The Wild Wild West: Season 3

This great series is finally available on DVD collections by seasons. "The Wild, Wild West" was one of the last successful Western television shows, coming on right as the era of the great Western TV show was coming to an end. Its success was due to the fact that not only was it exciting and action-packed, but it was a curious meld of traditional Western action, espionage, science fiction, and high camp. It was in equal parts a product of its time as a Western, such as "Gunsmoke" and "Bonanza," a semi-serious, lots of camp spy show like "I-Spy," "The Man From UNCLE," and "The Avengers," science fiction like "Star Trek" and "Voyage To The Bottom of the Sea," and sophomoric camp like "Batman." Robert Conrad and Ross Martin made a formidable team as US Secret Service agents James West and Artemis Gordon, as they travelled all over the West in their personal locomotive thwarting the schemes and intrigues of power-mad scientists and ruthless governments. This show is near and dear to a lot of us who grew up in the mid to late 60's, and it is a joy to watch these episodes and remember that while the world was not a simple, carefree place, our living rooms could be while watching shows like "The Wild, Wild West."

Robert Conrad is one of my favorite actors. Loved this show as a kid. Now I have all seasons/episodes and watch them to bring back great memories. Now the theme song is in my head, yeah!!!

You know something. Season one in black and white was awsome, season two in color was better and in season three you will just love it. The stories got better, they shot more scenes outdoors and with more actors, newer faces, the quality in color just went up, and oh yeah, the color was even better. The story lines were far better authored from a storytelling perspective and James West (the ladies man) became an even bigger superman type character in the Wild Wild West. Artemus Gordon even grew into an even bigger persona as a character. In fact you can really see the comradeship between the actors and cast. All I can say is I watched the season and it is top notch and well worth having, but than again series, especially a Steampunk based series like this is a rare treat we probably will never see again. Get It!

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.

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.

Excellent purchase

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was great

amazing TV Show Adam and artemus

Good old series