The WORST episodes of The Wild Wild West
Every episode of The Wild Wild West ever, ranked from worst to best by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The worst 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 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.
#2 - 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.
#3 - The Night of the Avaricious Actuary
Season 4 - Episode 11 - Aired 12/6/1968
Agents West and Gordon have been called to investigate when a series of vibrations demolish several palatial homes after their owners decline to buy insurance from the Cyclops Insurance Corporation.
#4 - The Night of the Spanish Curse
Season 4 - Episode 14 - Aired 1/3/1969
West and Gordon are called into Mexico to investigate a group of bandits who are attacking and terrorizing border towns. They track the bandits to a Mexican Village where they learn of an old legend about Cortez.
#5 - The Night of the Pelican
Season 4 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/26/1968
West and Pike receive a note to meet a woman at a Chinese restaurant in San Francisco with a promise of information about the militant Din Chang. Unfortunately, the woman is killed before they can talk to her and the only word she utters is "Pelican".
#6 - The Night of the Gypsy Peril
Season 2 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/20/1967
West and Gordon are escorting the Sultan of Ramapur and his gift, a sacred white elephant, to the President. Bandits intercept the train and steal the elephant; then the Sultan demands one million dollars in recompense. West follows the the trail to a gypsy camp and discovers things aren't always what they seem.
#7 - The Night of the Egyptian Queen
Season 4 - Episode 8 - Aired 11/15/1968
Agent Artemus Gordon and the curator of the San Francisco Museum are attacked in the Egyptian exhibit by three men wearing gas masks. When agents West and Mr. Heisel, the Egyptian government's representative, enter the room, they are also attacked. After regaining consciousness, the men discover that a priceless ruby has been stolen from the eye of the statue of Sun God, Ra.
#8 - The Night of Montezuma's Hordes
Season 3 - Episode 8 - Aired 10/27/1967
An ancient Aztec map leading to the lost treasure of Montezuma is discovered in Mexico and points to a location in Texas. In order to ensure that a diplomatic incident does not ensue, West and Gordon team up with Colonial Sanchez of Mexico and a noted archeologist in a dangerous trip across the Texan desert in search of the treasure.
#9 - The Night of the Circus of Death
Season 3 - Episode 9 - Aired 11/3/1967
Counterfeit money is appearing in an area around Denver in sufficient quantities to undermine the U.S. economy. West and Gordon attempt to track down the source of the fake currency before it's too late.
#10 - The Night of the Vipers
Season 3 - Episode 18 - Aired 1/12/1968
The Vipers are a gang of ruthless crooks who have been looting a string of Kansas towns, robbing banks and killing citizens. They even robbed the Cottonwood Bank while James West was trying to convice the sheriff of the danger. Now the trail leads to Freedom, Kansas, where Jim and Arte must stop the Vipers before the Vipers stop them.
#11 - The Night of the Falcon
Season 3 - Episode 10 - Aired 11/10/1967
James West and Artemus Gordon help evacuate the town of Tonka Flats before it is destroyed by a cannon shell. Afterwards, they are notified that a man identified as "The Falcon" has threatened to obliterate Denver unless the U.S. government pays him $1,000,000.
#12 - 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.
#13 - The Night of the Legion of Death
Season 3 - Episode 12 - Aired 11/24/1967
West and Gordon take on the power-crazed secretary to a Territorial Governor. The secretary controls the Governor and has plans to take over the U.S. Goverment and the Presidency as well. To make things more difficult, his Black Legion troops do not take kindly to the two agents interferring.
#14 - The Night of the Turncoat
Season 3 - Episode 13 - Aired 12/1/1967
The stress of Secret Service work appears to be finally getting to Jim as his temper flares and he makes mistakes. As West is being recruited by some member of the underworld who seeks to capitalize on his misfortune, Artemus and Colonel Richmond struggle to find out exactly who, for what, and why.
#15 - The Night of the Iron Fist
Season 3 - Episode 14 - Aired 12/8/1967
At the request of the Bosnian government, Count Draja is to be turned over for extradition. Learning of a plot to free the Count, Jim and Arte make plans to see that Draja reaches his destination.
#16 - The Night of the Running Death
Season 3 - Episode 15 - Aired 12/15/1967
Agent James West attempts to rescue a man called Mr. Markham from a masked assailant who flees the scene of the crime. As Markham lays dying, he utters two words: "enzo" and "silver."
#17 - The Night of the Arrow
Season 3 - Episode 16 - Aired 12/29/1967
Strong Bear's Sioux Indians are making noises about breaking the peace treaty. President Grant's first three messengers failed to return from meetings with the Indian leader; now it's up to Jim and Artemus to find Strong Bear and to keep peace in the territory.
#18 - The Night of the Headless Woman
Season 3 - Episode 17 - Aired 1/5/1968
On a dusty Californian trail, Jim and Artemus intercept a stagecoach whose driver has been hired to smuggle boll weevils. Quickly theorizing that someone is trying to destroy the country's cotton crop, they set out to find the mastermind of the operation and destroy his distribution system before his plan succeeds.
#19 - The Night of the Surreal McCoy
Season 2 - Episode 23 - Aired 3/3/1967
Agents West and Gordon are guarding a museum containing the famous Herzberg jewels, but someone still manages to steal them. Afterwards, when a famous painting is removed from the museum by its wealthy owner, Gordon becomes suspicious and they learn the evil Dr. Miguelito Loveless is involved.
#20 - 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.
#21 - The Night of the Samurai
Season 3 - Episode 6 - Aired 10/13/1967
The U.S. State department is about to return a valuable samurai sword to its rightful owner, a Japanese prince, when it is stolen by an group of sword-wieding assailants. Jim and Artemus must locate the sword and return it to the prince before he leaves the next afternoon or risk damaging U.S.-Japan relations.
#22 - 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.
#23 - The Night of the Assassin
Season 3 - Episode 3 - Aired 9/22/1967
As the U.S. and Mexican border relations are becoming strained, West and Gordon disrupt an assassination attempt on the Mexican President. While returning the captured assassin to Texas, they are fired upon by Mexican soldiers who are led by the merciless Colonel Barbossa.
#24 - The Night of the Firebrand
Season 3 - Episode 2 - Aired 9/15/1967
On a mission for President Grant, agent West travels to Fort Savage to meet with a Major Jason and help prevent a revolution in Canada that outlaw Shawn O'Riley has plans to incite.
#25 - The Night of the Bubbling Death
Season 3 - Episode 1 - Aired 9/8/1967
When Victor Freemantle, a dangerous revolutionary, steals the U.S. Constitution and holds it ransom forr $1,000,000, agents James West and Artemus Gordon are sent by the government to the Panhandle Strip in Texas to recover it.