear the actor playing Wing Fat was Sidney Greenstreet but it was Victor Buono who looks very similar.

Suzanne Pleshette was a gorgeous woman and she was in this episode as well.

Any other Wild Wild West fans on board.

Now I can enjoy a blast from the past and watch these stories again.

Anybody else?

BLM
 
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I read that Conrad ripped his pants every episode. They were SO tight, and his part was SO active.
 
I was eleven in 1968. we played outside exclusively, but Friday night I owned the TV (with all three channels). Here's the lineup of shows on Friday: Green Hornet, Wild Wild West, Man From Uncle, T.H.E. Cat, and Laredo. And on Tuesday, Combat! Vic Morrow and James West were IT! A few years ago I bought the entire WWW boxed set and it's still great. I thought it might be stupid now but it wasn't because it was so campy in the first place. It was my favorite show.
 
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Here's EVERY plot. Evil genius with henchman and one token cute innocent girl wants to take over the country or whatever. James West get's in fight beating up multiple attackers, then gets knocked out by evil genius. He wakes up tied up without his shirt on. He seduces the girl to release him, kisses her, Artemus Gordon shows up in disguise to help, West gets in one more fight, Bad guy is killed or get's away (Dr. Loveless). Then they are back on train with that girl and another girl for Arty.
 
Bruce Lee M said:
I just happened to find full episodes of this TV show on Utube.

So I watched episode one season one in black and white.

What a great show! While some of the early TV shows seem hokey now this show had a simple story line with gadgets and of course the train.

How can you not like a beautiful locomotive with a couple of spies traveling the country chasing bad guys.

I swear the actor playing Wing Fat was Sidney Greenstreet but it was Victor Buono who looks very similar.

Suzanne Pleshette was a gorgeous woman and she was in this episode as well.

Any other Wild Wild West fans on board.

Now I can enjoy a blast from the past and watch these stories again.

Anybody else?

BLM
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Im a fan of the show even though I havent seen an episode since the early seventies. WM--sells season one--for ten bucks or so? I picked up season one but have not started watching it yet.

I wonder what Robert Conrad has been up to these days??

Heres a bit of trivia on him too. He was I think? sixteen,when he ran off and attempted to join the Marines. Also,and im not sure if he is billed being in this but--there was some sort of a documentary that was one of the extras on a DvD for the original: Invasion USA--NOT the later Chuck Norris version. The thing Conrad was in was somehting to dowith functional communist forces somehow taking over the USA--and he was a Highschool student who decided :::ala::pre-Red Dawn:::: to start a gurilla campaign of his own against them.

Anyway,he was very good in it.
 
My folks used to live up in Dorrington, CA. 26 miles above Angels Camp. Robert Conrad lived another 20 miles up the road in Bear Valley. The little country store in Dorrington was about the only decent convenience store after leaving Arnold. He would stop in for things like milk and bread and he would always stop and chat with his fans. I would see and chat when I was home on leave or vacation. A really nice feller.
 
Inyo

Well I'm happy to see that this classic TV show has stood the test of time.

What I find fascinating now is identifying the actors and watching all the details in the sets and clothing.

I notice that pants in these old movies and shows had no pockets, belt loops and the men wore suspenders.

The train itself is a movie star being used in movies such as the Great locomotive chase as the Texas and the use of it in stock footage in other shows.

There were many cars and movie sets associated with this and other locomotives.

The side of the train should say Wanderer and the locomotive is the Inyo.

I see a #22 in the front but when I watch additional episodes I'll be checking for stock footage that has been cut in of different trains.

Apparently there were several trains that had starring roles in movies and TV.

Who can not forget the Hooterville Cannonball which was the same train as the Inyo but only in the pilot episode. Sierra No. 3 replaced the Inyo and had parts in over 100 productions.

The locomotive is the ultimate mechanical marvel with almost all the moving parts located externally. Locomotive is the perfect name and I still find them fascinating to watch and hear.

Tonight season one episode two with eyes on the details and fond memories of a must watch show.

BLM
 
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Here's EVERY plot. Evil genius with henchman and one token cute innocent girl wants to take over the country or whatever. James West get's in fight beating up multiple attackers, then gets knocked out by evil genius. He wakes up tied up without his shirt on. He seduces the girl to release him, kisses her, Artemus Gordon shows up in disguise to help, West gets in one more fight, Bad guy is killed or get's away (Dr. Loveless). Then they are back on train with that girl and another girl for Arty.
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Well, great! What's the point in even watching it all again?

Watched almost every episode with a friend, Friday nights, during Junior High. This was the only Catholic family in town at the time, so supper was almost always fish sticks, and we were allowed to eat in the living room because of the timing of supper and the show. If the friend's mother wasn't paying attention, I'd get to sit by his younger sister--who I was gonna marry--at least until her mom noticed; then we had to change seats.
I say 'almost every episode', because the mom had some kind of Church paper that told them what shows the kids were allowed to watch, based on how much female skin was exposed. A few of the WWW episodes, according to this paper, had too much cleavage or leg to be seen, thus was not suitable for us kids. Acebow
 
Bruce Lee M said:
The locomotive is the ultimate mechanical marvel with almost all the moving parts located externally. Locomotive is the perfect name and I still find them fascinating to watch and hear.
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I grew up watching them, listening to them and riding behind them.

There was nothing like standing on a platform in a railway station as one of those great thundering, hissing beasts rolled to a stop so we could board a Pullman coach.

Or listening to an engineer who knew how to make his whistle sing the blues, blowing a lonely, far-off crossing signal in the night.

I used to know all the whistle and semaphore board signals, and my fondest dream--other than riding in the cab of the engine--was to ride a caboose.

To this day I'm even fascinated by the diesel-electric locomotives, though the romance is long gone.

I have a recurring dream of sitting by a railway line and watching steam locomotives and old-style diesel units go by, going heaven knows where; or walking among tracks in a depot that seems to serve both freight and passenger trains. Very, very vivid dream.

I can smell coal smoke right now, as I write this.
 
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shouldazagged now don't get all misty eyed.:)There are still a few steam locomotives to enjoy watching and plenty of them are in museums.

I used to love to hunt down videos on locomotives.

Especially when one is restored and put back on the tracks.

Nothing compares even in this age of high tech and instant everything.

Thread drift a bit but the train was also a star on the show.

Like Bond's gadget filled car you always wonder what will show up next.

BLM
 
Wyatt Burp said:
Here's EVERY plot. Evil genius with henchman and one token cute innocent girl wants to take over the country or whatever. James West get's in fight beating up multiple attackers, then gets knocked out by evil genius. He wakes up tied up without his shirt on. He seduces the girl to release him, kisses her, Artemus Gordon shows up in disguise to help, West gets in one more fight, Bad guy is killed or get's away (Dr. Loveless). Then they are back on train with that girl and another girl for Arty.
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And that is the way we like it.:) All the shows today have the same plot.
Whether it is NCIS or the plethora of other crime dramas.

Nothing new under the sun. Just put all the characters together and shake well.

Almost time for a beer and a show. Cheers!

BLM
 
Bruce Lee M said:
And that is the way we like it.:) All the shows today have the same plot.
Whether it is NCIS or the plethora of other crime dramas.

Nothing new under the sun. Just put all the characters together and shake well.

Almost time for a beer and a show. Cheers!

BLM
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That's why I haven't watched a dramatic series regularly since "NYPD Blue" left the air. And why I like "The First 48".
 
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