The BEST episodes of The Wild Wild West season 1
Every episode of The Wild Wild West season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Wild Wild West season 1!
The Wild Wild West told the story of two Secret Service agents: James T. West, the charming gunslinger (played by Robert Conrad), and Artemus Gordon (played by Ross Martin), the brilliant gadgeteer and master of disguise. Their unending mission was to protect President Ulysses S. Grant and the United States from all manner of dangerous threats. The agents traveled in luxury aboard their own train, the Wanderer, equipped with everything from a stable car to a laboratory. James West had served as an intelligence and cavalry officer in the US Civil War; his "cover" during the series is that he is a railroad president. After retiring from the Service by 1880 he lives on a ranch in Mexico. Gordon's past is more obscure; when he retires in 1880 he goes on the road as the head of a Shakespeare traveling players troupe.
#1 - The Night of the Burning Diamond
Season 1 - Episode 26 - Aired 4/8/1966
West tries to convince a Serbian official to hide the Kara Diamond, then it disappears and West is blamed. Arte and Jim must find the diamond before Morgan Midas can complete his sinister plan.
#2 - The Night of the Puppeteer
Season 1 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1966
Seeking revenge against those who sentenced him to death, Zechariah Skull, a mad puppeteer, recreates a courtroom drama using life-size puppets.
#3 - The Night the Wizard Shook the Earth
Season 1 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/1/1965
West tries to protect Prof. Nielsen, a demolitions expert, but the evil Dr. Miguelito Loveless has something else in mind.
#4 - The Night of the Inferno
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/17/1965
Jim is set up as a renegade as a cover for him and Artie to sneak into Texas and track down General Juan Manolo, who is trying to take over the region.
#5 - The Night of the Sudden Plague
Season 1 - Episode 28 - Aired 4/22/1966
West and Arte ride into the quiet town of Willow Springs, only to find it looted and all of its citizens victims of a mysterious paralysis.
#6 - The Night of the Steel Assassin
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 1/7/1966
A series of mysterious deaths of military personnel bring Jim face to face with the indestructible Colonel "Iron Man" Torres. Crippled in an explosion that he blames on the other men of his company, Torres rebuilt himself as a 19th century cyborg and is seeking revenge on those he thinks wronged him.
#7 - The Night of the Casual Killer
Season 1 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/15/1965
Jim and Artie set out to penetrate the stronghold of John Maxwell Avery, a corrupt political boss, and return him to Washington for trial.
#8 - The Night of Sudden Death
Season 1 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/8/1965
Jim and Artie must find the mastermind and determine why a bomb was planted in the U.S. Mint.
#9 - The Night of the Howling Light
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/17/1965
West is captured by Dr. Arcularis who doesn't want a message of peace delivered to Chief Ho-Tami, head of the Indian Tribes.
#10 - The Night the Dragon Screamed
Season 1 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/14/1966
Jim must return a princess to the Hunan throne in China, and Artie has only one clue to track down the smugglers of opium and Chinese aliens: a fortune cookie.
#11 - The Night of the Flaming Ghost
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/21/1966
Jim and Arte follow the trail of stolen kerosene and sulfur to Harper's ferry, where they find an 1870's version of abolitionist John Brown.
#12 - The Night of the Druid's Blood
Season 1 - Episode 24 - Aired 3/25/1966
West is furious: his superiors have refused him permission to investigate the murder of a close friend who was burned to death before his eyes.
#13 - The Night of the Deadly Bed
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/24/1965
Facing execution at the hands of a madman, West learns the crazed assassin plans to reclaim Mexico and become the new Napoleon.
#14 - The Night of a Thousand Eyes
Season 1 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/22/1965
Ships along the Mississippi are being attacked by a gang of pirates known as the "Thousand Eyes".
#15 - The Night of the Red-Eyed Madmen
Season 1 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/26/1965
West is sent to infiltrate an army of fanatics dedicated to overthrowing the U.S. Government.
#16 - The Night of the Two-Legged Buffalo
Season 1 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1966
Here to sign a treaty, Jim West tries to protect a pleasure-loving South Seas Prince when he insists on visiting a plush spa where assassins eagerly await his arrival.
#17 - The Night of the Murderous Spring
Season 1 - Episode 27 - Aired 4/15/1966
West helps a powerfully built girl carry her trunk, not knowing it contains his shrewd enemy, the diminutive, giggling Dr. Loveless. What devious plan to take over the world does he have this time?
#18 - The Night of the Fatal Trap
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/24/1965
Jim, disguised as a notorious outlaw, is sent to arrest Colonel Vasquez, the leader of a band of Mexican bandits terrorizing U.S. border towns.
#19 - The Night of the Bars of Hell
Season 1 - Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1966
West, posing as a prison inspector, hunts for clues to a pillaging outlaw band. When things don't go as planned, Arte's special talents are required.
#20 - The Night of the Human Trigger
Season 1 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/3/1965
As part of an elaborate extortion scheme, Professor Orkney Cadwallader, a demented geologist, sets off earthquakes where he chooses. So West and Gordon head for Ellenville, the next town on the mad genius' list.
#21 - The Night of the Torture Chamber
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/10/1965
Govenor Bradford of California requests help from President Grant, so he sends Jim and Artie to discover who's behind the conspiracy to take over the state government.
#22 - The Night That Terror Stalked the Town
Season 1 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/19/1965
West is lured to a ghost town full of lifelike dummies, part of an elaborate trap set for him by the evil Dr. Loveless.
#23 - The Night of the Freebooters
Season 1 - Episode 25 - Aired 4/1/1966
Jim and Arte go undercover to infiltrate a renegade Army led by Thorwald Wolfe, who intends to conquer part of Mexico.
#24 - The Night of the Grand Emir
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 1/28/1966
West must protect the Grand Emir of the Ottoman Empire from the fatal charms of Ecstasy La Joie.
#25 - The Night of the Glowing Corpse
Season 1 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/29/1965
Jim and Artemus try to recover stolen Franconium, a deadly radioactive material trusted to the U.S. by Prussia.