WILD WILD WEST S2 RELEASE 03/20/07! (1 Viewer)

[michaelHAR]

I suppose this alone could be why we don;t see this season titled as "The COMPLETE Second Season". I wonder if it's a case of missing footage, or if there was a reason for the deletion?

 

[Jeff#]

Are you sure The Night of the Skulls has Artie's fight cut short from this DVD release...or was that scene in a different episode?

 

[cardinalmark]

That scene was from this show! He address's his theory on the horses leading him were Jim is located.

 

[Susan Nunes]

But Shatner never had the bod to show off. He had a tendency to get flabby, so he HAD to keep his shirt on. Not that he was ugly, of course, he certainly wasn't. But he wasn't built like Conrad, who was an athlete.

And who cares if one of the main draws of the WWW was Conrad's looks? I watch the DVDs I have, and I ask myself during any of the action sequences how many takes they had to do of the scenes because of Conrad ripping his pants.

It's hysterical.

 

[Jeff#]

Being a straight man, I could care less about how Bob Conrad looked.

I watched Wild Wild West because I enjoyed it as an action show, a western, and had the fantasy element of a Twilight Zone all rolled into one. It wasn't unintentionally funny in spite of its low budget, although the exploits of the occasionally seen Dr. Miguelito Loveless and the twice-seen Count Manzeppi were amusing.

But if you want to see Robert Conrad play an exercise guru, Susan, you should wach his sole guest appearance on the 1970s COLUMBO (a series on which Ross Martin also turned up on, by the way).

 

[Matt Hough]

Robert Conrad had one other prime time series - THE DUKE in which he played a retired boxer-turned-private eye. It was a midseason replacement that wasn't picked up for a second season.

 

[Jeff#]

They only did about 5 of those according to the IMDB. I never saw that show.

Actually Robert Conrad had another weekly prime time series, Jack Webb's The D.A. during about half of 1971-1972 season, in which Bob had the title role as L.A. County Deputy District Attorney Paul Ryan (not to be confused with ex-defense attorney Paul Bryan, played in the previous decade by Ben Gazzara on "Run for Your Life".

Just as WWW had episode titles beginning with The Night of the.... and The Night the..... ,
The D.A. had stories entitled "The People Vs....." It was the first time Conrad worked with Steven J. Cannell a few years before Black Sheep Squadron.

The 1971-72 season also saw the premiere of another unsuccessful Jack Webb law & order show:
David Janssen in "O' Hara: United States Treasury".

 

[Matt Hough]

I have to say that the color on these WILD WILD WEST episodes from Season 2 is among the strongest and most vivid I've ever seen for the period. I don't think the STAR TREK seasons look this beautiful nor do the color seasons of BEWITCHED or GREEN ACRES that I've seen, all from this same period of the 1960s.

 

[Charles H]

I read that Michael Garrison who created WWW at one time owned the rights to Ian Fleming's CASINO ROYALE (with Gregory Ratoff as director). WWW is certainly a lot more imaginative and entertaining than the current CASINO ROYALE.

 

[Robert Crawford]

Let me preface my comments by saying that WWW was my favorite TV show back in 1960s, however, with that being said I wouldn't say it's more entertaining to me now than the current Casino Royale.

 

[Jeff#]

How tragic though that Mike Garrison died only 8 episodes into production of WWW's second season.
He accidentally fell down the stairs in his home, and died on impact. :frowning: