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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2017 11:55:23 GMT
The Wild Wild West was a special TV show which was its own spin on the spy craze of the time using a western motif. The first season was especially well-done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapegomxZqQ
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 16, 2017 13:24:12 GMT
The Wild Wild West was a special TV show which was its own spin on the spy craze of the time using a western motif. The first season was especially well-done. One of my favorite series. I own all four seasons on DVD.
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Post by Wesley Crusher on Feb 16, 2017 14:09:22 GMT
There's ONLY 1 bad thing about The Wild Wild West ... they only completed 104 episodes.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2017 16:47:11 GMT
There's ONLY 1 bad thing about The Wild Wild West ... they only completed 104 episodes. 10 Rating Yep.
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Post by vrkalak on Feb 18, 2017 1:10:31 GMT
The Wild Wild West was a special TV show which was its own spin on the spy craze of the time using a western motif. The first season was especially well-done. One of my favorite series. I own all four seasons on DVD. What's up Alpha.
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Post by vrkalak on Feb 18, 2017 1:12:25 GMT
The Wild Wild West was a special TV show which was its own spin on the spy craze of the time using a western motif. The first season was especially well-done. www.youtube.com/watch?v=eapegomxZqQI remember seeing this clip when I was 6 years old.
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Post by vrkalak on Feb 18, 2017 1:17:09 GMT
There's ONLY 1 bad thing about The Wild Wild West ... they only completed 104 episodes. 10 Rating I love the show, but I think the quality may have dropped in subsequent years had it gone past 4 seasons.
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 18, 2017 1:34:28 GMT
One of my favorite series. I own all four seasons on DVD. What's up Alpha. Hey vrkalak! Glad to see you made it here! Maybe Gialmere will join and we can resume the "The Wild Wild Trivia Challenge".
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Post by vrkalak on Feb 18, 2017 1:37:54 GMT
Hey vrkalak! Glad to see you made here! Maybe Gialmere will join and we can resume the "The Wild Wild Trivia Challenge". His questions are tough. I thought I was the expert.
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 18, 2017 1:41:01 GMT
Hey vrkalak! Glad to see you made it here! Maybe Gialmere will join and we can resume the "The Wild Wild Trivia Challenge". His questions are tough. I thought I was the expert. You're not kidding! Some of those I had to wait until the fourth hint, e.g. "large chest cavity", before I knew the answer.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 19, 2017 15:59:44 GMT
The first two seasons are definitely the best, with the second being top-notch. With seasons three and four, the color palette was muted, and they did away with a lot of more outrageous villains. Season Two just popped! And believe it or not, my least favorite villain was Dr. Lovelace.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 16:30:16 GMT
The first two seasons are definitely the best, with the second being top-notch. With seasons three and four, the color palette was muted, and they did away with a lot of more outrageous villains. Season Two just popped! And believe it or not, my least favorite villain was Dr. Lovelace. I never cared for the Lovelace episodes. They felt imposed. My presumption is that when TV moved from black and white to color the producers decided to save money by firing the writers for its first two seasons, who had been more important to the show's excellence than other aspects of the production team, and replacing them with less talented writers, such that the show's value, despite its new color, fell.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 19, 2017 16:46:42 GMT
Well, actually, the second season of WWW--which I consider its best--was in color.
I do know some black and white shows were too expensive to do in color, like The Munsters and The Addams Family. So, they just opted for cancellation.
With the Wild, Wild West, though, it struck me that after Conrad's fall and injury, the show changed. Certainly his hair changed!
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2017 17:34:53 GMT
Well, actually, the second season of WWW--which I consider its best--was in color. I do know some black and white shows were too expensive to do in color, like The Munsters and The Addams Family. So, they just opted for cancellation. With the Wild, Wild West, though, it struck me that after Conrad's fall and injury, the show changed. Certainly his hair changed! It was so long ago. Memory doesn't serve. What I do remember is that I felt the show fell away in terms of writing when it went to color. But, that might not be accurate.
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 19, 2017 18:09:05 GMT
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 19, 2017 18:36:21 GMT
My presumption is that when TV moved from black and white to color the producers decided to save money by firing the writers for its first two seasons, who had been more important to the show's excellence than other aspects of the production team, and replacing them with less talented writers, such that the show's value, despite its new color, fell. Actually, as well documented in Sue Kessler's book, the first season was the one with all the behind the scenes turmoil. There were many producers who worked on the first season including: Michael Garrison (also the show's creator), Collier Young, Fred Freiberger, John Mantley, and Gene L. Coon. When Bruce Lansbury took over at the beginning of the second season, he was the ninth producer, and he stayed until the end of the series. Given all the turmoil, it's a wonder that the first season turned out as good as it did.
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Post by naterdawg on Feb 19, 2017 18:55:40 GMT
Haha! You're right! Lovelace/Loveless. I didn't even know I was doing that!
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 19, 2017 19:01:41 GMT
Haha! You're right! Lovelace/Loveless. I didn't even know I was doing that! If I close my eyes I can almost imagine Michael Dunn saying with the appropriate level of rage, "Mr. West, do I look like a porn star to you?!?"
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Post by vrkalak on Feb 19, 2017 19:30:01 GMT
I like all seasons. I guess the weakest would have to be season 4, because of the absence of Ross Martin.
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Post by vrkalak on Feb 19, 2017 19:35:18 GMT
My presumption is that when TV moved from black and white to color the producers decided to save money by firing the writers for its first two seasons, who had been more important to the show's excellence than other aspects of the production team, and replacing them with less talented writers, such that the show's value, despite its new color, fell. Actually, as well documented in Sue Kessler's book, the first season was the one with all the behind the scenes turmoil. There were many producers who worked on the first season including: Michael Garrison (also the show's creator), Collier Young, Fred Freiberger, John Mantley, and Gene L. Coon. When Bruce Lansbury took over at the beginning of the second season, he was the ninth producer, and he stayed until the end of the series. Given all the turmoil, it's a wonder that the first season turned out as good as it did. Susan Kessler's book is a must have for any true WWW fan. 😀
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