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The Wild Wild West
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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })A 1965–69 CBS TV series which combined two then-popular genres: the Western and the Spy Drama, following the anachronistic adventures of two Secret Service agents roaming the western United States during the Ulysses S. Grant administration. James West (Robert Conrad) was a borderline Ace, the ladykilling man of action, while his partner Artemus Gordon (Ross Martin) was a Gadgeteer Genius and Master of Disguise. (Based on his work in this series, Martin the actor easily qualifies as a Real Life example of the latter.)The duo battled a wild assortment of mad scientists and criminal masterminds, their most persistent foe being the Evil Genius dwarf Dr. Miguelito Loveless (Michael Dunn). Depending on how exacting a person's definition of Steampunk is, this series could be said to be the highest-profile example of the genre ever to appear on American live-action TV. It is the Ur-Example of Cattle Punk.Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })Following the show's cancellation, two reunion movies were produced in the early 1980s. In 1999, Wild Wild West, a big-budgeted feature film starring Will Smith as West and Kevin Kline as Gordon, was released.In 2010 CBS announced plans for a revival series, to be helmed by Ronald Moore (Star Trek, Battlestar Galactica) and Naren Shankar (CSI), but it never made it out of Development Hell.The series now has a recap page. | |
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Applied Phlebotinum | |
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Applied Phlebotinum: If Artie has any kind of college degree, it's probably in this. He and the various villains come up with endless variations. | |
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Bloodless Carnage | |
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Bloodless Carnage: Of the "small amount of blood" variety. | |
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The Wild West | |
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The Wild West: So wild they had to say it twice! | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything | |
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The Main Characters Do Everything: James and Artemus are Secret Service agents employed by the Department of the Treasury. Technically, their job is to track down and stop counterfeiters (which they actually do sometimes - see "The Night of Sudden Death" and "The Night of the Circus of Death")... and that's it. In reality they act much more like U. S. Marshals. | |
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Technicolor Science | |
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Technicolor Science: Used lavishly once the series went to color. | |
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Create Your Own Villain | |
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Create Your Own Villain: The first reunion movie features a young man seeking revenge on James West for killing his father. note Or, to be more precise, causing his father to die from ulcers brought on by West repeatedly foiling his plans for world domination. It was Loveless's son | |
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Waking Up Elsewhere | |
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Waking Up Elsewhere: Very frequent occurrence. | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup | |
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No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Any weapon wielded by a villain far in advance of real late 19th century technology will be this, to explain why nobody ever heard of it again after Jim and Artie destroy it and kill its owner. | |
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Mad Scientist | |
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Mad Scientist: Many of the villains. | |
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Keystone Army | |
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Keystone Army: General Grimm, the villain in "The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen" , has built his followers into a cult based on Asskicking Equals Authority, with his basic premise being that they would be able to defeat larger bodies of conventional soldiers thanks to their superior melee combat training. When West beats him in a one-on-one fight his group realizes the whole thing was BS and surrenders en masse. | |
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Recycled Soundtrack | |
The Wild Wild West / int_405f6f52 | comment |
Recycled Soundtrack: Episodes used music from Gunsmoke (like "The Night of the Running Death") and, believe it or not, Hawaii Five-O (see "The Night of the Bleak Island" and "The Night of the Winged Terror, Part 2"). Even more bizarrely, the latter show returned the favour - the episode "Face of the Dragon" borrows music written for "The Night of the Sedgewick Curse"! | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy | |
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The Guards Must Be Crazy: Allows the heroes to escape from imprisonment numerous times. | |
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Shirtless Scene | |
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Shirtless Scene: Jim West gets a lot of these. | |
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The Wild Wild West / int_4638d8fd | type |
ThemeTuneCameo | |
The Wild Wild West / int_4638d8fd | comment |
Theme Tune Cameo: In the second TV movie, Artemus Gordon hums the main theme from the show while getting ready in front of a mirror. Not a theme tune cameo, but at the end of "The Night of the Sabitini Death," we get a clip of the music typically played during the first scene of a Gilligan's Island episode. See Actor Allusion on the trivia page. | |
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Characterization Marches On | |
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Characterization Marches On: Due partially to Early Installment Weirdness and partially to behind-the-scenes drama, the first season is noticeably different from the others in terms of Artie's characterization and the relationship between the agents. | |
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Written-In Absence | |
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Written-In Absence: Ross Martin's health problems forced him to sit out a few episodes, which led to several substitutes. | |
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Improvised Weapon | |
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Improvised Weapon: In a pinch, the agents will often resort to any weapon-like item available - a chair, a bottle, a frying pan... even a turkey's leg bone "The Night of the Murderous Spring". | |
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The Wild Wild West / int_4e7017f1 | type |
Wig, Dress, Accent | |
The Wild Wild West / int_4e7017f1 | comment |
Wig, Dress, Accent: Artemus Gordon's disguises are generally of this variety. | |
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Animated Credits Opening | |
The Wild Wild West / int_4eddbc06 | comment |
Animated Credits Opening: The episodes are introduced by a short, stylized cartoon which portrays a gunslinger foiling various evildoers, followed by the actual credits superimposed over drawings of the Wanderer. | |
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The Wild Wild West / int_4fe1aa4c | type |
Gorgeous Period Dress | |
The Wild Wild West / int_4fe1aa4c | comment |
Gorgeous Period Dress: There is a great deal of finery to be seen on the main characters and the guest stars alike. | |
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Good Old Fisticuffs | |
The Wild Wild West / int_51beab21 | comment |
Good Old Fisticuffs: And how; Conrad has been quoted as saying it's perhaps just as well the show was canceled when it was, as making it was so physically taxing for him and the stunt crew. Plus, unlike many TV stars of that time (and this time), it's clearly Conrad doing most of his own stunts. One of these stunts very nearly got him killed. | |
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Death Trap | |
The Wild Wild West / int_55c79f7c | comment |
Death Trap: Most episodes, especially in season one, from the classic Descending Ceiling to a glass box specially rigged to become a Gas Chamber if escape was attempted. | |
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The Wild Wild West / int_56635771 | type |
Recurring Character | |
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Recurring Character: Colonel Richmond, played by Douglas Henderson, and Roy Engel as President Grant. | |
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RecycledINSPACE | |
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Recycled INSPACE: It's James Bond IN THE WILD WEST! | |
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Instant Sedation | |
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Instant Sedation: Artie's bright red knockout gas. Also any such gas used on the agents. | |
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You Look Familiar | |
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You Look Familiar: Rampant throughout the series, e.g. Joan Huntington being the Girl of the Week on three separate occasions ("The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen" (with Toian Matchinga, who also appears in three episodes), "The Night of the Bottomless Pit" and "The Night of the Circus of Death"). Most striking example: when Dimas appears in "The Night of the Simian Terror," neither of our heroes notices how much he looks like Dr. Loveless's assistant Voltaire. | |
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Flynning | |
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Flynning: Jim and Artie both get to indulge in this from time to time. | |
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Repeating So the Audience Can Hear | |
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Repeating so the Audience Can Hear: The vast majority of the audience isn't fluent in Morse code, so when a message comes in over a telegraph it will often get a running translation into spoken English for no apparent reason. | |
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The Wild Wild West / int_68169a5 | type |
Mix and Match | |
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Mix and Match: The Western + Spy Drama + Science Fiction + an occasional bit of Surrealism for good measure. | |
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Punny Name | |
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Punny Name/Epunymous Title: The Wild Wild...James West? | |
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Temporary Substitute | |
The Wild Wild West / int_6eef5fc6 | comment |
Temporary Substitute: Jeremy Pike, Frank Harper, Ned Brown and Sir Nigel Scott pinch-hitting for Artie in season four. | |
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Shoe Phone | |
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Shoe Phone: The show features exploding billiard balls, cigars that play a variety of tricks and deadly pool cues, among other things. | |
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Idiot Ball | |
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Idiot Ball: Loveless's genius is demonstrated enough times for it to not be an Informed Ability, but having encountered Artie in disguise in several episodes, he's still fooled every time... especially since Count Manzeppi, in only his second (and last) episode, immediately realises "Uncle Hansi" is actually Artie: | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity | |
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Bond Villain Stupidity: Almost every villain in the series puts Jim and/or Artemus into a death trap... and leaves the room. | |
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TheInfiltration | |
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The Infiltration: One of Artie's primary weapons, though Jim also tries his hand at it on occasion. An infiltration of some kind seems to be required in every other episode. | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation | |
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Comic-Book Adaptation: A series of comic books based on the series were released by Gold Key. In 1990-1991, a small publisher called Millennium produced a second series based on the show. | |
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LargeHam | |
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Large Ham: Quite a few. Many of Artemus Gordon's assumed identities fall into this category as well. | |
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Steampunk Gadgeteers | |
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Steampunk Gadgeteers: One of the heroes and about half of the villains. | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol | |
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Grappling-Hook Pistol: Jim's pistol can be converted into one. | |
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Karmic Death | |
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Karmic Death: The fate of many a Villain of the Week. | |
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A-Team Firing | |
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A-Team Firing: Averted. The bad guys rarely come out of gunfights unscathed and even the good guys get hit on occasion (this happened most often in the third season - see "The Night of the Amnesiac," "The Night of Jack O'Diamonds" and "The Night of the Death Masks"). | |
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Costume Drama | |
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Costume Drama: Very much so, especially after the series went to color in the second season. | |
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Rogues Gallery | |
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Rogues Gallery: Dr. Miguelito Loveless and Count Manzeppi are the only recurring main villains. But there's also Loveless' loyal assistants Antoinette and Voltaire - although Antoinette vanishes during season 2 and Voltaire never appears after season 1 (unlike his portrayer Richard Kiel, who returns in another role in "The Night of the Simian Terror"). | |
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Canon Discontinuity | |
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Canon Discontinuity: Three different versions of a tank turn up over the course of the series - two invented by villains, one by Artie. The agents don't seem to retain any memory of the previous times such a device appeared. | |
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Surprisingly Good Foreign Language | |
The Wild Wild West / int_a50c56d7 | comment |
Surprisingly Good Foreign Language: Not quite so surprising once you learn how many languages Ross Martin actually spoke. | |
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Cool Train | |
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Cool Train: The Wanderer, West and Gordon's mobile headquarters. | |
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Recycled Premise | |
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Recycled Premise: A number of episodes involve threats against President Grant (admittedly Truth in Television, given how prone Presidents are to death threats). | |
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Slipping a Mickey | |
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Slipping a Mickey: Besides a good conk on the head, the most frequent method used to incapacitate one or both agents. | |
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Idiosyncratic Episode Naming: Every episode title begins with "The Night..." (although technically season one's "Night of the Casual Killer" is the only exception). | |
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Reunion Show | |
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Reunion Show: The TV Movies The Wild Wild West Revisited and More Wild Wild West. | |
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Faux Fluency | |
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Faux Fluency: Averted for the most part, at least in Ross Martin's case. He really could speak most of the languages Artemus Gordon uses. | |
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Girl of the Week | |
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Girl of the Week: The series is inspired by the James Bond franchise, after all. Almost every episode features a beautiful young woman for the hero(es) to romance - often more than one. | |
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Deception Non-Compliance | |
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Deception Noncompliance: In "The Night of the Death-Maker". A group of monks at the Santa Paula Monastery make and sell wine. When their monastery is taken over by the villains, they subtly change the taste of their wine as an S.O.S. signal. | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes | |
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Idiosyncratic Wipes: The last shot of every act was freeze-framed into either a textured picture (season 1 post-pilot), a tinted still (early season 2) or a drawing (in the pilot, and from mid-season 2) that took its place among the series's title design. This led to some painfully obvious posed shots (such as act 1 of "The Night of the Torture Chamber") and a tendency to advertise the upcoming freezeframes by a rapid zoom in (see "The Night of the Arrow," "The Night of the Undead" and any episode directed by Irving J. Moore - which is pretty easy, as he helmed more episodes than anyone else). (Also, the Fade In of the series title completed the wipe.) | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome | |
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Chuck Cunningham Syndrome: Jim's valet, Tennyson, disappears after three episodes as suddenly and mysteriously as he arrived. Also Loveless's ladyfriend Antoinette (unlike Tennyson, she at least gets replaced. Three times). | |
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And Starring | |
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And Starring: Ross Martin got this on the pilot and every season one episode... and on some season four episodes, due to the fact that he was sidelined by a heart attack for several shows; as a result, those episodes produced/aired after the attack in which he appears (such as "The Night of the Diva") include an "And" above his credit, while the ones in which he doesn't (such as "The Night of Miguelito's Revenge"), don't. | |
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Novelization | |
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Novelization: "The Night Of the Double-Edged Knife" was turned into a paperback novel, simply titled The Wild Wild West, by Richard Wormser. | |
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Lighter and Softer | |
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Lighter and Softer: The reunion movies are very much comedies, to the point of camp, while the original series is a drama. (The reunion movies were from the writer-director team behind Support Your Local Sheriff, which explains a lot.) | |
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Steampunk | |
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Steampunk: Between steam and various kinds of Applied Phlebotinum, the characters manage to invent devices many, many years ahead of their time. | |
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Cattle Punk | |
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Cattle Punk: More or less invented the genre. | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure | |
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Reasonable Authority Figure: Colonel Richmond and President Grant. | |
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Stock Scream | |
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Stock Scream: The same scream is used by Major Allenby-Smythe in "The Night The Dragon Screamed," Martin Dexter (in spite of his not falling at the time) in "The Night of the Tottering Tontine," O'Reilley in "The Night of the Firebrand" and Clarence (meaning Ben Wright got it twice, as he also played the Major) in "The Night of the Sabatini Death." Among others. | |
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Disguised in Drag | |
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Disguised in Drag: Artie in the first reunion movie, and twice on the original series ("The Night Of The Freebooters and "The Night of the Green Terror"). | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign | |
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As Long as It Sounds Foreign: Most of the English-speaking foreigners who appear in the series. | |
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The Mole | |
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Averted with Ned Brown, probably West's only partner who doesn't go in for disguises or gadgetry. Also averted with Sir Nigel Scott (not least with his being The Mole). | |
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts | |
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Rube Goldberg Hates Your Guts: Many of the death traps on the series, allowing time for the hero(es) to escape. | |
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Instant Messenger Pigeon | |
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Instant Messenger Pigeon: At least four of them - Henry, Henrietta, Annabella and Arabella. | |
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Would Hit a Girl | |
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Would Hit a Girl: Seen in the opening credits sequence during three of the four seasons. | |
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SuspiciouslySimilarSubstitute | |
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Suspiciously Similar Substitute: When Artie is temporarily assigned to Washington (to cover for Ross Martin's absence while he recovered from a heart attack), Jim gets a new partner, Jeremy Pike, who also happens to be a Master of Disguise and a dab hand with gadgets. Pike was himself briefly replaced by Frank Harper, who was basically Jeremy Pike with a different actor. Averted with Ned Brown, probably West's only partner who doesn't go in for disguises or gadgetry. Also averted with Sir Nigel Scott (not least with his being The Mole). | |
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Distressed Dude | |
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James West Bondage: The agents end up in this situation with rather astonishing frequency. | |
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Easy Evangelism | |
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Easy Evangelism: If the villain has a beautiful female assistant (and they almost always do), Jim can usually get them to switch sides with five minutes of heartfelt conversation or less, regardless of how fanatically loyal they previously were. (Exceptions: Astarte in "The Night of the Druid's Blood," Antoinette in the first five Loveless episodes, Elaine in "The Night of the Vicious Valentine.") | |
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Gadgeteer Genius | |
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Gadgeteer Genius: Both heroes and villains fall into this category. Interestingly, occasionally the heroes' gadgets don't work properly, notably in "The Night of the Deadly Bubble" when Jim and the Girl of the Week are trapped in a room filling with steam; the explosives Jim tries to use to get out won't light because the matches are too damp. You'll just have to watch the episode to see how they escape. | |
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Character Aged with the Actor | |
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Character Aged with the Actor: In the reunion movies. | |
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Commercial Break Cliffhanger | |
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Commercial Break Cliffhanger: At least Once an Episode, and usually more than once (the better to enhance the Idiosyncratic Wipes with). | |
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Master of Disguise | |
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When Artie is temporarily assigned to Washington (to cover for Ross Martin's absence while he recovered from a heart attack), Jim gets a new partner, Jeremy Pike, who also happens to be a Master of Disguise and a dab hand with gadgets. | |
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Shown Their Work | |
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Shown Their Work: In at least one episode, the villains attempt to poison the protagonists with "prussic acid". This is, in fact, the term that was used for hydrogen cyanide during that time period. | |
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