Okay, Wild Wild West (the movie) is on right now

I'm watching it, and I know it's a POS (not that WWW the TV show was any prize), but I can't drag myself away?

The reason? Well, let's just say it rhymes with Alam Tie-Neck.

Should I seek therapy?

Two out of two Elvii agree!

Hey! You get your eyes offa my purty little filly, or I'm a-gonna have ta plug ya right where ya stand....

And you don't wanna see the kinda plug I'm a-gonna use, either.....

I believe! I believe!

on edit: a fine bit of dialogue in the movie:

Kevin Klein: "Would you mind pulling on one of those pool cues for me?"

Salma Hayek: "You mean this one?"

Yes, Salma, that one. Yes, indeed....

I'm digging up my videotaped copy in the morning.....

sci-fi western (with a kind of twilight zone aspect to it) and Doctor Loveless (Michael Dunn) was one of the most diabolically interesting villians of all time... and that episode where the Skipper (Alan Hale) from Gilligan's Island guest stars and the final musical piece they play is the Gilligan theme as the Skipper say's he's going on a long vacation to a deserted isle...

What's not to love?

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

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aside from the bizarre westrer/sci-fi hybrid you mentioned, was the fact that the last screen image before each commercial would be frozen and turned into a painting sort of thing, and each painting sprt of thing formed a collage by episode's end. But then, I always enjoyed A-Ha's Take on Me video too.

By the time I saw the Wild Wild West TV show (in repeats/syndication), Robert Conrad was already doing the "Go ahead, knock it off I dare ya" battery commercials and was, thus, quite laughable.

especially when I watch it now-a-days, but they had some of the most interesting Michael Dunn (Doctor Loveless) episodes and that helps to put the whole series in the above average category. Besides that, they had some of the most notable actors and actresses of the sixties on. Sammy Davis Jr, Carrol O'Connor, Susan Pleshette and Pat Paulson (and of course Alan whom I mentioned earlier).

An interesting aside was the FACT that CBS cancelled the show because of it's violent content to show good faith in its commitment to take the violence out of its TV shows. The Wild Wild West was at the peak of it's popularity when it was cancelled. Which, interestingly enough occured not too long after the Sharon Tate and Labianca murders in 1969.

Another interesting fact is that it's violent content (atleast one person was brutally murdered per episode) was displayed about an hour to two hours after the evening news reports on the Vietnam war.

And that whole gun up the sleeve thing...

Dave (AmyStrange.com)

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