The BEST episodes of The Wild Wild West
Every episode of The Wild Wild West ever, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of The Wild Wild West!
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 Jack O'Diamonds
Season 3 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/6/1967
James and Artemus arrive in Mexico with a present for the Mexican president: a beautiful Arabian horse. Within minutes of their arrival, however, the horse is stolen by a group of outlaw bandits. Our heroes must battle the hot Mexican desert to get the horse back before the outlaw Mexican army beats them to it.
#2 - 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.
#3 - The Night of Miguelito's Revenge
Season 4 - Episode 12 - Aired 12/13/1968
West has received a note from agent Gordon summoning him to the local barbershop; where he is promptly anesthetized by a hot towel. After learning about a series of kidnappings, Jim and Jeremy Pike's investigation leads to the sinister Dr. Loveless who's waiting with his latest invention and dastardly plan.
#4 - The Night of the Sedgewick Curse
Season 4 - Episode 4 - Aired 10/18/1968
When people start disappearing from the Sedgewick Hotel and Spa, Jim meets Lavinia Sedgewick who asks him to dinner at her home. But when Jim's not welcome, he and Artemus must learn the truth behind the mystery.
#5 - 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.
#6 - The Night of the Eccentrics
Season 2 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/16/1966
Investigating a murder, West falls into the hands of the Eccentrics, a group of assassins controlled by the vicious Count Manzeppi.
#7 - The Night of Fire and Brimstone
Season 4 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/22/1968
West and Gordon are called to the deserted mining town of Brimstone by Professor Colecrest, who has made a discovery of great importance. However, before they get there, the Professor is captured by a gang of men.
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#8 - The Night of the Hangman
Season 3 - Episode 7 - Aired 10/20/1967
During a stopover in a small Kansas town, the agents become involved in a murder investigation. After a man is found guilty and sentenced to hang, the agents uncover valuable information that points in an entirely different direction.
#9 - 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.
#10 - 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.
#11 - 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.
#12 - The Night of the Amnesiac
Season 3 - Episode 22 - Aired 2/9/1968
Jim is guarding a stage coach carrying the western states entire supply of smallpox vaccine when it's attacked and the drug stolen. While West, injured in the attack, struggles with amnesia, Artemus tries to find both his friend and the drug before a full-scale epidemic hits.
#13 - The Night of the Golden Cobra
Season 2 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/23/1966
The Maharajah Singh kidnaps West for very unprincely reasons: he is to tutor Singh's assassin sons in the ways of Western combat.
#14 - The Night of the Cut-Throats
Season 3 - Episode 11 - Aired 11/17/1967
Something is happening in the small town of New Athens. Residents are leaving in droves, scared off by a band of seedy cut-throats gathering just outside the town limits. And then there's Michael Trayne, back in town after three years in jail. Jim and Arte must figure out what's happening and save the town before everyone leaves.
#15 - The Night of the Returning Dead
Season 2 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/14/1966
Agents West and Gordon investigate a mysterious Confederate "ghost" rider.
#16 - The Night Dr. Loveless Died
Season 3 - Episode 4 - Aired 9/29/1967
The agents travel to Hayes City they find a mysterious key with the body of their arch-nemesis, Dr. Loveless. While there, they meet up with Miguelito's next of kin, Dr. Liebknicht, a Swiss neurologist.
#17 - The Night of the Flying Pie Plate
Season 2 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/21/1966
West gets involved in a bizarre scheme when a green girl emerges from a fallen spaceship claiming she needs gold for fuel.
#18 - 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.
#19 - The Night of the Juggernaut
Season 4 - Episode 3 - Aired 10/11/1968
Someone is trying to run settlers off their land, buying some of them out, scaring others away and even murdering those who refuse to leave. The government sends Jim and Arte to investigate the situation and to stop whoever is behind this.
#20 - The Night of the Gruesome Games
Season 4 - Episode 5 - Aired 10/25/1968
While on the trail of a scientist who has stolen a vial of deadly germs, which will explode in a few hours, the agents are pulled into a night of deadly parlor games.
#21 - The Night of the Undead
Season 3 - Episode 21 - Aired 2/2/1968
Jim and Arte become involved with a voodoo ceremony and the walking dead as they try to track down a missing scientist.
#22 - 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.
#23 - The Night of the Wolf
Season 2 - Episode 27 - Aired 3/31/1967
When the agents are assigned to protect Stefan, who is to be crowned king in place of his late brother, they meet the sinister Mr. Talamantes who wants Stefan to renounce the throne and will do anything to accomplish this goal, including kidnapping his daughter.
#24 - 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.
#25 - 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.