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The Wild Wild West
(1965 — 1969)
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THE WILD WILD WEST
60 Minute Drama
Science Fiction / Western

ORIGINAL TRANSMISSION
1965 — 1969

BROADCASTER
CBS

SEASONS / EPISODES
4 Seasons / 104 Episodes
2 TV Movies (1979, 1980)
1 Movie (1999)

Possibly the only known example of a Western series with a healthy dose of sci-fi escapism and James Bond-style espionage.

Robert Conrad played undercover agent James T West who, along with his partner Artemus Gordon, investigated various super-villains and mad scientists.
Television Novelisations
The Wild Wild West

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by Richard Wormser
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Signet
  • 1966
Other Editions
Les Mystères de l'Ouest
France / Paperback / Presses Pocket / 1977
Novelised Episode
The Night of the Double-Edged Knife
Back Cover Blurb
THE WILD WILD WEST
He troubleshoots the frontier in a hopped-up railroad car equipped with getaway gadgets, an English butler, and a sidekick named Artemus Gordon. He reports straight to President Ulysses S. Grant. He's America's first undercover agent — Major James West of THE WILD WILD WEST, the sensational cloak-and-arrows spy thriller that is the smash-hit series of the new TV season!

"REALLY CLICKING...this James Bond...western...excellent."
Radio-Television Daily
Movie Novelisations
Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West cover image
by Bruce Bethke
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Aspect
  • 1999
Novelised Movie
Wild Wild West
Back Cover Blurb
WHEN THE PRESIDENT NEEDS TO SAVE AMERICA, WHO DOES HE CALL?

Will Smith and Kevin Kline are U.S. Army Captain James West and U.S. Marshal Artemus Gordon, two unconventional secret agents on assignment for President Ulysses S. Grant. Jim West is charming with a quick reply and even quicker with a gun; Artemus Gordon solves problems with sophisticated inventions that are generations ahead of their time. They both like to be the best, and neither one enjoys sharing the spotlight on a high-level case. But presidential orders have them teaming up on this one.

Both Gordon's search for a beautiful missing scientist, and West's hunt for a mysterious rebel leader lead to a malevolent, megalomaniacal, twisted genius named Dr. Loveless. His plan is truly diabolical: conquer America...or destroy it trying. The army is helpless. The President is a target, and only Jim West and Artemus Gordon can stop Loveless's hellish scheme.

If they just don't kill each other first.
Notes
  • The book includes eight-pages of photographs in the centre.
Original Novels
The Wild Wild West

The Wild Wild West cover image
by Robert Vaughan
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Boulevard
  • 1998
Back Cover Blurb
The Old West was wild — but James West was wilder. Fast with his guns, faster with his fists — and fastest of all with his wit and his women — James West was the federal agent of choice for the toughest, and strangest, assignments. With his wily partner, Artemis Gordon, he turned the West inside-out and upside-down.

This is a story from the secret files of...

THE WILD WILD WEST

Criminal mastermind T. Marcus Cosgrove has a plan. Phase one involves sealing off a valley as an outlaw's hideaway. Phase two includes the kidnapping of a governor's daughter. Phase three is the final realisation of Cosgrove's dream — declaring his valley as an independent nation...an empire of evil. He's a new kind of criminal. And it'll take a new kind of weapon to defeat him. James West and Artemis Gordon have assembled a killer arsenal as brilliant as it is deadly. But even flash bombs, sound boxes, and newfangled machine-guns aren't enough to bring down the man who would be king. This time, West has to come up with something really wild...
The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Death Train

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by Robert Vaughan
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Boulevard
  • 1998
Back Cover Blurb
The Old West was wild — but James West was wilder. Fast with his guns, faster with his fists — and fastest of all with his wit and his women — James West was the federal agent of choice for the toughest, and strangest, assignments. With his wily partner, Artemis Gordon, he turned the West inside-out and upside-down.

This is a story from the secret files of...

THE WILD WILD WEST

Jim West is headed east on the fastest and finest locomotive ever built. barreling along at speeds up to 70 miles per hour, the train's out to break a few records and get a young girl to New York in time for a life-saving operation. But a gang of international saboteurs who know the real reason for West's high-speed journey are out to stop the train dead in its tracks — and derail the whole country while they're at it...
The Wild Wild West: The Night of the Assassin

The Night of the Assassin cover image
by Robert Vaughan
  • United States
  • Paperback
  • Boulevard
  • 1998