The Wild Wild West: Season 3

The action adventure series to end them all. Even four decades later it still sets the standard for action and high adventure. Robert Conrad's stuntwork on the show was legendary (which is probaby why he was the only actor ever inducted into the Stuntman's Hall of Fame). Ross Martin was the perfect partner. With Season 3 Dick Cangey (a former boxer) joined Conrad's stock stunt team (including Red West) and got Conrad to change his fighting technique. This season also features a young Robert Duvall as a villain! Nothing is perfect. Watch closely at the scenes in Night of the Turncoat where Conrad is in a tank and in plain sight in one shot is a man in black scuba gear! You'll also notice from time to time his hair style changes. This resulted from a halt in production when he was seriously injuried on a stunt ( he fell some twenty feet from a chandalier and hit a concrete floor). Look closely at the fights and you will most of the same guys over and over -- Whitie Hughes, Red West, Dick Cangey: Conrad's personal stunt crew for the show. This would be the last really decent season. Season four was the victim of an anti-violence crusade in the aftermath the King and Kennedy assassinations. The fight scenes would suffer to the point of looking ludicrus. Also Ross Martin suffered a heart attack and is missing in parts of season 3 & 4.

Love this series. Very good dvd.

I love the old TV shows. Especially the western series. I’m not a great fan of most new tv shows. I’m really happy you can buy restored series on dvd

You're about to experience the third season of "The Wild Wild West" which is producer Bruce Lansbury's new and revised vision of the series: meaning gritty, rough, realistic, Sergio Leone's western Spaguetti-like. The characters of James West and Artemus Gordon have new costumes, especially West and his trailer outfit. Some episodes take place in Mexico: "The Night of the Assassin", "The Night of the Jack O'Diamonds", "The Night of the Montezuma's Hordes" and "The Night of the Headless Woman", some are political as "The Night of the Firebrand" (guest starring Pernell Roberts), "The Night of the Legion of Death" (guest starring Kent Smith and Anthony Zerbe), "The Night of the Arrow" and "The Night of the Underground Terror", and some are still stamped with Michael Garrison's concept of fabulous fantasy: see "The Night of the Turncoat" (guest starring John McGiver as the excentric Elisha Calamander), "The Night of the Death Masks" (written like "The Prisoner" episode "Living in Harmony" and in which Artie guns down Jim in a ghost town called Paradox!), "The Night of the Amnesiac" (guest starring Ed Asner and Kevin Hagen and in which James West looses his memory), "The Night of the Undead" (a mixture of Vaudou and mad scientist intrigue with Hurd Hartfield) and "The Night of the Simian Terror" (with a veiled reference to Edgar A. Poe's "The Murders in the Rue Morgue", guest starring Richard "Voltaire" Kiel). Warning, there's only one Dr. Loveless' offering: "The Night Dr. Loveless Died". One episode reaches the peak of violence for its time: "The Night of the Vipers", guest starring Nick Adams aka Robert Conrad's close friend and Red West.

By 1967 this popular, escapist series from television's silver age maintained its essential character but simmered down into something less expensive and more formulaic than how it began. This was due to the vision of a new producer, Bruce Lansbury (Angela's brother), who ran the show longer than anyone else. Lansbury steered the series away from creator Michael Garrison's fabulous fantasy into a western that, while unconventional, was less Victorian and more sagebrush. Lansbury also set the mold that would remain constant in the series' last two years: two characters—one, an athletic type, busting down the doors; the other, a comedian, using guile through disguise and dialects—who moved in different directions to solve a common problem. In its third season most of those problems had become tamer than in seasons past, though there are exceptions: first instance, "The Night of the Falcon," in which lead heavy Robert Duvall assembles a cadre of international criminals to auction off an enormous, rococo cannon. Fan favorites from this season include its opener, "The Night of the Bubbling Death," a "Mission: Impossible" caper; "The Night of Jack O'Diamonds," a fairly pedestrian story that's elevated by its production values (location shooting that simulated a movie western more closely than any other episode of the series) and lush music (by Richard Markowitz, who composed the series' memorable theme); and "The Night of the Death Masks," a near remake of a first-season episode in which a baddie with a grudge nearly tricks the series' two sidekicks into exterminating each other. Michael Dunn makes one return this season as the inimitable Dr. Loveless. All too wild in 1967-68 were this season's elaborate, choreographed fight scenes: one so dangerous that Robert Conrad took an unplanned fall that nearly broke his neck. Near the season's end that accident shut down production four weeks earlier than planned. Five months later, Conrad was back in action, more tightly tethered by CBS. The notorious episode ("The Night of the Fugitives") was completed for screening in Season Four—including footage of the near catastrophe.

Everyone enjoys this series. All ages think it great fine. Wish there had been more seasons. Clever premise, good cast.

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Excellent purchase

amazing TV Show Adam and artemus

was great

Good old series